134: How to Create Meaningful Conversations from Scratch | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
Friend of the show and Entrepreneur on Fire John Lee Dumas (@johnleedumas) joins us to address a common concern of a lot of people have about leaving behind a miserable corporate job to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions.
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!
On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- You're at a new job and they've already pegged you as the "quiet" one. But what do they really mean?
- How do you find a tribe of like-minded, growth-oriented people who don't seem like they're part of some motivational cult?
- After so many "we should hang outs" without follow-ups, should you just accept that a best friend isn't in the cards for you at this point?
- With a full-time job, supportive girlfriend, and research papers taking up most of your time, how and where can you find opportunities to grow your skill set?
- You're young, successful, and ready for a relationship -- but you can't seem to find anyone whose drive goes beyond Netflix and work. Where should you be looking?
- You're good at chatting when given interesting subjects to talk about, but have no skills in coming up with those subjects. How do you create meaningful conversations from scratch?
- You've got a great job and a comfortable lifestyle, but you regret never finishing college or following your intended career path. Are you a fool to go back to school?
- Even though you know the entrepreneurial life is right for you, how do you politely convey to your well-meaning but kind of clueless friends that you're not looking for another corporate job?
- Recommendation of the Week: Strong Ending -- A Journey from Combat to Comedy
- Quick shoutouts to Vivek at Google and Michael Clobes!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. And I'm here with producer Jason |
| 0:04.0 | to fill up. Here on the Jordan Harbinger show, we love having conversations with our fascinating |
| 0:08.8 | guests. And this week we had Andy Malinsky talking about intercultural communication. |
| 0:14.2 | This was really interesting. Some cultures are more direct to than others. Other cultures, |
| 0:18.8 | eye contact is less polite. Other cultures you have to make it or it's not polite. |
| 0:22.9 | There's a lot of little nuances. And there was a lot in that episode about intercultural cross-cultural |
| 0:27.3 | communication. We also aired a crossover episode where I was interviewed on another show by my |
| 0:33.7 | friend Tom Billio. He runs Impact Theory. This was a popular episode of Impact Theory. And a lot |
| 0:40.0 | of people said that this show decided me that they hadn't heard before. So that episode was a |
| 0:45.1 | crossover episode. I hope you enjoyed it. And if you missed it, I would love if you'd go back and |
| 0:49.1 | have a listen. I think that the crossover episode is really interesting. Of course, I'm biased. |
| 0:53.0 | And Andy Malinsky was really fascinating if you have any interest in speaking or communicating |
| 0:57.2 | with other cultures. Of course, our primary mission is to pass along our guest experience as well |
| 1:02.8 | as our experiences and insights along to you. In other words, the real purpose of the show is to |
| 1:06.9 | have conversations directly with you. And that's what we're going to do today. Here on Feedback Friday, |
| 1:12.3 | you can reach us at Friday at JordanHarbinger.com. Love if you keep the emails concise if possible. |
| 1:18.5 | Does increase the chance that we can get your question answered on the air. |
| 1:21.7 | Jason, what's new this week? Oh, I know what's new. No big deal. But we made it to Apple's best |
| 1:27.5 | of 2018 list. That's something that happened this week. Yeah. Yeah. That was a nice thing to wake up to. |
| 1:33.1 | Definitely. Yeah. 12 years. Nothing from Apple. Not that we didn't appreciate the fact that they |
| 1:40.4 | created the entire podcasting platform. And the reason we have careers right now. What I mean is |
| 1:45.1 | no recognition at all. So waking up one day to have a bunch of texts and emails and social media support. |
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