Phenomenal Women: Art & Entrepreneurship - Creating a Market, One Pot at a Time with Albana Meta | EP22

<p><strong>What does it take to build a market for something people don&#39;t yet know they need? </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Albana Meta returned to Tirana after 12 years abroad and built Albania&#39;s first contemporary art café and pottery studio — not just a business, but a genuinely new idea about what people deserve access to.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Deepa and Albana get into the real work of cultural entrepreneurship: convincing people to show up, creating a space that gives people permission to make something, and what it means to build something countercultural in a city remaking itself at speed. They also talk honestly about what it takes to carve out space as a female entrepreneur; not as a story of struggle, but as a lived reality worth examining.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a conversation about belief; in art, in people, and in the stubborn act of building something that didn&#39;t exist before you decided it should.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Topics covered:</strong> creative entrepreneurship, building new markets, art and community, female entrepreneurship in Albania, Tirana&#39;s cultural transformation, the power of making.</p><p>Do share it and better yet, start your own ADDA to talk about it!</p><p><br></p><p>This is the first in our Phenomenal Women Series.</p><p><br></p><p>For further information: </p><p>Muzart Café: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/muzatartcafe/"><u>https://www.instagram.com/muzatartcafe/</u></a></p><p>Tirana Pottery Studio: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tiranapotterystudio/"><u>https://www.instagram.com/tiranapotterystudio/</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>The ADDA is brought to you by The Deep &amp; Meaningful Consultancy.</p><p><br>Host: Deepa Mirchandani</p><p>Music: Unreasonable World by Bernard Schimpelsberger (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbndDZmxEaFZtN1o2blUycVVwLWtSMERRNXU1UXxBQ3Jtc0ttT3BEZFMwdnlYTG9qRGM1Z2ZLNlA5bThfZHRCTkdwdlZNOG9yZGRTbnlFZjUwRDM0bzJUb2R2TUI2eGJscTZSU0E5Vzh4ZlpyS1RLdGF0ZHAwdEpjUkJ1d1pSVWNSQlB4QzBhQmI2NDZCc0dSU3Uzcw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bernhard.co.at%2F&v=ZWy2ZRYwjrg">http://www.bernhard.co.at/</a>)</p><p>To find out more about the Deep &amp; Meaningful Consultancy, to sign up for our monthly newsletter and also check out our Group ADDA sessions, please have a look at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmR2ZHgzT3dNSEhPSWJGZ19nbHJpdFBsU1BRZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuZk1ITHVyZmR1V1VEak5oSVo1OFUxU3JHZkJLSWxUZEkyUTRtTi1ucjU2VzdLQ0NsRHAyUlU3SDZRTWZUQ1hya2RITlExbDVYZldtVnRveWRrM2dGeXhhQm1SdUtTclQzMEhnMF8xVWtBU0x5NlFhcw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deepandmeaningful.co%2F&v=ZWy2ZRYwjrg">https://www.deepandmeaningful.co</a>. </p><p><br></p>