Coworking Values Podcast

“To me, rearranging the room is a metaphor for rearranging how you and I find each other.” - Peter Block. Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creation waitlist. Peter Block doesn’t give keynotes anymore. Not really. He asks people to move the chairs. That’s the w...

“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 that inspires me the most.” - Dean Connell. Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creation waitlist. You know that...

“There’s definitely the trust aspect... People would come because they’re like, ‘Well, Williamz says that someone’s going to be here.’” - Williamz Omope Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creation waitlist. “There’s definitely the trust aspect... People would co...

Episode Summary “It became the first seed of building the Hub Newry... a lived example of building a business with minimal capacities in terms of time, energy, childcare, and that emotional bandwidth that comes with it.” Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creati...

“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 words. And today I want you to see the impact.” - Tash Koster-Thomas. Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creation wa...

Episode Summary “Do you know who your coworking space’s biggest competitor is? It’s the Home Office, working from home.” - Lucy McInally Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creation waitlist. Lucy McInally, founder of The Inclusive Coworker and coworking industry...

Episode Summary “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 believe that in those times, community is immunity.” - Xavier Damman. Unreasonable Connection Going Live! London, February 2026. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale in January 2026. The entire day is co-created by the coworking community builders on the co-creation/waitlist....

Episode Summary “It all started at 5 AM. We had explosions. My husband works for the Red Cross — they evacuate people. We’re always awake, tracking the news and knowing what's happened. I don’t know if somebody was injured tonight, but I’ll find out this evening when he comes home.” This is how Helga Moreno’s morning began. Not with a standing desk and a flat white. With explosions. With her husba...

“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 with our values, and we would never do that.” Stephen Phillips spent most of his adult life in London’s casual dining world. Now he’s co-founded Neighbours & Nomads—a coworking space, bar, and community hub in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines. The...

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 car. When streaming feels more sensible than showing up. When convenience wins and connection loses. Shamena Nurse-Kingsley runs Cowo & Crèche in Alexandria, Virginia—a faith-forward, family-focused coworking space that hosts Celebration Church DC every...

Episode Summary “I really struggled to relate to people at school because the conversations that I was hoping to be able to have with my friends were about the things that were going on outside the school gates... But what I love about finding the collective is that it’s given me permission to imagine another way of doing things, and that it really has felt like a real homecoming.” Ellie Meredith...

Episode Summary “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 can reach out to them. You can walk around the neighbourhood because we’re talking about small communities, so you know each other.” Dimitris is a PhD researcher at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Research Fellow at Politécnic...

Episode Summary “There is a real disconnect between community coworking spaces and the people who will fund these kinds of needs.” There’s a gap. On one side, people are arriving in Europe with skills, education, and drive. On the other side, coworking spaces are built on community, collaboration, and openness. In the middle, a wall of bureaucracy, funding applications, and municipal departments t...

Episode Summary “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 all jobs involving staring at a computer. The people that are actually making things—I think we’re just going to want more and more of it.” Michael Korn spent 15 years being known as “the screen guy.” He built KwickScreen—hospital screens that scaled mass...

Episode Summary “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 looking at money.” Tilley Harris spent a decade documenting what doesn’t show up in spreadsheets. As co-founder of AKOU, she’s obsessed with social capital—the invisible currencies exchanged every day in coworking spaces that somehow never make it into impact re...

Episode Summary “In a former Soviet state, you derive your power from secrecy in a lot of ways. We were turning that idea upside down and pushing forth that collaboration is actually power and sharing is power.” Sara Anjargolian didn’t move to Armenia in 2012 because it was easy. She moved because she couldn’t look away. An American lawyer watching a former Soviet state slide back toward authorita...

“These spaces are where increasingly, they’re critical civic infrastructure. They’re what I think of as civic catalysts, and they are where people meet one another, with a bit of engagement and a bit of facilitation, where people can be encouraged to face into the challenges facing their local communities.” Jon Alexander doesn’t perform when he talks. There’s nothing shiny about the man behind Cit...

"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 Eynde doesn't fit the typical profile of a coworking founder. She stumbled into the industry three and a half years ago when a recruiter called about a marketing role at IQ Offices — and she'd never heard of coworking. Now she's the Director of Sales and...

Episode Summary “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 their child's bedroom.” That single sentence from Williamz Omope cuts through the noise of the entire tech and coworking industry. This isn't about AI for productivity hacks or scaling a startup. This is about using tools to restore dignity and agency to peopl...

Episode Summary "You got to be crazy to start a coworking space. Because just as many small businesses, not just in the coworking industry, in all industries, they fail. To start a coworking is to put yourself on the path to failure because it's entrepreneurial journey." Fanny Marcoux knows something about crazy. She's the host of “ A very special coworking ”, a podcast that has quietly become the...

Episode Summary "They use weapons of mass destruction, division, and distraction. Be the antidote, be a weapon of mass creation." Samia Tossio calls herself a "playful creative activist," but there's nothing playful about watching 59 family members killed in Gaza whilst living in suburban Sutton. What emerges from that brutal reality is something extraordinary: a community artist who transforms gr...

Episode Summary "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 business, stay open, and be able to stay and not have to get on a plane and move." When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, Mariangie Rosas had just opened her coworking space across from a food truck park in downtown San Juan. She thought she was running...

"I just genuinely believe that there is [a pathway to entrepreneurship], and I believe it is the coworking industry. I believe we are perfectly positioned to support entrepreneurs in starting and growing businesses. It's just a lot of people don't know that we exist." This conversation began with a two-minute video that sparked the attention of the coworking community. Stacey Sheppard, who runs a...

Episode Summary "There's a big bias towards design over engagement. Everyone has fancy glass walls, everyone has sit-stand desks, but the messy spaces are where the magic happens." David Walker attended the South by Southwest Coworking Conference in 2011, when there were only 50 coworking spaces worldwide. He still has the T-shirt. Today, he's observing an industry he helped develop evolve. Into s...

"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 roles she had to fit." DeShawn Brown watched a community manager drowning in multiple jobs at one of Raleigh's first coworking spaces. Not because she was popular. Because the industry treats one person like an entire operations department. Now, as CEO...