The Jordan Harbinger Show

Mike Abrashoff ( @itsyourship ) is a former Naval Commander, leadership and teamwork expert, and author of the New York Times  bestseller  It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy . What We Discuss with Mike Abrashoff: Why leadership style matters and organizational culture is everything. How to know when it's appropriate to break the rules and favor innovation ove...

People rarely admit to enjoying small talk, but that's because so few of us are actually very good at it. Luckily, FEW is also a convenient-to-remember acronym for Facts, Emotions, Why -- a foolproof formula for leading small talk that can yield big results. Find out how in this Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Jason DeFillippo ( @j...

Cameron Herold ( @cameronherold ) is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth, former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK, founder of the COO Alliance , and author of five books, including Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less . What We Discuss with Cameron Herold: Understanding the personal and professional ups and downs of the entrepreneurial roller coa...

Oliver Bullough ( @OliverBullough ) is a journalist, a regular contributor to The Guardian, and author of Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back . What We Discuss with Oliver Bullough: How corrupt leaders pilfer everything from wildlife reserves, banks, and even national healthcare systems. How this type of graft corrupts society and leads to other crime and u...

When you've got coworkers who literally stink enough to make your olfactory system protest with tears of sadness and deadbeat roommates who won't pay rent and try to convince you to let their online romantic interests move into your very real space, you need to listen to this Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Jason DeFillippo ( @jpde...

Justin Paperny ( @justinpaperny ) was a successful stockbroker who made some bad decisions and wound up serving 18 months in prison for violating securities laws. Now he helps others prepare for time behind bars and after. He's the author of Lessons From Prison . What We Discuss with Justin Paperny: What happens when white-collar criminals go to jail . Why otherwise good people might find themselv...

Kim Scott ( @kimballscott ) is a co-founder of Radical Candor, LLC and author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity . What We Discuss with Kim Scott: How the best lessons about management can be learned from our worst bosses. Why the worst bosses aren’t necessarily the worst people in the world , and how relating to them as human beings makes challenging their bad deci...

You've been considering deleting your Facebook account for quite some time, but a close relative seemed shocked you would consider such a thing -- as if deleting Facebook would somehow delete you from the face of the earth. How can you delete Facebook without becoming persona non grata in your circle of family and friends, and since when did social media become mandatory for your very existence in...

Bryan Johnson ( @bryan_johnson ) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder and CEO of Kernel , a company developing advanced neural interfaces, and OS Fund , a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies. What We Discuss with Bryan Johnson: Why humanity needs to co-evolve with artificial intelligence if we are to survive as a species. What future lit...

Matt McCarthy ( @drmattmccarthy ) is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic . What We Discuss with Matt McCarthy: How antibiotics are abused on a large scale by industrial agriculture, prescription-happy doctors, and mysophobic hand washers. Why antibiotic abuse is resulting...

You and your significant other of six months planned on using your parents' vacation home for a romantic weekend getaway together, but now your parents have decided to join you. The problem: your parents and significant other haven't met yet. You're confident they'll get along great, but you want to make sure you set up the occasion for the best chance of success. Here's our take on how your signi...

Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeMizrahi ) joins us for this deep dive into what it takes to cultivate the mindset of abundance that seemingly makes generosity possible, and how to overcome the evolutionary blips in our programming that make it so counterintuitive. "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." -Paul McCartney What We Discuss with Gabriel Mizrahi: Why the mindset of scar...

Adam Savage ( @donttrythis ) is a special effects designer, educator, actor, former cohost of MythBusters, current host of Savage Builds (both on Discovery Channel), and author of Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It . What We Discuss with Adam Savage: What you have to gain by paying heed to your obsessions . The sublime benefits of real expertise . How deadlines spur action past the bo...

When a longstanding policy — whether official or not — was a serious tipping point in the decision to accept your current job, are you right to feel like you've gotten the old bait-and-switch treatment when it's axed nine months after you started? If so, how do you engage leadership to renegotiate terms? We'll tackle this and more on this Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jo...

Matt Schrier is an American photographer who survived seven months as an Al-Qaeda captive in Syria before escaping, and the author of The Dawn Prayer: A Memoir . What We Discuss with Matt Schrier: How Matt Schrier was captured by Al-Qaeda just 45 minutes away from the border on his way out of Syria in 2012. How making his captors laugh on day one of his captivity got him special treatment from a u...

Chelsea Handler ( @chelseahandler ) is a writer, comedian, producer, TV host, activist, and the author of five consecutive New York Times bestsellers -- her latest is Life Will Be the Death of Me...And You Too! What We Discuss with Chelsea Handler: Finding the line between mood enhancement and paranoia-generating abuse when it comes to cannabis . How a DUI at age 21 led to Chelsea's entry into the...

There's lots of stuff in this one about investing wisely and eradicating debt -- especially student debt -- thanks to some professional help from our all-star, money-ninja accountant Matt Rzepka , along with the usual questions about everything else we get here on Feedback Friday. And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Jason DeFillippo ( @jpdef ) banter a...

Gabriel Weinberg ( @yegg ) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo , and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models . What We Discuss with Gabriel Weinberg: What are mental models , and how can they be applied to make your life run more efficiently and effectively? How mental models used primarily in physics, economics, biolog...

LeVar Burton ( @levarburton ) is an award-winning actor famous for iconic roles from Kunta Kinte in Roots to Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation , and the host of long-running PBS series Reading Rainbow and the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. What We Discuss with LeVar Burton: How LeVar went from pursuing a vocation in the priesthood to acting in a miniseries that changed the national di...

Are you a germaphobe if it creeps you out when your spouse and in-laws don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, or is your disgust actually reasonable and justified? If getting divorced and burning down the house aren't options, we'll tell you how to live with unwashed loved ones on this Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Jaso...

Arthur Brooks ( @arthurbrooks ) is a social scientist, Washington Post columnist, president of the American Enterprise Institute , and author of Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt . What We Discuss with Arthur Brooks: Why happiness relies on being mindful of what you have right now instead of comparing yourself to others who have what you want. A dis...

Howie Mandel ( @howiemandel ) is a comedian, actor, host of Deal or No Deal , judge on NBC’s America's Got Talent , and coauthor of Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me . What We Discuss with Howie Mandel: Why Howie believes it's important for us to be open about our struggles no matter what they are. How being impulsive helped Howie understand the power of "now" and set him on his current career path....

You'd love for your teenager to listen to this show and learn some life advice by proxy instead of having to endure it in real time like you did, but it seems unlikely. Why are teenagers so stubbornly opposed to parental wisdom? We can't say for sure, but we do have some tricks for making them follow good advice against their own bratty proclivities. And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan...

Reid Hoffman ( @reidhoffman ) is a cofounder of LinkedIn , investor at Greylock Partners , host of the podcast Masters of Scale , and coauthor of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career . This is part two of a two-part episode. Check out part one here ! What We Discuss...

Reid Hoffman ( @reidhoffman ) is a cofounder of LinkedIn , investor at Greylock Partners , host of the podcast Masters of Scale , and coauthor of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies . What We Discuss with Reid Hoffman: Why creating the best products and services on the market won't mean squat if you don't have the network to get the word out about them. R...