Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet.

Today, you just get me.

I am the guest today. I will be the guest of honor. And for the

next five weeks, I will be releasing a solo podcast each and every week with just me on there.

And you'll understand why it's that five week period from Thanksgiving to New Year's that I'm choosing to release these five episodes.

And I want to start off. And I want to tell you what separation season is. You saw it in the

title of the podcast episode. Here is what separation season is. And separation season comes about this time of year because most of the population

between Thanksgiving and New Year's, they put their entire life on cruise control. They will

indulge like no other time throughout the rest of the year. They won't move the needle in any

part of their life. They'll abandon the routines all because

that's what everybody else is doing. And when everybody else is living that way, it will give you a

chance to separate from others, but also separate from the former version of yourself. And this is not a beat yourself up episode.

This is to see where you're at and simply say,

it's time to make your what's next in life your best yet.

I didn't understand what separation season was outside of football

because when I was playing football,

Christmas, the time between Thanksgiving through

Christmas and New Year's, that was work time.

I never quite understood when people would say, well, I always put on an extra 10 pounds

through the holidays.

I never understood that until 2018.

In 2018, I experienced the first holiday season as a non-football player

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