Coworking Values Podcast
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Coworking Values Podcast
Welcome to Coworking Values the podcast of the European Coworking Assembly. Each week we deep dive into one of the values of accessibility, community, openness, collaboration and sustainability. Listen in to learn how these values can make or break Coworking culture. coworkingvaluespodcast.substac...
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The Business Rates Crisis: What Every Workspace Operator Needs to Do Now with Jane Sartin
“I’m currently aware of two operators on the smaller size that have been handed £400,000 backdated bills... being hit with backdated business rates bi...
Why the UK Government Is About to Crush Your Coworking Space — And What to Do About It with Roland Stanley
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“If these people have their own little standalone office somewhere, if they literally picked their office up and went to put it...
Childcare and Coworking: Why the Neighbourhood Model Outlasts the Glossy One with Georgia Norton
“I just want to be able to do a little bit of work and be near enough my kids to continue feeding or to be able to help out and know what’s going on w...
Why Connectors Create the Future (And Consumers Don't) with Peter Block
“To me, rearranging the room is a metaphor for rearranging how you and I find each other.” - Peter Block.
Unreasonable Connection Going Live! Lo...
Why "Doing the Work" Beats Predicting the Future with Dean Connell
“That’s the only thing that I would like to be known for, not for designing coworking spaces, just that I was able to show up each day to do the work...
From Haircuts to Health Checks — How to Make Your Space Matter to the Neighbourhood with Williamz Omope
“There’s definitely the trust aspect... People would come because they’re like, ‘Well, Williamz says that someone’s going to be here.’” - Williamz Omo...
When Productivity Advice Meets Real Constraints with Suzanne Murdock
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“It became the first seed of building the Hub Newry... a lived example of building a business with minimal capacities in terms o...
Trans Rights Are Human Rights: Creating Safe Coworking Spaces with Tash Koster-Thomas
“I’m not going to hide my tears right now. So often, people sit behind keyboards and write these comments, and they don’t see the impact of their word...
Why Your Real Competition Isn't Another Coworking Space with Lucy McInally
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“Do you know who your coworking space’s biggest competitor is? It’s the Home Office, working from home.” - Lucy McInally
U...
Community as Immunity: Beyond Economic Extraction with Xavier Damman
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“We are in a time of a meta-crisis... when everything around us is falling apart, what’s going to remain is each other. I belie...
The Storyteller in the War Zone on Coworking, Community, and Survival with Helga Moreno
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“It all started at 5 AM. We had explosions. My husband works for the Red Cross — they evacuate people. We’re always awake, track...
Do Restaurant Skills Work in Coworking? with Stephen Phillips
“We have people literally knocking on the door... ‘Do you want to buy 100 Google reviews?’ We made the call very early doors that that was not in line...
Why Connection Over Convenience Wins: Faith-Forward Coworking with Shamena Nurse-Kingsley
The panic hits when winter arrives, and you can’t be bothered to leave the house.
When it’s easier to dial into the Zoom call than get in the ca...
How ACTionism Screenings Help Members Go From Solo Mission to "I've Got a Crew" with Ellie Meredith
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“I really struggled to relate to people at school because the conversations that I was hoping to be able to have with my friends...
Why Coworking Spaces Are the Antidote to Brain Drain with Dimitris Manoukas
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“When there is such a place in a peripheral area, it’s usually a place that a young person will visit one way or another. You ca...
How to Talk to Councils So They Actually Fund Your Projects with Jeannine van der Linden
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“There is a real disconnect between community coworking spaces and the people who will fund these kinds of needs.”
There’s...
Why AI Makes Local Manufacturing Essential with Michael Korn
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“The future is going to be more like the past than it is the present. With AI taking over so many jobs, it will likely take over...
The Antidote to Invisible Work: Social Capital & Ecosystem Winning with Tilley Harris
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“We are in a space now where we can get really imaginative about how we utilise resources and how we change the way we’re lookin...
Building Community Power in Collapsing Systems with Sara Anjargolian
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“In a former Soviet state, you derive your power from secrecy in a lot of ways. We were turning that idea upside down and pushin...
Why Every coworking Space Is Already Political with Jon Alexander
“These spaces are where increasingly, they’re critical civic infrastructure. They’re what I think of as civic catalysts, and they are where people mee...
Why Early-Career Coworking Professionals Need Their Own Movement with Caroline Van den Eynde
"I'm the poster child for FLOC, because since I've joined, I've completely expanded my network. I've made so many connections."
Caroline Van den...
No Eligibility Criteria: The Only Rule You Need to Build Real Community with Williamz Omope
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“I'm teaching them how to use ChatGPT to write a letter to their landlord to tell them off about the mould in the corner of thei...
The 95% Return Rate: Why Being Yourself Is Your Best Business Strategy with Ali Kakande
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"I only want to work with people that I like... people who don't affect my nervous system. Some people will laugh and go, What?...
Why Every Coworking Story Matters with Fanny Marcoux
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"You got to be crazy to start a coworking space. Because just as many small businesses, not just in the coworking industry, in a...
Art as Weapons of Mass Creation with Samia Tossio
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"They use weapons of mass destruction, division, and distraction. Be the antidote, be a weapon of mass creation."
Samia To...
Fighting Economic Brain Drain: Community Infrastructure with Mariangie Rosas
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"If it weren't for Coco House, I would not be in Puerto Rico right now because this was what let me be able to continue my busin...
The UK Business Support Failure Coworking Spaces Are Already Solving with Stacey Sheppard
"I just genuinely believe that there is [a pathway to entrepreneurship], and I believe it is the coworking industry. I believe we are perfectly positi...
The Messy Spaces Where Magic Happens with David Walker
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"There's a big bias towards design over engagement. Everyone has fancy glass walls, everyone has sit-stand desks, but the messy...
Your Community Manager Can't Do 8 Jobs Forever with DeShawn Brown
"She was so busy that you couldn't even get time on her calendar to deal with important issues. She didn't have any spare time because of how many rol...
The Real Cost of Quality: What London's Workspace Flight Tells Us with Jules Robertson
"We know what's going to happen with startups before anyone else because a company will say that they're downsizing or whatever before they'll fire ev...
20 Years of Building Communities of Care with Ashley Proctor
"We were being disconnected and distributed instead of coming together."
That's Ashley Proctor describing the moment in 2004 when Ontario Colleg...
Building Coworking for the People Actually Living in Hackney with Kofi Oppong
Building Coworking for the People Actually Living in Hackney with Kofi Oppong
When 15-year-old twins refuse to leave the AI lab and Caribbean gr...
When Certainty Dies, Everything Changes Finding the Others Through Citizen Action with Gavin Fernie-Jones
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"I know for a fact I've got two more at home."
The woman standing outside Gavin's ski shop holds five pairs of ski pants....
How Space4 Coworking in Finsbury Park Creates £2.5 Million In Social Value with Natasha Natarajan
"We don't pay rent, but we pay them in social value... To date, I think we've provided £2.5 million to Islington Council in social value."
Space...
The Antidote to Competing on Price: Unreasonable Hospitality with Julie & Sonya
"There's always going to be someone who comes along who does something a little bit better, a bit faster, a bit cheaper than you. And then you're goin...
Beyond Rainbow Stickers: Building Genuinely Inclusive Coworking Spaces with Aidan Sunassee
"A lot of policies are managed to, or a lot of policies are written to manage the majority's comfort. And actual inclusion asks a much different quest...
The Antidote to Trying Too Hard: Building Real Community from Scratch With Tony Bacigalupo
"I'm just trying to create the lunch table that I could never sit at myself."
The mistake happens in the first week.
You move to a new cit...
How Coworking Became a Launchpad for Tech Careers from Finsbury Park to Gaza with Dan Sofer
“We trained people in Camden. Our alumni trained others in Gaza. It was peer-led — and it worked.”
Dan Sofer didn’t mean to build a coding movem...
Building the Next Generation of Coworking Careers with Sam Shea
"For someone who's been in the industry for eight years, I get tired of telling people what coworking is. I want people just to know and understand."<...
Forget CVs—Ask About Spare Time: A New Way to Welcome Refugees with Mikael Johansson
"We are the bridge that can make the trust between the system and the association that can make the trust become more vivid."
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