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About Julia Menez
Julia Menez is a travel hacking coach, speaker, and host of the Geobreeze Travel Podcast.
After traveling to more than 30 countries before the age of 30 and saving thousands of dollars each year by travel hacking, Juliadistills the strategies from top travel hackers around the world in her Geobreeze Travel podcast, and prepares personalized points and miles plans for her private coaching clients.
Through her podcast, Julia features a diverse roster of guests with experiences that are traditionally underrepresented in larger points and miles blogs and media. Her episodes often highlight travel hacking women, immigrants, or people of color.
Julia has been a speaker for FinConX, a course instructor for Frequent Traveler University Online, and has led workshops for thousands of attendees at events such as the SHEFACTOR 2020 Summit.
What You’ll Learn
In this episode we talk about:
- Julia’s work hosting the Geobreeze Travel podcast and covering stories most blogs don’t cover
- Why Julia chooses to feature other travel hackers on her podcast
- A tip Julia recently learned for earning more travel miles
- Growing up in a Filipino-American household and the associated cultural pressure
- Finding FIRE and how that shifted her financial journey
- Why to be careful about the people you surround yourself with in your journey to financial success
- When Julia’s travel guide bailed on her 20 hours before she was supposed to fly to Morocco
- Travel hacking basics and how to avoid wasting your time
- Getting past the fears that come with using the credit cards required for travel hacking
- Organizing your credit cards
- When to close cards and when not to
- Why you should wait until you are consumer debt free before getting into travel hacking
- Traveling to 30 different countries and which ones are Julia’s favorites
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