179: How to Really Help a Hoarder | Feedback Friday

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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

• What can you do when your parents are hoarders with health issues who get enraged when you try to help them?
• Your calmness under stress seems like a positive trait in a medical professional. But are your peers right to call you disinterested?
• When you dislike idle chit chat, how do you respond to the small talk question "How's business?" without being uncivil?
• Is becoming a police officer because you want to help people a good idea for someone who's never really dealt with trauma, or could you be throwing yourself in the deep end?
• How might an over-55 sales professional re-entering the job market go about starting a consulting career?
• Jake from Intuit stops by to help us cope with financial crises around tax time.
• How do you beat feeling envious of others who maintain the discipline to see their self-improvements through?
• When you're serious about networking, should you regularly cull connections on LinkedIn with people you don't really know?
• Life Pro Tip (via Mark Frauenfelder's Recomendo Newsletter): For Starbucks people traveling. When you're leaving a foreign country and still have some of the local currency, take it to a Starbucks and load it onto a gift card. You can use the card later in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and the Republic of Ireland.
• Recommendations of the Week: The Dropout Podcast, The Dropout on 20/20, and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
• Quick shoutouts to Benjamin Torrero in Mexico City, Ankie Hille Hagen in Norway, and Officer Tim De La Pena!
• Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
• Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
• Connect with Jason on Twitter at @jpdef and Instagram at @JPD, and check out his other show: Grumpy Old Geeks.

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