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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

Financialindependence, Investing, Firemovement, Passiveincome, Frugalliving, Personalfinancepodcast, Daveramsey, Careers, Business, Earlyretirement, Habits

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: the travelers triangle, booking early, flexibility, planning, hotels, and knowing your getting a deal.

This week we are back with Suzy for a new installment of travel rewards tips, where we will be diving deeper into how you can optimize your savings and travel points to get the most out of your travels. While the subject matter we are tackling today may be more useful to listeners who have already acquired the necessary credit cards and travel points, there is still a lot of helpful information you can use when planning your next trip! So whether that's learning to book early and play around with the sites mentioned on today's episode, or allowing flexibility to mitigate the stress of traveling, this episode is here to act as an additional resource to those learning to take advantage of what their travel points can offer!

Timestamps:

  • 1:24 - Introduction
  • 6:09 - The Travelers Triangle
  • 12:31 - Booking Ahead Of Time
  • 23:28 - Tools For Travel Rewards
  • 33:14 - Flexibility And Planning
  • 45:10 - FI Booking Processes
  • 57:57 - Taxes,Fees, And Knowing Your Getting A Deal
  • 64:06 - Hotels
  • 70:45 - Conclusion

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    0:00.0

    Hello and welcome to Choose a Fi. Today on the show we have Traveler Awards 201.

    0:05.2

    I think this is the first time that we're doing an intermediate version of Traveler Awards.

    0:09.7

    We've touched on this subject which we consider one of the pillars of financial independence

    0:14.6

    so many times and you can find all of our resources at ChooseAvi.com-travel,

    0:19.5

    including all of the beginners Traveler Awards episodes that we've done.

    0:24.0

    But today we have special guests, we have my friend Suzy, who's actually here locally in Richmond.

    0:29.5

    And I met her a handful of years ago at a ChooseAvi Richmond local meetup

    0:34.4

    and she just blew me away with her Traveler Awards knowledge and she shares this information far

    0:40.8

    and wide. She actually just had a local event here where she taught Traveler Awards 101

    0:46.4

    but we're really, really fortunate to have her for the intermediate version.

    0:50.4

    I think you're going to get a ton out of this and just real quick on Suzy as her Instagram

    0:55.9

    describes her. She's a world wanderer with her husband and two sons

    0:59.6

    except when she's playing tennis or practicing medicine. So what's cool about this is

    1:04.4

    she is a real person. She's a mom, she's a physician and yet she's still succeeding wildly

    1:11.1

    with a real advanced level of Traveler Awards. You're going to love this episode.

    1:15.4

    Welcome to ChooseAvi.

    1:18.0

    Suzy, welcome to ChooseAvi. I am so happy to have you here.

    1:27.3

    Well, thanks for having me, Brad. I hope you're doing quite well.

    1:31.2

    I am doing quite well. Yeah. I'm doing better now that you're here because this is going to be

    1:35.3

    a lot of fun. I was saying to Laura, who knows you, right? My wife Laura, that man, I hope I can do

    1:40.8

    this justice because you just have a wealth of information and I suspect this might be the first

    1:46.1

    of many of these conversations because it might just frankly be too much to fit into one episode.

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