Hey, I just want to jump out in front of the intro music to say, happy New Year to everybody,

happy 2014. I hope you're pumped about your plans, whether that's going from a million in sales

to 10 million or whether that's just freeing yourself up from some of your cash flows so you can

pursue projects that are more excited to you or if you just want to spend more time with your family.

In fact, that's why Ian won't be joining us this week.

He's on vacation.

I didn't manage to get him on the horn.

While we were preparing an episode about niche selection, sort of a hardcore business topic,

I got to talk on my friend John about living in Asia.

And we had this sort of casual conversation about it.

I'm not sure how

interesting it is, but for people that are thinking about becoming an ex-patriot or who just got

to Asia, certainly there must be something in there that you'll find interesting. And if you're

interested in more business topics, we've recorded over 50 episodes in 2013. I'm going to list my top five favorite episodes at this blog post.

So it's tropicalmba.com slash Asia.

So you can check them out there.

And also, if you have any questions about this episode or living in Asia in general,

check us out at the blog.

Tropicalmba.com slash Asia.

Okay, let's roll the mediocre intro music.

Hey, podcast, listener.

Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey,

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