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Life on fifth Podcast - Coliving & Community life
by Morgane Oléron
Join me as we explore the vibrant world of coliving and community living. Each episode features heartfelt conversations with residents from around the globe, sharing their unique experiences, challenges, and insights about life in intentional communities or personal reflections from my own experience as a coliver and coliving owner.From the joys of shared meals to navigating communal hurdles, we celebrate connection and rethink what “home” truly means. Whether you're a seasoned coliver or just curious, there’s something here for everyone. Subscribe now for new episodes every week!
Episodes
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S4 - E20 - Frédéric - I wanted a place for interesting discussions, where internationals meet locals
Frédéric founded Coco Community in 2020, which offers furnished apartment rentals, shared spaces, and events to create meaningful connections between international entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals. It is a place to live, work and socialize with like-minded people, in the heart of the...
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S4 - E19 - Rob - Colivings are hopeful places
Originally from south-east UK, Rob has been living nomadically for 2 years, and stayed at four colivings. These experiences have shown him that when people living together set the intention to share, create, respect, and support each other, beautiful and surprising things happen. Read more about...
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S4 - E18 - Lulú - This feeling of I can be who I really am is Home
This episode I chat with Lulú. Passionate about creating community spaces and supporting individuals in building their life projects, she has co-founded PAS Rural Coliving—a rural coliving space where they celebrate acts of generosity every day and live in harmony with the nature around them.…
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S4-E17- Faith - It's not about the place, it's about the people
Last year, Faith left her corporate job to become a digital nomad. She transitioned to freelance writing and volunteered as a community manager for a coliving home. She spent 5 months of 2024 living in colivings as a Community Manager, which was more incredible than she could have imagined. It...
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S4 - E16 - Jean-Baptiste - It's difficult not to have a good conversation with a Digital Nomad
After being a digital nomad for 8 years, travelling to 27 countries, and working in the startup ecosystem for 15 years, Jean-Baptiste and his partner decided to develop the mobile app NomadWay, drawing on our experience building communities for digital nomads over the past 4 years. NomadWay is...
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S4 - E15 - Salomé - We had a blank canva to bring to life
Salome's journey is nothing short of inspiring. Originally from France, she has spent the last few years travelling and working remotely, all while creating her own community guest house in Tenerife with her partner. This episode is not just about physical spaces; it's about the emotional and...
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S4-E14 - Ricky - Im a digital nomad who loves to be home
In our latest episode, join me as we dive into the world of coliving with Ricky, a digital nomad and copywriter from Valencia, Spain. Discover how shared living can transform solo travel into lasting connections and explore the balance between travel and work. From the impact of AI on creativity…
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S4 - E13 - Ben - You come for an office space and you find out it is so much more
In this episode we talk with Ben, the founder of The Living Room Co Working in Malaga, Spain. Ben shares his journey from Austria to Spain on an Erasmus exchange that never ended and how his need for a community led him to co-found a co-working space that feels like a home away from home. Ben...
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Who Reads Anyway? 5 - POSITIVE PEER PRESSURE
Have you experienced Positive Peer Pressure? Then you havent colived before. We explore how living with others can bring the best out of us through gentle pressure. Read the piece here.
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S4 - E12 - Elana - Theater connects to all aspects of life
In our latest podcast episode, we dive into the concept of home and community with Elena, a dynamic community builder and applied theater practitioner. Together, we explore the intricate ties between theatrer, community, and the feeling of belonging. Elena shares her fascinating journey from a…
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Who Reads Anyway? 4 - IT'S A SIGN
In our 4th episode of Who Reads Anyway? We dive into the weird power of signs and their shelf life. What works, what doesn't, and why should we (or should not) have them in coliving spaces. Read the piece here.
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S4 - E11 - Jon - I wanted to be surrounded by people who have ideas
In this episode, we dive into the heart of creating a welcoming and authentic coliving space. Jon shares his journey of establishing genuine connections. From his first experiences in coworking spaces to running Sun & Co for 8 years and finally establishing his own studio, discover how he…
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Who Reads Anyway? 3 - IT TAKES 2 MONTHS
In our third episode of Who Reads Anyway?, we discuss "length of stay" and how long it takes to feel "THE moment." The moment when residents transition from feeling like newcomers to becoming integral parts of the community. When they've established routines, contributed to the space, and…
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S4 - E10 - Haz - You Can't Scale if You Can't Delegate
In the latest episode of our podcast, we talk with Haz the visionary co-founder of Escape Coliving and Coliving Hub. Haz has been a digital nomad, has lived in several coliving spaces as a guest, and has been running his coliving space for the past 8 years. He loves the idea of tearing down the...
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Who Reads Anyway? 2 - CHAOS IS MOTHER OF COMMUNITY
In our second episode of Who Reads Anyway? we explore the fascinating world of community living where chaos becomes a unifying force. From the challenges at K9 to the unexpected joys of coliving, discover how organized chaos can strengthen bonds and foster creativity. Don't miss this engaging...
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S4 - E9 - Amélie - My coliving space allows me to combine all the parts of myself
Amélie is the founder of InfiniColiving, a seaside coliving space that fosters connection, creativity, and harmony with nature. After three inspiring years exploring Brazil, as an nomad worker she decided to settle on the northern coast of Salvador de Bahia. Her journey began with years of living...
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Who Reads Anyway?- 1 - COLIVING IS HARD
💬 Show Notes In this episode of the Life on 5th podcast, we embark on a new journey of short and sweet episodes, diving into the heart of community living through blog articles from Substack. Our host, that would be me, brings written words to life, exploring the complexities of co-living. From...
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S4 - E8 - Grace - Living here brings me so much happiness and so much peace
Grace is 26 and originally from the UK. She left when she was 19 to do her bachelor's in the Netherlands and then her master's in Stockholm, and she has stayed here ever since! She moved into K9 a year ago after meeting the people who lived there and feeling the huge outpouring of love they had…
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S4 - E7 - Ramon - The biggest challenge is to keep those connections alive
Ramon has been living in various coliving spaces over the past few years, embracing the community lifestyle while working remotely. He is also the co-founder of Colivers Club, Mapmelon, and Mangobeds. Projects all focused on improving the coliving community and making life easier and better for...
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S4 - E6 - María - Once I Find my Community I Feel at Home
María founded Cactus Coliving in 2021 in Tenerife and recently opened a second location in La Gomera. She welcomes digital nomads from around the world, showing them the beauty of the island and its people. She is trying to create a new kind of “tourism” that will positively impact the locals and...
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My Hobbie is to have hobbies
César is a part-time digital nomad with a base in Madrid. He works as a freelancer and has stayed in over eight colivings (so far!) for at least a month. He has also helped renovate a few of them. He is the ambassador for Mapmelon and the host of the Colivers Club Podcast.
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We need rooted cities and vibrant villages
After working remotely in over 40 countries and witnessing the unstoppable rise of flexible work, Juan saw an opportunity to utilize remote work as a means to revitalize rural areas and improve work-life balance. He co-founded Rooral, a social venture that partners with small villages at risk of...
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There is a Freedom in Being in Transit
Amir is a third culture kid and a perennial translator between people, whether at work or in social situations. His childhood in Iran was filled with multi-generational community life before he was transplanted into British life as a teenager. Later in his twenties, he kept gravitating towards...
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being friends with somebody is better than having a cookie.
Grace, the founder of Voice of Humanity, has extensive experience in eco-villages across Europe. These experiences have deepened her appreciation for collaborative living and sustainable practices. Voice of Humanity creates systems of collaboration, governance, and currency design to reconstruct...
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The place itself becomes the host sometimes
In 2016, Manu co-founded Germany's first residential Coliving in Hamburg. In 2020, he moved to the countryside to start a rural destination coliving with ten bedrooms north of Hamburg. That was intense and extremely rich in learning. Etti grew up in the city and left home when she was sixteen to...
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S3 - E14 - Ben & Fabienne - Digital Nomads by accident
What a joy to record an episode with Fabienne & Benoit. First off, I don't know how they do it but they practically never cut each other when speaking, they somehow magical know when the other is done. It was a pleasure to listen to their stories. And they have many! They've traveled so much, met...
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S3 - E13 - Lisa - Stay in touch and keep moving
I'm not the one to claim the benefit of social media but I will admit this time around it is Instagram that brought Lisa and me together. Well, Insta and a common friend. We quickly connected through what seemed to be a never-ending list of shared interests. Lisa in her own words: I just turned…
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S3 - E12 - Jeanne - It is what it was at one point, it will never be the same again
A few weeks back I had a lovely conversation with one of the amazing girls of the Chateau Coliving team. But Jeanne does much more than that! Jeanne in her own words: I’m Jeanne, from France. I split my time between travels and Château coliving where I work as a community facilitator as well as...
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S3 - E11 - Christy - If I cannot find it, I must create it
*Apologise for the background noises on this episode, it's worth pushing through as Christy's passion is contagious. Christy in her own words: I am the creator of To Hani Coliving: A rural coliving in a restored historic building based in Cyprus. To Hani is the first coliving space for digital...
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S3 - E10 - Ana - I want to be a good Ancestor
Ana in her own words: I define myself as a connector who is passionate about nature and ‘all living beings’. I’m passionate about creating networks and communities that collaborate and deeply believe that a just, interconnected, and regenerative world is possible. In 2018 I stopped joining...
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S3 - E9 - Anja - There is so much value in Community
I met Anja through 2 online communities we are both part of: Coliving Hub, an association sharing knowledge around coliving spaces for Digital Nomads, and Nomad Haven, a Nomad Female Entrepreneur online community. We quickly realized we shared similar interests and values... bringing people...
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S3 - E8 - Zoë & Yello -Friends on tap... and dogs
Zoē & Yello are a couple of lovely people interested in personal development, music, and community living. Self-confessed as going through a mid-life crisis/awakening, they're in the process of re-aligning work life with their passions, and living arrangements with their core values. They've just...
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S3 - E7 - Sole - You can meet all of the world
Meet Sole, in her own words: Hi, I'm Sole a digital nomad from Spain. I've lived in various colivings around the world and noticed the need for a platform that makes it easier for colivers to connect and find new nomad colivings. That's why Ramon and I created Mapmelon, an app that helps people...
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SE3 - E6 - Pablo - Planting a seed and nurturing it
It has been a long break this winter. Longer than intended. I had a good excuse though. I led my very own pop-up coliving for 2,5 months in the British countryside with my partner, at www.selgars.org It was unexpected and challenging. But it was also amazing. Now that things have calmed down a…
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S3 - E5 - Alex - It provides an environment for de-armouring
This is an episode recorded a month or so ago with Alex Chau, another K9er. Alex was born in Melbourne about 33 years ago, he moved to Sweden about 7 years ago and has been at K9 for the last 3 of those. Alex and I share a lot of similarities in our Swedish and coliving journey: we both came to...
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S3 - E4 - Anton - It's a Dream Come True
A slightly special episode this week which was not planed but fits perfectly. Anton and I met in 2017 in K9 Coliving and are now married and living in London with our dog Zuko. It's safe to say coliving has impacted both our personal and professional lives tremendously. In this episode Anton…
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S3 - E3 - Emily & PA - becoming a better human in togetherness
August 2022 was supposed to be a month without any travel. Life is what happens when you are busy making plans. Suddenly I found myself in Belgium, in this wonderfully magical eco-village called L'Arbre Qui Pousse (the growing tree), taking part in the first Hopestation of La Matrice…
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S3 - E2 Denisa - the Digital Nomad Afterlife
Episode 2 is my conversation with Denisa, a UX Designer originally from Prague, working for a crypto startup. She is a digital nomad and outdoor sports lover. We e-met through Swiss Escape coliving, one of my clients, where she stayed earlier this year. It took us a while to organize the…
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S3 - E1 - Jho - We do our best until we die.
We are finally back! After a much longer break than planned (because life happens) we are back with the first episode of Season 3. We start with Jho again. Jho was my very first guest on the podcast back in August 2020, when we agreed to be my guinea pig for the idea I had to talk about community...
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S2 -E 20 -Moh - I experienced more of life just by living in K9
Ending with a bang. This is what we said when we realised this episode would be the last of the second season. Mo interviewing Moh felt like a good closing of the circle. In his own words Moh used to be half Moroccan, half Egyptian, but now he added Swedish to the list. His favorite hobby is...
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S2 - E19 - Marta - Being alone is not the same as being lonely
This week I am happy to finally be sharing my face to face conversation with Marta. We met back in May when we both got invited to the pop up opening month of beautiful Burgas Coliving in Bulgaria. I opened up about my podcast project and Marta volunteered :-) I am so glad she did because her…
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S2 - E 18 - Elspeth - I'm not alone in feeling different
Elspeth is a storyteller, food fanatic, and avid traveller. She loves learning about the people behind the places she visits, about the details that make up a community. She works full-time as a Marketing Manager in the travel industry, but her passion is her side hustle where she writes for…
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S2 - E17 - Gianluca - Willing to give and hungry to get
Gianluca is the founder of AI Academy, a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence education without code. He is the current chairperson of Nest, a non profit coliving space in Copenhagen. After traveling from Italy to Belgium where he discovered entrepreuneurship and then to the US for his...
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S2 - E 16 - Agustin - Longer stays mean more local impact
I am really glad to finally be sharing my conversation with Agustin who I had the pleasure to meet in person during our Creative week in Romania for the pre-opening of Cobana Coliving in March. After more than 7 years of being a location independent worker, Agustin decided to start a coliving…
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S2 - E15 - Maddie - The possibilities are endless here
I met Maddie when I went back to K9 almost 2 years after moving out to London. We were both waiting for the coffee to brew in the first floor kitchen. I introduced myself and someone immediately talked about recording an episode. We didn't get around doing it face to face that week but eventually...
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S2 - E14 - Philip - Coliving has stolen my heart
Finally, a long chat with Philip who has been living in the pods at K9 for a while now, pods the podcast are actually name after. I guess you could say Philip is one of the Original Humans! Philip is a resident at K9 co-living in Stockholm and a person so curious and passionate about human...
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S2 - E13 - Abhisheck - Good enough for now safe enough to try
Yes, another K9er on the podcast. As long as K9 lives I will make it my mission to talk with as many residents as possible. Each story is similar and different at the same time and I always leave the conversation with new things to reflect on. Abhi moved in a bit after me and we've grown to…
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S2 - E12 - Hugo - Everybody comes here to have an experience
A few weeks ago I was connected through a common friend with Hugo, the co-founder of Vine 21, a co-living and coworking space, located in the hearth of Bucharest. We exchanged a few messages and jumped on a call. Half way through we realised we were both born in Paris...we had been speaking…
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S2-E11 - Yoav - coliving is just a microcosme of our existence
Yoav and I could have gone one for a few hours. We tried to combined it under an hour but our passion for community living and the meaning of Home is one of the many things we seem to share. We've never lived under the same roof and yet, we feel like we belong to the same tribe. That's coliving...
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S2 - E10 - Lies "You feel so empowered as a human being because you feel connected!"
The second episode of 2022 is with Lies who is the concept creator of Coaliving, a beautiful short and long term coliving space in Belgium. Chatting with Lies was an absolute pleasure and felt like being back in my own community, around the kitchen table, discussing the pros and cons of shared...
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Join me as we explore the vibrant world of coliving and community living. Each episode features heartfelt conversations with residents from around the globe, sharing their unique experiences, challenges, and insights about life in intentional communities or personal reflections from my own experience as a coliver and coliving owner.From the joys of shared meals to navigating communal hurdles, we celebrate connection and rethink what “home” truly means. Whether you're a seasoned coliver or just curious, there’s something here for everyone. Subscribe now for new episodes every week!
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