POINT ME TO FIRST CLASS
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Point Me to First Class is the show for professionals and business owners with higher-than-average personal or business expenses, who want to learn to leverage these expenses into credit card points they can spend on travel.
Each week, I share valuable tips, tools, and strategies to help you uplevel your skills earning and redeeming credit card points, so you can expand your travel and expand your experiences.
Start having first-class travel experiences without the first-class price tag.
Points earning strategies
Points redeeming
TRAVEL TIPS
Discover how a quiet Chase promotion could become one of the biggest points-earning opportunities of the year. Dr. Michelle Walther and I break down the Paze digital payment platform, explain which cards qualify, and reveal the merchant strategies (especially Newegg) that could generate thousands of Chase Ultimate Rewards points by year-end through 10-14x earning rates.
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Get answers to your top points questions—from Rakuten rewards strategy to navigating Chase credit card approvals. Plus, hear how the fundamental advice around earning and using points has shifted over the past decade, including why Chase is no longer the automatic starting point and why co-branded cards are more strategically important than ever.
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Get a detailed breakdown of everything that shaped points earning in 2025. Learn which credit cards were opened, how points were allocated across ecosystems, what worked, what didn’t, and what’s on the radar for 2026.
