Happy Holidays from Talking Points. I'm your host Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, it's Christmas Day.

And whether you celebrate the holiday or not, we at the Points Sky are definitely festive during the holiday season.

And today we share why travel is meaningful.

Why it's so important for human connection and discovery, why it bridges divides, and helps us learn about what makes this world so special.

So we thought it would be fun to hear from staffers at TPG about why this place.

TPG is so important to us. And maybe just maybe, get you to understand

why we do what we do.

Happy holidays from all of us at TPG,

right after this.

Welcome back to Talking Points, our holiday edition. We're sharing the Wies and House TPG has been so helpful in 2019 in the years to come. Take a listen.

This is Benay Wilson. I am TPG's credit cards editor.

Travel has been very special to me almost since I was born. I am the daughter and granddaughter of

Air Force officers. I took my first plane ride when I was six from JFK to London Heathrow on a Pan Am Boeing 747.

I'm showing my age here, but that was a time when you traveled you dressed up.

My sister and I had on hats, white gloves, little purses. Our

cousins came to JFK to see us off and they were dressed up. And I remember boarding the plane and the captain allowed me to come up into the cockpit and

we were sitting in the cockpit showing me everything and I said, this is great, I would love to fly on this plane again and

he looked at me and he's like no I want you to aspire to do more I want you to

actually fly this plane which started my whole aviation geek passion and travel passion.

So I grew up in Europe.

I was really blessed that I was able to travel everywhere.

I became an aviation journalist and got to continue to travel

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