How One Travel Multiplier Student is Traveling the World for Free Using Points

Meet Jeannie - a driven mom, world traveler, and one of my top Travel Multiplier students. Since taking my Travel Hacking course, she’s used points and miles to book incredible trips around the world for free. I invited Jeannie to write a guest blog for me so she could share her personal journey, lessons learned, and how Travel Hacking has completely transformed the way her family travels. (By the way, you should check out her website and all the incredible things she's doing at Jeannie Marie Academy!)

I’m a global strategist for a non-profit, an entrepreneur, and a mom of four, who’s been experimenting with Travel Hacking the last few months to get free flights and nights (and it’s working). I wanted vacation fun with my family—and for travel with a purpose. 

Travel Hacking is like playing the dynamic strategy game Settlers of Catan, but with a coach (Tim) to tell me the rules of the game and how to win. 

I met Tim Walker because he was one of the 25 aspiring digital course creators I coached last year in my business. He’s a pastor in an urban poor area of the East Coast in the USA. But he told me he “travel hacks” to take his young family on incredible vacations most pastors would never dream of—Cancun all-inclusive, business-class to Europe, beachfront homes—all for FREE! (And he wanted a side hustle to support his non-profit work.)

I know what it’s like to grow up as a “poor but happy” child of cross-cultural workers, who traveled the world (but only saw the fancy hotels in Hawaii from the airplane window). 

As soon as his course was available, I bought it. And did it. 

I binged watched the Launch Into Travel Hacking Course in a weekend and did the first few easy steps to start my travel hacking journey. Then I called Tim and said, “Your course is brilliant. It’s easy. Step-by-step. Encouraging. It’s working for me. And it’s so valuable, you need to raise your price!”

Here’s what I’m doing this year FOR FREE because I took Tim’s Travel Hacking Course. Here’s how I’m using my points—for my family and a few creative ways to travel with a purpose too.

✈️ I’m flying my daughter with me to serve overseas this summer from the US to the Philippines FOR FREE, roundtrip. Plus, we’ll book a couple extra nights in Manila FREE before the conference so I can show her where I grew up.

✈️ I’m flying my family FOR FREE from Arizona to Maine this summer to visit my parents. And renting a car for two weeks for FREE.

✈️ My husband and I just flew to San Francisco last month for a long weekend on a whim because…FREE flights and 🏨 FREE hotel.

🏩 My son is running a marathon in California, so…FREE hotel nights to cheer him on.

✈️ I also snagged a free Companion Pass on Southwest Airlines so that anyone who flies with me for TWO YEARS flies FREE.

Are you dreaming of vacation destinations yet? 👀

I remember someone I knew was doing this travel hacking thing, and I wanted to do it too. But there wasn’t a step-by-step, easy thing to follow, so I never figured it out like they did.

I told Tim that after I worked his system for a few months to make sure it works (I don’t promote anything I haven’t done myself), I wanted to partner with him to pass this opportunity on to people in my personal and professional life, people who travel (and should be getting flights free regularly)...and/or people who are doing so much good in the world that they don’t make a lot of money to take lavish vacations. A number of those people enrolled in his course as well!

I already have about $3,000 worth of travel in points, and it multiplies (with no cost to me), so I think Tim's Launch Into Travel Hacking Course is worth the investment. 

I’ve coached Tim on his digital course business, and just like my Jeannie Marie Academy content is an easy, step-by-step, fun, results-focused style of course creation, his Travel Hacking Course is like that too. Easy. And it works.

KEY TIP: Don’t just get the card and try to do it without the course. I used to think I “travel hacked” but oh my, there is SO much more that Tim’s Course showed me that quadrupled what I was trying to do, with very little effort. It’s a game-changer. 

Happy travels!