227: How to Communicate with Stinkers and Deadbeats | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When you've got coworkers who literally stink enough to make your olfactory system protest with tears of sadness and deadbeat roommates who won't pay rent and try to convince you to let their online romantic interests move into your very real space, you need to listen to this Feedback Friday!
And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! 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!
Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/227.
On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- You try to be positive, but when your longtime coworker is negative, pessimistic, petty, and literally stinky, how obligated are you to put up with it?
- You try to be positive, but when your longtime roommate is a deadbeat trying to move their online romantic interest in, how obligated are you to put up with it?
- You're an effortless jack of all trades, but a master of none. Should you be more motivated to excel, or just grateful for what you have and enjoy life?
- How do you get your extended family to understand that you and your spouse's busy entrepreneurial lifestyle makes free time a valuable resource?
- As a freelancer, how do you manage (mentally and financially) the slow growth periods of the year?
- You literally have OCD and can't stand being touched by strangers. How do you handle the would-be huggers and handshakers you meet without being rude?
- As a young worker in a relatively low-paying position, how do you request a raise if one isn't given or negotiate a slightly higher one if offered?
- Thanks to DNA testing, you've discovered your mother's been lying to you about the identity of your father for 40 years. How do you cope with this bombshell?
- Life Pro Tip: Before giving a previous job as reference, have a friend pretending to be a potential employer call them asking about you — this way you avoid derailing your job hunt.
- A quick shoutout to 11-year-old listener Ruby Johnson!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer |
| 0:06.5 | Jason DeFilippo. Here on the Jordan Harbinger Show, we love having conversations with our |
| 0:10.8 | fascinating guests. And this week, we had Kim Scott and her concept of radical candor. |
| 0:16.2 | How to tell people, especially at work, what you really think in a way that's constructive |
| 0:20.2 | and doesn't harm your relationships with those around you. We also had Justin Paperni, |
| 0:24.7 | a white collar criminal defense consultant who, this is so crazy, he prepares white collar |
| 0:30.2 | defendants for trial and prison. And so we talked about some of his clients involved in the |
| 0:35.6 | college admissions scandal, as well as his own story about being locked up and coming out |
| 0:40.5 | the other side, a better man. I also write every so often on the blog. The latest post is five |
| 0:45.4 | signs your life is off track and what to do about it. We wrote this because I've so often |
| 0:50.7 | felt like I'm not headed towards my own goals or that I don't even know what my goals are. |
| 0:55.2 | And I'm twisting in the frickin' wind. And I still feel that way sometimes. And so I started |
| 0:59.2 | to look for signs that I'm always bored or that I keep talking myself out of commitments. |
| 1:03.1 | Or I'm asking myself what the point is of everything. I know other people feel this way |
| 1:07.6 | as well. I wanted to open these topics up for discussion and dissection. And that article |
| 1:13.1 | is at JordanHarbinger.com slash articles along with all of our other pieces. So make |
| 1:18.2 | sure you've had a look and a listen to all of this stuff we created for you this week. |
| 1:22.5 | Of course, our primary mission, we always want to pass along our experiences and insights |
| 1:26.3 | to you. And we love doing that here on Feedback Friday. We're having conversations directly |
| 1:30.8 | with you more or less. So you can reach us, of course, if you want to participate in |
| 1:35.0 | this at Friday at JordanHarbinger.com. We might answer your question on the air. Try to |
| 1:40.2 | keep it a little concise. We always keep you anonymous. Don't worry about that. And we're |
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