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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1274: Past Indiscretion Keeps Threatening Profession | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Science, Business, Education

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

You served time 22 years ago, and now your business partner's wielding your criminal record like a blackmail card to take everything. It's 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/1274

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • You paid for a youthful transgression over two decades ago, built a thriving company from nothing, and now your best friend/business partner is weaponizing your past to push you out — all because of a conflict with his girlfriend. How do you break this pattern and reclaim your story? [Thanks to Corbin Payne and Joanna Tate for helping us with this one!]
  • Your stepbrother's getting married in 10 days, and despite nearly 20 years of brotherhood and a close bond, you still haven't received an invitation — apparently because his fiancée and yours had a falling out. Can you break through the silence before it's too late?
  • Testosterone replacement therapy transformed your energy and recovery as a firefighter-turned-fintech professional — until you discovered it may have rendered you infertile while you and your wife were trying for a second child. Now your sperm count is zero. What comes next?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Camp Snap Digital Camera
  • You've got the dream life — great marriage, strong friendships, vibrant city — but your career keeps flaming out after the honeymoon phase ends. Now you're eyeing a pivot to therapy, but you're terrified you'll repeat the same burnout pattern. How do you finally make it stick?
  • 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

0:07.8

Friday producer, The Dragnet helping me catch these slippery fish of wisdom from the choppy waters of your

0:13.1

life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets,

0:17.6

and skills of the world's 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. During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, Fortune 500 CEOs, 4-Star Generals, Astronauts, Hackers, Undercover agents.

0:36.0

This week we had Richard Schotton and Michael Aaron Flicker, authors of hacking the human mind, astronauts, hackers, undercover agents. This week we had Richard Schotton and

0:37.5

Michael Aaron Flicker, authors of hacking the human mind, the behavioral science secrets behind

0:42.4

17 of the world's best brands. We talked about how leading brands like Apple, Guinness, Red Bull,

0:47.3

how they use behavioral science to influence consumer behavior. They basically analyze

0:51.5

specific brands and the psychological principles behind their success,

0:55.1

offering actionable strategies for marketers and really for anyone to apply. We also did a skeptical

1:00.2

Sunday last Sunday on left-handedness. On Fridays, though, we take your listener letters off

1:04.6

advice and play emotional cat's cradle with the yarn of your naughtiest life conundra.

1:09.5

Now, I hear we've got an overbook dues cruise today.

1:11.4

The lunch buffet is going to be swamped. So let's dive right in. Gabe, what is the first thing

1:15.3

out of the mailbag? Hey, Jordan and Gabe. More than 22 years ago, when I was 22, I made a serious

1:21.5

mistake, and had a relationship with someone who was 17. I took responsibility, served two years in prison, completed 10 years of

1:29.9

parole, and have lived with the consequences every single day since. When I was released, the only work

1:36.1

I could get was washing cars in the winter. I slowly rebuilt my life from nothing, eventually

1:40.7

starting my own company from the ground up. Today, that company employs over

1:44.9

130 people and is one of the 10 largest in our industry. Wow, that is a journey to go from prison

1:51.4

for what I assume was statutory rape, which is so intense to have your life fall apart, to then washing

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