1339: Brother's Objection Threatens Family Connection | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Your brother demands you cut off the parents who hurt him years ago, but your kids love their grandparents. Now what? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
- You're 51, sober, settled — but your brother just went no-contact with your parents over a dark secret from your unconventional cult-and-commune childhood. Now he's demanding you keep your own kids away from them too. Do you owe him solidarity, or are you being pulled into a grudge that was never yours to carry?
- You were just doing a friendly round of reconnect-with-old-contacts networking — harmless, even thoughtful. So why did one message detonate into a startlingly bitter response from someone you used to work with? What old wound did you accidentally reopen, and how do you respond when goodwill gets thrown back in your face?
- Your wife left you for a coworker, you tried for a year to win her back, and then a heroic dose of mushrooms — mismeasured, not your fault — sent you to the ER and quietly dismantled your career, your finances, and your sense of who you are. Now you're 37, isolated, and unsure how to even set a goal. Where do you start rebuilding?
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- You're working a full-time job plus two more, your wife works full-time too, and you're still living paycheck to paycheck — and somewhere in there you've started to feel like a failure as a father. You could double your income, but at the cost of your kids' last years at home. Time or money? Or is there a door you haven't noticed yet?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Lufthansa. |
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| 0:06.4 | focusing on each person with their own individual and situational needs. |
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| 0:12.9 | Visit Lufthansa.com and search for Allegra's to learn more. |
| 0:15.9 | Liftonza Allegris. |
| 0:17.1 | All it takes is a yes. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:25.9 | As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, |
| 0:28.2 | my guy who can't stop flying, which is fine as long as he's on Wi-Fi. |
| 0:31.5 | That kind of rhymes. |
| 0:32.1 | Gabriel Mizrahi. |
| 0:33.2 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the story of secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:36.7 | most fascinating people |
| 0:37.7 | and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:42.9 | Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. |
| 0:46.2 | During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, war correspondents, |
| 0:50.4 | neuroscientists, drug traffickers, Russian spies. |
| 0:53.4 | This week we had Nicole Sachs, therapist and author of Mind Your Body on the psychological basis of chronic pain and pain relief. |
| 1:00.0 | So if you liked our previous episode on Pain with Dr. Rachel Zoffness, I think you're going to like this one as well. |
| 1:05.0 | We also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on dialysis. |
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