009 | Travel Rewards: How To Travel The World For Free (The Easy Way)

In Today’s Podcast we cover: Why Jonathan started with travel rewards: Wife’s family in Zimbabwe: $6,000 in flights every two years What is this travel rewards strategy all about? Minimum spending requirement defined Options to meet minimum spending requirement Return on investment: instead of 1.5% rewards, you can earn upwards of 33% Impact on credit score and Brad’s personal experience Is this strategy right for you? The Chase Gauntlet and why you want to focus on Chase cards first Where to start? Chase Ultimate Rewards How to earn the Southwest Companion Pass (and the value of the pass) Business credit cards Ultimate Rewards points and three ways to redeem them Jonathan’s trip to Zimbabwe: Helping him save $6k in 5 minutes How to search for flights at United’s website If this strategy can take Jonathan to Zimbabwe, it can take you anywhere! Other destinations with ‘sweet spot’ options: Costa Rica, Hawaii, Europe If you want to take 1-2 nearly free vacations per year, this strategy is right for you Links from the show: ChooseFI credit cards page ChooseFI Travel Rewards Home page Travel Miles 101 podcast with Mad Fientist Amazon.com United.com Andaz 5th Avenue hotel & Andaz Costa Rica hotel     We are building this in front of you. Give us your feedback and ideas. What are we missing? How can we do it better? We want your feedback. Leave us a comment below  Thanks  Jonathan