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Owen Rascovitch

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1951 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Yep.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And one more thing that we've, we could probably could have talked about a bit earlier, but is the emergency fund.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

So I call it a go bag.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

We have kind of your money put away for your living expenses.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Again, you really don't want to be using that for, that's for emergencies.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

It's not for a holiday.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

So you don't want to be using that for that.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

You want that to be there when you get back, just in case, you know, something has changed and you do need that money.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

What people will do, and I'm not, again, this is not me saying hooray for credit cards, but what people will do is they will take a credit card with them overseas with a zero balance, zero fee.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And sometimes they have pretty good currency conversion.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Take a credit card with them overseas.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

It's kind of like an emergency.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

So you would have...

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

You'd have your transfer reloadable cards or your cards from one of these or one of these apps, the new modern apps that you can transfer money instantaneously with.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

You'd have one of them.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

You'd be paying.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

But then let's say your phone gets stolen or you max out your card because an expense come up that was bigger than what you thought.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

You can use your credit card and you can whack that on.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

yeah absolutely again it comes back to what we said earlier on if you are a regular business traveler you might also get things like insurance better deals on hotels those types of things and some credit cards also after travel insurance if you book for the trip on that same card so that's a thing so even if you do have it so another common conception that people have is you know i'm a i'm a high roller i fly overseas all the time i've got my credit card i'll just book on that it's