785: Living with Aplomb in Spite of a Monstrous Mom | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Your adoptive mom is a narcissistic homophobe whose big concern when you disclosed that you'd been sexually abused by family members was how this would make other people think about her. You've since gone on to become an accomplished writer with friends in high places, but your family has always taken your mother's twisted side over yours and made you feel terrible about yourself. How can you now live with aplomb in spite of your monstrous mom? 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 have a successful career and friends in high places, but how can you live your life with aplomb when you've been raised by a monstrous, narcissistic mom?
- You're an older grad student who, you've just discovered, comes across as an arrogant know-it-all to your younger peers. Now you worry that you've become so unpopular that the university will ask you to withdraw for failure to mesh with the other students. How can you make this right?
- You have reservations about fully trusting your fiancé — who's had over 150 sexual partners, and admits to cheating in a previous committed relationship. No stranger to the sting of being cheated on yourself, how can you move forward without feeling haunted by his past?
- Your new job is in jeopardy because of a recent depressive episode that left you incapacitated for weeks. While you're working with a therapist and psychiatrist to get things under control, how can you explain what's been going on to your new boss?
- Why are influencers all of a sudden promoting tourism to Saudi Arabia, and how can you sit with the moral dilemma about visiting countries actively committing human rights violations?
- 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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- Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi.
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| 0:00.0 | Special thanks to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:04.2 | Special thanks to US Bank for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:15.3 | As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, a guy who's new leather bracelets look like he's, uh... |
| 0:20.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.6 | Nine months away from starting a yoga cult in Delume, Gabriel Mizrahi. |
| 0:26.3 | Nine? Yeah. More like six tops. Have you seen these things? |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah, we're like four bracelets. I thought you would learn something from the Sarah and Nippie cult interview, but I guess not. |
| 0:36.8 | Look, it's not a cult if you're the one starting it. |
| 0:39.8 | It's gonna be a no for me, Doc. |
| 0:42.8 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people, |
| 0:48.8 | and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:54.8 | We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave. |
| 0:58.8 | And our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker so you can get a much deeper understanding of how the world works, |
| 1:05.8 | and make sense of what's really happening, even inside your own mind, |
| 1:08.8 | unless your gay with this bracelet says just not singing in for this guy. |
| 1:12.8 | If you're new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you. |
| 1:16.3 | Was that a gift from your sister? I feel bad if it was a gift from your mom or something. |
| 1:19.8 | It was a Christmas gift. |
| 1:20.8 | One of my really good friends gave this to me and she listens to the show. |
| 1:22.8 | So as you know, we later are going to see us. |
| 1:25.3 | Sorry, sorry. It's not on anyway. I'm just digging a hole. |
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