Life on fifth Podcast - Coliving & Community life

Welcome to episode 21 of the humans inside the pods. For this very last epissode of 2020, I m really excited to introduce Shireen Langan! She is a radio host, a podcast pro and the cofounder of The World Media Lab.  She is also my very first guest who is not a current or former K9er!  Last year she spent 4 months at  Haven Coliving in L.A , a purpose driven wellness coliving community, home for 96...

Sign up to The Humans Inside the Pods' newsletter! Arturo and I moved in to K9 practically at the same time and for a very long time our path intertwined. We were part of the same community and within it, the same family we created for ourselves. We shared friends, meals, great chats and a couple of transformative journeys. I felt privileged to be in the front row to witness Art turn from shy intr...

At the time of our call Francisco is all the way across the world, back "home", in Chile. He's been gone for almost 2 years and I can still picture him in the house, and see his contagious smile. In this conversation Fran takes us through his decision to leave home behind for a while, to challenge himself and find his own path. He shares his thoughts on moving in a bedroom in with a stranger, havi...

At the time of our call Linnea has been an alumni for about 8 months. Just like me. It's a pleasure to catch up and we instantly fall back into the effortlessness of the discussions around the kitchen table. In this Episode Linnea takes us on the journey that took her to K9 where she settled for a while after traveling and living abroad. We talk about balancing the need for social and private spac...

Another frenchy on the podcast ! Im not much of a nationalist but it makes me so happy  to see more French people experiencing the power fo true community,  knowing we grew up in a society that doesnt really embrace that. In this episode Maxime shares about his 2 colliving experiences , the similiarities and differencies, how he came to K9, in need for renewall and balance and how living with 50 p...

For our 16th episode  I  meet up (online) with Lynn and Camelia, 2 great humans that make 1 wonderful couple. We did not have much time together in the house as they moved out a few months after I arrived but within the little time we shared our home, I saw what thoughful, caring and giving people they were. It was a pleasure to catch up with both of them at the same time and have them tell me all...

My latest conversation was with Hugo, a 19 year old french  exchange student who joined K9 in 2019. Listening to his perspective on his life in the house  felt like a great lesson of maturity coming from the youngest resident K9 had at the time. He tells us about how he got into the house, how he found his place in the community, how much he has learnt and grown there. He reminds us that...

I know it feels like I say that everytime but I also mean it each time. I was once again very excited to get my next guest on the podcast. Lemarc defines himself here as a cautious explorer and as lovely and true as it may be, it is also not enough to describe this wonderful person Igot to meet on my very first few days in the house. As you' ll hear, from meeting to friendship, it was a process. A...

I have been waiting for this conversation with Staffan.  Not because he is such a busy guy we struggled a bit to find a time to do this, but mostly because of his essential role in the house from the very start, at the person who got to fill the collective with the first 49 k9ers, setting the tone for the years to come. Staffan being a motivational speaker and professional dreamer, I knew our...

Today i share my conversation with Therese. A stockholmer as warm and welcoming as her winters are cold. If that makes any sense. As she says herself Therese always felt like there was more to life than the path she was set on. And so after lots of traveling and questioning she decided to listen to her guts and get out of her bubble, to become a full time truth seeker, path explorer and fully enjo...

Today I share my converstaion with emiliano. If you have listened to our previous episodes , EMiliano is Marica, my former roomate, 's boyfriend but as he says it, within a few days in the house he wasn't Someone s boyfriend anymore, he was a k9er. I had been looking forwward to our chat, not just because time with emilian ois always so easy going and fun but because I knew he had experienced coli...

Episode 10 of the HUmans inside the pods I chat with Selin. I was very impressed by the level of self awareness she showed, sharing about her experience in the house and how it changed her. Like many k9ers she mentions the honey moon period, the fomo and the feeling of burning out before finding the right balance. We talk about the importance of feedback and especially the impact positive feedback...

In this latest episode of the humans inside the pods I talk with another of the K9 alumni, Kaj, an explorer, a photographer and the most positive person I know. Kaj and I dive into his reasons for moving into k9, leaving it and moving back. His experience of all the different type of accomodation the collective has to offer, the beauty of instant friendship and the less obvious negative sides, wha...

My next conversation is with Lana. Lana played a special role in my story. We met 4 years ago. I was lost and in search for meaning, both personally and professionally. She ,opened those 2 doors for me. The first one quite literally as she was the one behind the desk when I first came in for my interview at the co-working space we ended up working at together. A year later, she mentioned this hous...

In this episode of the Humans inside the pods I talk with Nivi A fun, strong, determined and very open minded woman. Nivi grew up an only child in India, in a conservative family And from a very young age, she decided there was more for her to explore. She left her family at 15 to studied ingenieering, which later on, took her to Sweden and soon after, to K9. Having lived with others all her life...

This episode, it is Chloe who shares her experience living at K9 for the past 15 months. Coming from the US, and Canada where she studied she dived right into the swedish coliving world starting with k9's smaller sister house, House 24 and eventually moving into the bigger community after 3 months. In this episode we talk about the different aspects and cultural ways of sharing, and how intense it...

In this episode of the humans inside the pods I talk with Simon who I met living at k9 in 2018. Simon takes us on his journey: from growing up as a kid in a collective outside of stockholm, to rejecting this lifestyle 15 years later leaving ro explore life on his own in his early twenties and eventually , embracing his love for community, and quest for personal and professional growth by moving in...

In this episode of the Humans inside the Pods I talk with Niklas who like me is an alumni of K9, where we met in 2018. Today he shares his time between Finland and Sweden turning his passion project into a promissing startup. In this episode Niklas and I talk about the impact of the social norm, why we are taught to share as kids but only on our own terms as adults , and how experiencing coliving...

In this 3rd episode I chat with sofie. One of the most bubbly graceful and biggest hearted person I know. Sofie is a dancer who moved into our coliving house with her mom and sister 2 years ago. We cover a lot During this conversation! we talk about how it is her mother who introduced her to coliving, how living in such a community teaches you about yourself, about giving, gifting and handling cha...

One of the highlights of my 3 years at K9 was having Marica as a roommate. It's hard to explain, even to ourselves, how we clicked so well having quite different personalities but I can only assume our love for the house and beyond it our true passion for a collaborative way of life definitely had something to do with it. In this second episode of The Humans inside the Pods we talk about how she e...

"The way I grew up!" I could not think of anyone better to kick off this podcast than my dear friend and seasoned coliver, Jhonatan. Jho shares his experience of living 4 years in a coliving with 50 other people. The challenges and learnings and why he lives the way he does. Follow him on Instagram @Strugen Follow K9 @K9coliving