Where Should We Go For Lunch? Our Favorite Lunch Spots In Downtown Charleston, Sullivans, & Shem Creek For A Charleston Girls Getaway Weekend

So you’ve had a quick breakfast or boozy brunch (check out our favorite breakfast + brunch spots in Charleston here!)…you’re meandering down King Street with the girls, checking out some of the shops, and art galleries… and you make your way to lunch. Here are our favorite spots — separated by part of town — downtown, Sullivan’s Island, & Shem Creek.

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Our Favorite Pre-Game + Happy Hour Cocktail Bars Before Dinner In Downtown Charleston For A Girls Getaway Weekend

So you and the girls are dressed up. Fake eyelashes? Maybe. Some daisy dukes in there? Possibly. Strappy heels? They could be in there. All we know is you ladies look GOOD. Where do you go for your pre-game, pre-dinner cocktails? Here’s our take on our favorite spots to grab a cocktail or two as you start to kick off your night on the town in downtown Charleston.

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Season Three Of The Ruby Hour Podcast: BIG. FXCKING. ENERGY.

Season 3 of The Ruby Hour is about amplifying your creative energy. Where does your creative center reside in your body? Your sexuality. Literally, your reproductive system.

We support couples and individuals through filming such special milestones in their relationships and businesses, so this season's content is dedicated to the ongoing support, nurturing, and development of our RRC family. Life after I Do, life in the midst of grinding with your brand, raising babies, all of it.

I've hand-picked some of my favorite sex therapists, somatic teachers, kink facilitators, erotic artists, and pleasure guides to teach us a thing or two around amplifying and building BIG. FXCKING. ENERGY. The kind of energy that serves and supports every area of your life: relationships, mental health, your business, and your community.

This season is real-time, REAL TALK tools with individuals who carry themselves in a particular way that says, "Go ahead and try to touch this vibe. Just try."

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How To Balance Your Masculine + Feminine Energy As A Woman Entrepreneur: Maren Liv Anderson Moore On The Ruby Hour Podcast

How do you settle into your feminine energy while still conducting power as a woman entrepreneur in your business? In this episode, Maren Liv Anderson Moore, serial entrepreneur and I have such a beautiful conversation around:

  • balancing the masculine and the feminine energy you bring to the table as a woman entrepreneur

  • how to "come down" from being in your head or in the masculine chronically in your business

  • how to steward your "creative tension" or discomfort working through a struggle in your life

  • all things inner-development/ shadow work / spiritual work and some things to look for to find a safe group setting to explore those deeper levels of yourself and

  • life as a "textbook" enneagram Seven.

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Charleston SC Wedding Photographer Sarah Beach: Destination Wedding Trends During COVID-19

Charleston S.C. Wedding photographer Sarah Beach — This woman radiates positivity and has this bubbly, effervescent personality we can’t get enough of. We sat at the Darling Oyster Bar, enjoyed cocktails and crab dip, and talked about what trends and patterns she’s noticed for couples planning their destination wedding in the Charleston wedding scene during this COVID-19 era.

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HOW TO EMBRACE YOUR INNER BITCH. ...Whaaat!?! 😈🙊💋😳Scarlet Jaxen On The Ruby Hour Podcast!

I stumbled across Canada-native Scarlet Jaxen @scarletjaxen one day going on some kind of feminine empowerment wormhole and saw her moving and embodying her "inner bitch". I was appalled, confused, inspired, and offended all at the same time. Embrace my inner bitch? What? She's allowed? We can speak about her? We can acknowledge we have some kind of ugly, ruthless bitch in us? Really? And, of course, I had to get her on the show.

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Charleston Chef Lauren Furey: "Pepper Dealer" Surfer Babe On The Ruby Hour Podcast

I want you to meet one of Charleston’s biggest rays of sunshine — Trinidad Scorpion Pepper delinquent, Surfer Babe, and one of Charleston’s top up-and-coming chefs — Lauren Furey.

Lauren Furey’s been coming up under the radar in the culinary scene here in Charleston this past few years - most recently she’s been working alongside one of her mentors — culinary legend Nathalie Dupree (one of the most prolific cookbook authors and James Beard award-winning chefs of our generation.) Watch or listen now.

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Having a Beach Wedding in Charleston SC? Here’s the Bride’s Guide to Unexpected Beach Wedding Disasters

Your cake is melting; your makeup is running, the weather doesn’t seem to be cooperating...is this the price you have to pay because you wanted to feel sand between your toes as you tie the knot? You’ve had your heart set on a beach wedding in Charleston SC, so it would be a shame to let these entirely avoidable mishaps from ruining your big day.

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Musician Bryan Mahanes On Wedding Contracts, Fine Print, And Renewing Your Creativity As An Artist Through COVID-19

Bryan Mahanes is a part of Other Brother Entertainment. He is an entertainer, a musician, an artist, and an all-intents and purposes absolute creative.

Making people dance and enjoy themselves at his events are second nature to him as an artist. His passion for mixing and DJ’ing live is unparalleled as well as his energetic, infectious personality and excitement for his craft.

We had the privilege of filming him for this year’s Lip Sync For Lungs 5th Annual Live Battle and let me tell you, Bryan is an absolute rock star! It was so fun to chat with Bryan about what he sees from his neck of the woods on the sound and technical production and DJ side of weddings and events, and how he’s made it through this pandemic era as a creative and an entrepreneur.

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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

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

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

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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