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Your brother demands you cut off the parents who hurt him years ago, but your kids love their grandparents. Now what? Welcome to 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 [email protected]. Now let's dive in!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
You're 51, sober, settled — but your brother just went no-contact with your parents over a dark secret from your unconventional cult-and-commune childhood. Now he's demanding you keep your own kids away from them too. Do you owe him solidarity, or are you being pulled into a grudge that was never yours to carry?
You were just doing a friendly round of reconnect-with-old-contacts networking — harmless, even thoughtful. So why did one message detonate into a startlingly bitter response from someone you used to work with? What old wound did you accidentally reopen, and how do you respond when goodwill gets thrown back in your face?
Your wife left you for a coworker, you tried for a year to win her back, and then a heroic dose of mushrooms — mismeasured, not your fault — sent you to the ER and quietly dismantled your career, your finances, and your sense of who you are. Now you're 37, isolated, and unsure how to even set a goal. Where do you start rebuilding?
Recommendation of the Week: WuKong Education. After Jordan and Jen enrolled Jayden and Juni in WuKong's online Mandarin classes — 1-on-1 sessions with certified teachers in China, six days a week — the results spoke for themselves: a kid who once spoke no Chinese now cheers when her homework's ready. Interactive, structured, and built for overseas families, it's a strong pick for anyone trying to get their kids fluent.
You're working a full-time job plus two more, your wife works full-time too, and you're still living paycheck to paycheck — and somewhere in there you've started to feel like a failure as a father. You could double your income, but at the cost of your kids' last years at home. Time or money? Or is there a door you haven't noticed yet?
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Jamie Metzl asked AI to distill thousands of years of human wisdom into 10 commandments. What it reflected back says more about us than the machine.
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What We Discuss with Jamie Metzl:
AI is a mirror, not a prophet. For his latest book, The AI Ten Commandments, Jamie Metzl worked with GPT-5 to mine humanity's scriptures, wars, myths, and philosophies for ten universal principles — not to worship AI or replace religion, but to hold up a mirror and stress-test the rules by which we're already living.
Radical transparency about AI co-authorship cuts both ways. Putting GPT-5 on the cover felt honest to Jamie, but with public sentiment soured, the same disclosure that read as bold a year ago now reads to many as an admission of cheating.
Pressing the button gets you "the total average of crap." Jamie cut 40% of the draft, rewrote the whole book, and hired two human editors — proof that good AI-assisted work comes from relentless human editing, not from outsourcing the thinking.
Humans aren't on the verge of obsolescence. We represent nearly four billion years of embodied evolution, and the claim that machines will soon do everything better sells short the majesty of being human; the real frame is a Venn diagram of overlapping strengths.
Stop building second-rate humans and second-rate machines. Don't fear replacement — ask how to help your humans be the best humans and your machines be the best machines, and use AI to stress-test the rules by which you're already living.
And much more...
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Mind Your Body author Nicole Sachs explains how pain is your brain's alarm, and why facing buried feelings can reverse symptoms once thought permanent.
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What We Discuss with Nicole Sachs:
Pain is the brain's protective alarm, not a malfunction. The brain can both create and remove pain. It generates real symptoms to force you to slow down and stop returning to environments it has flagged as unsafe.
Symptoms are real, but the source may be misdiagnosed. Chronic pain, IBS, migraines, fatigue, and long COVID aren't imaginary, but the nervous system — not the body part being treated — is often where the real trouble originates.
A nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight produces physical illness. When the brain perceives constant "predators" — a hostile boss, money stress, unresolved trauma — it stays in survival mode, driving inflammation, muscle spasm, and nerve pain.
Repressed emotion is read by the body as a threat. When difficult feelings go unseen and unfelt, the nervous system treats them as a predator — surfacing as flares, migraines, or chronic conditions long after the original event.
You have far more power to heal than you realize. By learning the neuroscience and processing buried emotions through tools like JournalSpeak, people teach the nervous system it's safe — and many reverse chronic symptoms once thought permanent.
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This Skeptical Sunday, Jessica Wynn explains how dialysis became a $50B industry where under 40% of patients survive five painful years of dependence.
Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher Jessica Wynn!
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On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:
Dialysis is a life-sustaining external filtration system for the roughly 800,000 Americans in kidney failure — but it's grueling. Most patients endure three to five hours per session, three times a week, indefinitely, and fewer than 40% survive beyond five years.
The financial structure is staggering. Dialysis is a $50 billion-a-year US industry, with Medicare spending about $36 billion annually — roughly 7% of its entire budget for under 1% of the population. Two companies, DaVita and Fresenius, control about 70% of all clinics.
The system rewards permanence over cure. Since 1972, Medicare has covered kidney failure for everyone regardless of age, creating guaranteed, indefinite revenue. Transplants and home dialysis are cheaper and better for patients, yet under-incentivized because they cost providers customers.
The human and safety toll is severe. Infections cause 36% of dialysis deaths, sepsis mortality runs 100 to 300 times higher than average, and understaffing worsens outcomes. Many patients lose their jobs, mobility, and social lives — some choose to stop treatment entirely.
The hopeful part: much kidney disease is preventable or delayable, and you have real power here. Manage diabetes and hypertension aggressively, get your kidneys checked with a simple blood and urine test, and see a nephrologist early — catching it sooner can dramatically slow progression.
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Assaulted at a Buddhist center known for cover-ups, you were silenced. How do you keep the kids safe when your ex takes them there? It's 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 [email protected]. Now let's dive in!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday:
A positive update from the listener who wrote in for interview advice (question two, episode 1324)!
Four months ago you earned a shiny promotion to a leadership role — and then quietly kept doing your entire old finance job too, with no transition plan, no extra pay, and a passive manager who'd rather you stayed quiet. The company has the money; they just don't have the incentive. How do you force clarity without getting branded "not a team player"? [Thanks to HR professional Joanna Tate for helping us with this one!]
You were sexually assaulted at your kids' father's place of worship — a Buddhist center with a documented history of abuse and cover-ups — and reporting it got you silenced, suppressed, and forced to keep attending. Now you share custody, your ex still brings the kids there, and you're desperate to keep them safe without scaring them. How do you talk to your children about this? [Thanks yet again to clinical psychologist Dr. Erin Margolis and attorney Corbin Payne for helping us with this one!]
Your 83-year-old mother has been "dying" for a decade, bankrolls your life, and uses that money as a leash — keeping you next door, watching from her window, after a childhood betrayal you're still carrying. You feel guilt, shame, and a creeping sense you have no power here. But what if the most uncomfortable question is how much agency you've had all along?
Recommendation of the Week: Bose SoundLink Flex — Gabe's everyday Bluetooth speaker and his all-time favorite.
Gabe revisits last week's tangle over belief and counseling, then reaches for David Mamet's True and False — a book ostensibly about acting that turns out to be about how we white-knuckle our beliefs instead of simply accepting what's in front of us.
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