132. From Frustration to $150K in Points Redemptions

Point Me To First Class

Devon Gimbel MD

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5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What does it really look like to transform your travel with credit card points?

In this special episode, you’ll hear directly from Dr. Faryal Michaud, a past Points Made Easy student who went from feeling confused and frustrated by points to booking over $150,000 worth of award travel. From Qsuites to the Maldives, South Africa, Tahiti, and beyond, she shares the exact turning points that changed how she approached earning and redeeming points.

You’ll hear how she overcame the frustrations so many people face in the beginning, the first redemptions that boosted her confidence, and how points have since emboldened her to experience life-changing trips she never thought possible. Faryal’s story is proof of how powerful this skillset can be—not just for one trip, but for a lifetime of travel.

Turn your expenses into points and save tens of thousands of dollars a year on your wishlist travel. Don’t miss out! Click here http://www.pointmetofirstclass.com/pointsmadeeasy to know more about my comprehensive online program, Points Made Easy. Enrollment opens on September 20, 2025 to September 27, 2025.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.
0:10.7	I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your 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, travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. Hello everyone and welcome
0:31.1	back to the podcast. In just a few weeks from September 20th through September 27th, 2025,
0:39.4	my online points course, Points Made Easy, will be opening for enrollment for the last time this year. So today, I wanted
0:44.7	to invite a past course student onto the podcast so you could hear firsthand what their experience
0:50.0	inside the course was like, including where they were in their points journey before they enrolled, what made them decide to join the course and what their travel looks like now
0:58.8	after the course. Joining me today is Dr. Fariol Michaud, I hope you enjoy this conversation.
1:06.5	Fariel, welcome back to the podcast. I am so excited to have you here today and to share more about your
1:12.8	story. But before we dive into that, can you please just introduce yourself? Who are you? What do you do?
1:19.2	How did you get into this whole world of points and miles? Yes, absolutely. It is an absolute
1:24.9	pleasure to be here. I am a super fan. So this is an opportunity to just chat with you. So that is wonderful. So my name is Farial Misho. And I'm originally born and raised in Iran. I moved to Japan when I was 16. My father owned the travel agency. So from a very young age, I've been used to that sleeping in the airports
1:45.6	and like none of that stuff is a negative thing for me. So I could say travel sort of part of my
1:51.4	entity and identity. And then I moved to United States right after high school. And the part that
1:57.8	maybe I've never shared in a podcast or anywhere is that I traveled with
2:01.8	this group that was called Up with People, which is an international company. And I was a dancer in that
2:08.0	group, 125 cast members from all over the world. And we traveled everywhere. And we had big
2:14.1	dances on the stage for like 4th of July or we were in Europe and we would sleep in like all host family stays.
2:21.5	We'd sleep with families on like waterbed in Mexico.
2:24.7	And I mean, it was just a really amazing.
2:26.7	So I have to set the stage by saying I'm the kind of person that you could drop me anywhere in the middle of the planet and I would love it.
2:35.3	I would eat it all up.
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