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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1310: Sick Mom Needs Me — But So Does My Family | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Science, Business, Education

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

A baby's on the way, but your mom with cancer is camped in the spare room with no exit plan. What do you do when love and limits collide on 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/1310

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • You and your wife scraped together enough to buy your first home, and now family members keep treating it like an open-door shelter. Your brother camped out for three months, and now your cancer-battling mom has moved in — again — while you're expecting your first baby. You love her, but she won't save money or plan ahead. How do you set a boundary without feeling like a monster?
  • You've co-owned a massage-therapy business 50-50 with your mom for a decade, but since switching to an employee model, you're realizing she can't handle collaboration, conflict, or structure. She shuts down, disappears for weeks, and keeps turning to ChatGPT as her oracle for leadership advice — then parrots buzzwords without following through. How do you run a company with a partner who can't stay in the room?
  • You wrote in (question three, episode 1294) to challenge Jordan and Gabe's take on Ellie — the daughter-in-law accused of taking advantage of her mother-in-law with marathon visits. You think the real culprit might be Ellie's absent husband Peter, and that the family's piling on the wife while giving Bro a pass. Did the guys miss a giant blind spot, or is there more to this story than meets the eye?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Double Take Salsa (use code JORDAN at checkout for 25% off) — an artisanal, mom-and-pop salsa brand out of Minnesota by some of our show fans that nails the balance between flavorful kick and actual taste. To clarify, this is an endorsement, not an advertisement! The discount is provided as a courtesy from show fans to fellow show fans!
  • You've spent 20-plus years married to a woman whose horrific childhood trauma has manifested as violence, manipulation, and threats of suicide to control you. You cut off your own family to keep the peace, and you stayed for the kids — but they're nearly grown now. You're not looking to fix the marriage; you're looking to survive the landing. What practical steps should you be taking to prepare for the inevitable?
  • 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

0:08.2

Friday producer, the industrial binder clip helping me hold these stacks of life drama together and

0:13.6

occasionally cutting off circulation to my fingertips when I get bored. Y'all know you did that in school

0:17.6

too, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode

0:21.0

the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom

0:24.8

into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission

0:29.7

is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. During the week, we have long-form

0:33.8

conversations with a variety of amazing folks, money laundering experts, Russian spies, cold case homicide investigators. This week we had hacker slash musicians,

0:42.7

a technologist, I believe is the term we're using, Ben Jordan. We talked about AI cameras

0:47.7

that are being deployed all over the United States. And these cameras, they scan your license

0:52.1

plates, they essentially track our movements, and the data is blended with consumer data.

0:56.8

And it really can paint a picture that is not very anonymous of everything that we do.

1:01.0

It's pretty invasive technology and pretty fascinating as well.

1:04.1

And these things, your tax dollars are paying for this, which is even crazier.

1:07.0

We basically talked about this new normal in which we are just constantly observed wherever we go and how this is being used and misused by law enforcement, hackers, rogue states, other nation states, etc.

1:19.3

We also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on water filters.

1:22.8

On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, play obnoxious soundbites, and compare Gabe and my dynamic to various mundane office supplies, I guess.

1:31.5

Also, I am still sick, as you can clearly hear.

1:34.9

You know what's crazy?

1:35.8

I did the math, because I have nothing else to do, because I can't do anything.

1:39.0

I've been sick the majority of 2026.

1:43.1

I'm a guy that used to get sick like once every two to three years. And when I would get sick, I'd be like, oh, that's weird, I'm sick. And then like three days later, I'd be like, oh, okay, it wasn't that bad. Now I got sick in December, and it was some kind of kid cold that just took me out. And Jen got sick too. She got better, and it took me forever to get better, like forever. I had a crazy sinus infection. I had to get antibiotics and everything. I'm prone to sinus infections, but I rarely get them. Then I fly to Saudi Arabia. I'm fine. I heal up. I fly back because that trip got aborted. You heard that before. And then I come back and my daughter's like,

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