Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 — ep. 67 Let Luv Win 🚀

Wyann touches on topics around love, relationship & marriage that she wanted to discuss at #LuvLoungeLiveLA this past February 13th entitled “Let Luv Win.” This episode features a reflection on a Common lecture at USC (Raise ‘Em Up!) and multiple #HiWy questions answered from #LuvCulture.

WWW: Love has no IQ; you’ve got to be smart FOR love.

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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 — ep. 66 Surprise Surprise 🚀

The new fiancés, T.J. Wilkins and Wyann Vaughn, host the first show of 2024: SURPRISE SURPRISE! 🚀
Wyann reacts to backlash from her “Part of the Show” question on the Joe Budden Podcast and talks about why it’s important to learn your “blind spots” (Raise ‘Em Up!). During Get Raised!, T.J. answers Luv Culture's questions about the engagement while sharing insights for when the time feels right to move a relationship towards marriage.
WWW: Starting 5, a practical way to date for ladies (and how I bagged T.J. Wilkins 💁🏽‍♀️💍🙃)
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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 — ep. 64

After wishing her mother a happy birthday and Grounding, Wyann addresses upper statesmen in hip hop who spoke negatively on "Hip Hop 50" reunions (Break It Down). We address ladies during "Raise 'Em Up!" to explore their roles in successful relationship, which leads to a Luv Lounge 🚀 recap where men claimed to "be broken." Wyann ties her thoughts on "broken men" with the Wyann's Words of Wisdom (WWW).
WWW: "I feel broken; I am myself."
(You are only equal to yourself: Don't mistake your feelings for who you are.)
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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 ep. 63

Healthy love describes couples who've done "the work." As Wyann states, "being Black and in love has rarely ever been enough" to keep relationships healthy and loving. In this episode, we answer a #HiWy from a Luv Culture 🚀 and break down ("Break It Down") a poem from 2pac regarding faithful men.

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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 ep. 62

Wyann introduces the pod with a farewell to Amp, Amazon's music app that turned creators into radio hosts. After grounding, the episode covers an original song (Douxadiddy) where Wyann talks about why people hide from love. In a "Raise 'Em Up!" segment, a student from 1500 Sound Academy gets schooled on how to win in the music industry with its high and low points. Wyann continues answering the student in the "Wyann's Words of Wisdom" (WWW) segment that doubles as a #HiWy, linking major diseases to people forgetting to love themselves.
WWW: Dear Creatives,
If you starve the person, you kill the persona

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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 ep. 61

As a “Leader of a New School,” Wyann Vaughn pays homage to Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 educators, OGs, and calls on Luv Culture students, Real Ones, to listen up‼️
Wy breaks down her relationship with Xzibit as we continue celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop. We answer a #HiWy from one of Luv Culture’s Virgos and round out the episode with a Wyann’s Words of Wisdom that doubles as a Raise ‘Em Up about how to really experience love.
WWW:
1. You cannot experience love until you feel safe, and,
2. How you follow tells a lot about how well you lead.
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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 ep. 59

Wyann’s sister, Wendi Vaughn (@iamwendiwithani), joins us again to recap the first ever live podcast taping of Raise It Up, Wy! @raiseitupwy 🚀 #LuvLoungeLiveLA brought Luv Culture together from all over the country and fused music industry players with positive professionals and students from Wyann’s experience. Wendi interviews Wyann about the podcast’s hip hop origins (Break It Down) and Wyann asks Wendi questions about #LuvLoungeLiveLA for our shortest Get Raised! segment ever (lol). The sisters tag team a #HIWY from Wyann’s student about why relationships matter at all.
WWW: Reel Life vs. REAL Life pt. 2

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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 ep. 58

Wyann Vaughn gets visited by her cousin, MC—Master of Curl—and The Doux's creator, Maya Smith. Disclaimer: Wyann admittedly speeds through the episode to spend time with her family seeing that she hasn't connected with them, Maya and her husband Brian, since 2016!

Maya shares about the importance of Hip Hop culture after sponsoring a special event honoring Dr. Dre (Break It Down). The West Coast girls talk branding and identity during Get Raised, and Wyann sings a Maya written song for The Doux's namesake segment, Douxadiddy.

WWW: Your identity is WILDLY important...to YOU.

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Raise It Up, Wy! 🚀 ep. 57 — Thinkin' of a Master Plan 🚀

For mental health awareness month, Wyann brings back Luv Culture's very own Masterminds 🚀: Resident Psy D, Mitzen Okada (@mitzenokada) and Dana "@urban_counselor" Lewis, LCSW. The episode revisit's Kendrick's "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers," providing a year's retrospection. Wyann explains "Crown" (Break It Down) before answering a #HiWy about collective grief in the hip hop community with the Masterminds. The Masterminds add their therapeutic observations on Kendrick Lamar's work and welcome newcomers to Luv Culture 🥰.
WWW: BE where your seeds are watered. #planthappy 🌱

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