Life on fifth Podcast - Coliving & Community life

Guys, I wrote a book. But enough about me: Ally is from Ecuador but has been living and studying in Argentina for the past 2 years. Arriving in a new country at 18, she wanted to find her new home in an environment that would feel safe and well located. That is how she discovered Casa Campus, a company offering appartements and coliving spaces in Argentina and Peru to students, young and young at...

Wilhelmina Ford is a single mum to two young children, and the Founder of ShareAbode. A platform that allows single parents to connect with one another for the purpose of reducing rent and expenses and benefiting from practical support and friendship. Children and shared living is not a topic that comes up a lot here on the podcast and Im so glad it finally is! Multigenerational shared living is d...

Andreea is a 27 years old  freelance Social Media Manager who can work from everywhere. She has decided to finally take that leap of faith and head to one of her biggest and scariest dreams: start traveling around the world with almost no money, but with a lot of courage! Dive with me into Andreea's story which started at Anceu Coliving in Spain but has already taken her to a new country, Swi...

Cohousing for a living ;-) Joeri is a 46 year old psychologist interested in people and real estate who has been an enthusiastic cohouser for the past 15 years. He enjoys working and living together with other people and unleashes his creativity developing cohousing projects through his company HEEM. When he is not working on cohousing you'll find him in the air, paragliding. HEEM based in Flandre...

Episode 5 already. We are heading back to "the mothership", K9 which has been my home for 3 years and is has now been Delphine (and her dog Cherry)'s home for more than 3 months. She shares about her personal life growing up in different countries and cultures, deciding to move to Stockholm where she feels more balanced and embarking into the coliving life with Cherry. Delphine shares personal exp...

María is an interior decorator who loves working with her hands (painting, restoring furniture, diy...). She is from Galicia, northwestern Spain, and has been living at Anceu Coliving, a rural coliving in Spain, for the past year. She started her online business as an interior decorator 3 years ago, working remotely full time for the first time in her life. She loves the freedom it gives her but s...

Oleksiy came from Ukraine where he was a succesful entrepreneur to LA about 3 years ago and went from resident to Head fo Growth at SOTA Coliving, one of LA's main coliving operator with 5 locations from 24 to up to more than a 100 residents. I woke up a bit earlier (I was on vacation, don't judge) and Aleksiy stayed up late so we could discuss the process of starting a coliving, surviving COVID w...

Cecilia started her own coliving house - Villa24 - a couple of years ago. She had been living with friends in Hus24, a coliving house located in the city center of Stockholm, for several years and it was time to take the step and move closer to nature and get more personal space. They "moved on with their lives" but made the conscious choice to take their community with them. Cecilia works as a pr...

In this first episode of the second season we're chatting with Katia who's partner unexpectedly inherited a french castle from the 12th century in Normandy. Both Katia and her partners have been "slowmads"for the past 10 years, taking their work and cat with them as they establish themselves in a new location every year or so. They like to create roots for a little while, build a routine and...

Did you notice that people nowadays tend to come together when there is discomfort, something to fight against or survive from? What happens when things go "back to normal", why do we retreat then to the secluded comfort of our private homes? This is one of the question Lynn Morstead, co-founder of Cohousing Houston, asked herself and one of the reason she decided to jump into the cohousing advent...

In this episode I chat with Fanny Caloz, a serial entrepreneur, co-founder Swiss Escape, a coliving and coworking space in 2016. Over the years, she has hosted thousands of entrepreneurs from all over the world, gotten inspired by their energy and ideas. Last year, she decided to leave her role at Swiss Escape to evolve the coliving into an incubator to help young professionals start their own bus...

Join our Humans in your inbox newsletter. Follow us on Instagram Follow Linn I'm particularly excited to share this episode as it is going to be part of a bigger project. Linn who moved into K9 in February as agreed to let me follow up on her as she goes through her intentional coliving journey. This week we are sharing her "Intro-onbarding" interview and we will touch base again a few months to s...

Today I share my conversation with Dani, one of the most recent addition to the K9 family in Stockholm. Dani is from the US originally but spent the biggest part of the past 20 years in the south of France. She works on water, climate and sustainable development issues, she is a musician and now, a coliver. She shares her story of moving to a new country for work amid the pandemic, the decision of...

Today I'm sharing a conversation I really enjoyed recording with seasoned coliver, digital nomad and coliving consultant Leah Ziliak. We get into lots of different topics. We compare living on a boat with coliving life, talk about the difficulties of making friends "in real life" after being used of living in a coliving, the experience of long and short term coliving, pros and cons, the impact of...

Don't miss an episode: join our monthly newsletter Today I share my conversation with Gina Joseph who has lived at Haven Coliving in LA for the past 6 months. We talk discovering coliving and learning about yourself, setting bounderies and the impact of community living (and covid) on well being. We discuss her experience starting her Digital Marketing business, a BIPOC-led social media creative a...

Make sure not to miss an episode Im excited to share my conversation with Lea Hermanns co-founder of Poha House in Germany. This chat is what happens when two coliving geeks meet. Lea and I both discovered long term coliving and fell in love with it, so much that it has defined our career.  After living abroad and experiencing different type of community living, Lea came to Germany to start h...

Never miss an episode - Today I share my conversation with Oksana Okhrimento, Business tramsformation consultant and co founder of the online (and hopefully soon, offline) community Joyty, bringing together those who love to explore, ask questions, create and find their own path. We take a deep dive into Oksana's roots and background. She is "only" 25 but has lived many lives in 6 different countr...

Make sure not to miss an episode ! Today I share my conversation with Franziska Spoddig, my firt digital nomad on the podcast. Franziska is a digital nomad who is launching her own startup around coliving & communities. She is an advocate of real and deep talks. During this conversations we talk about her passion for traveling the world on her own but never feeling lonely, discovering communit...

Never miss an episode, join our monthly newsletter ! Axelle Seutin is a french/chinese language teacher turned entrepreneur who spent several years in Asia and actively looked for a community after coming back to France. She was one of the very firsts coliver at The Babel Community in Montpellier in the South of France. She shares her experience of feeling like a stranger in your own country after...

Never miss an episode, get our monthly news! Today I share my conversation with Josh,  founder and CEO of No Static Projects and former coliver at Haven Coliving in LA. In this episode we reflect on the Josh's coliving journey that is one that a lot of people experience:   Moving in for the services and amenities, staying for the community and ending up living in search of more privacy. I love Jos...

Never miss an episode by registering to our monthly news! In this episode I chat with Sami a martial art instructor and software developer who, as I like to say "colives for a living". Indeed, Sami is both Vice President of Product Experience AND a resident at Homefully a german based operator with 240 flats across 8 cities and 2 countries. It is the first time that I get to hear from the resident...

Ludvig and I met at K9 in 2017 but before that he had already experienced life on his own in a 55m2 flat and coliving in a 12 people shared house in the heart of the old town. Ludvig is a tech entrepreneur who left a safe job to start his own business...more than once, so it was not such a strange move for him, to go explore beyond the frontiers of his comfort zone. After 5 years of community livi...

Make sure to never miss an episode or join as a guest here : http://www.lifeonfifth.com/podcast In this episode I talk to first canine of K9. @k9coliving Riley and his humans moved in at the same time as I did into the 50 people collective in Stockholm. Today the 3 of them share about their experience as dog owners and a couple in a House full of people. We talk about the power of food, the joy of...

In this episode I chat with Josefin, a nomad, a psychologist and a new K9er. We get a bit more personal this time around, perks of interviewing a psychologist, somehow you become the one being interviewed at some point! We talk about the interconectedness of it all, the importance of timing in life, about the social norm and its pressure, concerns about moving in and life in a coliving in time of...

A podcast by a passionate coliver, with real colivers for...anyone interested in the power of true Community. Join our mailing list so you don't miss an episode www.lifeonfifth.com/podcast In this conversation she shares about her life as one of the 13 housemates of Hus24 , (https://www.facebook.com/hus24)  the very first coliving that opened in Stockholm in 2011, which has been her home for the l...