1347: Grandma's Adoption Blocks Custody Option | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Your friend's mom talked her into giving up her baby, then adopted the child and won't return her. Can it be legally undone? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
- Can Gabe fend off being chilly in Chile with a warm bowl of (vegan) chili? He may tell us, or he may not. Perhaps his story is altogether more death-defying and sure to have you on the edge of your seat, but you'll only know if you don't skip ahead to about 26 minutes and 35 seconds!
- Your young friend clawed her way back from heartbreak and depression after her baby's father vanished — only to learn her own mother quietly adopted the child and now refuses to give her back. Intercepted mail, surrendered custody, and her church branded a cult. Is there any path home to her daughter?
- Your daughter handed her husband the family finances for 21 years and trusted every word — until one credit report detonated the whole story. The $85k in savings? Gone. Secret high-interest loans, hidden cards, lies about his bonuses, $75K in debt, and she's staying. So where did the money go?
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- Jordan and his 80-year-old dad have a heart-to-heart about the benefits of therapy even in later life on this special Father's Day BetterHelp-sponsored segment.
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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 |
| 0:07.7 | Friday producer, Machet, Chillon, and Chile, Gabriel Mizrahi. Wayon. Nice one. I like that one. Yeah, they |
| 0:14.2 | love Wayon, too, don't they? Everything's Way on down there with the Chileans. |
| 0:18.0 | Sipo, seep. There's a whole other Spanish south of the equator somehow. Truly, yeah. I thought I spoke Spanish, and then I came here, and I was like, I got to learn it again, I guess. Exactly. Yeah. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, 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. |
| 0:37.7 | Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. |
| 0:41.0 | During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, |
| 0:44.6 | organized crime figures, money laundering experts, cold case homicide investigators, Russian spies. |
| 0:49.5 | This week we had David Epstein, author of Inside the Box, How Constraints Make Us Better. |
| 0:54.5 | We talked about how having tons of choices can actually be overwhelming and paralyzing |
| 0:58.0 | and how it doesn't necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. |
| 1:01.5 | David's whole thing is basically we can all benefit from actually narrowing our options. |
| 1:05.9 | Lots of grounded research and practical examples in this one. |
| 1:08.8 | Great for anybody who wants to understand how self-imposed boundaries can actually help you |
| 1:12.3 | tap into unexpected wells of focus and innovation. |
| 1:16.3 | We also had Dr. David Maimon on the dark web, identity fraud, and all kinds of futuristic |
| 1:20.7 | cybercrime that is sure to touch your life if it hasn't already. |
| 1:23.8 | We also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on avocados, something a little bit more simple |
| 1:27.8 | than usual. Well, at least or so I thought, the avocados, it gets dark, folks. On Fridays, |
| 1:35.0 | though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, play obnoxious soundbites, and absolutely |
| 1:39.2 | butcher, various regional dialects. Also, just a heads up, we're partnering with BetterHelp and have a special |
| 1:45.0 | segment with my dad at the end of today's episode. We talked about his experience beginning therapy |
| 1:49.5 | later in life. So definitely stick around for that. It was a really cool conversation, |
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