Linked Up With LuX

LuX (LiNkWiThLuX)
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Linked Up With LuX is where real life gets unpacked. I talk about money stress, parenting, past wins, quiet L’s, and why chasing someone else’s blueprint will have you missing your own life. Some days it’s stories from traveling and grinding, some days it’s about being a dad and trying not to lose myself in bills. Other times you'll hear me vent about connections with different people. If you feel like life is heavy but you still want to actually live, you’re in the right place.

  1. 2d ago

    She Bad, But She Stank..

    Pretty don't mean clean. LuX opens by giving flowers to the women who actually put the work in — the routines, the fragrances, the presentation that's on point on purpose — because once you've experienced a woman who takes care of herself like that, you can't unknow the difference. Then he flips it: fellas will put a woman they've never met on a pedestal off a little skin and a little booty, ready to risk everything for somebody they know absolutely nothing about. Lust doesn't ask questions — it just looks. You invented the rest of her in your head, and the fantasy did all the work. Problem is, the pedestal is too far away to smell, and some of the same women getting drooled over are low-key dirty. He keeps it fair, too — men stink too, women tolerate a lot more than they should, and natural is natural. But there's levels, and neglect ain't natural. A confession from his young janitor days, a restaurant story that should've ended the date, and why what looks good isn't always good for you.

  2. 3d ago

    You'd Be A Fool To Take 'Em Back

    They had the floor. They had the chance to show you why it should've been them — and they showed you the opposite, in real time, with your own eyes. So explain why taking that back serious is even a thought. LuX draws the line nobody wants to draw: the relationship door closes permanently, but closed doesn't have to mean bitter. If the vibe survived and your feelings genuinely didn't, an ex can be entertainment — the trip, the link, the good time — as long as you stay on top of it and never confuse a good weekend with a second chance. The grimy ones? Different conversation. The feelings-catchers? This episode is your warning label. Take the trip, not the feelings. Home is closed.

  3. 4d ago

    Be Careful Who You Give Your Time To

    Somewhere between "I finally found my person" and "where did my goals go," there's a trade most people never notice they're making. This episode is about that trade. LuX gets into how fast we hand somebody we barely know the keys to our whole life — merging everything off a feeling and the hope that you'll "grind together" — and how people-pleasing dressed up as love slowly pushes your dreams, your money, and your motion off to the side. Doing for your person is not the problem. Speaking their love language is not the problem. The problem is when everything flows one direction and the years you spent pouring into somebody else's cup never come back to you. So run the audit on your own situation: if you stopped doing all the extra tomorrow — the overtime, the spending, the bending — what would actually be left? Build your own foundation first, so if anybody ever walks, they walk out of your life, not away with it.

  4. 5d ago

    You're Not Stuck, You're Comfortable.

    Everybody got a story about why they can't move — the job, the kids, the money, the city. LuX ain't buying it. This episode separates the people who are genuinely stuck from the people who just got comfortable and built a whole personality around complaining: the excuses rehearsed word-for-word for years, the victim role that pays in sympathy and zero expectations, and why the same storm produces one man building a boat and another building a brand around drowning. Plus the 90-day mirror test that tells you which one you are. Hate to break it to you — but the keys were in your pocket the whole time.

  5. 6d ago

    The Old Me Had To Die

    Feelings are momentary; decisions are forever. Everybody's performing for an audience that isn't even watching. LuX opens this one on the comparison trap — sizing your life up against strangers whose situations you know nothing about. The nice car might be leased, the big house might be inherited, and half the people putting on a show of having it together are struggling in private. Meanwhile you're holding back moves, outfits, opportunities, whole relationships, scared of judgment from people who will never think about you again. Then he turns it on himself. There was a version of him that couldn't make a move without a committee — running every decision past family, friends, anybody who would listen, and hiding behind their opinions because owning his own situation felt too risky. That version let fear of what people might say cost him real opportunities, and it took an actual loss — somebody dying — to teach him what comfort never could. Sometimes the old you has to die in the literal sense before you wake up. None of that is a license to move sloppy. Standards stay exactly where they are. This is about ownership: if you have to travel to see your kid, you travel. If you've got somebody solid and loyal, you stop letting outside voices run what's happening inside your own house. Sitting around making excuses and playing victim isn't a circumstance — it's a choice, and so is lacking initiative. Get your money up, handle your responsibilities, and quit asking strangers for permission to live your own life. Bury the version of you that needed everybody's approval. The one who replaced him already knows what to do.

  6. Oct 30

    Sex Is Cheap, The Price Ain't..

    SEX IS CHEAP, THE PRICE AIN'T Sex is everywhere. So why do men keep paying for it like it's rare? This one is aimed at the fellas. LuX breaks down the pitch every man has heard — she's loyal, she's faithful, she's not like the rest — and why a script that costs nothing to say gets treated like proof. Getting the sex was never the expensive part. The invoice shows up after: your time, your money, your peace, and for some men, a courtroom. Speaking from his own scars, LuX talks about the pedestal inexperienced men build, the pattern that runs the same way every time, and the comeback tour that follows when you finally boss up and move on. Not bitterness — protection, from a man who learned the price by paying it. Don't buy the script. Watch the track record.

  7. Oct 29

    Who You Trying To Impress?

    Most of your stress ain't even yours. It's the fear of somebody watching you live it. LuX went outside at 1:35 in the morning and ended up having the realest conversation of his week, with himself. This episode is about the loop we don't even notice we're on: wake up, work, bills, repeat, performing the whole time for people who are too busy performing themselves to care. The car, the clothes, who you're dating, what people think you have — all of it ranked and judged by an audience that isn't keeping score. He talks about where that need to impress gets planted in us as kids, why survival mode makes us rush past moments with our kids we'll never get back, and why the fix costs nothing. No vacation, no audience. Just step outside, breathe, and see how small your problems look in the quiet. Be happy for the growth that came from everything you've conquered.

  8. Oct 25

    Go Back To Who Replaced Me

    You know that moment — somebody who had you waiting, leaving you on read, suddenly remembers your number? Suddenly they're interested again, and it feels like old times. That's not a reunion. That's bait. This episode is for everybody tempted to hand a second chance to somebody who already showed you who they are. Folks don't run back because the love got stronger. They run back because lonely is loud, starting over feels hard, and familiar feels safe — even when familiar is what hurt you. Here's the line, though: you don't have to be bitter, and you don't have to be enemies. You can be grown about it. But grown doesn't mean open-door. Somebody made their choice, and now they get to live with it — even if you played a part in how it fell apart, that doesn't unlock the door again. So if they found somebody better, let them stay with somebody better. Go back to who replaced me. Why you back now? Why you not cuffed up by them?

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Linked Up With LuX is where real life gets unpacked. I talk about money stress, parenting, past wins, quiet L’s, and why chasing someone else’s blueprint will have you missing your own life. Some days it’s stories from traveling and grinding, some days it’s about being a dad and trying not to lose myself in bills. Other times you'll hear me vent about connections with different people. If you feel like life is heavy but you still want to actually live, you’re in the right place.

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  • Creator
    LuX (LiNkWiThLuX)
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    69
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © LuX (LiNkWiThLuX)
  • Show Website
    Linked Up With LuX