76 | How to Travel with Your Family for Free or Close to It | Julia Menez from Geobreeze Travel

Looking for ways to boost your income? Check out these resources to help you with your money journey. Bio Julia Menez is a points strategy 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 with points and miles, Julia distills the strategies from top award travelers around the world in the Geobreeze Travel podcast and creates Instagram videos about credit card benefits such as trip protections and luxury travel opportunities. 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 women, first generation travelers, and people of color. Julia has been a speaker for FinCon, a course instructor for Frequent Traveler University, and quoted in publications such as The New York Times, Money Magazine, Fodor’s Travel, and Business Insider. Her podcast was nominated in the 2021 Plutus Awards for “Best New Personal Finance Podcast”, and she serves as a senior advisor for Bilt Rewards. Julia is available for comments and interviews regarding award travel, personal finance, entrepreneurship, and women in business.   Lightning Round 1. What is one fun fact about you that not that many people know? I’m into zero waste cooking. I think it’s just because I’m into productivity and efficiency and I hate wasted time and wasted effort.   2. Who inspires you the most and why? I really like Ramit Sethi.  I like how he focuses on living your rich life. There’s so many Instagram accounts that focus so much on scarcity mindset, especially people who talk to women. There’s much more of a focus on save here and cut back here rather than here’s how to make more money.   3. What books are you reading now or have read and loved that you’d recommend? The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste by Bea Johnson   4.