358: Is My Friend Blowing Her IVF Money on Gifts? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Your friend wants to be a mother more than anything, but says she and her husband can’t afford the IVF it would take to make this possible. On the other hand, she habitually buys expensive gifts for everyone in your social circle. Is there any socially acceptable way for you to have a conversation with her about priorities? We’ll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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On This Week’s Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- Is your friend — who says she wants to be a mother more than anything — blowing the money she could be using for IVF on expensive gifts for everyone else? And if so, is there any socially acceptable way for you to have a discussion with her about it?
- You were on the path to a job in a new field until the pandemic hit, and now you’re finding it hard to land interviews without past experience on your resume. Should you go back to your old field in the meantime until things go more or less back to normal?
- There’s a gap on your resume where you took a year off of college to go to drug and alcohol rehab. Is there a way to spin this positively?
- While you’ve sought therapy to mitigate the effects of your father’s abuse as a child, your BPD-diagnosed sister hasn’t — and it causes her to act out in ways that are dangerous to herself and others. How can you best help her?
- How do you decide when it’s worth pushing through something (like learning a new language), or quitting because it causes anxiety and isn’t pleasant to endure at the time?
- Life Pro Tip: If a bee colony has set up a hive that you need removed, don’t call the exterminator. Google local beekeepers, who will relocate the hive often for free. This is an easy way to be nice to the bees and to your wallet!
- Recommendation of the Week: Spaceship Earth
- A quick shout out to @thatphysioguy for making use of Six-Minute Networking to get his business through this pandemic!
- 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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with Gabriel |
| 0:07.5 | Mizrahi. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey Jordan. |
| 0:09.9 | So we have a little bit of an announcement here today. I know we mentioned last time that |
| 0:13.6 | this was JPD's last feedback Friday and that he was going to be going on and doing a |
| 0:19.4 | bunch of other stuff with podcasts and podcasts land and sort of separating from the Jordan |
| 0:24.9 | Harbinger show team is still part of the family. Of course today we have a new co-host here |
| 0:30.4 | on Feedback Friday. He's the head of editorial for the Jordan Harbinger show and has been |
| 0:34.6 | for years. He's one of my best friends. Gabriel Mizrahi is going to be joining us here. |
| 0:39.4 | He's going to be providing advice. He's going to be reading the questions. He's going |
| 0:42.9 | to be doing weird yoga poses and stuff and stretches during the show. You don't see the |
| 0:47.2 | video of us doing this and just be thankful. You don't need to see all the weird stuff going |
| 0:51.6 | on behind the scenes. Nobody wants to see how the sausage is made. But Gabriel Mizrahi |
| 0:56.0 | is here and I am thankful for that. I think we're going to have a totally different and |
| 1:00.1 | very fun, unique vibe and probably a little bit of a different take on advice because |
| 1:05.0 | Gabriel is a more sensible person than me flat flatly said. So I'm really excited to |
| 1:10.1 | have him on board here today. Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah. Of course. As I all know on the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets |
| 1:17.0 | and skills of the world's most brilliant people and turned their wisdom into practical |
| 1:20.7 | advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. And if you're new |
| 1:25.1 | to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you. We answer listener questions. The rest |
| 1:29.3 | of the week we have long form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing |
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