Deinfluencing Summer Vacation Travel Influencers (so OVERRATED!)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
BOOK THAT TRIP! says the influencers who are getting free flights, free hotels, and paid brand deals while the rest of us are left holding the receipt. This episode breaks down the travel hype, the hidden costs behind “dream trips,” and why that vacation everyone’s posting might be a lot less realistic for the rest of us.
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| 0:30.5 | De-influencing summer vacation travel influencers. |
| 0:39.1 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, |
| 0:45.6 | and live a rich life. |
| 0:48.8 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh no, it's time for the plane. |
| 0:58.3 | Okay, and let's make sure we're all walking directly through first class as they stare you down and disgust, okay? |
| 1:03.4 | I'm so sorry. |
| 1:04.3 | Hey, frugal friends. I'm Jen. |
| 1:06.2 | I'm Jill. |
| 1:07.1 | And travel is overrated. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Travel influencers are overrated. |
| 1:21.1 | There you go. Yeah, we did start a conversation along these lines back in our episode titled Four Things Influencers have normalized and we still overconsume, but we kind of want to continue that conversation |
| 1:29.3 | specifically with travel. Because there is so much, and this is like peak time right now, |
| 1:36.8 | because we are, maybe you've already scheduled your like big trips for the summer, but there are |
| 1:42.5 | smaller trips for the summer that could |
| 1:44.5 | have yet to be scheduled. And these are the ones that these are the impulse trips that come |
| 1:51.4 | after you've watched so many of the spring travel videos and the Coachella videos from |
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