1335: Protecting Your Kids from the Evil They Hid | Feedback Friday
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Jordan Harbinger
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ποΈ 29 May 2026
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Summary
Assaulted at a Buddhist center known for cover-ups, you were silenced. How do you keep the kids safe when your ex takes them there? It's Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
- A positive update from the listener who wrote in for interview advice (question two, episode 1324)!
- Four months ago you earned a shiny promotion to a leadership role β and then quietly kept doing your entire old finance job too, with no transition plan, no extra pay, and a passive manager who'd rather you stayed quiet. The company has the money; they just don't have the incentive. How do you force clarity without getting branded "not a team player"? [Thanks to HR professional Joanna Tate for helping us with this one!]
- You were sexually assaulted at your kids' father's place of worship β a Buddhist center with a documented history of abuse and cover-ups β and reporting it got you silenced, suppressed, and forced to keep attending. Now you share custody, your ex still brings the kids there, and you're desperate to keep them safe without scaring them. How do you talk to your children about this? [Thanks yet again to clinical psychologist Dr. Erin Margolis and attorney Corbin Payne for helping us with this one!]
- Your 83-year-old mother has been "dying" for a decade, bankrolls your life, and uses that money as a leash β keeping you next door, watching from her window, after a childhood betrayal you're still carrying. You feel guilt, shame, and a creeping sense you have no power here. But what if the most uncomfortable question is how much agency you've had all along?
- Recommendation of the Week: Bose SoundLink Flex β Gabe's everyday Bluetooth speaker and his all-time favorite.
- Gabe revisits last week's tangle over belief and counseling, then reaches for David Mamet's True and False β a book ostensibly about acting that turns out to be about how we white-knuckle our beliefs instead of simply accepting what's in front of us.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored in part by Conspiruality Podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | You know how I'm always talking about critical thinking and spotting manipulation? |
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| 1:05.8 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. |
| 1:07.8 | As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer. |
| 2:18.5 | Everyone's favorite Chavasana Shara'i, getting his chill in Brazil, Gabriel Mizrahi. Daddy, chill. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the story of secrets 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. And 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, hostage negotiators, drug traffickers, astronauts, neuroscientists. On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, and run naked through the sprinklers of your greatest victories and most confounding defeats. Speaking of which, I hear we have a little update on a recent letter, Gabe. Yeah, I just wanted to give one of our listeners, Louise, a shout out. Louise was the listener who wrote in a few weeks ago asking about how to get meaningful feedback from hiring managers after she lost out on a few job offers. Ah, yeah, this was the listener who almost got that job she really wanted, but like a former cop got it instead for some reason? That's right. We gave her some thoughts on how to do that, but I guess she didn't really need them because, well, she wrote us. Exciting news. I was offered the role of company manager for a major international circuses show this week, so the family and I will be moving to Mexico in a couple of months. |
| 2:19.6 | Wow. Random. |
| 2:23.8 | The great thing about this is that I actually interviewed for this role 18 months ago and was their backup candidate. The process then was a series of rigorous interviews, whereas this time |
| 2:28.6 | I just had a couple of very casual video calls, and they made the offer. |
| 2:32.8 | I love when stuff like that happens. What |
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