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At 30,000 Feet the Rules Work. At Ground Level They Don't.
LinkedIn Show Notes #36 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast At 30,000 feet, physics works. Checklists save lives. You follow the rules, you survive.At ground level, the checklists are rigged depending on who you are. This week from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen: We've been tracking how three people landed in broken human systems and built their own cockpits. Where marginalised people write the r
They Built Infrastructure for the Energy Money Can't Capture
LinkedIn Show Notes #35 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three community builders. Three continents. One pattern: They stopped selling memberships and started building movements that run on relationships, not transactions. This week from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen: We've been tracking how coworking spaces can become laboratories for post-capitalist organising. Not in theory—in practice. W
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
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
It's Not the Brand Partnerships. So What Actually Keeps Your Members Coming Back?
LinkedIn Show Notes #33 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Refugees. Social capital. Citizens. Three answers to the same question—people stay when they're citizens, not consumers. At yesterday's Unreasonable Connection , we asked: "What keeps your members coming back when they could work from home for free?" Most answers were real, human, and straightforward. No one said the flying trapeze, ice ba
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
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
Three Women Cracked the Retention Code (While Everyone Else Chases New Members)
LinkedIn Show Notes #29 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. While you were running your space, we've been mining the podcast archive—three different conversations, one revelation about retention. When £15 Became £35 Jules Robertson remembers when you could get a day pass in London for £15. Not that long ago, really. Now she's watching the same spaces charge a minimum of £35, and some places in Notting Hill are asking £350 per person per month. "I think you really have to pick your
How Three Community Builders Are Keeping People Home
LinkedIn Show Notes #28 Hey folks, it's Bernie here. I took the summer off from this Coworking Values Podcast companion to rethink how to do this. There is always more nourishment in a podcast episode than the twenty or so minutes you listen to; in all our show notes, you'll find links to projects, people, events, and connections. People from around the world risk their time and reputation to record an episode with either Emily Breder or me, and posting, sharing and forgetting always see