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Democracy Won't Be Born in Westminster. It's Being Built in Back Streets and Coworking Spaces.
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Democracy Won't Be Born in Westminster. It's Being Built in Back Streets and Coworking Spaces.

LinkedIn Show Notes #39 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three people. Two continents. One pattern: They stopped waiting for the state to fix what's broken and started building the infrastructure themselves. This week from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen: We've been tracking a question that keeps showing up in different forms. What happens when the systems we rely on—democracy, childcare, the
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They Host Church, Stop Brain Drain, and Won't Put Their Film on Netflix—And They're Winning
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They Host Church, Stop Brain Drain, and Won't Put Their Film on Netflix—And They're Winning

LinkedIn Show Notes #34 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three different community builders. Two continents. One pattern: They stopped optimising for scale and started building for depth. And the people who needed them showed up. This week from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen: We've been tracking why some spaces feel like communities and others feel like expensive libraries with good Wi-Fi. T
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A 17-Year-Old in a McKenzie Hoodie Just Destroyed the Entire Coworking Industry With One Question.
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A 17-Year-Old in a McKenzie Hoodie Just Destroyed the Entire Coworking Industry With One Question.

LinkedIn Show Notes #37 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. In 2019, a 17-year-old in a McKenzie hoodie at Mainyard Studios in Hackney shouted at me from the back of a workshop: "What the fuck is coworking? Why don't you just call it work?" He was right. The trans inclusion consultant in London, the Armenian revolutionary in Yerevan, and the cooperative director in Finsbury Park all stopped playing
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Social Capital Isn't a Byproduct. It's THE Product.
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Social Capital Isn't a Byproduct. It's THE Product.

LinkedIn Show Notes #31 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. What three crisis stories from Armenia, Gaza, and London reveal about the invisible currency that keeps independent coworking spaces alive when everything else collapses. Sara Anjargolian 's coworking space in Yerevan had glass walls. Deliberate. Radical. In post-Soviet Armenia, where secrecy was a matter of survival, transparency was an ac
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The Future of Coworking is a Career, Not a Gig
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The Future of Coworking is a Career, Not a Gig

LinkedIn Show Notes #30 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. While you were running your space, we've been talking to the future—three FLOC leaders, one message: it's time to choose careers over gigs. I was once sitting at a table for lunch with a group of Coworking Space leaders, and a woman almost had to apologise as she presented her idea of creating an event where women who work in the Coworking industry in the UK could connect and support each other. A man at that table told her t
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What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like in a Coworking Space
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What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like in a Coworking Space

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and European Coworking Day. So I've been writing nonstop about where mental health and coworking meet, with stories from Coworking Values Podcast guests and my direct experience of mental health and coworking. Below are four reads from this week: * Coworking saved my mind. But it can't save everyone. * The Loneliest People Walk Past Our Doors * Coworking doesn't save everyone. But it saves some of us. * You Can't Heal in the System That Made You
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Gareth Jones - Coworking As An Essential Urban Infrastructure
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Gareth Jones - Coworking As An Essential Urban Infrastructure

powered by Sounder Hi Folks! Thanks for tuning in to the Coworking Values Podcast. This time our guest is Gareth Jones of Town Square. Gareth started his first Coworking Space in 2011 — Welsh Ice in Caerphilly in South Wales and now with Town Square where their mission is to create town centre meeting places, community spaces in town centres all across the UK. Gareth tells us all about how at first they didn't consider -Welsh Ice, a coworking space or what they’re doing as coworking. He also
Black Lives Matter in Coworking too.
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Black Lives Matter in Coworking too.

I recently wrote a post on my photography blog about Black Lives Matter in photography. It was something I’d wanted to do for a long time, but never had the guts to actually do it. I was too scared that I’d say the wrong thing, offend and rock a delicate boat. Then, with the media storm, I didn’t want to be someone else just jumping on a bandwagon. There are always reasons not to speak up, it would be easy to spend your life in silence. But I know now, through the bravery of so many others,