Gorillas, Polar Bears, Goat Sacrifices & Keeping Your Creative Fire Alive: Cinematographer John Barnhardt On The Ruby Hour Podcast
Gorillas, Polar Bears, Goat Sacrifices & Keeping Your Creative Fire Alive: Cinematographer John Barnhardt On The Ruby Hour Podcast

How many of your projects do you work on as a creative are in line with your soul fire? You know what I'm talking about—the bucket list stuff.

Emmy award-winning cinematographer John Barnhardt swaps stories today The Ruby Hour. From close call wildlife adventure stories in the field as a filmmaker to roughing the wilderness and challenges of creative entrepreneur's mind-- we cover some ground. John shares candid stories about "soul pieces" he's filmed in his life, and we discuss how you can keep those meaningful "why" projects into your creative workflow to keep your creative fire burning hot.

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All Things Micro-Weddings + Engagements With Photographer Madison Krupp
All Things Micro-Weddings + Engagements With Photographer Madison Krupp

Madison is this high five, airy beautiful bright soul who is one of the most lovely photographers to work with here in Charleston. Her energy is calm, easy, giddy and giggly, and her vibe comes through in her work and how comfortable her clients are in front of the camera.

Today we talked through her journey in launching her micro wedding photography and engagement business in the middle of a pandemic, and what she’s learning coming into this next year of business.

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The CRUDE Cookie Cake Girls - Maddie and Beth Barnett, Founders Of Eat Me Cookie Cakes Co. On The Ruby Hour Podcast
The CRUDE Cookie Cake Girls - Maddie and Beth Barnett, Founders Of Eat Me Cookie Cakes Co. On The Ruby Hour Podcast

Today I had the Barnett girls— Maddie and Beth Barnett, founders of Eat Me Cookie Co. on the podcast. If you don't know who these two humans are, buckle up. These sisters started a crude cookie company; they write vulgar and inappropriate things on cookie cakes for birthdays, bachelorette parties. You type it — they'll pipe it and ship it across the country to your old college roommate, bae, your old boss, your favorite Bachelor contestant…

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Rollin' With The COVID-19 Wedding Planning Punches: A Candid Interview With Blythe Hill, Founder of Hill & Co. Creative
Rollin' With The COVID-19 Wedding Planning Punches: A Candid Interview With Blythe Hill, Founder of Hill & Co. Creative

Today we’re featuring Blythe Hill — founder and lead designer of Hill & Co. Creative. Blythe is one part sweet, one part firecracker. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than sitting at the dinner table with Blythe and her team during Taylor and Alyssa’s wedding listening to Blythe tell tales of the chronic balancing act between her roles as a mama, wife, and planner. She’s a favorite of ours!

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Peonies And Micro-Weddings: An Interview With Laura Union of Lux and Union Floral Design
Peonies And Micro-Weddings: An Interview With Laura Union of Lux and Union Floral Design

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura Union, owner of Lux & Union, about the state of the union in her floral design business (yes, I said it, pun intended, and no, I’m not sorry about it.) and how she’s adapted to this COVID-19 wedding planning era, what trends she’s seen (and loved), and how she’s emotionally maneuvering these tumultuous times as a wedding professional.

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Cori & Anthony's Elegant, PASSIONATE Fall Wedding At The Historic Gadsden House Downtown Charleston
Cori & Anthony's Elegant, PASSIONATE Fall Wedding At The Historic Gadsden House Downtown Charleston

We tagged the Gadsden House (like the good social media millennial wizards we are), our ridiculous story was reposted on The Gadsden House’s feed, and Cori’s amazing mom, Vickie, saw our idiotic exploit about the rainbows, and thought, “Cori and Anthony are goofballs, too, they would totally get along with these girls.'“

Y’all. Cori and Anthony have a legit — and I mean, LEGIT love story. It’s The Notebook status, I’m telling you.

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Charleston Locals Taylor and Alyssa - An Intimate Low Country Fete At The Farmhouse At Kiawah River
Charleston Locals Taylor and Alyssa - An Intimate Low Country Fete At The Farmhouse At Kiawah River

Our favorite freakin’ moment of all time? That time Taylor surprised Alyssa and sing to her for their first dance at The Farmhouse at Kiawah River.

Uh… yeah, that happened. The best part? Right before being introduced officially onto the dance floor, Alyssa looked at Taylor and said, “Don’t do anything crazy, okay?” In the weeks leading up to their wedding, Taylor kept playing off practicing for their first dance…little did Alyssa know what he had up his sleeve! He performed, “Dressed Up In White” by Cal and stole not only Alyssa’s heart in that moment, but also EVERY OTHER PERSON WITH EARS who witnessed this sweet, sweet moment.

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Mormons, Canadians, + Rebuilding Your Life After Divorce - Wedding Photographer Lisa Staff | The Ruby Hour
Mormons, Canadians, + Rebuilding Your Life After Divorce - Wedding Photographer Lisa Staff | The Ruby Hour

From processing the unknown (and TERRIFYING) territory of going through a divorce, leaving the Mormon religion, recreating yourself as a 50-something-year-old bombshell, Lisa Staff spills the tea today. A Hilton Head Island-based photographer and gazelle-of-a-human, Lisa shares her inner world: being a “shameless” self-promoter, an ENFJ, and ways she's finding the beauty in the uncomfortable spaces in life and how to continue moving forward despite the vultures and naysayers from the past.

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My Self-Mutilation Story: Turbulent Homelife & Making Childhood Trauma Your Medicine | The Ruby Hour
My Self-Mutilation Story: Turbulent Homelife & Making Childhood Trauma Your Medicine | The Ruby Hour

A tale of my Screamo/Post-Hardcore crush on Bert McCracken, growing up in a turbulent home environment, and my journey with self-mutilation. Today on the Ruby Hour Podcast.

!!! TRIGGER WARNING !!!! TRIGGER WARNING !!!! TRIGGER WARNING !!!! TRIGGER WARNING !!!! This episode references domestic violence, alcoholism, and self-mutilation/self-harm and includes some very graphic descriptions and intense sound-scoring that may be unsuitable for some listeners.

If this triggers you or is too close to home, I invite you to check out our many other episodes of The Ruby Hour Podcast. This episode is part of our new sound-scored intimate short-story sessions for this season of The Ruby Hour Podcast.

If you or someone you know struggles with self-harm, I encourage you to check out To Write Love On Her Arms’ Self Care Resources: https://twloha.com/self-care/ This is an amazing organization that helps people in their journey of self-harm. And please know you are never alone!

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Horror Movies, Secret Lazy Eye Fetishes, Cat Parents - JENNY BROE On The Ruby Hour
Horror Movies, Secret Lazy Eye Fetishes, Cat Parents - JENNY BROE On The Ruby Hour

Today I'm gonna tell you about the one secret fetish apparently a BUNCHA DUDES HAVE but apparently NO ONE TOLD ME while I've logged my time in the dating scene. I scientifically tested out this fetish on my partner and his surfer friend, so ya know, it's science.

That's not all I'm gonna tell you about. Today, I have Jenny Broe - that hot platinum blonde bombshell in that music video I sent you yesterday and founder of Dance Lab Charleston on THAAA RUBY HOUR *📣📣cue air horn pew pew pew *

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"Infertility" - A Short Film By Ruby Riot Creatives
"Infertility" - A Short Film By Ruby Riot Creatives

“Infertility”: A Short Film By Ruby Riot Creatives depicting the inner lives of our fellow infertility sisters.

Infertility is…

  • Throwing your diet regimen out the window when you're doubled over in unexpected pain.

  • Making weekend plans only to have your mood and emotional state knock you on your ass.

  • Dreading every time your Instagram feed refreshes and your next friend posts their Pinterest-ey "Coming 2021!" family pic or the next ultrasound of your acquaintance's baby— when the last ultrasound you went to the sonographer couldn't find your ovaries at all. "They've atrophied to nothing and are no longer detectable."

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THE RUBY HOUR PODCAST SEASON 2!!
THE RUBY HOUR PODCAST SEASON 2!!

SEASON 2 BABY!! They say if you're scared to death, then you're doing it right. Last season, Pre-COVID-19 on #TheRubyHour podcast we talked surface level things, business as usual, career trajectories, all wrapped up in a pretty red heart-shaped bow. This season, we're taking it all off. I promise I will offend you, shock you, maybe even make you cry (like I did) as I get personal in sharing stories from my life, in addition to a sprinkling of interviews with a few hand-picked, brave souls who dare to come show their pink-bellied inner workings of their lives with me.

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Ali & Quinn's Charleston-Chic Summer Wedding @ Runnymede Plantation
Ali & Quinn's Charleston-Chic Summer Wedding @ Runnymede Plantation

Okay let me tell you why this was the best wedding in the entire universe. I’ve got two names for you: Ali. And Quinn.

I don’t think we’ve filmed a more charismatic, sweet pair of human beings than these two. It was love at first phone call chatting with Quinn over a year ago. It’s almost rare these days we get to film two Charleston locals— but we had a home-court advantage working with this power couple.

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Micro Wedding Planning: Kelly and Dan's Unforgettable Wedding Day Story @ Confederate Home and High Cotton Restaurant In Historic Downtown, Charleston SC
Micro Wedding Planning: Kelly and Dan's Unforgettable Wedding Day Story @ Confederate Home and High Cotton Restaurant In Historic Downtown, Charleston SC

Welcome to the land of Micro-weddings. Nevermore relevant than this COVID-19 wedding era is the concept of planning a microwedding for your big day. So today I want to tell you the most heartbreaking and beautiful story of one of our all-time favorite clients-turned- lifelong-friends, the micro wedding celebration of Kelly and Dan at the Confederate Home and College with a reception to follow at High Cotton Restaurant in Downtown, Charleston SC.

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Being An Introvert In An Extroverted Business: Erica Peper On The Ruby Hour Podcast
Being An Introvert In An Extroverted Business: Erica Peper On The Ruby Hour Podcast

Are you an introvert finding yourself in an extroverted role in your job? This episode is for you! Erica Peper, founder of Peper Events, shares her journey on how to rock a luxury wedding planning service here in Charleston as an introvert. In this episode, Erica shares moving across the country, learning to make new friends as a grown-ass woman, and some practical ways she likes to recharge after a big extroverted wedding weekend.

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Cranky, Tired, Fatigued, When You've Got A Bad Attitude: The Workout For When You Don't Feel Like Working Out - (Stiff Hips, Chronic Upper + Lower Back Pain) Primal Prowess No. 71420
Cranky, Tired, Fatigued, When You've Got A Bad Attitude: The Workout For When You Don't Feel Like Working Out - (Stiff Hips, Chronic Upper + Lower Back Pain) Primal Prowess No. 71420

If you’re in your feels, if you’ve got a bad attitude, if you feel stuck, lethargic, angry at the world, angry at yourself — today’s workout is your happy place. I spent all day Friday prepping my drone and camera gear, Saturday filmed all day outside with a heat index of 108 degrees, Sunday I logged 9 hours video editing. All this to say, this morning, I was tired, unmotivated, and the last thing I wanted to do was workout. I’d rather sulk, be in my fatigued, uncomfortable, angsty state emotionally, mentally, physically, rather than workout. I have no pep in my step this morning. I have no extra pizazz to offer. I don’t want to work out. I’m not “excited” to workout.

…Sound familiar? If you can relate - today’s workout was made just for you, my friend.

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Rock Me Like A River - Passion, Moody, Dark Feels - Primal Prowess No. 70720
Rock Me Like A River - Passion, Moody, Dark Feels - Primal Prowess No. 70720

It's a gloomy, moody shadowy morning, and I don’t know about you, but there’s something about the dark parts of my soul that always ask to be seen on mornings like this. So we did it today.

We got emo today, y’all.

When you’re down in the dumps. When you’re creatively stumped. When you’re heartbroken. When you need to let the darker parts of yourself be seen — this is your practice.

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Sad spells? Anxiety Attacks? Panic Paralysis? Here’s 5 Anxiety Management Techniques I Do When I’m Blindsided by Anxiety, Sadness, and Grief
Sad spells? Anxiety Attacks? Panic Paralysis? Here’s 5 Anxiety Management Techniques I Do When I’m Blindsided by Anxiety, Sadness, and Grief

No one gave us a manual on how to manuever this COVID-19 era. Coming home from an awesome weightlifting this morning, out of thin air, I'm hit with a wave of sadness. Maybe it's the new hormone therapy, maybe it's the solar system, maybe it's subconscious limiting beliefs surfacing. If you ever get caught off guard by sadness surfacing and anxiety attacks like I do, here's 5 things I do that for for me when I work through sad-spells or anxiety attacks.

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