480. How I Told Lori We Had to Start Over
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- How to have tough conversations with your partner
- What we did when we lost it all
- Taking ownership of your situation
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Show Notes:
It can be really hard to break tough news to your partner. When I lost my job in 2008, I had to come home and tell Lori not only that news, but that our finances weren't in order and we were going to lose everything. It's one of those moments that scars you — you never forget it.
We're going to relive one of the hardest moments of our lives because we think there's value to be found in that moment. It's less about breaking the news, itself, and more about assessing where you're at and deciding what to do with the information that you find.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a part of us that doesn't want to know and doesn't want to look, and we know that it could |
| 0:03.4 | be bad, but we're just avoiding it. And avoidance is where the problems start to begin. |
| 0:07.6 | And that goes for those who are on my side. There's many of you listening right now, |
| 0:10.2 | you're like, I don't want to break the news. I don't want to trouble her or him with this. |
| 0:13.4 | You know what I mean? There's beauty in breaking the news and facing the music, |
| 0:17.6 | because then you get to choose again. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome everybody to the Chris Harder Show, where we are making you |
| 0:27.1 | on apologetic about your pursuit of success. Knowing that when good people like you make good |
| 0:31.6 | money, they can then do great things. My name is Chris Harder and several times per week. |
| 0:36.3 | I will bring you epic guests, solo episodes, and every single tool trick and skill set you need |
| 0:41.5 | to grow your business, grow your money mindset, and to grow your wealth to levels that you have never |
| 0:46.1 | reached before. I've ended up in a unique place in life where I've got the experience, the connections, |
| 0:50.9 | and all of the secrets that it takes to be successful. And I'm lifting the curtain to reveal it |
| 0:56.1 | all to you in an effort to help put you in a position of abundance so great that you can then be |
| 1:01.6 | as generous as possible. So let's lock arms and let's get started. |
| 1:08.0 | And we're back. We are back with another. He said, she said, I'm so excited to sit down and chat |
| 1:14.0 | with you guys today. Well, I don't know if I'm as excited as you because we have to relive when I |
| 1:18.2 | came home and told you, hey, babe, lost my job and we are losing everything. It wasn't those |
| 1:25.9 | words. We'll go through what the words were. But really, this is an episode. Laurie and I were |
| 1:29.6 | literally just on a walk. I'm like, oh, we got to share that moment with them again. This is an |
| 1:34.0 | episode on really how to break tough news to your partner and what it was like when I had to come |
| 1:41.3 | home 12 years ago or whatever it was and tell you, babe, I'm sorry, but one, I lost my job. I |
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