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The Jordan Harbinger Show

325: My Mother-in-Law Is a Monster! | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Your monster of a mother-in-law says hurtful things to you about your husband when he leaves the room, and now insists on telling you how you'll be raising the child you're expecting soon. How can you shut down her rude commentary without causing a scene? We'll try to find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!

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Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/325.

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • Your aunt wants to sell the run-down family business because she's sick of running it, but you'd like to buy her out and turn it into something really profitable. How can you approach the deal without coming off as insulting?
  • Your monster of a mother-in-law says hurtful things to you about your husband when he leaves the room, and now insists on telling you how you'll be raising the child you're expecting soon. How can you shut down her rude commentary without causing a scene?
  • Your mother recently rejoined a religion that requires cult-like obedience, and her views on medical care are drastically different from yours. Aside from general concern that she's thrown her lot in with a bad crowd, how do you break it to her that you no longer want to have her as your power of attorney?
  • Since the sudden death of a close friend, your husband seems to be extra reliant on you for emotional support to the point that it's stifling your career ambitions. How can you bring up concerns without hurting his feelings and making him think you're trying to abandon him?
  • You're a mechanical engineer with a goal of launching a startup focused around a specific sector of small-scale robotic automation. Your problem? You're not sure where to begin. Is it a realistic goal? Are you aiming too high? Or are your fears just holding you back?
  • You're taking our free Six-Minute Networking course, but you've always been highly introverted and never built much of a network to revive. What tips do we have for starting a new network from the ground up?
  • Life Pro Tip: When you rent or lease a car, take a photo of the dash and the mileage, and a video walking around the car. It will save you having to argue nonsense charges later.
  • Recommendation of the Week: Babies
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday.

0:04.8

I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:08.7

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

0:12.3

most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact

0:16.9

your own life and those around you.

0:18.8

If you're new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer listener questions.

0:22.7

The rest of the week, we have long-form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing

0:27.1

folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors to thinkers and performers.

0:32.2

In this week, we had Laura Gasner-Autting on the dangers of fluffy self-help and some

0:36.7

real talk on how to negotiate, advance, and make tough decisions when it comes to your

0:41.1

career.

0:42.1

We also had another episode from the Vault with Tony Hawk, legendary skater, uncreating

0:46.6

one of the most popular brands in not only skateboarding, but one of the most iconic

0:50.4

personal brands probably of all time.

0:52.4

Jason, would you agree with that?

0:54.0

Absolutely.

0:55.0

It doesn't get any more iconic than Tony Hawk.

0:56.6

That's kind of what I figured.

0:57.6

Yeah, I mean, one of the things he mentioned in his episode was that they printed him on

1:02.2

a roll of toilet paper.

1:03.7

I don't know if that's a compliment or...

1:06.0

Well, he certainly didn't take it that way.

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