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Mirela Sula: “Global Woman Club, One of the Biggest Organisation for Women in Europe and My Goal is to Become Top Leader in My Industry.”

By Rudina HOXHA

Mirela Sula is a very successful Albanian businesswoman. With the creation of Global Woman Club, a platform aiming to aspire women go beyond their comfort zone and reach their ideals and make their dreams true, she has earned a fame in Europe and further.

As many as 17 clubs for women in 17 countries which has helped hundreds of women to unlock their potential, set up their goals and achieve their dreams, bear their authorship.

Mirela is passionate about empowering women worldwide and always stands up for, inclusion, diversity, gender balance and supporting the next generation. Her mission is to create a global movement to improve women’s future, one economically empowered woman at a time. She uses her years of experience in teaching and leadership to inspire and motivate women around the world, working with them to deliver career and life changing results beyond expectation. She sits with Follow Business Albania to share her thoughts about Global Woman Forum in Tirana she and her team organized last September and how she can help women in Albania as well to grow their visions.

Did Global Woman Forum in Tirana meet your expectations? What impressed you most?

I come in Albania every year now with my team. I choose Albania as I feel is the best place for retreat and I want my team to know how amazing my country is.

Every time I touch the land there it makes me feel more connected with my true self and the world. To answer your question, I don’t come with expectation when I organise an event there, for me every time is like a test, do understand what people want there, how they are changing, how much I can motivate them toward change, growth and development.

It was absolutely a great trip and experience, not easy to organise one-week agenda with women coming from 15 different countries but all loved it. My team was very impressed with Albania and they can’t wait to come back again next year.

What is your opinion on the Albanian women? What should they do to go to the next level and how can Global Woman help them in this respect?

Albanian women are heroes; they have progressed so much in time. I remember myself coming from a small remote village, and I know what it means to start everything from scratch, you need to have a lot of courage and determination to activate your life in a

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new world, the world that women are re-building. And when I see women who are moving from one stage to another and looking for a better life it makes me feel optimistic.

This is what we do at Global Woman, we help women who believe in the vision of a better world to go beyond comfort zone and start creating what is missing around their life.

They get to realise that they have more potential inside and they can do much more than they think.

Global Woman is not a charity, is a business platform and we want woman to see themselves as heroes. No matter what happened in their lives or in their past, they are not victims, they can learn so much from that and rebuild their life again, even better.

At the end of 2018, what is the balance sheet you do and what is in store for 2019?

People who know me they know I don’t have a plan, but I have a big vision of building a global community where women have a big say, and play a big part on it. I am

really happy that now Global Woman Club is one of the biggest organisation for women in Europe and my goal is to become top leader in my industry.

You have created an international platform for Women which has become world-known already. What about in Tirana? When can we have a Global Woman Tirana?

Global Woman Club has now reached 20 big cities around the world in only 2 years, and I am so glad seeing the appetite of women to come together and support each other. I have organised the Global Woman events many times in Tirana and I am really hopping that one day the right person will appear and ask for it. We never go out there and advertise recruitment for having representatives in other countries.

The growth of Global Woman Club has been so natural, women come and join our events, they become members, they like it and then they ask “I love this, how can I get this club in my country” – and here is the beginning. We need to see that desire from a woman that is ready to commit, to bring a difference in her community and if Global Woman can help we are here, always ready when they are ready

View from the Global Woman Forum in Tirana last September.

About Mirela Sula

Mirela Sula has worked in media and education for the last 20 years and has speaking experience all around the world. Her background takes in psychology and counselling, journalism, teaching, coaching, women’s rights and media training. Mirela is CEO and the founder of Global Woman magazine and Global Woman Club, with the recent acquisition of ‘The Business Woman Today’, an online network exclusively for women in business. Mirela is also the organiser of the Global Woman Summit and Global Woman Awards. She has appeared on “London Live TV”, “BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hours”, “Sky TV”, “Channel 5” and also featured at the “Evening Standard” and “The Guardian”.

For Global Woman, Mirela has created a project called ‘Phenomenal Global Woman’ where ten selected influential women from different corners of the globe travel to Hollywood to speak at a big conference, and also be filmed for the ‘Phenomenal Global Woman Show’ which will be broadcast on PBS TV.

Mirela is studying for a PhD in Psychology at Regent’s University London to follow on from her Master’s degree. She is also author of several books. Her last self-help book ‘Don’t Let Your Mind Go’ was a best seller and is also published in America and Turkey.

The lively spirit of two great people: Mrs. Mirela Sula dancing with Dr. Ervin Laszlo, a great philosopher, during the Global Woman Forum in Tirana.

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Mirela has received many awards for her work, including the ‘Inspirational Award for Women 2015’ for Human Rights, the ‘Best Up-And-Coming Inspirational Influencer’ Award from The Best You, in 2017 and the Universum Donna Award 2017 from the Universum Academy of Switzerland. She received The Best Book of the Year from The Author’s Awards in 2016 for her book, ‘Don’t Lose Your Mind’ and her new book, ‘Struggle to Success’, 50 Inspiring Stories of Migrant Women, was launched at the House of Parliament on the 11th December. In December 2017 Mirela won the “Entrepreneur of The Year Award” from the Wealth Dragons, and ended the year in the list of the OOOM 100: THE WORLD’S MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE.

Her aim is to reach one million women entrepreneurs by 2020 for her Global Woman Club.

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