From Cocktails to Mocktails: Elevate Your Holiday Drinks Game with Rachael Green

Episode Introduction

Welcome back to another exciting episode of "GET SEEN with Leilani Wells"! In today's episode, we have a special guest, Rachel Green, a phenomenal mixologist who will be joining us for the upcoming 4th annual Holiday Entrepreneur Summit. During the event, Rachel will be showcasing her incredible skills and sharing her expertise in creating delicious cocktails. But that's not all! We also have a surprise for you - the premiere of "Let's GET SEEN in the Kitchen" where we will be exploring the merging of business and homely experiences. Together, we will learn how to create amazing meals and beverages, with Rachel guiding us through the process. From virtual cocktail events to shipping thousands of cocktail kits, Rachel's journey in the hospitality industry is truly inspiring. Join us as we dive into her story, explore her incredible kitchen setup, and get a sneak peek into the holiday-themed cocktails she has in store for us. Get ready for an episode filled with creativity, collaboration, and a taste of the holidays!

About Our Guest

Rachel Green is a passionate and creative individual, who has spent the past four years honing her skills in her unique studio, initially adorned with a simplistic wooden vinyl designed to resemble wood. Rachel's vision for her studio extended far beyond a simple backdrop however. Leveraging her artistic prowess, she meticulously designed her dream bar via Canva. Her vision included detailed specifications of what she desired for her countertop, the shelving, and other elements. Alongside her fiancé, Rachel brought this dream to life, creating a customized bar that was a physical manifestation of her vision. Her vision perfectly combined her creativity and her passion, resulting in a space that not only appealed visually but also inspired and motivated her creative journey.

"Expert Mixologist Insights: I'm a mixologist. I've been in the industry for over ten years. I'm a specialist of spirits, wine and beer, but I focus on cocktails. So I'm going to be doing some really fun cocktails that you're going to hear about in just a little bit."

— Rachel Green

Timestamped Overview

02:18 GET SEEN In the Kitchen: merging business and homemaker.

05:54 Inclusivity in alcohol with various options.

08:40 Excited to join collaborative creative excellence experience.

11:16 Exclusive members-only stream for confirmed guests

13:27 See you all soon.

Main Topics

1. Rachel Green's Background and Business

- Rachel's experience as a mixologist specializing in cocktails

- The growth of her business through virtual cocktail events

- Expansion of her team and services

- Focus on hospitality and corporate events

2. The Vision behind Get Seen in the Kitchen

- Leilani's desire to merge business and homemaking

- Creating a homely environment while still focusing on entrepreneurship

- Providing great meals and drinks for family and guests

- Collaboration and creativity in the kitchen

3. Rachel Green's Setup and Aesthetic

- Description of Rachel's working station and background

- The process of building her dream bar with her fiancé

- Focus on organization and aesthetics

- Inclusivity in her business and providing solutions for various dietary preferences

4. The Experience and Collaboration in Get Seen in the Kitchen

- The holistic approach to menu planning and creating a well-rounded experience

- Collaboration between Leilani, Rachel, and other entrepreneurs

- Discussion about pairings and creating recipes inspired by each other

- The aim to provide an inclusive experience for all participants

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Hey, everyone. Welcome back. Another episode of Get Seen,

where we are sharing all about the Holiday Entrepreneur Summit. This year's

fourth annual Holiday Entrepreneur Summit. So, so

excited because this year we have a special event

that's premiering called let's Get Seen in the

Kitchen. And today we have

rachel Green is a phenomenal, incredible,

amazing mixologist booked to the nines

in her holiday season. She is gracing us, blessing

us with her presence at this event in the middle of all the

things and has a lot of spectacular things in store. So anyway, I'm going to

turn it over to her for a second so she can share all about herself,

and then we're going to jump into a conversation of why you get to be

there or be square. Oh, fun.

Awesome. Well, thank you so much. It's been a pleasure getting to know you

and being a part of your world. Nice to meet you, everybody.

My name is Rachel Green. I'm a mixologist. I've been in the industry for over

ten years. I'm a specialist of spirits, wine and beer, but I focus on

cocktails. So I'm going to be doing some really fun cocktails that you're going to

hear about in just a little bit. However, we're going to I

don't know, but I guess a little bit about me is

that I built this business back in 2020 by

doing Zoom virtual cocktail events. And since then, we've

shipped almost 10,000 cocktail kits. We do

over two to 300 events a year. And now I've

expanded to have my team of event hosts and my marketing team

and all sorts of I have a team, and it's awesome

that's just a little bit about the front end hospitality

to corporate events and team building. Yeah, and your

hospitality shows that the background that you have there. For any of you

watching on video, and you'll see it when you're at the Holiday Entrepreneur

Summit, the let's Get Seen in the Kitchen premiere.

But for those of you guys listening, just know and be there. And it is

kind of hard to really talk about it because there's a lot of surprises, right?

So it's like, oh, wait, I'm going to wait. I can't say that yet. Let's

see. The thing is that what you guys have

in store and what you guys are creating is so very special.

I'm so excited to be able to be a fly on the wall in this

process. The way Get Seen In the Kitchen started, for those of you guys who

don't know, Get Seen in the Kitchen started because I

felt like I wanted to be more of a homemaker, more

of that person who created this homely, wonderful

environment where I cooked great meals for my family

and did all the things. But I spent a lot of time on business,

and I still do. And I wanted to find a way to

really still not abandon my vision, not

take the pedal off so much, per se, but merge the

two. Because I felt like there's so many other business owners, especially women,

who felt like I did and who really felt like, you know

what? I'm behind a screen or I'm running here and there, and I'm building, and

that's wonderful. I'm providing for my family. But what about giving them a good

meal or a really wonderful drink where we put love into that

drink? You added that lime or lemon twist.

Right. And so I'm really excited for what Rachel

and the rest of the team is providing and creating

for you guys. They're going to actually provide a

menu beforehand. So you all are going to have the

opportunity to create with

us and really experience

that and be in that. So anyway, thank you,

Rachel. When I say thank you for being a part of mean, you didn't know

me from Adam or Eve or whatever, and my

vision was not completely clear when I came to you. So I mean that from

the bottom of my heart, I'm very excited seeing this all come together.

Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, for any of the listeners on your podcast that

know how infectious of a spirit you are, know that I was

absolutely magnetized by you and your vision and what

you had in store and whether or not I had all the details, I was

pretty excited to be a part of it. Well, let's talk about you and thank

you. Let's talk about how you

because okay, you can probably describe it a little bit to where

they start to get a visual because there's so many little intricacies into

what's behind you. It's not a backdrop. It's an actual

real working station you have there with a little bit

of everything. Yeah. Tell us a little bit about that. How did you

make it? How did you envision it? Yeah. Oh, man.

Well, I mean, it all starts this isn't something that it

was just like, boom. And it's done since I've been

doing this for the past four years. My studio was

originally like a wooden vinyl. It

was like vinyl, but it was like a picture of wood as a

background. And I took that with me for the first couple of years.

And eventually I drafted up on Canva

utilizing the grid structure, like what I wanted as the

countertop, what I wanted as how I wanted the shelving, and

what I wanted literally drafted up my

dream bar, and me and my fiance actually ended

up building it together. So he actually installed these shelves. This is

actually like wallpaper, which is fabulous.

And these are like

the little wheel islands that you can have in your

kitchen. They're extra counters that you can wheel around your kitchen, and there's so much

storage in them. And I just really love

being organized. I love when things look good.

I've grown into being more of an aesthetic person than I ever really was. I

was so much more of a functional person and I

love showing up in front of this every day. It's the best. However,

go over the last little things. These are not filled right now, but

they will be with the different things that I'm going to be doing for the

holidays. And then these are all my

bidders, so I have more in the

back, but ultimately all the ones I could fit on the shelf and

then up here. I'm so glad you asked. Except for this bottle, which I'm not

sure why it's there, but almost everything on the shelf

besides this bottle and that bottle is nonalcoholic

spirits. So as much as I love the spirits realm, the beer,

wine, and learning about the collaborative elements of all of these

factors, for me, what my business and

really my ethos has grown into is inclusivity. So I

really desire to be an alcohol optional business

and create solutions for everyone that's from gluten

free to dairy free to vegan to non

alcoholic to whatever it might be, providing those

solutions as an option, that's just customary. Like,

oh yeah, okay, you're vegan, great. I have this total solution right

here and it not being this big deal,

just normalizing the inclusivity of

our desires as people who eat and drink in different ways.

I love that so much. And it's

so cool that we didn't share this with you guys, but she's going

to have two beverages that are being created

because really this whole plan that you guys are getting to learn is

specifically for the holiday season. So in get seen the membership,

you guys go and experience the cooking with us

when it's not in the holiday season. Right now, we're prepping

you to prepare something fabulous when you have guests over

and you can prepare something for the kids, a mocktail and a

cocktail, right. For the adults that want it or anyone

that wants a mocktail or something else as an option. We

have that. We have the whole it's

very well rounded for everyone to have planned,

right? Yeah.

It's awesome to see the inside the creative mind of other

amazing women and just

seeing what we can all collaborate on together.

And it's all about, oh,

what's this? And creating things together that

really I don't know, they represent

us, but they also represent collaboration. And we might not have come

up with these particular recipes if it weren't for being inspired by one another.

So I think that that's definitely something that I love from this

whole experience. I'm so happy to hear that. I wanted

that for you guys so much and I'm so grateful and excited being

like a fly on the wall of the email, like when you guys are talking

about what about this and that and the pairings. We

have someone doing a wine pairing, right? Will you meet her on

another episode? And so basically it's like you guys are talking

about what pairs well with the foods that are being created. So it's really

just a very collaborative experience.

Okay, so I found you through

business, collab, a friend, all the things in the industry, right.

And when I found you, what happened?

What really struck me was that you already had a

very similar vision in the way that you delivered

excellence to people in what you were doing.

I feel like it's creative excellence. It's an

experience. I want to take people through an experience

all the time. With everything I create, I want people to feel and

have an experience. And looking at you right here with the

background and everything and watching your social media, you're

taking people through an experience. Right. So it's really

exciting to see as this progresses

forward, as we lead up to the

15th, what's going to come. Because it's not

fully created, it keeps creating more, oh, what about this? Take away that,

add this. It's just incredible.

It's a build as you go concept, as you were just explaining to me, too,

in our pre call, which

I'm getting into the appreciation of, I'm

honestly such a big fan of just winging it because

you never know what you discover in the moment.

And I think that over the past at least 15 minutes of

us chatting before we went on live is

those moments where you're like, wow, I'm inspired by this,

or this particular little micro thing that somebody else said really

drove me to come up with this whole massive idea. Right.

So I think it's really quite fun. Yeah.

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself and I'm so excited for you guys who are listening,

who are going to get to be there. So the Holiday Entrepreneur Summit

get seen in the kitchen portion. So the main event is the

16th. Let's get seen in the kitchen.

Is going to be on the 15th. So how it's going to go is

at six Eastern. It's going to be streamed.

So if you are a confirmed guest, we're going to stream it into a members

only area where you can watch, and you're going to be able

to be here with all of us, and

I'll be able to relay things to them

and we'll be able to answer things potentially. But we're going

to really be getting our hands into stuff and talking and doing things

because you guys are going to hopefully be doing the same if you feel like

it. Or you can just watch. But really, it's going to be about a

meal and beverages and all of these things that are an

experience that you can then take and learn and create with us

or in the future as you go through the holidays. So you'll be able to

learn the meals, cook the meals, you'll learn the beverages, how to cook them. You'll

be able to know there's a little surprise coming up where you'll be able to

know how to shop for the ingredients, all the things, but it is

live at 06:00 p.m. On the

15th Eastern time. Anything else you

want to share about that, Rachel? Besides where they get to follow you? Of course

they get to follow you. Well, I'll throw in

an extra little teaser for you guys as we're going through this

content and we're co creating together through the social channels, which

you got to stay active in following, otherwise you're going to miss something.

But is that you're going to learn how to batch

cocktails for cocktails and mocktails or alcohol optional

cocktails for the holiday season. You're going to learn how

to develop your own

evolution of your own cocktails. And I think I

even included a really fun freebie that is

a home mixology mastery ebook. It's my ebook. That is a

pretty robust document that takes you through

home shopping lists, ice tools,

styles of mixing and core recipes so that you can build

your own recipe book from home. That's incredible.

That's a massive value. That's incredible.

Okay, well, I'm going to end us off here. Thank you so much for

joining us today. We will soon see you soon at the Holiday

Entrepreneur Summit. Bye, everyone. See you guys soon.