This is a monster episode, packed with 10 principles and tools to help you find and book the best flight redemptions with your hard-earned points. Tune in to learn the mindset, strategies, and specific websites and apps that will help you take your redemptions from "meh" to "wowza!"
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
It's back, baby -- another series on travel hacking basics, this time focused on burning all those hard-earned transferrable points we've stashed. This week, we start with six foundational principles to frame up the booking process. Tune in, my friends -- understanding these core points is the first step to getting out there and seeing the world for nearly free.
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
It's easy to focus on the gaps. Let's focus on the gains. In this week's episode, we discuss four practical ways to see how we're much closer to living our dream lives than we might realize at first blush.
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Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Our insourcing and outsourcing decisions vary by life season. This week, we discuss mental frameworks for making these decisions -- including both good and bad reasons for both -- plus practical points for shifting in either direction. As always, it's all in service to building lives we love.
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Let's discuss this pernicious myth, its risks to our health, and how we can push back to protect our well-being and sense of peace.
Tune in for helpful strategies, whether you have 20 years left in the office, or you're financially free but anxious about stepping away from your professional identity.
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Let's wrap this series on points and miles earning by going beyond points and miles. How to conjure up cash for non-points travel, with very little effort? Enter the checking and savings account bonus game. Tune in to learn how you can pay for your jungle zip lines, Rockies lift tickets, or Italian cooking classes just by opening a few checking accounts with new banks.
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Points earning goes well beyond swiping your card at a store. This week, we discuss how to earn points and miles for paying major expenses such as your mortgage or rent (yes, really!), insurance, taxes, college savings... and more!
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Welcome back for Part 3 of our points earning series! Today we launch into shopping portals: what they are, how to use them, and how they can make the ordinary extraordinary by helping you earn boatloads of points on everyday purchases.
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Tune in this week to learn how to earn big on major categories of spending using category multipliers. From groceries to dining, online retailers to travel, we cover it all.
Please reach out! Gmail is thereframepodcast2025@gmail.com, and Instagram is Kathleen at The Reframe Podcast.
Tune into the Part 1 in a 5 part series on the "earning" side of travel hacking. Today we explore seven key principles related to earning via sign-up bonuses.
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For the first 64 episodes of this podcast, I've talked generally about FI and FIRE. In episode 65: here's the skinny on where we stand in this journey. From setting the date, to telling the employers, to All The Feels that went along with it -- this is the episode.
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Let's put to rest the silly myth that a frugal or FIRE-focused lifestyle can't also be an aesthetically-pleasing one, filled with loads of lovely adventure!
In this episode, we chat about both the earning and spending sides of the equation, with detailed discussion of seven principles for smart spending on your (aesthetically pleasing) path towards FIRE.
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Hot takes, throw downs, you name it -- let's talk about whether FIRE (financial independence, retire early) is ethical. We'll explore angles from tax liability to promotion opportunities to parenting.
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All you want to know (and more?) about this re-naming, re-framing adventure!
From travel planning... to time in the sky... to on-the-ground family rhythms, today's episode shares our "lessons learned" (and sometimes, re-learned) from our recent trip to Greece, Malta, and France.
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Let's talk global points and miles adventuring for families, made easy. Points and miles travel doesn't require a George Costanza wallet fat with 40 active cards, and it doesn't mean you need to engage in Beautiful Mind-level calculations. In this episode, I share the details on booking a dream family trip to four destinations, requiring 25 airplane tickets and 45 hotel room nights... while keeping it easy breezy. And most importantly, we talk about how you can do the same, while maintaining your sanity.
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Let's chat about how we can step up our personal wellbeing game while also showing the Earth a little love! Today we dive into how we can "feed two birds with one scone" whether we're looking at travel, food, fashion... and even our digital devices.
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Man, I goofed on the last episide. But audio quality is getting better going forward! Thanks for your patience.
This week, please join to hear listener Jennifer tell her money story!
Jennifer's story started in Northern Scotland as the daughter of two parents with widely divergent approaches to money, and now as an early-30s veterinarian she's found her own solid financial footing.
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Tune in to hear 45 lessons I've learned in my first 45 years, ranging from friendship to finances, marriage to style, work to parenting.
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