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The Coliving Code Podcast

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This show is a passion project of Christine McDannell, the Co-founder of Kndrd, the first Management software platform and global directory for Coliving. She is also the Founder of Kindred Quarters in California and published the first book on Coliving in 2018: The Coliving Code.One of the biggest problems plaguing modern society is real estate and social challenges. People are signing away their paychecks on rent and feeling increasingly isolated. Christine is on a personal mission to solve these problems through the CoLiving movement by helping redefine the term ‘housemate’.

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  1. Chris Bledsoe, Co-Founder & CEO of Ollie

    Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Ollie, leaving behind his finance career in 2011 to focus his full time and energy on his passion for the development of coliving and micro-housing communities. His prior experience as both an institutional investor and an angel investor in the consumer sector…

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  2. Morgane Oléron - K9 (Tech Farm) Stockholm, Sweden

    Marica Leone - Resident of K9 (Tech Farm) Morgane Oléron - Resident of K9 (Tech Farm) https://www.techfarm.life/ https://www.k9coliving.com/ https://www.instagram.com/techfarmlife/ K9 was founded as a Tech Farm property in November 2016 by Lisa Renander and Fredrik Forss.Inspired by similar...

  3. Kenneth Starling, Director of Community at Tribe Coliving

    Kenneth Starling shares his journey with Tribe Coliving in NYC, which is committed to the mission of accelerating progress in the lives of its members by bringing people together with shared passions, interests and values. He started out with Founder House, but soon expanded and rebranded after...

  4. Magdalena Sartori, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer at The Assemblage

    https://www.theassemblage.com As a trained architect and developer, Magdalena's work managing The Assemblage is about creating and designing through the realm of feelings and the unseen; to make spaces that bring people together in community and allow them to be the highest version of themselves.

  5. Naz Shuva, Founder of Origin Coliving

    Origin is in Brooklyn, NY. Founded 2016-ish. Nav came to America from Turkey at the age of 17. He pursued a dual career in design-marketing and as an artist-musician. Nav founded the musical group PUi and toured over 23 cities globally and sold out shows in premier NYC venues such as Irving…

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  6. Ivan Brkljač, Founder of Mokrin House

    Ivan Brkljac, CEO and founder of Mokrin House, Mokrin, Serbia. Mokrin House is a coworking and coliving space located in the north of Serbia. It is a modern and urban spot in a rural surrounding. Studies have shown that stepping out of the regular work environment increases productivity and...

  7. 2019 Global Proptech Panel

    This week we have something VERY SPECIAL and different-- Christine hosted the first Proptech Panel full of some amazing speakers! ♥ ---- Thank you for checking out this podcast! ►► Christine and her team are currently building Kndrd.io: The comprehensive software solution that uses technology to...

  8. David Bonk, Founder of Homefree Living

    Homefree Living started in Calgary with residential multi-generational co-living. They have expanded into Creston, British Columbia with the first commercial development geared towards older adult (senior) co-living. www.homefreeliving.ca

  9. MarcoPolo GarRa, Founder of Kahtal Coliving

    Located in Cancún, México, Kahtal started as an Airbnb 3 years ago, and has been receiving digital nomads for the past 2 years. Since then, this Coliving concept has been expanded for more meaningful stays among the residents. MarcoPolo is from from Mexico City and moved to Cancún 4 years ago,...

  10. Grace Taylor, Tax Expert & Founder of Gracefully Expat

    Grace Taylor is US tax professional and Enrolled Agent (EA), specialising in US tax for expats and digital nomads, as well as for nonresidents of the US. Her tax practice, Gracefully Expat LLC, is a location independent business, which she founded in 2017 following a nearly 10 year career in a…

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  11. Justin Arbabi, Founder of Superba House

    Justin Arbabi is a film producer and Founder of Superba House, Los Angeles’ first official co-live/work incubator for filmmakers. His producing skills were honed by working below-the-line in various film departments, including camera, production sound, picture editing, and sound design.…

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  12. Josh Martin, Head of Business Development at Outsite

    Like many of his peers in the co-living sector, Bay-area native Josh Martin once worked at a traditional company and dreamed of pursuing a more fulfilling career. To break out of what he began to see as a personal plateau, Martin decided to take a position at Remote Year, a program designed for...

  13. Sebastian Rein, ADDAZERO Development

    As the founder and driving force behind ADDAZERO Development, Sebastian has over 19 years' experience as a real estate developer, completing over $175M in transactions across multi-family, mixed-use, and luxury residential asset classes. He spoke at the RealShare Apartments 2018 conference to…

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  14. Austin Langlois, Marketing & Communications at Outpost Asia

    Austin is a communications consultant, freelance writer and photographer. He's landed clients in many of the world's most sought-after publications, from The New York Times and Outside Magazine to Buzzfeed, The Boston Globe and Forbes. His editorial work has been published in Bon Appetit, DRIFT...

  15. Dan Jackson, Founder of UrbanShared (London)

    Dan Jackson created UrbanShared in late 2016 and acquired their first property in March 2017. They now have 15 properties and over 50 units in their portfolio of high-end coliving homes in South West London England. UrbanShared’s mission is simple - to focus on delivering exceptional customer...

  16. Adam Newman, Founder of Nova Era Coliving (Brazil)

    Nova Era is a vibrant, community-based space, designed to cultivate innovation and knowledge where travelers can thrive in their professional and personal journey. Adam is a global entrepreneur, community leader, and avid backpacker with dynamic international experience in hospitality services…

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  17. Anne Kuppens, Founder of Nine Coliving

    Nine Coliving is located in La Orotava, Tenerife. The story of Nine starts with Anne, a 30 year old Dutch girl. Her whole twenties were spent working to save up money to take off for a few months each year to travel the world. Anne kept doing this until last year when she joined a group of 50...

  18. Renat & Gui, Founders of LE Bali House

    Guillaume is the host and founder of the Lifestyle Engineering House, an intentional co-living space. The LE House objective is to help people to explore themselves and engineer their transformation, mostly throughout real-life experiences, events and a strong community. As a former growth…

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  19. Jeremiah Adler, Founder of UP(st)ART Creative

    Jeremiah Adler moved to Los Angeles in 2009, and wrote and directed three television pilots before starting a property management company. His experience in both the creative and real estate worlds came together in 2016 when he founded UP(st)ART Creative, a co-living company for artists, actors,...

  20. Rod Cook, Founder of Retreats.io

    Rod Cook, www.retreats.io (Provence, France) Rod has been nomadic since the age of 19 and has visited and has lived in 47 countries. Born in Bangkok, Thailand of a Dutch/Chinese mother and an English/French father, he has been independent since the age of 19. Rod's website, www.retreats.io, is...

  21. Robert Boyer, Professor of Urban Planning at UNC Charlotte

    Robert Boyer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte, where he teaches courses on urban planning and urban sustainability. His research focuses on experimentation in the built environment, specifically how grassroots...

  22. Jeff Laflamme, Founder of AngkorHUB

    Jeff is the visionary entrepreneur behind AngkorHUB, a coworking and coliving space in Cambodia which has a strong focus on social impact. After 15 years in technology innovation, Jeff developed his coworking project in 2013 and transformed AngkorHUB into a coliving space offering unique services...

  23. Patrick Farrell, Co-Founder of Creative Collisions Tech

    Patrick Farrell is an entrepreneur, software engineer and innovator based in New York City. He is originally from Virginia and went to school at Virginia Tech. He spent the first few years after school in the DC area but had a major shift happen in his life when he was offered a job in NYC in…

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  24. Kristin Wilson, Founder Of Poker Refugees And Traveling With Kristin

    Kristin Wilson is an online entrepreneur who has lived in over 50 countries. After failing many middle school career inventory tests, she decided to chart her own course in life by designing a career of her own. By age 21, she had completed her MBA, lived abroad as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar…

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  25. Danny Kalenov, Real Estate Investor & Founder of The Diversus Fund

    The Diversus Fund was founded by Danny Kalenov. Since 1999, Danny and his team have analyzed, purchased, repositioned, and managed income-producing real estate assets. Diversus was born out of Danny’s frustration with the volatility of the stock market, and the realization that relying on stocks...

  26. Camille Attell, Founder of More Than A Wheelin' AND Remote Work School

    Camille left a successful 20-year career as a corporate trainer and coach, to pursue a lifestyle of full-time travel. She and her husband Bryce run More Than A Wheelin' a website dedicated to travel, RV life, and remote work resources. Camille is also the creator of Remote Work School, in which…

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  27. Nikita & Anastasia, Founders Of Smena Station

    Nikita Kuimov and Anastasia Klimova-Kuimov gave up their corporate careers in Russia in 2010 and kickstarted their digital nomad lifestyle. Since then they have launched a successful seasonal retail business, a video production company and volunteered in more then a dozen projects around the…

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  28. Kalle Moen, Product Lead at Nomadx

    Kalle Moen, Product Lead at Nomadx. Senior UI/UX designer. He has been traveling the world full-time for the last three years but loves Lisbon. Nomadx provides an incredible global coliving experience with other digital professionals in the best local neighborhoods of Portugal. It’s a free...

  29. Sean McGregor, CEO of SWAP Loft

    The SWAP Loft (Stay Work And Play) is a Coliving and Coworking community in Austin, Texas with 2 locations run by Sean and Lindsey. Lindsey came up with the idea for the SWAP Loft during her extensive travels in over 50 countries where she learned that the best solo travel experiences occur…

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  30. Chelsey Lake, Digital Developer, Marketer, & Designer

    Chelsey is a digital marketing strategist and passionate designer & developer all-in-one. Holding a degree in Science, she has married the analytical aspects of her education with the creative freedom of design to produce effective, high-converting funnels for her clients and her own business.…

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  31. Eric Yang, Founder of Influencer Summits

    Eric Z. Yang has been living as a Digital Nomad for a few years now and has traveled the world, including growing up in Paris, France, living in Argentina for 6 months. He has also lived in California, and Bangkok, and more! Eric is the Founder of Influencer Summits and is also a previous…

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  32. Dan Schwartz, Founder and CEO of InvestorFuse

    Dan has spent years traveling the world, first in a band, now while running a large software company. He was also a resident at Kindred Quarters: The Entourage House 2017/2018. Dan has a passion for helping the overwhelmed real estate entrepreneur work smarter and earn more by setting up…

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  33. Adam Andrews, Founder of Ideal Influencers

    Adam Andrews takes us through his digital nomad journey where he began in a new country and culture, plus his love for meeting new people and exploring the world while operating his business.

  34. Peter Thompson, Pioneer at Haas Living

    Over at Haas in San Francisco, Peter Thompson tackles the sky-high housing costs and limited space in the Bay Area by adopting the coliving model. He discusses his tech background and affinity for living with new and exciting people by bringing techies and artists all together under one roof.

  35. Ken Conklin, CEO of Gravel To Castle

    Gravel to Castle CEO Ken Conklin lets us into his fulfilling life as a digital nomad, the risks he took to find happiness and success, and exactly why he loves circulating locations.

  36. Rolf & Stian, Founders of Arctic Coliving Lodge in Norway

    Today we're chatting with Rolf and Stian, avid outdoorsmen and founders of www.arcticcoworking.com. They started their coliving journey about 1 year ago when they realized the potential of providing a community for remote workers in awesome areas of the world. Now it's finally open, and the story...

  37. Pip (Stephen Pippard), CEO Of Pollen Coliving in London

    Pip has over 25 years’ experience within property and support services (FM) industries. He is the CEO of Pollen, a coliving home in London. We talk about the growth plan and economics side of the business, plus the real estate environment over in England. The Pollen Group of companies is his 2nd...

  38. Kyron Grosse, Futurist, FreedomCo in Bali

    Kyron Gosse of FreedomCo tells us all about his coliving endeavors in Bali as well as the complex ins and outs of running a coliving home abroad. He's now taking the concept to New Zealand!

  39. Avi Mermelstein, Co-Founder and CEO Of Here&now

    As the co-founder and CEO of here&now, Avi Mermelstein has plenty to share about his coliving space in New York. He also takes us through business dealings including gym memberships and company partnerships!

  40. Rob Birch, COO of Gravity Coliving in London

    Robert Birch of Gravity Coliving joins us today for a discussion about his business, which is located in London. He also touches on their different events to enrich the surrounding community! Rob has led in recent years the growth of Hostel One, voted the 2nd best hostel chain in the world in…

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  41. Elaine Wong, Co-Founder of The Hatchery Place in Malaysia

    As co-founder of The Hatchery Place, Elaine Wong shares with us her plans for the concept and the cool activities they host, including yoga and monthly kombucha workshops! The Hatchery Place is a cozy in-home coworking + coliving space with an unpretentious personal style that welcomes all...

  42. Eduardo Herrero, Co- Founder of Sun And Co. in Spain

    In this interview with Eduardo Diego Herrera, we take a look at his coliving business, Sun and Co., located in Spain. His space offers coliving and coworking amenities for the ultimate productive work-play getaway.

  43. Daniel Beck, Founder of Coliving.com

    Daniel Beck is the awesome founder of the website coliving.com, which connects people to coliving homes all over the world! He's helping create a new movement of housing that takes Airbnb up a notch. So exciting!

  44. Jeffrey Sweetbaum, Co-Founder of Playworking

    Today we interviewed Jeffrey Sweetbaum, one of the co-founders of Playworking in Djurasevici, Montenegro. He also discusses the trajectory of coliving and coworking in Europe!

  45. Jacob Shapiro from Outpost Coliving in New York

    Jacob Shapiro from Outpost Coliving in New York by Christine McDannell

  46. Interview With Haz, Co-Founder of Swiss Escape

    Christine personally interviews leaders in the coliving space. Today, she speaks with Haz, who comes on the show to talk all about his venture, Swiss Escape. Haz was born in Dubai and has worked with leading organizations in the travel industry across the globe. He is a digital marketer by nature...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This show is a passion project of Christine McDannell, the Co-founder of Kndrd, the first Management software platform and global directory for Coliving. She is also the Founder of Kindred Quarters in California and published the first book on Coliving in 2018: The Coliving Code.One of the biggest problems plaguing modern society is real estate and social challenges. People are signing away their paychecks on rent and feeling increasingly isolated. Christine is on a personal mission to solve these problems through the CoLiving movement by helping redefine the term ‘housemate’.

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This show is a passion project of Christine McDannell, the Co-founder of Kndrd, the first Management software platform and global directory for Coliving. She is also the Founder of Kindred Quarters in California and published the first book on Coliving in 2018: The Coliving Code.One of the biggest...

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