Frequent Miler origin story - Carrie's story | Coffee Break Ep18 | 7-16-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
(01:37) - Carrie saw Greg speak at Chicago Seminars in 2013 - the topic was Million Mile Madness.
(02:10) - The next summer (2014) Drew and Carrie were invited to the "Ann Arbor Art Fair Do". While in Ann Arbor, they met Greg for kayaking.
(05:02) - Over the next few years, Carrie periodically did freelance projects for Greg (including an infographic about Redbird, layout design for the card page, editing YouTube videos for Greg's Necker Island visit, etc.)
Read more about Greg and Carrie's Necker Island video partnership here: https://frequentmiler.com/necker-island-blogging-bloopers/ and read about how Greg booked Necker Island on points here: https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-book-a-free-week-on-necker-island/
(07:33) - After selling TIF in 2019, Carrie half-jokingly (but not joking at all), asked Greg if FM needed a web designer.
(09:12) - Greg decided he was actually interested, but by then Carrie had started a UX/UI course and was considering that. The indecision was brief - by early 2020 she was part of the team.
(10:17) - Here's a link to our Best Offers Page: https://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-sign-up-offers/
(14:19) - Carrie's first impressions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break. |
| 0:24.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:29.6 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:34.6 | Enjoy. Today's coffee break frequent miler's origin story carry's story we've |
| 0:43.4 | previously done the frequent miler origin story to talk about my starting the frequent |
| 0:50.5 | myler business I'm Greg and we also did a separate show where where nick uh told his |
| 0:57.6 | story how he uh joined up with frequent miler and and everything that went on behind the scenes there |
| 1:03.3 | and now we're delighted to bring carey onto the show and and talk through how she got involved with Frequent Myler and why she's now stuck |
| 1:14.0 | working with the Frequent Milers day in and day out. |
| 1:20.4 | So I've never heard this story. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm curious to find out Carrie's origin story. |
| 1:23.1 | So welcome Carrie. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, thanks. |
| 1:26.6 | Cool. |
| 1:27.3 | Well, I kind of am copying the pattern of how you told your story, Nick. |
| 1:32.3 | So you kind of started with when you first became familiar with Frequent Myler. |
| 1:38.0 | I had a hard time remembering the years on this, but back in 2013, which would have been when my own blog, well, not mine, the one I shared |
| 1:50.7 | with my husband, Drew, travel is free, was about two years old. We went to Chicago seminars, I'm |
| 1:57.4 | pretty sure, and Greg was speaking, and Drew really wanted to go to the session. |
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