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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1248: Bitter Defamation Tests Small Town Reputation | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Your ex-partner stole inventory, rebranded it, and spent three years cyberstalking and defaming you in your tiny town. 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!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1248

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • Your co-founder turned hostile, stole your inventory, rebranded your products, and launched a years-long campaign of defamation, impersonation, and stalking in your tiny town. You've stayed silent, filed for a restraining order, and kept meticulous records. How do you survive when disengagement doesn't end it? [Thanks once again to attorney Corbin Payne for helping us answer this!]
  • Your brother married a Ukrainian student who is in the country on a scholarship after knowing her for just few weeks, and now your family's playing detective on whether this whirlwind romance is the real deal — or a potential disaster waiting to happen. How do you balance your skepticism with support?
  • You inherited an employee whose dementia is progressing, and now you're caught between compassion and company policy — trying to protect someone's dignity while managing real workplace challenges. What's the ethical playbook when someone's cognitive decline becomes impossible to ignore? [Thanks to HR professional Joanna Tate for helping us with this one!]
  • Recommendation of the Week: Core Power Elite protein shake by Fairlife
  • You run an affordable hearing aid business helping seniors, but you're terrified of being "pushy" when reaching out to senior centers or asking customers for referrals. Meanwhile, a financial advisor keeps hounding you for money and contacts. How do you promote your mission without feeling like a transactional robot — or worse, a smarmy salesperson?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
  • Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback

0:08.1

Friday producer, the high-end salon tweezer, helping me pluck this unibrow of life drama, Gabriel

0:14.0

Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

0:18.3

most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:24.8

Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker, and during the

0:28.8

week we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks from arms dealers,

0:33.1

drug traffickers, former jihadis, rocket scientists, and astronauts. This week we had Mike

0:37.4

Feldstein from Jasper, we talked about air quality, smoke, scientists, and astronauts. This week we had Mike Feldstein from

0:38.1

Jasper, we talked about air quality, smoke, mold, and more. We also had Dr. Eric Cole,

0:42.3

former CIA on cybersecurity and the incoming impending Cyber 9-11. And we also did a skeptical

0:48.5

Sunday on Black Friday. On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer

0:53.0

advice, play obnoxious soundbites,

1:15.7

and compare Gabe to various premium bathroom appliances. And our dear listener's dilemmas to unwanted follicles, apparently. That's right. That's right. I hear we have a full dues cruise today, so let's get right into it. Gabe, what is the first thing out of the mailbag? Hey, Jordan and Gabe. Over three years ago, I co-founded a small business with a woman in my very small, isolated town,

1:19.2

a dream I had nurtured for six years and invited her into.

1:24.1

During the few months we were partnered, I stepped away from my own main business of 10 years to devote all my time to the new venture.

1:26.6

Then, shortly after we launched,

1:28.4

while I was out of town, she abruptly turned hostile. It started when she intentionally crossed

1:33.5

an ethical boundary I had clearly set, almost as if she wanted to provoke a conflict. There

1:38.9

hadn't been any fight or issue before that. Her shift was confusing and extreme. At the beginning, I did everything I could

1:46.1

to de-escalate and seek resolution, calmly, respectfully, and with documentation to prove it,

1:52.1

even through her hostility and abuse. It didn't matter. She stole all of our inventory from my home

1:57.9

studio before I returned, sabotage of the company, and kicked off a

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