WAGNN Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The WAGNN Podcast addresses cultural & social issues and how they relate to the voiceless, especially black women. Based on a quote by Malcolm X, we will also speak to the testament of how the black woman is the most disrespected, unprotected and neglected person(s) in America. WAGNN will provide a platform to discuss these issues from the black female point of view. We will also discuss an array of current events and other topics that are related to all people.
WAGNN Ethics - Respect the space of others Physically, Mentally, Financially, Culturally and Spiritually.
In this heightened climate of Black liberation, we come across the idea of support vs. nonsupport. In episode 12, the WAGNN team discusses various situations where people were canceled based on cultural rules, societal norms, and popular beliefs.
The WAGNN ladies dissect the following questions. What qualifies as a cancel candidate? Do we cancel too early? When do we forgive those for their mistakes? Or are we too hypersensitive? The WAGNN crew discusses current events, businesses, and people that were inducted into the cancel culture. Elevated emotions drive the overuse of the cancel culture without giving adequate time to apologize. Appropriate research is the foundation of informed decision making. WAGNN offers guidelines on how to become uncancelled and appropriate apologies when a business or person is canceled.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
In Episode 11, the WAGNN team discusses police brutality in America as it relates to the Black and Brown communities. The ladies give their perspectives of misconduct within some public service departments and how it impacts community members. They shed light on how civil liberties are now reasons to have the police called on you or could lead to your death. The WAGNN team presents the emotions that many community members are experiencing.
WAGNN clarifies who the target audience is as it relates to anger, hurt, and sadness. Frequently, people of European descent think they are included in this group; however, this is not the case. The target audience is not the allies. The target audience is those with embedded views that lump all black people in one group, although we are different in many ways.
WAGNN also dispels that "all police are not the same" and do not share the same opinion as others. WAGNN posed the question; what if the shoe is on the other foot? Would you be upset, worn down, or feel helpless? WAGNN invites a special guess to share their experiences and how the current events affect him.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
Please tune in to hear more about this discussion, The Karen's, and White Privilege. If you want facts, just listen. You don't have to go far to get the truth! Tune in!!!
In Episode 10, the WAGNN ladies discuss COVID-19 but with a little twist. As a people, we have heard an inundated amount of information about the pandemic that has led us to experience many emotions.
Practicing social distance (1 in the studio and 2 via phone), WAGNN talks about ways of "Keeping Busy," also known as "Self-Care." Self-Care is a term used as a proactive tool to strengthen self-awareness, centering of self, and self-esteem. Self-Care includes activities that will stimulate your mind and your ability to de-escalate your emotions positively. Overall, it's just a healthy thing to do!
Without forgetting the tragedies experienced by many of our loved ones and friends, WAGNN gives there condolences to those families worldwide. In saying that, WAGNN explores holistic remedies that were most popular on social media and provide experiences of the pandemic with the undertone of community support. Safety precautions and personal care also ties into "Keeping Busy" while being prepared. Engaging in art, music, crafts, or creating a new hobby is an intricate factor in staying healthy such as learning "how to make ice-cream." Revisiting an old hobby that you previously started also counts. Self-care provides a safe place for you to catch a breather from the stressors of life. Utilizing your skills and talents are avenues to self-care.
The WAGNN cast shares their accounts of the "Keeping Busy." Ideas of exploration of hobbies, overflow of ideas, as well as maintenance of spirituality. With planting new ideas, WAGNN continues the discussion about physical health and healthcare. The vantage point of this conversation is to engage people to become more knowledgeable about their health. In 2020, we should look forward to understanding our physical health and family health history because it can save our lives.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
In Episode 9, the WAGNN team discusses parental discipline. Discipline is a controversial topic that varies across cultures, beliefs, and the influence of life experiences. Often time, parents, guardians, or caregivers have misconceptions about disciplining children. Is there a place for discipline? Is there a wrong and right way to discipline your child? The WAGNN team tackles these questions and more.
With the numerous headlines that have become national news with the growing deaths of children at the hands of their caregivers, WAGNN opens the conversation with appropriate versus inappropriate ways of disciplining children. This topic will help parents review their techniques to envoke a dialogue to ensure the safety of our children.
Parents are also unaware of their disciplinary rights to correct unwanted behavior. Most states have a penal code that puts this topic into perspective. This code is researchable by State as it relates to disciplining children.
Also, in episode 9, the WAGNN ladies give personal accounts of disciplinary experiences and the lessons learned from their parental tactics. The ladies discuss different tactics their parents used or practice themselves with their family members. The information is shared to provide insight for parents wanting to figure out if they are teaching their children properly through discipline. Though there is not a perfect answer, parents should know that each child is different and require different levels of attention.
We also challenge parents to have conversations with their children and set expectations they are to follow. Also, discipline is a progressional form of teaching and not a one-shot deal. Children require attention, training, and verbal reaffirmation about their behavior. Lastly, discipline begins when the child can understand on their level a form of right and wrong. We sometimes underestimate the level of understanding our children possess. Tune in to hear the full podcast and enjoy!
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
In episode 8, the WAGNN team continues the conversation about Self-Love (from episode 7), this time with a focus on body image. The ladies take a journey back two centuries ago to shed light on the negative attention black women received for their robust bottoms. Specifically speaking of Sarah Baartman, also known as "Hottentot Venus." Fast forward to the present, the same imagery of black women continues to be the topic of conversation and the driving force behind most commercial music as well as plastic surgery.
This segment discusses body image: How women view themselves, how we apply how people see us, and what we perceive as beautiful. Body image is a topic that is sensitive for many women, whether they choose to address it or not. Self-Esteem and Self-Love go hand in hand when you discuss body image.
Plastic surgery is a phenom that has grown in the past 20-30 years in black and brown communities. Social media has propelled such images to integrate a false sense of beauty into the minds of many. What is beauty? Is beauty in the eyes of the beholder or the eyes of an Instagrammer? WAGNN continues to discuss this topic to bring awareness of how history repeats itself. If you are on the wrong side of history, your fate may be similar to our dear Sarah Baartman. Oh wait, it's happening present day.
Lastly, the WAGNN team provides some healthy tips towards plastic surgery safety, self-love, and being satisfied with yourself as you are. Some women will indulge in plastic surgery for their own reasons; however, seek clarification of your heart, mind, body, and soul before you do; it can save your life.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
As infants/children, we learn how to treat ourselves and others. As we get older, we learn self-esteem as well as insecurities from our environments.
In Episode 7, the WAGNN Team discusses self-love and how it relates to relationships. We take a look to see how self-love or the lack thereof is applicable within our relationships.
WAGNN asks the following challenging questions: Does how we feel about ourselves manifests in our relationships? What causes a person to stay in a toxic relationship? Are our partners a reflection of who we are? Can the need for love from others and the fear of a failed relationship compel us to stay? These questions are asked to inform the masses about their options. Knowing when to throw in the towel is difficult for some to recognize or accept.
Communication with your partner provides a level of understanding that can create a stronger bond or help you decide what your next move should be. WAGNN also discusses being "single" while in a marriage or a committed relationship. Opposites attract, yet you don't want the attraction to the wrong person. Self-love creates boundaries to alleviate heartache and pain.
WAGNN provides resolutions, commentary surrounding this topic to help ease heartbreak, pain, or grief within your relationship. Love can conquer all if true love is in the midst of your relationship.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
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In Episode 6, the WAGNN team breaks down the five stages of grief and how to identify each stage. The topics are driven home by also highlighting some aspects of the late great basketball legend, Kobe Bryant. WAGNN Panel gives the Audience personal accounts about difficult experiences and ways to handle them.
WAGNN also discusses proper etiquette as it pertains to grief, including social media networks and news reporting sites. Should there be rules to disclose the identity, whether traumatic or fatal details, to the public without confirming the acknowledgment with the family?
We hope you were able to learn about grief and the sensitivity around this topic. Empathy is developed and not given... Take time to understand and listen to others.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
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The impact of multiple partners on your child can have lasting effects in the home, school, and life. In episode 5, the WAGNN team continues where they left off in episode 4 by discussing single people with children and the rules of engagement, a necessity to consider when it involves children. Such practices include talking about your dating life with your children, or do you discuss it at all?
The rules of engagement with children range from vetting your significant other before a formal introduction to discussing disciplinary action within your family. When do you apply child support? Can a person utilize child support unlawfully? As parents, the decisions you make will affect your child and exposes them to negative behavior and thinking styles.
WAGNN also tackles dysfunctional relationships, dysfunctional thinking, and the impact of broken relationships when children are involved. Do the old rules apply in today’s society? Do some of us set ourselves up for failure within our relationships based on selfish decisions? WAGNN also examines pressures in relationships because of children, or what others want for you.
This episode brings to light behaviors that have been practiced for many years so much that creating dysfunctional relationships is an automatic thought. WAGNN is shedding light on such relationships with the hope that our audience can make insightful decisions leading to positive outcomes.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
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In Episode 4, the WAGNN team discusses the rules of engagement in relationships. Our team use scenarios that relate to singles, singles with children, and married couples.
WAGNN explores questions like, Are your rules strict or loose? Do you ask the right questions? Are you able to communicate your needs properly and here the responses clearly? These are used as self-reflection prompts to gain an understanding of others and oneself on a deeper level.
As one journey through different stages of interpersonal relationships, needs change. Often times when these changes take place, we set expectations of others and we must evaluate if our expectations are realistic or not.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
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Have you heard anyone say, "I can't be friends with girls/women because they carry too much drama" or "I don't need friends; all I need is me?" Though these are adages that people apply to protect themselves, the inability to create and maintain real relationships can cause a shift in one's experiences, values, and happiness.
Friendships are the beginning of human interaction with the outside world. This interaction begins early in life (in your home with family or in school) and continues through adulthood.
In our third episode, dubbed real friends vs. fake friends, the WAGNN team discusses all the traits of a real friend, why some friendships don't work, fake friends, and the mutual commitment and understanding required to maintain friendships.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Please leave your comments below; good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
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A New Vantage Point Into The Downfall of R. Kelly In Episode 2 of the WAGNN Podcast, the team discusses allegations surrounding controversial R&B singer R. Kelly and the many emotional ties, including parenting, consequences of abuse, and the cycle of trauma and how it affects everyone in its community.
Recently, the second segment of the docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning, aired on Lifetime, and WAGNN had some follow-up questions as it relates to trauma and traumatic experiences that everyday people undergo. Do we know the names of every person affected by this experience? No, however, we hope those who may not have shared their stories or name about assault will have the courage to find their inner voice and get help.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Also, please leave your comments below, good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!
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Soul Tie is an experience one undergoes after a sexual encounter. This occurrence can create undesired bonds through sex and then causes adverse decisions made within a relationship. In the first episode of the WAGNN Podcast, we explore how soul ties are formed, and it’s consequences. Soul-Ties speak of individuals that may not comprehend why they continue to attract the same negative energy into their relationships. We also discuss the different ways that we are subdued to Soul-Ties and how to get out of it.
We challenge you to open your ears and thoughts while expanding your knowledge and understanding of people, situations, and cultures. Also, please leave your comments below, good, bad, or indifferent, we welcome all opinions and feedback.
We hope you enjoy listening!