Kelly Butler

CEO, The Points Maven

Kelly Butler is The Points Maven, helping women in midlife to rediscover travel in ways they never thought possible. Kelly teaches responsible strategies to build + redeem credit card points for thousands of dollars in travel - for nearly free…WHILE keeping credit scores high, carrying $0 in credit card interest, and without overspending.

Kelly has helped her family and students book over a quarter million dollars in cash value of travel - using points and miles. But it wasn’t always like this.

Kelly and her family used to take 1 “big” trip each year, and some smaller weekend trips in her region around Atlanta. The high cash cost of travel caused her to say “no” to trips that she wanted to take, because the other expenses of life just always seemed to take priority.

In 2020, Kelly suffered a major medical setback that left her in a state of paralysis and she lost her ability to walk and move. A three year comeback changed everything. She started asking different questions as she reached this point in mid-life:

Who am I living for?
When I’m at the end of my life, what experiences will I remember most?
How can I use travel to create incredible connections?
How can I stop settling, and embrace a lifestyle of travel?

Kelly fell into points almost by accident after setting a goal for a huge anniversary blowout trip to Bali - a place on her bucket list for years. She searched for ways to make a luxury trip a reality without spending the cash cost of $31,000. She quickly dove into learning points strategies, and experienced the dream trip with her husband, Jeff - paying $2500 out of pocket for first class flights, luxury hotels, and incredible cultural experiences.

She left her corporate career of 20+ years at a Fortune 100 tech company, and now uses those years of mentoring experience to empower women with new spending strategies to live out their travel dreams in midlife.

A few of Kelly's favorite travel experiences so far: observing orca whales from a zodiac raft in Vancouver Island, tracing her family's roots in tiny Cefalu, Sicily, and hiking an ultra-marathon with other survivors in Zion National Park, Utah.