A good deed is its own reward (but we can do better) | Ep229 | 11-18-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Maximize your charitable giving by earning a great return while doing good in the world. From ways to give without causing your favorite charity to incur processing fees to ways to earn thousands of points for your donation, this week we talk about how to do your charitable deeds (better).
00:00 Intro
01:13 Giant Mailbag
03:32 Giant Mailbag #2: United Quest card details
07:22 Card Talk: Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card & Capital One Venture X Business Credit Card
https://frequentmiler.com/venturex/
https://frequentmiler.com/VentureXBiz/#Goto
18:35 What crazy thing . . . did Marriott do this week?
23:27 Award Talk
23:28 Alaska Mileage Plan March 2024 changes
https://frequentmiler.com/huge-alaska-announces-unified-award-charts/
https://frequentmiler.com/new-alaska-award-chart-winners-losers-and-sweet-spots/
https://frequentmiler.com/alaska-us-anything-we-discuss-the-new-alaska-award-chart-video/
37:06 Do you want to collect Alaska miles now?
39:06 Award Talk: Use JetBlue points to book Qatar flights
https://frequentmiler.com/book-qatar-flights-with-jetblue-trueblue-points/
42:15 Award Talk: Marriott free night certificate inside info
https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-rules-for-extending-free-nights/
46:55 Main Event: A good deed is its own reward, but we can do better.
47:15 How do you find charities that do good? (search tools)
48:20 GiveWell
50:03 PayPay Giving Fund
52:15 Kiva Microloans
https://frequentmiler.com/why-i-love-kiva-for-earning-rewards-and-doing-good/
55:29 How do you earn rewards on charitable gifts?
55:47 Ways to earn miles for donating through airline programs, etc
56:48 Credit Card Rewards
46:49 US Bank cards that earn 2x on charitable donations....meh
58:13 Bank of America 2.62% cash back
58:48 Credit Card Big Spend Bonuses
https://frequentmiler.com/best-big-spend-bonuses/
1:00:25 Buying Visa or Mastercard gift cards and using them to donate
1:03:17 Earn a new card welcome bonus
https://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-sign-up-offers/
1:06:25 Donating miles and points
1:08:20 Earn Air France elite credit
1:09:38 Question of the Week: Is it worth it to travel to Australia for just a week?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.5 | Today's main event, a good deed is its own reward, but we can do better. |
| 0:32.3 | We're going to talk about charitable giving and how you can earn some good rewards when you're when you're doing good. |
| 0:38.4 | Tis the season to open the heart and open the wallet. So we'll talk about how to get rewarded |
| 0:43.7 | for that, beyond just the emotional satisfaction and rewardingness that inherently exists in giving. |
| 0:52.4 | So we'll talk about that today. But first, don't forget to like this. If you like the episode, don't forget to give it a like to leave a comment, share it with a friend. We always appreciate that. And don't forget, we keep the timestamps in the show notes. So if you ever want to skip ahead to a specific segment or piece or you want to go back and revisit something, you can check the show notes. You'll find those. If you're watching on YouTube, you might have to expand the description of the video to find them. And if you're in a podcast platform, you should see it right there in the notes. So you can always skip around to what it is you'd like. So let's skip right ahead now to the giant mailbag. Greg, drag it out. Dragging it out. rummaging around through the giant mailbag. drag it out dragging it out rummaging around through the |
| 1:29.5 | giant mailbag let's see what we've got here first one we've got two today first one comes from |
| 1:34.8 | someone named nicholas reyes via some guy some guy named nicholas some guy knows who knows that |
| 1:41.9 | yeah a personal conversation online with me. |
| 1:47.0 | And Nick said to me, this was about last week's show. |
| 1:51.9 | He said, we referred to the excursionist perk. |
| 1:55.6 | That's the United Excursionist perk as the United Explorist perk repeatedly. |
| 2:01.9 | He says, I take full blame for that because I said it first and we just continue to roll with |
| 2:07.2 | it. |
| 2:07.4 | Oh, my goodness. |
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