251: Help! I Have Two Years Left to Live. | Feedback Friday
Sep 13, 2019
Major life changes bring unexpected challenges, like a listener facing a terminal diagnosis while pursuing their dream job. The hosts discuss embracing positivity in adversity and prioritize meaningful experiences over fear. They address relationship complexities, including navigating insecurities and ageism in dating for a 51-year-old woman. Practical strategies for building connections while traveling are also explored. Finally, insights on personal branding, professional transitions, and even espionage tie into themes of personal growth and resilience.
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Planning for Limited Time
Plan your remaining time proactively, prioritizing your values and desires.
Leverage your situation to connect with people and experiences you've always dreamed of.
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Navigating Partner's Sexual History
Recognize that judging a partner's sexual history reflects personal values and insecurities.
Address concerns openly, but avoid letting past actions overshadow a strong present connection.
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Finding Connection and Family
Prioritize establishing roots and building a social circle to combat loneliness.
Explore alternative paths to family, like international adoption, given time constraints.
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Major life changes can be a mixed bag. On one hand, you're over the moon for landing your dream job. On the other hand, being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and told by your doctor that you've got two years to live (at best) puts a bit of a damper on the celebration. You're determined to remain positive -- after all, you wouldn't be the first to beat fatalistic odds if this thing were somehow turned around, so there's no harm in being hopeful. You wouldn't say you're lost, but you do want to ensure that you make the most of whatever time you have left -- however long that may be. We can only imagine what you're going through, but on this Feedback Friday we'll do our best to offer how we might spend our time if confronted with the worst news possible -- but armed with your incredibly deep well of positivity.
And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) 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 friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!
How do you make the most of the time you have left with positivity when doctors have given you two years to live?
People have preferences about looks, personalities, and religious backgrounds for their significant others. Is wishing they hadn't slept with 100 people before you a valid preference?
What does it take for a successful and single 51-year-old woman who travels frequently to find someone with whom to build a family when the dating pool of quality candidates seems so microscopic?
While a policy to never pursue romance with a professional connection has served you well in the past, you've met someone who makes you want to reconsider this policy. How might you make your interest known while remaining professional?
You'd like to improve the relationship with your parents and the way you communicate. What can you do to make things better?
If you wanted to start a new business online without using the topics of your current or past expertise, how would you pick a niche and establish your credibility? (Thanks to Brian Clark from Copyblogger for fielding this one!)
While you'll be laid off soon, you're not worried because you have a generous severance and plenty of leads already. How do you network without people assuming you're just trying to get a job through their connections?
Aside from buying decent mics and recording in a space that's not echoey as hell, what advice do we have for someone just starting out with podcasting? (One:
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