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Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

Places & Travel, Education, Society & Culture, How To

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This short bonus episode comes with an important update from the Squad. After an unexpected curveball and a lot of behind-the-scenes work, Alex, Pam, and Jess share what's been happening and why this moment marks the start of a new chapter.

You'll hear why they made this decision, what it means for the podcast and the community, and what isn't changing as they move forward. Press play to hear the full story and the official announcement.

You can find the updated Points Talk Squad website here: pointstalksquad.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's Alex, Pam, and Jess here. We have a special episode today. Well, special, depressing, exciting. I don't know, all of the things. It's a little bit of everything.
0:13.2	Exhausting. Exhausting. That's another good one. But we have some news. And if you're wondering, yes, it does involve another rebrand.
0:23.1	Some of you might have seen the email we sent out or our post on social media.
0:29.2	But we are here to kind of share a little bit of behind the scenes of why the rebrand and what the new name is, what we're excited about. So Jess, do you kind of want
0:39.7	to give a little bit of the backstory of why we're having another rebrand when we just had one
0:44.9	two years ago? Well, I think you should talk about the one two years ago for anyone who is
0:51.4	kind of newer on the scene so that we can kind of set the stage for like,
0:56.0	we've done this before. We didn't think we would ever have to do it again. But unfortunately,
1:01.3	this is our second rebrand in two years. So. And we did not want to do this. 100% you guys,
1:08.8	do not think that we're playing with you that this was our choice. This has been
1:14.2	a really painful thing to go through the second time. We hope we never have to do it again.
1:20.1	So just so you know, this wasn't something that we thought, oh, let's do this. It wasn't on the bingo
1:27.3	card. No, it wasn't. It was not.
1:31.9	All right. So in 2024, well, let's go even back further. In 2019, I came up with travel
1:39.0	hacky mom. It was actually like probably October 2018. So back then, that was our name. We had the name for, I don't know,
1:48.2	till 2024, early 2024, so five years. And we really loved the name. It really encapsulated
1:54.8	what we did in, you know, our whole idea of the business. And then in early 2024, we were told
2:05.7	that the word hack was not something we could be using anymore. And it wasn't just us. It was
2:10.7	anybody out there who had credit card affiliate links was no longer allowed to use the word
2:14.9	hack. So that was a big deal for us because that was our
2:17.9	business name. So we had five days to completely rebrand our business so that we would not
2:24.6	lose our affiliate links. And we did it. We came up with Travel Mom Squad. We felt like that really
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