The Wrong Words Podcast

🎧 PART 1 OF MORALS | The Wrong Words Podcast What are morals, really? Are they simply rules we've been taught, or are they something deeper that connects all of humanity? In Part 1 of this conversation, Oliver and LUVON begin unpacking one of the most commonly accepted, yet rarely examined, words in our language. They challenge whether morals are truly personal beliefs or responses to a unive...

🎧 PART 2 OF HONOR | The Wrong Words Podcast Is honor something you earn, something you receive, or something you simply choose to live by? In Part 2, Oliver and LUVON continue the conversation by exploring honor through its Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic origins. They challenge the modern idea that honor depends on recognition and instead argue that honor is an internal agreement that shapes every re...

🎧 PART 1 OF HONOR | The Wrong Words Podcast What does it really mean to honor someone? Is honor something we give, something we earn, or something we first establish within ourselves? In Part 1 of this thought-provoking conversation, Oliver and LUVON begin unpacking one of the most respected words in our vocabulary. They challenge common definitions, question whether honor begins internally or ex...

🎧 PART 2 OF MANIFEST | The Wrong Words Podcast Manifestation has become one of the most popular ideas of our time, but are we talking about revealing something... or conjuring something? In Part 2, Oliver and LUVON continue the conversation and examine whether manifestation is really about attracting things out of thin air or uncovering what has been built through thought, action, sacrifice, and...

🎧 PART 1 OF MANIFEST | The Wrong Words Podcast Season 2 continues with one of the most popular and misunderstood words in modern culture: Manifest . What does it really mean to manifest something? Is manifestation simply positive thinking? Is it faith? Is it visualization? Or is there a process that often gets ignored when people talk about "manifesting" their desires? In this episode,...

🎧 PART 2 — SHAME | The Wrong Words Podcast Shame is not always something we are born with. In this episode, Oliver and LUVON dig into the difference between embarrassment and shame, how outside voices can plant labels that grow deep, and why what is spoken over us can shape how we see ourselves. From “church love” to social pressure, regret, honor, and self-worth, this conversation asks whether s...

🎧 PART 1 — SHAME | The Wrong Words Podcast Shame is not just embarrassment; it is the pressure that makes people hide, shrink, and absorb labels that were never meant to define them. In this episode, Oliver and Luvon unpack how shame gets internalized, how it can be projected onto us by others, and why it so often fuels avoidance, fear, and ego rather than growth. They also wrestle with whether s...

🎧 PART 3 (FINAL PART) - DESPERATE Desperate is not just a feeling; it is a choice, a posture, and a word that can pull people away from hope if they are not careful. In this final part, Oliver and Levon press deeper into the difference between urgency, conviction, and desperation, why the modern definition of the word feels so extreme, and how the origins keep pointing back to hopelessness, distr...

🎧 PART 2 OF DESPERATE | The Wrong Words Podcast Desperate is not just urgency. In this episode, Oliver and Levon push deeper into how desperation shows up when hope gets rejected, confidence gets abandoned, and we stop living in the now. They unpack how the word can trap people in cycles of reckless decisions, emotional instability, and future-focused fear, while also showing why faith, wisdom, a...

🎧 PART 1 OF DESPERATE | The Wrong Words Podcast Desperate is not just about wanting something badly. In this episode, Oliver and Levon dig into how desperation can grow out of lack, vacancy, poor preparation, and fear of what comes next. They challenge the idea that desperation is simply an emotion and show how it can become a projection of unresolved emptiness, rushed decisions, and future-focus...

🎧 PART 2 — VULNERABLE | The Wrong Words Podcast Vulnerable — is it weakness, honesty, or a doorway to power? Oliver and Levon keep unpacking vulnerability: origins, cultural twists, and why the word often hides what we really mean. In this short episode they press into where vulnerability helps, where it harms, and what to say instead. 🧠 In this episode we explore: Origins and shades of vulnerab...

🎧 PART 1 — VULNERABLE | The Wrong Words Podcast — Season 2 Vulnerable — is it honesty, exposure, or something the industry confuses with transparency? Oliver and Levon reopen Season 2 by probing the word vulnerable: its origins, how honesty and acceptance sit inside it, and when asking someone to be vulnerable can do more harm than good. This short episode presses into what we actually mean when...

🎧 FRIENDSHIP (Part 2): The Hidden Truth About What It Really Takes Episode Title: “The Truth About Friendship – Part 2” – The Wrong Words Podcast We thought Part 1 unpacked a lot… but Part 2 of our deep dive into "friendship" ? This one cuts even deeper. In this follow-up episode, Oliver Marcelle and Luvon Dungee revisit the word friendship —not just from a cultural or social standpoint...

Friendship: Are We Getting It All Wrong? | Wrong Words Podcast In this new episode of the Wrong Words Podcast , hosts Oliver Marcelle and Luvon Dungee dive headfirst into a word that we use constantly —but often without really understanding its depth: Friendship . Coming off the heels of our deep two-part conversation on Love , we realized quickly that Friendship deserves just as much careful atte...

"Love Doesn’t Sit Still — It Moves." In Part Two of this honest and unfiltered exploration of the word love , Oliver Marcelle and Luvon Dungee pick up right where they left off—diving even deeper into one of the most misunderstood, misused, and mishandled words in our vocabulary. If Part One challenged your perception of love, Part Two will have you reconstructing it from the ground up ....

ENCORE EPISODE Love: We All Say It—But Do We Really Know What It Means? Welcome to Part One of one of the most necessary, soul-searching conversations we may have (we'll probably say that about every episode...LOL). In this episode of the Wrong Words Podcast , hosts Oliver Marcelle and Luvon Dungee jump straight into one of the most powerful and misused words in the human language: LOVE . If y...

During this Thanksgiving week, we're taking some time to hang out with those we hold dear (We hope that you are as well). But we couldn't leave you with nothing, so we are doing an encore of one of our most listened to episodes... Take some time to check it out (or to check it out again)! - 🎧 ACCOUNTABILITY: Are We Using This Word All Wrong? | The Wrong Words Podcast“You need to be more a...

🎧 PART 2 — SUPPORT | The Wrong Words Podcast Support — is it carrying someone from beneath, an assist, or the thing that quietly kills growth? Oliver and Levon continue unpacking support: its origins, when it becomes enabling, and how language lets us hide what we really mean. In this short episode they press into when support helps, when it harms, and how to ask for what you actually need. 🧠 In...

🎧 PART 1 - SUPPORT | The Wrong Words Podcast Support. Is it help, a crutch, a partnership, or a quiet surrender? Oliver and Luon dig into a loaded word people use every day in relationships and life. In this episode, they question whether asking for support signals the death of personal agency, a strategic request for help, or something else entirely. Expect sharp examples, the table versus book...

🎧 PART 2 — FAILURE | The Wrong Words Podcast Oxford, origins, and a tough question: is “failure” a final verdict or a redirection disguised as pain? Oliver and Luon pick up Part 2 and push deeper — pulling apart definitions, digging into Middle English/Latin/Hebrew/Greek roots, and arguing that most “failures” are stumbles that teach, redirect, or demand accountability — not death sentences. 🧠 I...

🎧 PART 1 — FAILURE | The Wrong Words Podcast Failure — a final verdict or just a label we slap on unfinished work? Oliver and Luon kick off a multi-part look at this loaded word. In Part 1 they push back on the idea that failure is final, argue that many “failures” are iterations or missing puzzle pieces, and call out how ego, memory, and social measuring-sticks twist the story we tell ourselves....

🎧 PART 3 (FINAL) — PROCESS | The Wrong Words Podcast Refinement, growth, transformation — are they parts of a process or the proof of an agreement kept? In the final installment Oliver and Luon close the Process series by digging into what it takes to go from rough stone to diamond: the fires, the friction, the choices to stay the course (or toss the agreement). They call out where we overcomplic...

🎧 PART 2 — PROCESS | The Wrong Words Podcast Tie your shoes or choose your end? In Part 2 Oliver and Luon push deeper into whether a process is the visible series of actions we do — or the agreement that makes those actions real. They debate “process” vs. habit, unpack how memory and conditioning hijack progress, and trace the word back to its Latin roots (processus = going forward). Expect sharp...

🎧 PART 1 — PROCESS | The Wrong Words Podcast Process — is it a plan, a promise, a procedure, or the excuse we hide behind? Oliver and Luon kick off a multi-part dive into this deceptively simple word. In Part 1 they wrestle with whether a process only exists when people agree to an end, how systems vs. memory shape our steps, and when “I’m in process” is progress — or a dodge. 🧠 In this episode...

🎧 PART 3 (FINAL) — COMPANION | The Wrong Words Podcast Companion isn’t just company — it’s sacrifice, service, shelter, and sometimes the thorn that taught you how to grow. In this final part Oliver Marcelle and Luon Dungee close the trilogy by naming types of companions (human, professional, animal, honorary, digital) and asking the big question: what does real companionship demand of the human...