Points Redeeming, Travel Tips

June 5, 2023

Luxury Travel Strategies, Obstacles, and Mistakes with Julia Menez

Episode Description

We’re back with another amazing guest. This time, I’m joined by Julia Menez. Julia is a points strategy coach, speaker, and host of the Geobreeze Travel Podcast. Having traveled to more than 30 countries before the age of 30 and saving thousands of dollars using points and miles in the process, Julia has distilled the strategies from top award travelers around the world and shares them with her audience.

Julie has a passion for featuring a diverse roster of stories, covering experiences that are traditionally underrepresented in larger points and miles blogs, highlighting women first-generation travelers, and People of Color. In other words, Julia is a pro at points travel, and teaching others how to leverage credit card points to travel the world, all while being a fierce advocate for diversifying the world of points travel, which are some of our favorite things over here at Point Me to First Class.

Tune in this week to discover some of the amazing things we can learn when we diversify the conversation around points travel and discuss our mistakes along the way. Julia Menez is sharing why your points journey doesn’t have to start out a certain way in order to be successful, her favorite lessons she’s learned from opening up the conversation on her own podcast, and her strategic tips for points travel that everyone can benefit from.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode

  • How Julia first heard about points travel and assumed it was a scam.
  • Why you don’t need a huge business to take advantage of business credit card rewards.
  • How Julia decided her work in the points travel world was to diversify the conversation.
  • Why we’re all here to learn from each other on our points journey, and Julia’s favorite tips she’s learned through her podcast.
  • The most recent luxurious international trip Julia booked using points plus cash, and why everything didn’t go exactly according to plan.
  • How Julia decides whether to use points or cash for different components of her travel.
  • Some of the discussions Julia had with her partner as she started her points travel journey that you might find useful.
  • Julia’s tips for following the right people as you move through the world of points travel.

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