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We're back! In this episode, Drew talks about where he has been the past 7 months, and 3 things listeners can expect from upcoming episodes of the podcast. Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher EXCLUSIVE RESOURCE: Prefer to read rather than listen? the text transcribe from this episode. Highlights A little look at where I've been the past 7 months The podcast is back (obviously) Over the next few sessions, I'll be talking about buying more assets I'll share some lessons I'm learning with my other company, Growth Engines, Inc. I'm developing a course on e-mail marketing Links / Resources Drew's Instagram Sara's Instagram  Transcript Prefer to read rather than listen to the podcast episode? No problem, you can and I will send it to you as a PDF. → Read the Transcript Drew: Hey everybody. Welcome to the Nerd Marketing Podcast. I'm back. I am back. It's 2018. I have been on hiatus for seven or so months, and I have just been overwhelmed by the number of people out there who are asking, "Where's the podcast? Drew, where's the podcast, how come you haven't podcasted in a while?" That's just among my two kids, and even people on my e-mail list are asking for the podcast to come back. I don't know why. It's not something that I think adds a lot of value to anything, but some people like audio, so I'm going to roll with it. In this podcast, I wanted to kick of 2018 and set the stage a little bit, catch everybody up on what's going on in nerd marketing, like you care, but there is some things in it for you. Give you a little trick I've been experimenting with, and then we'll move on to some content in the next couple of podcasts. The big thing is, I just got back from a seven-month trip with my family. We left back in March, came back to the States in early November, or I guess around Halloween. This was awesome. It was life-changing. It was really an incredible time. We went to the Caribbean, we went over to Europe and did the Clark Griswold thing. Again, yes, this is with the kids. I've got a five and a three-year-old now, but at the time they were two and four. Brought the wife also. Yeah, it was just amazing. It's too much to put into a podcast. A lot of falconry and boating and beach time and visiting museums and eating cheese and all the good stuff that comes with that. I think the big thing for me was that it really allowed me mentally to punch out of the system, or the systems. I think when we live in a place, we are at the mercy of several systems. It can be the career system where you feel like you've got to do something in your career. There's the housing system, you've got to own some sort of housing or play that game. The school system, where in New York it's just a nightmare. You got to get your kids into the right schools, and there are all sorts of things you got to do to get that kid into the right school. It was really liberating to just eject and break free of all those systems. The rent system, I didn't have to pay rent for six or seven months. I think if you're really enlightened you can break out of those systems without needing to break out of them geographically, but moving geographically can't hurt. It was really liberating for me and my wife to leave for seven months and just be this nice, independent, mobile family unit without a lot of constraints. It allowed me to think about a lot and to plan for what I really wanted to get out of the next couple years in my life, and that brings me here. It brings me back to New York. We came back to New York for the holidays. We are planning on travelling again, maybe in a month, and this time we're talking about the West Coast, Asia, and the idea would be that we get back to the States in time for my five-year-old to start first grade. We are homeschooling him now, which I thought he would end up really weird, but he's great. Because home-schooled people are always really weird, but my kid is fine,