1009: Family Comes First, But She's Just the Worst | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Your houseguest sister-in-law is messy, irresponsible, and in debt. Can you motivate her to change or is it time for tough love? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!
On This Week's Feedback Friday:- Your sister-in-law's been mooching off your hospitality as if she's got a get-out-of-rent-free card, turning your home into her personal playground while you're busting your hump to keep the lights on. How can you get through this domestic minefield without blowing up your wife's relationship with her spendthrift sibling — and your sanity?
- You're a woman who's always played for Team Dude, but lately you've been crushing hard on your sapphic bestie. The long-term forecast is cloudy with a chance of identity crisis, but you can't get her out of your head. How will you solve this romantic Rubik's Cube without peeling off the stickers?
- Halfway through your Master of Legal Studies program, an ad for AI legal services popped up. Suddenly, your degree looks about as future-proof as a Blockbuster membership card. How can you safeguard your Atticus Finch aspirations without being ground down by the mocking march of the machines? [Thanks — again — to attorney Corbin Payne for helping us answer this one!]
- You've got front-row seats to a family's horror show, complete with questionable parenting and kids who look like they could use a hug (or therapy). As a concerned friend whose perspective is admittedly biased by your own abusive upbringing, how can you swoop in for the save without nuking your relationship or crossing lines that can't be uncrossed?
- You're the company's sales superstar who just got kneecapped by the corporate fun police. After pouring your heart and soul into a presentation that was deader on arrival than disco, how will you dust yourself off and keep your mojo intact when the higher-ups have made it clear your ideas are about as well-received as a Christmas morning telemarketer?
- Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:07.0 | As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the coconut oil moisturizing this flaky skin of life conundrum |
| 0:13.3 | Gabriel Mizra. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, that's me combating this |
| 0:17.2 | existential eczema, I guess. |
| 0:19.2 | And no more sad sack psoriasis for y'all. |
| 0:22.0 | Terrible images to kick off this episode. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, just likey peeling. |
| 0:26.0 | I hope some people are eating while they're listening to this |
| 0:28.0 | and they're just imagining what that all looks like and means and smells like, |
| 0:31.0 | especially on the Jordan Harbinger show, |
| 0:33.0 | we decode the stories, secrets, and skills |
| 0:34.7 | of the world's most fascinating people |
| 0:36.1 | and turn their wisdom into practical advice |
| 0:37.8 | that you can use to impact your own life |
| 0:39.6 | and those around you. |
| 0:40.5 | And our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical |
| 0:43.2 | thinker during the week. We have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks. |
| 0:47.9 | War correspondence, neuroscientists, CEOs and rocket scientists, there's a lot of scientists. |
| 0:52.1 | Four-star general, astronaut, you get the idea. |
| 0:54.7 | This week we had my friend Brian Klaas |
| 0:56.8 | on Embracing Uncertainty in a world of flukes. |
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