Episode 357: How To Hack Your Life to Save Money, Optimize Experiences & Amassing 14 Million Credit Card Points w/ Chris Hutchins
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Chris Hutchins, avid life hacker, financial optimizer and host of the top ranked podcast, “All the Hacks,” joins the Journey To Launch podcast to discuss how he amassed 14 million credit card points and upgrades his life without spending a fortune.
We also talk about the dangers of optimizing too much, intentionally spending and hacking your personal finances, analysis paralysis, and more.
Before jumping into the content creation world, Chris was the Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront, an investor at Google Ventures, co-founded Milk (acquired by Google) and built an organization called LaidOffCamp. He has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. In this episode you’ll learn about:
- How selling a business does not always mean making a profit
- Why falling down rabbit holes of information changed Chris’s life
- What being in a job Chris hated taught him about Financial Independence
- Travel hacking, using money to have experiences you can uniquely have now, memory dividends + more
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| 0:00.0 | I'm still trying to find the deal so that I can get stuff for better, but I'm not doing it at the |
| 0:07.1 | expense of not going to a restaurant. I'm not doing it at the expense of not going on a trip. |
| 0:12.0 | So I prioritize the things I want, find ways if possible to get a |
| 0:16.0 | better deal on them, and if not, pay full freight because I decided they are important. |
| 0:20.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Janila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:30.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:37.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:40.0 | Five, four, three, two, one. 5 4 3. 3.21. |
| 0:45.0 | If you want the episode, |
| 0:47.0 | if you want the episode show notes for this episode go to journey to |
| 0:55.9 | launch.com or click the description of wherever you're listening to this |
| 1:00.1 | episode in the show notes you'll get the transcribed version of the |
| 1:04.3 | conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much more. Also whether you are |
| 1:09.4 | an OG journeyer or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free jump-star guide to help you on your |
| 1:16.0 | financial freedom journey. |
| 1:17.8 | It includes the top episodes to listen to, stages to go through to reach financial freedom, |
| 1:22.3 | resources, and so much more. |
| 1:24.0 | You can go to Journeyto Launch.com slash jumpstart to get your guide right now. |
| 1:30.0 | Okay, let's hop into the episode. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey, hey, hey, journeyers. |
| 1:35.4 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. |
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