627: Would I Be Insane to Report from Ukraine? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
You're an American citizen living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. The embassy just released a statement recommending you evacuate as the situation with Russia escalates, but you've considered staying there and becoming an independent journalist to cover what happens should armed conflict come to pass. Is this a foolhardy death wish disguised as a passion project, or a perfect time for a prudent career pivot? We'll try to find an answer to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- You're an American currently living and working in Ukraine, considering a pivot to war reporting should the situation with Russia escalate. Is this flirtation with danger a death wish in disguise, or a perfect time for a prudent career pivot? [Thanks to seasoned war reporter Danny Gold for helping us tackle this one!]
- You're a 37-year-old married man who's come to realize you don't really have any male friends your own age. What can you do to change this?
- How do you establish healthy boundaries with the sister who mistakes your support system role as an invitation for constant abuse?
- You and your spouse went into marriage with a noncommital attitude about having kids. Eight years on, you've decided you'd like to try having some, but your spouse does not. Is there a win/win way to work through this?
- You took a 50% pay cut to join a startup making a product you strongly believe in. But the pandemic happened, and now your pay cut is 100% as your company struggles to regain momentum. What are your options for seeking job opportunities in your network without simultaneously signaling there's something wrong with your current company's product?
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| 1:10.7 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, a nine-toed dude living in a 10-toed world Gabriel, Masrahi. |
| 1:23.6 | So you broke your toe. I assume I broke my toe. |
| 1:27.3 | Do you want goat yoga or something? Gary LA, right? |
| 1:29.7 | Obviously, that's the only way you break a toe in Los Angeles is doing goat yoga. |
| 1:34.0 | You could have been sprinting to the Feedback Friday inbox to check the inbox. That's actually closer to the truth. I was crossing my apartment a couple days ago and I just caught it on the edge of a table. |
| 1:44.5 | You're vast one bedroom. My vast studio apartment. |
| 1:48.4 | Yes. |
| 1:49.5 | And yeah, I just caught it on the table. It was a very, very glamorous, but you know what's super embarrassing about this whole thing is that I actually did do goat yoga a couple months ago. |
| 1:59.6 | Of course, even. Of course, even. But it was part of a bachelor bachelor, bachelor joint bachelor bachelor party. |
| 2:06.8 | As a wonder. I mean, it sounds wild. Yeah. Hey, bachelor party. What are we going to be doing? You know, goat yoga. |
| 2:12.3 | Yo, go. How cliche? |
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