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460: Why Did Your Adopted Child Leave? | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When your adopted child turned 18, he immediately moved out without warning and wrote you a letter saying he left "for mental health reasons" -- and not to contact him. You're hurt, disappointed, and feel cut off; is there any way to respect his wishes while getting some clarity on why this happened and letting him know you're still unconditionally there for him? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) 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: jordanharbinger.com/460

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • Wisdom from Charlie Munger: Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
  • When your adopted child turned 18, he immediately moved out and wrote you a letter saying he left "for mental health reasons" -- and not to contact him. You're hurt, disappointed, and feel cut off; is there any way to respect his wishes while getting some clarity on why this happened?
  • You're a middle schooler who doesn't thrive with the lessened engagement of online courses, but you understandably don't feel safe going to the classroom in the middle of a pandemic. You've considered dropping out and attending a community college that offers courses for all ages and has much safer COVID-19 protocols, but you're not sure it's the right move. What would we do in your shoes?
  • You graduated law school to become a world-changing lawyer, but you've been diagnosed with a debilitating illness that makes this a difficult proposition now. You know there are positions with a work-life balance that would be more accommodating to your condition, but they're not generally world-changing. Where should you go from here?
  • A shady landlord is trying to sucker you into paying two months' rent against the terms of your very explicit lease, and it's having an adverse effect on your credit score. How can you legally get this creep off your back? [Thanks once again to our defense attorney friend Corbin Payne for helping us with this one!]
  • You and your fiancee want your relationship to be focused on you, not the image of the relationship you convey online. But how do you balance sharing life updates with your network to provide an engagement point for weak or dormant ties (as discussed in our free Six-Minute Networking course)?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and...

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Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Feedback

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Friday producer Mike Cohort in consultation Gabriel Mizrahi.

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0:26.1

comes to how these amazing people think and behave. Our mission is to help you become

0:30.6

a better informed, more critical thinker so you can get a deeper understanding of how

0:34.6

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0:38.9

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0:43.8

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slash start. This week we had John Brennan, former director of the CIA with a discussion

1:17.3

on global threats and trends. If you're into global affairs and international relations

1:21.5

and all that, you'll enjoy this one. We also had Steve Madden, yes, the shoe guy with

1:26.0

his absolutely bananas rise and fall and arise again. I really enjoyed that one. I had no

1:31.0

idea that he was such an interesting cat episode has nothing to do with shoes. Don't worry.

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Make sure you've had a look and a listen to everything we created for you here this week.

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You can reach us for these advice shows, these feedback Friday. That is Friday at JordanHarbinger.com.

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