Credit Cards: Smart Ways to Get The Most Money Out of Them (with Jason Steele)
Kosher Money
Living Lchaim
5 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Jason Steele is a journalist and credit card expert, writing about the world of credit card rewards. Oh, and he has 20 credit cards, pays his balance in full every month and travels around the world, staying at luxurious hotels...FOR FREE.
How does he do it? Which credit cards does he recommend? What are common credit card myths? Can he help save/make you thousands of dollars each year using his advice? We covered that and so much more in the Kosher Money studio.
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To contact Jason or learn more about him, visit JasonSteele.com
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| 0:00.0 | I was at a conference a few years ago and I'm sitting down with the head of the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Program. |
| 0:06.0 | He was on a panel at an industry conference and the executive who was at Chase when he negotiated the deal with the with Southwest Airlines. |
| 0:15.0 | At the conclusion of my panel, you know, we're all shaking hands. Good job. Nice to meet you. |
| 0:19.0 | I said, I have a question. I said, every year or every other year, I'll sign up for two Southwest Airlines credit cards, |
| 0:25.1 | and that'll give me the companion pass, plus about $2,000 worth of credit to be spent on Southwest. |
| 0:30.9 | And the next year, my wife will do it, and we've been doing it like this for 10 years. |
| 0:35.1 | So for the last 10 years, both of us had to have a companion pass. |
| 0:38.0 | That means we get two free tickets every time we book something. Am I like your worst enemy, I asked |
| 0:42.4 | them? Can you imagine having 20 credit cards and it's a good thing? This story is phenomenal. |
| 0:49.0 | We covered everything you can know about credit cards. I personally had a consultation with him after the episode |
| 0:55.6 | where we went through which credit cards I have. Meet Jason Steele, hear his story, and hear |
| 1:00.5 | how he can help you. Enjoy this week's episode. Being a Jew, awesome. Managing personal |
| 1:07.6 | finances, not so awesome. Welcome to Kosher Money. |
| 1:12.4 | Okay, an entire episode on credit cards. |
| 1:17.3 | Jason, we met at a conference last month and we Googled you. |
| 1:24.2 | You seem to know what you're talking about. |
| 1:26.0 | So first of all, welcome to the Kosher Money Studio. Tell us who you are, what you do, and why do we think you're the right person for this |
| 1:32.0 | job? I'm Jason Steele. I am a freelance journalist, an expert on credit cards, a consultant. I |
| 1:39.5 | produce a conference for fellow credit card experts, and I've been doing this since 2008. How did you get into |
| 1:47.0 | the credit card space and we'll sort of walk through your story? Yeah, it was kind of funny. I was |
| 1:51.5 | working in the computer industry, and I had a job contracting for the federal government, |
| 1:56.2 | and they were really underutilizing me. They maybe gave me an hour or two of work every day, but I still had to show up at the office. |
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