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Okay, so welcome Brad back to the studio again today.

Hey Jonathan, very excited to be here as always.

Yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun.

So this is an episode that we've been teasing for a while.

It's one we've been very excited about and that is the world of travel hacking.

And I am very fortunate to be doing this with Brad because he is really an expert in this space and has been doing it for a long time.

Has built several businesses around this model and has been sharing this information with what is hundreds of thousands of people, at least thousands.

Yeah, I mean, certainly tens of thousands.

So I wanted to start off just by telling you a little bit of a story and how travel hacking has improved my life and the hopes that it might give you some ideas about how it might help yours.

So my wife is from Zimbabwe and she lives with me in the United States and there are some implications for that because her family is still overseas.

It is important to us that we go visit them on a regular basis because she's living here, but we don't want it to be a situation where we never get to see them or we only see them when they come to us.

Because we're living on a budget. So from the start, Danny and I decided that we were going to set aside a certain amount of money every single year to go visit them.

And these tickets to Zimbabwe are incredibly expensive running anywhere from $2,500 upwards of $3,000 and that's for an economy seat.

And so that's for one ticket round trip and we would need two of those.

So we, this is not something that we can do every year. We would typically set out to save $3,000 a year and every two years we would take a trip back home to visit her family.

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