Jordan Harbinger

I like that format.

Puns and meta rhymes.

All right, so this is mildly infuriating on so many levels.

First of all, I'm very sorry you're struggling to work with your mom and to communicate.

There's a reason people say don't work with family.

I'm not trying to shame you here.

It's just this would be hard with any business partner.

I'm sure it's 50 times harder with a parent.

And I'm sorry that it's making it impossible to make real progress on solving these problems.

The thing is, running a company, it's all solving problems every single day.

Big ones, small ones, managing people, taking care of your employees, making sure everything's running properly.

If you and your business partner can't even talk about this stuff, I mean, I literally don't understand how you are supposed to run this company together.

I can tell you exactly how this dynamic goes, okay?

Either you start doing everything yourself because she can't and slash won't and then you resent her and you guys grow even further apart or you continue to tussle and or avoid each other and the business suffers, maybe even crumbles.

unless something big changes.

You would have to change the way you approach her, the way you talk to her, how you frame these things in a way she can partner with you on, not that I think that's really on you, and or she would have to learn how to tolerate these conversations long enough to actually find a solution with you.

And candidly, based on what you've shared, it sounds like it's more the latter, but I wonder what she would say if we could talk to her.

It's possible, just making room for this idea, that there's something about the way you talk to your mom that easily overwhelms her.

Now, even if that's true, I would still say she needs to be able to tell you, look, I want to find a solution with you, but I'm overwhelmed by the way you're talking to me.

I need a different approach.