70. From Bills to Boarding Passes: Mastering Expense Buckets for Maximum Points
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Getting value from points comes down to two simple things: earning points (ideally as many as possible for the money you're spending) and using points (ideally as few as possible for any given award), so you can take more trips, save more money, and have more travel options available. It's time to dive deep into a simple approach for part one of the points-travel cycle: earning points.
Discover a framework for thinking about your expenses from a high-level perspective so you can quickly and easily identify the points-earning opportunities that you aren't yet leveraging. Beginners will find this episode particularly eye-opening, but there are also plenty of tips here for more experienced points travelers, so there's something for everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, |
| 0:06.1 | entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average |
| 0:09.5 | expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host, Stephen G Gimble and I believe that your |
| 0:13.4 | expenses are your greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. |
| 0:17.8 | Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, |
| 0:21.6 | travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. points and |
| 0:25.0 | you can travel more, travel better and travel often. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Point Me to First Class podcast. This probably won't surprise you to hear but I think about points a lot and |
| 0:39.9 | not just points themselves of course but the entire landscape of award travel |
| 0:44.8 | from all the different points ecosystems and rewards credit cards to unique and |
| 0:49.8 | perhaps obscure ways to earn points to of course using those points to dramatically |
| 0:54.7 | offset the cost of travel and not only do I love points so much that I spend in |
| 0:59.8 | anordinate and probably unhealthy amount of time thinking about them, but I also genuinely love |
| 1:05.1 | teaching other people how to leverage their expenses and turn their points into their |
| 1:09.1 | wish list travel experiences. So I have a lot of conversations about points with people every day. |
| 1:15.0 | Conversations with people brand new to points. Conversations with people who know nothing |
| 1:20.0 | about points but should. Conversations with friends who are also points experts about points |
| 1:25.0 | minutia and nuances of award programs that would likely bore the best |
| 1:28.7 | majority view straight to death. |
| 1:30.6 | But one of the things that often stands out to me from all of these conversations is how can we talk about points or think about points in a way that breaks down what can be complex topics into easy to understand frameworks that make it |
| 1:45.4 | accessible and fun even for beginners or casual points enthusiasts to get a |
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