The Jordan Harbinger Show

371: Maria Konnikova | Pulling Off the Biggest Bluff

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova) is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, a bestselling author, and an international poker champion -- a titl...

370: My Life as a Secret Love Child | Feedback Friday

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your father already had another family when he decided to have an affair with your mom (which resulted in you). Now that you're 18, is it right for yo...

369: Tim Ballard | Putting a Stop to Child Sex Trafficking

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Update: There is some controversy about the information presented in this episode. A counterpoint to some of the statistics and specifics on the probl...

368: Coffeezilla | How to Expose Fake Guru Scams

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Coffeezilla (@coffeebreak_YT) is a prolific YouTuber who exposes fake guru scam artists and alerts would-be victims to the tactics used to part them f...

367: How to "Fix" Your Relationship without Nagging | Feedback Friday

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your significant other has picked up some bad habits while self-quarantining during the pandemic; how can you fix your relationship without nagging? W...

366: Bill Nye | Radical Curiosity Saves the World

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Nye (@billnye) is a lifelong champion of science who is determined to teach you something today that you didn't know yesterday -- whether it's fr...

365: Benjamin Hardy | How to Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Hardy (@BenjaminPHardy) is an organizational psychologist and author of Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success and Perso...

364: Can You Stop a Racist from Becoming a Doctor? | Feedback Friday

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of your fellow medical students is openly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. Do you have a duty to report this terrible person in hopes it prev...

363: Mick West | How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mick West (@mickwest) is a co-founder and former technical director of Neversoft Entertainment, coder, pilot, Metabunk and  Contrail Science founder,...

362: Mark Cuban | Tales from the Shark Side

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Cuban (@mcuban) is a Shark Tank investor in over 200 companies, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and author of How to Win at the Sport of Business:...

361: From Self-Help Cultist to Sex Offender | Feedback Friday

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The mindset and linguistic contortionism you developed as a self-help cult (aka Large Group Awareness Training program) follower led to you becoming a...

360: Garry Kasparov | Deep Thinking for Disordered Times

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist, and author of Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Huma...

359: Justin Ramsdell | How to Detect and Disarm Pseudoscience

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Ramsdell is a clinical psychologist, an expert witness, an assistant professor of forensic psychology at George Mason University, and a veteran...

358: Is My Friend Blowing Her IVF Money on Gifts? | Feedback Friday

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your friend wants to be a mother more than anything, but says she and her husband can’t afford the IVF it would take to make this possible. On the o...

357: Robin Dreeke | Sizing People Up

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Dreeke (@rdreeke) is the retired head of The FBI Behavioral Analysis Program and co-author of Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manua...

356: How to Make the Most of Quarantine | Deep Dive

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) joins us for this deep dive exploring the ups and downs of COVID-19 pandemic life and how to make the most of quaranti...

355: My Roommate Tried to Kill Me! | Feedback Friday

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your unstable roommate physically attacked you over an argument about laundry, and then she filed a protection from abuse order against you! Now even ...

354: ZDoggMD | Debunking Plandemic COVID-19 Pseudoscience

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

ZDoggMD (@ZDoggMD) [aka Zubin Damania] is a physician, assistant professor, comedian, Internet personality, musician, founder of Turntable Health, and...

353: Jordan Harbinger | A Darknet Diaries Origin Story

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan shares the seedier side of his origin story -- from hacking phones and buying pizza with fake credit card numbers to catching online predators ...

352: My Spouse Controls My Online Life! | Feedback Friday

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Out of work since late last year, you were finally making progress on the job hunt until COVID-19 locked everything down. Now you've been making conne...

351: General Martin Dempsey | No Time For Spectators

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

General Martin Dempsey (@Martin_Dempsey) is a retired Army general who served as the 18th chairman of the Joint Chiefs for four years during the Obama...

350: Dan Heath | Solving Problems from Upstream

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs who are fighting for social good. He is the co-author of f...

349: How to Pick Your Battles Without Being a Doormat | Feedback Friday

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You've never thought of yourself as a doormat, but you've just found it easier to meet people halfway and go with the flow rather than waste your ener...

348: Thomas Kostigen | Hacking Planet Earth

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Kostigen (@kostigen) is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist. His latest book is Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Hel...

347: Brian Keating | Losing the Nobel Prize

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible pod...

346: Did Coronavirus Kill My Relationship? | Feedback Friday

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Did your long-term significant other really dump you because they believed you were "faking" the symptoms of COVID-19 coronavirus, or was the lily-liv...

345: Jim Kwik | How to Upgrade Your Brain's Limitless Potential

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Kwik (@jimkwik) hosts the Kwik Brain podcast and is the author of Limitless -- Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, Unlock Your Exceptional ...

344: Jonna Mendez | The Moscow Rules

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonna Mendez is a former chief of disguise in the CIA's Office of Technical Service, and co-author of The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That He...

343: Is My Little Brother a Lost Cause? | Feedback Friday

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You have a family history of addiction, and now your clinically depressed little brother is using drugs and alcohol to a degree that goes well beyond ...

342: David Epstein | Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Epstein (@DavidEpstein) has worked as an investigative reporter for ProPublica and a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He is the author of t...

341: Julie Gerberding | Answering Your COVID-19 Questions

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Gerberding is the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substan...

340: What Jobs Will Exist in the New Economy? | Feedback Friday

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With big changes afoot thanks to technological advances and the need to adapt in a COVID-19 world, what skills should you consider picking up, and wha...

339: Michele Rigby Assad | My Secret Life in the CIA

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michele Rigby Assad (@michelerigassad) is an international security consultant, trainer, and author of Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and W...

338: Ozan Varol | How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning law professor and bestselling author -- which makes him perfectly poised to share the wisdom fou...

337: COVID Clearly Crushing Careers | Feedback Friday

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While we're trying to avoid talking directly about the current pandemic, there's no doubt COVID-19 is clearly crushing careers. Gretchen Rubin helps u...

336: Kevin Systrom | Life Lessons from an Instagram Founder Part Two

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Systrom (@kevin) is a computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Mike Krieger. This is part two of a two-part ep...

335: Kevin Systrom | Life Lessons from an Instagram Founder Part One

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Systrom (@kevin) is a computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Mike Krieger. This is part one of a two-part ep...

334: I Was Supposed to Die Five Years Ago | Feedback Friday

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A brain tumor had doctors guessing you should have died five years ago, but hard work and luck have reduced it by 50 percent and arrested its progress...

333: Isaac Lidsky | Eyes Wide Open

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Lidsky (@isaaclidsky) is the only blind person to serve as a law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court. He's also an entrepreneur, he was once a chil...

332: Rachael Denhollander | What Is a Girl Worth?

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rachael Denhollander (@R_Denhollander) is an attorney, advocate, educator, and author of What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and E...

331: How to Work from Home Effectively | Feedback Friday

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Due to the recent COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, many of us are now required to work from home. As a team of people who have been working from home fo...

330: Gavin de Becker | The Gift of Fear Part Two

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gavin de Becker (@gdbaprotects) is the author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence and the security pioneer wh...

329: Gavin de Becker | The Gift of Fear Part One

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gavin de Becker (@gdbaprotects) is the author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence and the security pioneer wh...

328: How Should I Spend My Inheritance? | Feedback Friday

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of freeing you up to find a career you could fall in love with, a windfall you received at your father's passing has instead overwhelmed you w...

327: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of StarTalk Radio, and author of New York Times bes...

326: Austin Meyer | Slaying the Patent Scam Trolls

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Meyer (@x_plane_austin) is the software developer of flight simulator X-Plane and aircraft sensor fallback Xavion, an entrepreneur fighting aga...

325: My Mother-in-Law Is a Monster! | Feedback Friday

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your monster of a mother-in-law says hurtful things to you about your husband when he leaves the room, and now insists on telling you how you'll be ra...

324: Tony Hawk | How Did I Get Here?

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) is a vertical skateboarding legend who enjoys household name status these days, but as we learn in discussing his book How Did I...

323: Laura Gassner Otting | Living Your Limitless Life

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Gassner Otting (@heylgo) is a motivational keynote speaker and the author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Y...

322: Mislead an Employer for a Foot in the Door? | Feedback Friday

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You finally landed an interview with a high-end Italian furniture company for a position that falls in line with your career aspirations. You're super...

321: How to Ask for Advice | Deep Dive

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) joins us for this deep dive exploring how to ask for advice the wrong way, how to ask for advice the right way, and the...

320: Dennis Carroll | Planning an End to the Pandemic Era

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Carroll is the former USAID director for pandemic influenza and emerging threats. He currently works with The Global Virome Project, an interna...

319: Should We Shut Down Our Business? | Feedback Friday

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You were laid off, your wife's business is in the red, and you have a baby on the way. In spite of occasionally inconsiderate guests being a drag, ren...

318: Christian Picciolini | Breaking Hate Part Two

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christian Picciolini (@cpicciolini) is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, reformed extremist, founder of the Free Radicals Project, and author...

317: Christian Picciolini | Breaking Hate Part One

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christian Picciolini (@cpicciolini) is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, reformed extremist, founder of the Free Radicals Project, and author...

316: How to Get a Job If You're a Sex Offender | Feedback Friday

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As a remorseful sex offender who's done your time and been officially cleared as posing no threat to society, you're committed to turning your life ar...

315: Admiral William H. McRaven | That's So McRaven

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Admiral William H. McRaven (@billmcraven) masterminded and executed the mission that brought down Osama bin Laden and is the author of Make Your Bed: ...

314: Michael Yon | China's Big Trouble in Little Hong Kong

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) is an author, columnist, and award-winning independent war correspondent who gives us a frontline view of the current civil...

313: My Boyfriend’s Flirty Friend | Feedback Friday

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your boyfriend's close friend flirts with him directly in front of you. He doesn't reciprocate, but it does bother you because you know -- from conver...

312: John Tierney | Harnessing the Power of Bad

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Tierney (@johntierneynyc) is an award-winning science columnist for The New York Times, and he's the co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negat...

311: Susan David | How to Improve Your Emotional Agility

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan David (@susandavid_phd) is a Harvard psychologist, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, and author of Emo...

310: Should I Fudge My Age in Dating Apps? | Feedback Friday

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As an active 45-year-old woman who is usually mistaken for someone 10 years younger, you're throwing your hat back in the dating game after six years....

309: Laila Ali | Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What We Discuss with Laila Ali: What made Laila become the only boxer out of Muhammad Ali’s nine children? Why do fighters trash talk (and does L...

308: Kris Buckner | Who Does Counterfeiting Really Hurt?

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kris Buckner is the president of Investigative Consultants, with over 22 years of experience in investigations related to trademark counterfeiting, pi...

307: Help! I'm Too Physically Attractive! | Feedback Friday

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Being unattractive to potential partners is obviously not ideal, but what happens when you're too physically attractive to land meaningful attention f...

306: BJ Fogg | Tiny Habits That Change Everything

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

BJ Fogg (@bjfogg) is the founder and director of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, and author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything...

305: Shaka Senghor | Writing My Wrongs

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Shaka Senghor (@ShakaSenghor) is a leading voice in criminal justice reform, the director of innovation and strategy at #Cut50, and the consulting pro...

304: How to Avoid Addiction to Study Drugs | Feedback Friday

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You're in your thirties, and although you've had reasonable success running your own business, you've always believed that you were lazy and unmotivat...

303: Megan Phelps-Roper | Unfollowing Westboro Baptist Church Part Two

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Phelps-Roper (@meganphelps) grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, an organization widely monitored as a hate group for its anti-gay, anti-Jewi...

302: Megan Phelps-Roper | Unfollowing Westboro Baptist Church Part One

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Phelps-Roper (@meganphelps) grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, an organization widely monitored as a hate group for its anti-gay, anti-Jewi...

301: How to Fight an Out-of-State Speeding Ticket | Feedback Friday

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You're not sure if the speeding ticket you got driving across the country was given because you had out-of-state license plates, you were racially pro...

300: Simon Sinek | How to Play the Infinite Game

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) is the best-selling author of Find Your Why and Start with Why. He returns to the show to discuss his latest offering, The I...

299: Steve Elkins | Finding the Lost City of the Monkey God

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Elkins is a cinematographer and explorer whose discovery of and expedition to a legendary settlement in the rainforest of Honduras is chronicled...

298: My Dad Is a Pedophile | Feedback Friday

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your dad is a pedophile. He's taken naked pictures of kids, including one of your cousins on your mom's side, and posted them online. He's been caught...

297: Eric Thomas | Success Secrets of The Hip Hop Preacher

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Thomas (@ericthomasbtc) is a motivational speaker, YouTube personality, podcaster, pastor, director of Breathe University, and author of several ...

296: Tasha Eurich | The Surprising Truth About Insight

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tasha Eurich (@tashaeurich) is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times bestselling author of Insight: The Surprising Truth Abou...

295: Shep Gordon | Interview with the Supermensch

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Shep Gordon (@SupermenschShep) is a talent manager, Hollywood film agent, producer, and author of They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Am...

294: Should I Expose a Sexually Abusive Nephew? | Feedback Friday

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You have a nephew who has a history of undressing, touching genitals, and dry humping smaller, weaker humans than himself. These humans either do not ...

293: Zak Dychtwald | How Young China Will Change the World

24 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Zak Dychtwald (@zakdychtwald) is the Founder of think tank and consultancy Young China Group and author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Wi...

292: My Wife Wants Another Kid, But I Don't | Feedback Friday

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You've got two lovely kids, and you're perfectly content to stop there, but your spouse has other plans. How do you break the news you're not of like ...

290: He's Wasting Inheritance on Pyramid Scheme | Feedback Friday

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When a family inheritance is split between two siblings, only one of them is given control over how the money is spent due to the other's penchant for...

289: Akshay Nanavati | Fearvana: Finding Bliss from Suffering

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Akshay Nanavati (@fearvanalife) is a former Marine who has survived PTSD, depression, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation to build a global business, ru...

288: Erik Weihenmayer | A Blind Man Sees No Barriers

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Weihenmayer (@ErikWeihenmayer) has kayaked the Grand Canyon and climbed Mount Everest -- blind. He is the author of Touch the Top of the World an...

287: How to Stop Taking Feedback So Personally | Feedback Friday

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You find criticism somewhat punishing rather than productive -- especially when it's given by people you love. So how can you stop taking feedback so ...

286: Jack Barsky | Deep Undercover with a KGB Spy in America Part Two

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Barsky (@DeepCoverBarsky) joins us to discuss his book Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America. This is p...

285: Jack Barsky | Deep Undercover with a KGB Spy in America Part One

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Barsky (@DeepCoverBarsky) joins us to discuss his book Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America. This is p...

284: Should I Secretly Test My Kid's Paternity? | Feedback Friday

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While doing a little Facebook stalking recently, you noticed that photos of your wife's ex-boyfriend's youngest look suspiciously like your own younge...

283: Brian Koppelman | How to Make Billions

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Koppelman (@BrianKoppelman) is a writer, filmmaker, producer, and director. He's currently the showrunner, co-creator, and executive producer of...

282: Ken Perenyi | The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Perenyi is a former art forger who spent 34 years creating fake paintings that passed muster among the experts in the world's major auction houses...

281: My Wife Thinks I'm Hiding Money | Feedback Friday

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Your shopaholic wife spends like there's no tomorrow, and is irked that you won't add her to the account for the business you've been running since be...

280: Sarah Hill | This Is Your Brain on Birth Control

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Sarah Hill (@sarahehillphd) is a leading researcher in the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of evolutionary psychology, and the author of This ...

279: Dennis Quaid | Sharks, a Bear, and a Banjo

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Quaid has been a Hollywood leading man for decades, fronts a band called The Sharks, and now stars in a new scripted musical podcast called Bea...

278: My Mother Lied About Our Father's Death | Feedback Friday

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When you were kids, you and your brother moved to the other side of the country with your mother and stepfather not long after your parents divorced. ...

277: Neil Pasricha | You Are Awesome

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Pasricha (@neilpasricha) is a New York Times bestselling author of five books including The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, and his late...

276: Admiral James Stavridis | The Voyage of Character

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

James Stavridis (@stavridisj) is a retired United States Navy admiral, operating executive with The Carlyle Group, and author. His latest book, Sailin...

275: The Case of the Mysterious Hotel Panties | Feedback Friday

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Your fiance travels and stays in hotels at different locations every week for work. The other day, you found black Victoria's Secret panties in your l...

274: Darren Prince | Hitting Bottom at the Top

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Darren Prince (@agent_dp) is a prominent sports and celebrity agent and global advocate for addiction and recovery. His book Aiming High: How a Promin...

273: Scott Adams | How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) is the creator of comic strip Dilbert, a talent stacker extraordinaire, and bestselling author. His latest book, Loserth...

272: How to Sue Your Parents for Identity Theft | Feedback Friday

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Last week you texted your parents to let them know you'd be able to make it home for Christmas this year. They called back to tell you how they decide...

271: Ryan Holiday | Stillness Is the Key

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Holiday (@ryanholiday) is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy, and other books a...