Travel Hacks Every Speaker Should Know with Chris Hutchins

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Travel Hacks Every Speaker Should Know with Chris Hutchins

“If you don’t want to play the sign up bonus game, optimize where you’re spending but always be getting more than 2x on everything.”

Navigating the world of travel optimization can feel overwhelming, but our guest this week, Chris Hutchins, is here to break it all down. Chris, host of the All the Hacks podcast, is a master of the travel hacking world and joins us to share his insights on making the most of your travel experiences, especially as a frequent speaker.

Chris dives into the importance of loyalty when it comes to earning coveted airline miles and hotel upgrades. By picking a favorite and sticking with it, you can unlock perks that make travel more enjoyable and often less expensive. Additionally, he discusses the evolution of earning points through credit card spend and how it's shifted the landscape of travel rewards, making it more accessible for those who play the game strategically.

Whether it’s snagging an elusive flight upgrade or scoring a better hotel room, Chris shares practical tips and personal anecdotes on optimizing travel through smart credit card use and award booking strategies. He breaks down the value of different loyalty programs, encouraging you to think about where you fly most often and aligning your strategy accordingly.

In this episode, Chris also explores the world of airport lounges and rental cars, offering hacks on how to gain access without necessarily spending a fortune. Plus, his unique perspective on balancing the allure of points with the practicality of cashback offers valuable insights for anyone looking to travel smarter. Listen in and discover how small shifts in your travel planning can lead to big rewards both personally and professionally!

You’ll learn:

The importance of travel optimization for speakers
Why loyalty matters for gaining travel rewards
How to adapt to changes in loyalty programs
Strategies for maximizing loyalty programs
Points and miles optimization
Psychological impact of using points versus cash
Methods for securing upgraded flights and hotel stays
The best ways to get access to airport lounges
Chris’ travel tips and hacks
And much, much more!

“You could have top tier status with every hotel and every airline without ever spending one night in any of them.”

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
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1:02.7	Aaron. Airlines and hotel groups reward their travelers for loyalty.
1:08.7	And so I think one of the basic thing is, if you want to be rewarded, you have to be loyal.
1:11.8	So that doesn't mean you have to be loyal 100% of the time.
1:15.4	They don't know what you're doing when you're not with them. But if you're someone who's traveling and you're going to spend 40 nights a year at a hotel and you split them 10 nights at
1:20.4	four different chains, you know, you'll probably end up with no status anywhere. And if you pick
1:25.9	one that you like, you might end up getting upgrades
1:29.0	all the time because you, you doubled down on that. And the same goes with airlines.
1:38.0	Hey, it's our friends, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hey, excited for
1:41.9	today's conversation. We're going kind of a little bit
1:44.3	off the beaten path here on a topic. Now, a lot of times we talk about booking gigs and working
1:49.5	with event planners and speaker bureaus and speaking fees and what do you speak about,
1:52.9	storytelling and all that stuff. But today we're going to talk about something kind of logistical
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