453: How to Travel for FREE with Your Family (Really!) // Amber Paul

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With the holidays coming up, many moms wish they could visit family or plan a getaway—but the price of flights makes it feel impossible. That’s why I’m re-airing this popular episode with Amber Paul from Amber on Points, who teaches families how to travel for free (or almost free) using credit card points. A year after recording this, I’ve now been practicing what Amber teaches—and it’s truly changed what’s possible for our family. We earned about $12,000 in free travel this year, and my credit score has continued to go up. I know it sounds too good to be true, (that’s exactly what I thought at first!), but it’s real—and it’s absolutely worth learning. In this encore episode, you’ll learn: ✈️ Why opening multiple credit cards (responsibly!) can actually improve your credit score ✈️ How to use welcome offers strategically to earn far more points from the spending you already do ✈️ Why you might qualify for a business card even if you’re just side-gigging A quick note: conversations about money and credit can bring up a lot of feelings. Wherever you are in your financial journey, this episode is meant to spark possibility—not pressure. For full show notes, including takeaways, click here. *** Announcements: Grab the free companion guide (with Amber’s favorite starter cards) and sign up for our live Q&A with Amber on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 by clicking here! Related Episodes: 369: How to Teach Your Kids about Money // Abby Chipman 430: Plan Meaningful Family Travel Without the Stress // Meggie Busath 431: 3 Road Trip Hacks for Traveling with Kids // Brittney Hanks Episode Sponsors: BetterHelp: 3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to betterhelp.com/3in30 to get 10% off your first month of online therapy. AirDoctor: Head to AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code 3in30 to get up to $300 off today! It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee and a 3-year warranty—an $84 value, free! Let's Connect! Join me on Instagram! Get weekly-ish emails with BTS of my life Find Your Magic in Motherhood: Free 3-Day Email Course ***

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0:00.0	You're listening to 3 and 30 Takeaways for Moms, and today's episode is an encore that originally
0:04.9	aired about a year ago, and I decided to air it again because I truly feel like every mom in the
0:10.5	3 and 30 community needs to hear about this. Today's episode covers the basics of learning
0:16.0	how to travel more often for free using credit card points. And before we jump in, I wanted to offer a few of my
0:22.2	insights a year later after this episode was originally recorded. I've now been going deep into
0:27.3	this hobby of points travel for 18 months, and I'm slightly obsessed. It has made so many memories
0:34.6	possible for our family that we never would have been able to afford otherwise, and my credit score has just continued to get better and better as I've opened new
0:42.0	cards, which you'll hear all about in the episode. I'm naturally kind of a cynical person. I often
0:48.0	tell my kids, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But that is not the case when it
0:53.9	comes to traveling using credit card
0:55.3	points. What you hear in today's episode will sound too good to be true. But I promise you it is real
1:01.3	and it is absolutely worth the effort to learn how to do this. For reference, our family got about
1:06.6	$12,000 of free travel this year using credit card points. And yes, it's taken some time,
1:12.0	energy, and effort from me to learn how to do it and to manage all the moving parts. But I actually
1:17.5	find it pretty fun. And I feel like I manage our family's finances better than ever as a result
1:23.0	of this hobby because of how closely I now track our credit card usage. Through all of my learning,
1:29.1	my mentor has been Amber Paul, who is the guest on today's Encore episode, so I'm so excited
1:34.2	to reshare my conversation with her today. And I wanted to let you know that she has agreed to
1:39.1	host a free Q&A session all about traveling on points for our podcast listening community. So after you listen
1:45.7	here, go to 330podcast.com slash points to get signed up for that and get a handout of our
1:51.5	takeaways from this conversation. That's 3.30 podcast.com slash points. And with no further ado,
1:58.1	here's our encore episode.
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