Here are last week’s highlights!

Gurkhas Bar & Restaurant:

We had the soft opening, private party on Saturday. This event required the construction staff to finish the bar at a tight schedule, barely finishing in time; Ben to coordinate cooking all the appetizers with the kitchen staff; my coordinating all the marketing activities with Narayan; my coordinating hiring of new staff; Narayan and I purchasing of all equipment, drinks, and supplies; my coordinating with all the liquor and wine suppliers; coming up with new specialty drink recipes; practicing making them on the fly literally hours before the event; making the new menus; helping design the marketing material; training the staff on what to do; and taking care of details like filling the balloons with Helium. I hardly slept 6 hours straight any single day.

The whole experience was totally nerve-wrecking, and felt like I was sitting there getting injected at an operating table with anesthetics, except it lasted a whole week! Nothing can compare to Gabriel’s being there for me, driving 4 hours from Aspen. I am so grateful for his support and commitment to be there for me, even though he had work back in Aspen the next day.

But it was a success! All the guests enjoyed themselves, or at least told me they did. They loved the drinks.

Know of a Good Cause, Local Nonprofit, or Good Initiative that is Looking for Funding?

At the restaurant, as their Marketing Director, I am doing an initiative Fundraiser Sundays, where 15% of all proceeds on every Sunday will go to a different local cause. Also, there will be a presentation on that cause at noon at the restaurant, a blog post on the magazine Grow2Be (The magazine will be launched soon by Warren Stokes. I am a volunteer writer.), and the nonprofit will also be highlighted at local newsletters.

I shared this information and asked people to submit good suggestions through postings at various local groups on LinkedIn. Over 40 people responded with awesome details, information, and offers to help. I am overwhelmed with all the wonderful efforts there are in this community.

Colorado Women Making a Difference

Melissa Costanza, founder of this group, gave me ownership of this group of 164 amazing ladies. She is moving to Florida. I first met her at a CWMD event suggested by my brother Mergen Chuluun.

Having just moved to Colorado from Chicago, three months ago, I was grateful to meet her among 10 other awesome ladies. I called her soon after, to ask her for advice on how I can get my marketing initiative off the ground with the Gurkhas Restaurant, where I was starting to work. She gave me 4 ways to contact her, called me a couple of times to make sure she got a hold of me, and then spent an hour and a half speaking to me as if she was a longtime friend and mentor.

Melissa gave me lots of great ideas, embellished my ideas, and gave me so much to go on that my new job as a Marketing Director for the restaurant really pulled all my other interests together into it. She is a phenomenal lady.

Melissa’s mission with this group is to help everyone succeed through facilitating everyone helping each other. I am so grateful to know Melissa in the brief time I met her. I would like to help everyone here succeed in the same spirit that she offered her help to me.

Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful week. Enjoy the holidays!