221: How to Meet the Parents Without a Meltdown | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You and your significant other of six months planned on using your parents' vacation home for a romantic weekend getaway together, but now your parents have decided to join you. The problem: your parents and significant other haven't met yet. You're confident they'll get along great, but you want to make sure you set up the occasion for the best chance of success. Here's our take on how your significant other can meet the parents without a meltdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason |
| 0:05.1 | to Phillipo. Here on the Jordan Harbinger show we love having conversations with our fascinating |
| 0:09.5 | guests and this week we had Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame in his new show Savage Builds |
| 0:15.2 | talking about the process of hands-on creativity. It's an interesting show. I'm not much of |
| 0:19.3 | a maker myself. My wife is, I know you kind of are Jason and Adam Savage is a creative |
| 0:24.8 | dude. I mean he's just, he's got a really, his mind works in a way that I'm just not really, |
| 0:30.3 | you don't see that very often. You just don't. |
| 0:32.8 | In Gabriel, Ms. Rahe and I did a deep dive on generosity and abundance. I know I hate that |
| 0:37.5 | word and I'm not using it in a woo-woo BS way. But I mean that in a way that shows you can |
| 0:41.5 | actually build your allies, your network, you can help others, you can generate social |
| 0:45.2 | capital before you're rich and successful and at the top of the corporate ladder a lot |
| 0:49.7 | of people think, well I can't help others get what they want. I need to work for myself |
| 0:53.8 | right now. I got to focus on my own goals. If you're working on building relationships |
| 0:57.6 | at work or in your business or in your personal life, definitely don't miss that episode |
| 1:02.4 | of the show that we did that deep dive with Gabriel, Ms. Rahe. Also, I write every so |
| 1:06.5 | often on the blog. The latest post is about how to deliver bad news in a way that actually |
| 1:10.9 | helps not harm your relationship to the person that you're talking to. And this is clutch |
| 1:15.6 | for those of us that have to occasionally or even regularly deliver bad news. And that's |
| 1:19.8 | it JordanHarbinger.com slash articles. So make sure you've had a look and a listen there |
| 1:24.4 | to all of that. Of course, our primary mission is to pass along insights and experiences to |
| 1:29.4 | you directly. So we want to have conversations directly with you wherever possible. And |
| 1:33.6 | that's what we do today here on Feedback Friday. We do that every Friday. And you can |
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