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It’s not every day that we get to grab a drink with a Harvard professor, bestselling author and happiness expert. Dr. Arthur Brooks is here to talk money, life, faith and so much more.
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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🥂 Electrolyte Mockarita 

Recipe by: Cocktails with Val

• 2.5 ounces coconut water

• 1.5 ounces fresh orange juice

• 1 ounce lime juice

• 1 ounce agave

• 1 pinch of salt

Instructions: Add coconut water, fresh orange juice, lime juice, agave, and a pinch of salt to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake to combine all ingredients. Pour over glass filled with ice. Add an orange wedge as optional garnish. Serve and enjoy!

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If you’re an exhausted millennial wondering if buying a home is a lost cause, we get it—and we’ve got you. Today, we’re unpacking common home-buying frustrations and real estate woes. Spoiler alert: Yes, it’s still possible!

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🍹 Basil & Lillet Spritz

Recipe by Emily Laurae

• 1 ounce Lillet

• 4–5 basil leaves

• 4 ounces sparkling wine

Instructions: In a shaker, combine Lillet and basil leaves and shake with ice for 30 seconds. Strain into a glass filled with ice. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a basil leaf before serving.

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Vacation debt, budget-friendly hacks and some light legal drama—today we’re unpacking all things Disney! Stick around for the magic, fun and chaos.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🍹 Pineapple Blueberry Margarita Mocktail

Recipe by Yum Recipes Now

• Lime juice

•  Pineapple juice

• Blueberry syrup

• Sparkling water

• Salt

Instructions: Start by rubbing a lime wedge around the rim of your glass. Then, dip the rim into a plate of salt to coat it evenly. In a shaker or mixing glass, combine 3/4 ounce of fresh lime juice, 1/2 ounce of pineapple juice, and 1/2 ounce of blueberry syrup. Stir or shake gently to blend the flavors without diluting the vibrant colors. Strain the chilled mixture into your salted rim glass filled halfway with fresh ice. Then, top it off with sparkling water.

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If you can’t be the best, why not be the worst? Or at least that’s what some people must be thinking to justify their spending habits. Stick around for a bracket battle of bad money habits.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🍹 Pisco Sour

Recipe by: Liquor.com

• 2 ounces pisco

• 1 ounce lime juice

• 1/2 ounce simple syrup

• 1 egg white

Instructions: Add pisco, lime juice, simple syrup and egg white into a shaker and dry shake (without ice) vigorously. Add ice and shake again until well chilled. Strain into a chilled glass and serve! 

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Good manners, simple style, old-school investing—today we’re unpacking subtle “quiet millionaire” habits and teaching you how to build wealth the right way.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🍹 Apple Ginger Fizz Mocktail

Recipe from The Mindful Mocktail

• 3 ounces still apple cider

• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice

• 6 mint leaves

• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

• Pinch powdered cinnamon

•  3 ounces ginger ale

Instructions: Place apple cider, lime juice, cinnamon, apple cider vinegar and a few ice cubes into a cocktail shaker. Clap the mint together in your hands to release the scent, and add to the shaker. Shake for about 20–30 seconds until ingredients are combined. Pour into an ice-filled glass and top with ginger ale. Stir gently, garnish with mint, and serve.

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We all have our weaknesses when it comes to frivolous spending—but some of you are next level. Today, we’re reacting to (and lightly judging) the internet’s most ridiculous spending habits.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🥃 “The Reddish” Maroon Manhattan

Recipe from Smart Money Happy Hour mixologist Michael Reddish

•  2 ounces bourbon

• 1 ounce dry vermouth

•  1 ounce amaro

• 2–3 dashes black walnut bitters

• 2–3 dashes chocolate bitters

Instructions: Add the bourbon, dry vermouth, amaro and bitters into a mixing glass with ice and stir until well-chilled. Serve in a coupe glass and enjoy!

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Is love blind? Some of your financial decisions certainly make it seem that way! Today, we’re reacting to people’s biggest money mistakes made on behalf of their loved ones.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🍹 Trophy Wife Spritz

Recipe from Fly Girl Bartending

•  Mint leaves

• 1/2 ounce honey

• 3 ounces club soda

• 3 ounces nonalcoholic sparkling wine

•  Grapefruit

Instructions: Place mint in the bottom of a wine glass. Add honey and club soda and stir. Fill the glass with ice and top with sparkling wine. Garnish with mint and grapefruit and enjoy!

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Career, relationships, self-improvement—life is full of important choices, and today we’re unpacking all the options with bestselling author and The Ramsey Show co-host Ken Coleman.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🥃 Kentucky Mule

• Recipe from Liquor.com

•  2 ounces bourbon

• 1/2 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed

•  Ginger beer, to top

•  Garnish: mint sprig

Instructions: Add the bourbon and lime juice to a copper mug or a highball glass. Fill the mug or glass with ice and top with ginger beer. Garnish with a mint sprig and enjoy!

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Apparently, living on less than you make and ditching your credit score is groundbreaking financial advice—but we’ll let you be the judge. If you’re willing to be a little unorthodox in order to build wealth, stay tuned! You’re in the right place.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🍹 Virgin Piña Colada

Recipe from House of Nash Eats

•  2 cups pineapple juice

• 3/4 cup cream of coconut

• 4 cups ice

• Pineapple wedges for garnish

• Maraschino cherries for garnish

Instructions: Pour the pineapple juice and cream of coconut into a high-powered blender. Add the ice. Blend for 30–60 seconds until smooth. Divide between 3–4 glasses. This makes about 5 cups of piña colada, which is about 10 ounces per person if divided between 4 people. Garnish with pineapple wedges, maraschino cherries and cocktail umbrellas before serving!

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If an event costs you social energy, should you really have to pay actual money too? Today, we’re saying what we all wish we could write on the next birthday party, wedding shower or gender reveal RSVP—join the unfiltered fun!

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🥃 Smoked Rosemary Negroni Sour

Recipe from: Join Jules

• 1 ounce gin

• 1 ounce sweet vermouth

• 1 ounce Campari

• 1/2 ounce rosemary syrup

• 1/2 ounce lemon juice

•  1 egg white

• Splash of orange juice

Instructions: Using a lighter, light the tips of a fresh rosemary sprig until it begins to smoke. Flip your coupe glass upside down over the smoking sprig and let sit while you mix your cocktail. In a cocktail shaker, add gin, sweet vermouth, Campari, syrup, lemon juice, a splash of orange juice and egg white. Dry shake. Add ice and shake again. Double strain into the smoked glass. Garnish with a fresh rosemary sprig and a citrus wheel.

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📈 Learn how to invest the smart way using Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Investing.

Building wealth is actually pretty simple (when you do it the right way). But there are some risky strategies out there that can topple your financial progress overnight. Join us for a live game of Jenga and some commonsense financial advice along the way.

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Today’s Happy Hour Special: 🥂 Lemon Ginger Mocktail Spritz

Recipe from Join Jules

•  1/2 ounce honey syrup

• 3/4 ounce ginger juice

• 1 ounce fresh lemon juice

•  2 ounces sparkling water

Instructions: Blend ginger with a little water and strain. Add honey syrup to a glass. Add ginger juice and lemon juice. Add ice and top with sparkling water.

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