Families Fly Free w/ Lyn Mettler (Bestie Ep) #1079
How to Money
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Traveling for free sounds like a lofty goal for most folks. Sure if you’re single or if you’re a DINK couple- but there’s no way you can pull that off with an entire family in tow! Well, it’s actually easier than you think and our guest, Lyn Mettler, is here to explain how. Lyn is a long-time travel journalist who has been featured on the Today Show and US News & World Report. And she practices what she preaches as she and her family travel and fly, for free, about six times every single year! We cover her simple approach, what three credit cards to focus on in order to give you the most bang for your buck, a smart approach to the Southwest Companion Pass, getting into Disney on the cheap, how to use points to erase travel expenses, and plenty more travel tips on today’s episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.3 | And I am Matt. |
| 0:08.0 | And today we're talking free where traveling with the entire family. It's becoming more of a have pretty big families and our youngest kids, they're growing up. So we are finally at the |
| 0:38.4 | stage where traveling with the entire family, it's becoming more of a possibility. So honestly, |
| 0:43.7 | like we've got a vested interest in today's conversation with our guest, Lynn Metler, of |
| 0:48.6 | Families Fly Free. She's got a site and a podcast. She's been on the today show on u.s news and world report |
| 0:55.8 | as a long time travel journalist and lynn she takes her own medicine as well she and her family |
| 1:02.5 | they travel and they fly for free about six times every single year doesn't sound like it's |
| 1:08.9 | it's even possible so we're excited to learn all of her secrets. Lynn, thank you for joining us today on the podcast. Sure. Thanks for inviting me. Oh, yeah. We're going to get a lot of secrets out of you today, Lan. Are you okay with that? Okay. All right. Let's go. All right. Well, the first question we ask anyone who comes on the show is what their craft beer equivalent is. And what we mean by that, Matt and I, we spend more on craft beer than |
| 1:30.7 | the average person with... we ask anyone who comes on the show is what their craft beer equivalent is and what we mean by |
| 1:28.3 | that matt and i we spend more on craft beer than the average person would think is sane uh but we |
| 1:34.0 | do it joyfully because we really like a good beer now and again but what is that in your life |
| 1:38.8 | is there something that you spend more on and and most people would say lynn that's crazy like how do you |
| 1:44.0 | how do you fit that into your budget what is is that for you? Gosh, I mean, a couple things. Definitely, like, I'm a book lover, so I don't limit my budget on book buying. That would be one area, I think. But I think when it comes to travel, while we're going to be talking about how to fly for free, stay for free, all that good |
| 2:01.4 | stuff today. What we found is when you learn how to do that, then you can splurge on other parts |
| 2:07.7 | of your trip that you might not have otherwise because you say you didn't pay anything to fly there |
| 2:12.9 | and maybe you're staying for free. So you can do excursions or maybe you eat like a fancy restaurant or you do |
| 2:18.4 | a VIP tour at Disney, something like that that you would never ever have done because you have the |
| 2:24.4 | money to do it because you save so much. So like recently we were just in Paris. Yeah, give me an example. |
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