Mirela Sula’s inspiration to discovered the World Girl Membership got here when she was an outreach employee for survivors of home violence in London. In her outreach work, she realized one of many greatest obstacles to leaving an abuser is proscribed or complete lack of access to money, since perpetrators of abuse typically management their companions’ funds.
She wished to pivot from social providers to a enterprise mannequin the place she may assist ladies build their confidence and acquire monetary freedom. So, in 2015, she based the World Girl Summit, a world convention the place ladies can community and empower one another.
Mirela Sula’s mission to assist ladies
I spoke to Sula over Zoom. Each assured and heat, she was carrying a silky leopard-print jacket. The numerous books on the white shelf behind her had been organized by coloration, and there have been two covers of World Girl Journal on the wall behind her.
This year’s summit in London had simply wrapped up on July 17, and kicked off two days earlier with a transformational meditation with Deepak Chopra.
“We had like 50 nations in a single room; grateful to see that range and [those] wonderful, gifted ladies who traveled around the globe to return and be collectively,” Sula remembers.
An surprising entrepreneurial journey
Initially from Albania, Sula was a instructor earlier than shifting to London. Entrepreneurship wasn’t even one thing she thought she may accomplish.
“Once I was in Albania, I all the time beloved media,” mentioned Sula. “Once I moved to the capital metropolis, I modified my profession from a instructor to a journalist as a result of I beloved and studied journalism. I studied literature and language, after which I began counseling psychology. Then I turned the editor-in-chief of a psychology journal.”
However after a number of strikes to totally different cities in Albania and finally to the U.Okay., she started working as a coach for home violence survivors, internet hosting workshops to assist those that had no monetary assets to depart their relationships.
Her unique concept was a nonprofit group known as Migrant Girl, however she discovered that it attracted a really small following, as a result of a lot of the immigrant inhabitants in London was settled and regarded London to be house.
“I discovered it just a little little bit of a problem. Girls [said], ‘Oh, I’m not a migrant,’” Sula remembers. “It felt like many individuals didn’t wish to establish themselves as immigrants.”
She determined that she wanted to suppose greater and develop a corporation that was inclusive to all ladies and would empower them financially and relationally.
So, in 2015, she based World Girl Journal and commenced to plan the primary summit.
Launching World Girl Membership
“The entire thing actually began with the journal,” Sula says. “Once I moved to London… I used to be not capable of begin a job as a psychologist or a journalist as a result of my English was not ok. I struggled to place phrases collectively and I knew I wouldn’t have the ability to observe my profession as a journalist. And as a psychologist, I wanted to attend till I completed my Ph.D. So sooner or later, I made a decision to do my very own journal and instantly after, I continued to the summit.”
The summit was deliberate as an avenue to offer a voice to ladies who had been seeking financial freedom. Sula had observed in her home violence work that many survivors had been additionally financially managed by their abusers. Her motivation was to assist ladies make their own money. She did this by placing ladies in the identical room.
“In case you actually wish to empower a lady, give her a microphone,” Sula says. “As a result of by taking that microphone, they stand of their energy they usually understand that with that energy, they’ll construct confidence they usually can generate income as a result of they’ve worth.”
Worldwide enlargement
In 2017, Sula expanded, creating the primary World Girl membership in London. Inside a yr, 14 extra golf equipment opened, all with the intent to host in-person networking occasions to attach ladies. Membership to the World Girl Membership is worldwide, so ladies can attend occasions in any nation. There are additionally on-line and hybrid occasions that enable members to attach at a world stage.
“The Chapter in Los Angeles is bringing ladies from Los Angeles collectively. However we additionally invite all the opposite members in different golf equipment like Paris, Stockholm, New York, Orange County, Chicago, Cypress [, California], Sweden—wherever they’re,” Sula says. “After which they arrive collectively and start connecting with each other. We facilitate breakout room periods, we create accountability and we put them collectively they usually begin speaking with one another.”
She says that girls at these networking occasions are sometimes capable of establish others who share the identical values. These conferences foster vital partnerships, with some members even shifting to a different nation to pursue higher alternatives.
“I felt like if I handle to return from a small village [in] a small nation and broaden my [platform, brand and business] around the globe, it’s time for all of us to suppose world,” Sula says. “I wish to encourage ladies to get out of their consolation zone, out of their native thoughts. As a result of there are such a lot of alternatives on the market… And that is precisely what we do—we journey the world.”
Mirela Sula’s profitable morning routine
Presently, World Girl additionally gives an app known as World Girl Membership Solid and a web-based academy with instructional programs on enterprise methods and wellbeing. Sula’s life is a whirlwind: She often travels for public talking gigs and writes books and podcast scripts. However regardless of her demanding schedule, she takes time every morning to start the day with intention.
“Me and my accomplice, we begin the day collectively,” Sula says. “First with meditation. With the meditation, we do 20 minutes of studying. After the 20 minutes [of] studying, we go and do 40 minutes of train.”
After that, she and her accomplice gown up and exit for espresso in Central London. They spend that point discussing the e book that they’ve learn and a subject of the day, then they each begin their workday round 9 a.m. This fashion, they’ll hold the early morning hours as their very own time.
Regardless of the busy schedule, Sula is precisely the place she needs to be and is grateful to have the ability to work together with her heroes every single day.
“There’s a second after I was within the village studying these books of Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Les Brown, Jack Canfield, Robert Kiyosaki—all these huge names,” Sula says. “I began visualizing myself and the way my life could be if I met these individuals. Now I’m residing the dream the place I work with all of them.”