Flex Uncensored - A Coworking Podcast

What happens when a coworking operator decides that growth doesn't have to mean doing more?

Christopher Hoyt, CEO of The Pioneer Collective, has taken a deliberately measured approach to growing his coworking business across Seattle and Tacoma — and a big part of that strategy is knowing what not to do.

In this episode, Christopher shares how he and his wife Audrey bootstrapped the business, financed growth through cash flow,...

What happens when a marketer steps into coworking and starts looking at the business from the outside?

In our latest podcast episode, Jamie and Gio sit down with Jackie Latragna, a marketer who went from answering phones at an executive suite at 21 to becoming a fractional CMO working with coworking operators.

Jackie shares some great lessons on what she's seeing across the industry, including:

• Why owners need to find ways to ...

How do you scale a coworking business to 24 locations while staying focused on efficiency?

Isaac Esses, founder and CEO of TKO Suites, has built a 24-location coworking portfolio by focusing on smart growth, operational efficiency, and understanding what works in each market.

In this conversation, Isaac shares how he approaches expansion, why he prioritizes minimizing risk, and how he evaluates locations, acquisitions, and opportun...

How do you scale a coworking business to 24 locations while staying focused on efficiency?

Isaac Esses, founder and CEO of TKO Suites, has built a 24-location coworking portfolio by focusing on smart growth, operational efficiency, and understanding what works in each market.

In this conversation, Isaac shares how he approaches expansion, why he prioritizes minimizing risk, and how he evaluates locations, acquisitions, and opportun...

How do you scale a coworking business to 24 locations while staying focused on efficiency?

Isaac Esses, founder and CEO of TKO Suites, has built a 24-location coworking portfolio by focusing on smart growth, operational efficiency, and understanding what works in each market.

In this conversation, Isaac shares how he approaches expansion, why he prioritizes minimizing risk, and how he evaluates locations, acquisitions, and opportun...

How do you scale a coworking business to 24 locations while staying focused on efficiency?

Isaac Esses, founder and CEO of TKO Suites, has built a 24-location coworking portfolio by focusing on smart growth, operational efficiency, and understanding what works in each market.

In this conversation, Isaac shares how he approaches expansion, why he prioritizes minimizing risk, and how he evaluates locations, acquisitions, and opportun...

How do you scale a coworking business to 24 locations while staying focused on efficiency?

Isaac Esses, founder and CEO of TKO Suites, has built a 24-location coworking portfolio by focusing on smart growth, operational efficiency, and understanding what works in each market.

In this conversation, Isaac shares how he approaches expansion, why he prioritizes minimizing risk, and how he evaluates locations, acquisitions, and opportun...

How do you scale a coworking business to 24 locations while staying focused on efficiency?

Isaac Esses, founder and CEO of TKO Suites, has built a 24-location coworking portfolio by focusing on smart growth, operational efficiency, and understanding what works in each market.

In this conversation, Isaac shares how he approaches expansion, why he prioritizes minimizing risk, and how he evaluates locations, acquisitions, and opportun...

What does it take to grow a coworking portfolio across multiple markets without relying on a one-size-fits-all playbook?

According to Greg Miley, Chief Commercial Officer at Clockwise, it starts with understanding that every location has its own unique challenges, customers, and opportunities.

In this episode, Greg shares how Clockwise operates 18 assets across 17 cities throughout the UK and Europe, and how the company approaches ...

What does it take to scale a coworking company without losing focus?

According to John Wallace, Founder & CEO of Workbox, it starts by knowing exactly who you're building for—and resisting the temptation to be everything to everyone.

In this episode, John shares how Workbox has grown to 13 locations across seven cities while staying focused on serving small and midsize businesses. We also dive into the company's new strat...

What happens when a former chef helps build one of the fastest-growing cowarehousing companies in the country?

You get a fascinating perspective on where flexible workspace is headed next.

In this episode, Andrew Runnette shares how his career took him from restaurant kitchens to Whole Foods, then into food tech, and eventually to helping scale Portal Warehousing across the U.S.

What stood out most to me is how closely the evolutio...

This week, we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes because the conversation is just as relevant today as when it first aired.

Design matters—but not in the way most coworking operators think.

After helping design more than 2 million square feet of flexible workspace around the world, Dean Connell has a unique perspective on what makes a coworking space successful. It's not about following trends or choosing the right fu...

What happens when someone leaves a career at the United Nations to open a coworking space in a small town? That's exactly what Alanna Imbach, Founder and CEO of Vibe Coworks, did.

Alanna spent 17 years working around the world, including with the UN World Food Programme and WaterAid, before returning to her hometown of Poulsbo, Washington. What started as a search for a place where she and her husband could continue working remotel...

If your goal is to create a coworking space that's profitable, purposeful, and packed with community-driven energy, this episode is required listening.

This week, we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes of Flex Uncensored: our conversation with Gina Schreck, founder of The Village Work, Wellness & Event Center in the Denver suburbs. The lessons in this episode are just as relevant today as when it first aire...

AI is making it easier than ever to do more.

The question is: should we?

In this episode, Giovanni Palavicini and I ended up having one of those conversations that started with AI and somehow turned into business growth, health data, sleep, travel, expansion, productivity, and the challenge of keeping up with everything.

What struck me most is that we're all having the same experience right now.

AI is helping operators build dashbo...

Most coworking operators are still using AI to write social posts.

Shift Workspaces is using it to rethink operations, hospitality, renewals, sales strategy, dashboards, and member experience.

This conversation with Travis Low completely changed the way I think about what's possible for coworking operators willing to go deeper with AI.

A few things that stood out for me:

• Shift built AI systems that monitor everything from call...

What happens when a coworking operator stops thinking like a coworking operator… and starts thinking like a hospitality brand?

That's exactly what Uri Isken and Gabriel Isken are building at HIT.

And honestly, this conversation completely expanded my perspective on what enterprise flex space can become.

HIT now operates 13 locations across Argentina, Chile, and Brazil with 94% occupancy, serving major enterprise clients like...

What if the future of housing looks a lot more like coworking?

We had the chance to sit down with Chris Moeller, founder of Pathway Communities, right after his GCUC keynote… and this conversation really stuck with me. Chris spent 20 years in commercial real estate before stepping away to build something entirely new.

And what he's working on now feels like a natural extension of where our industry is headed. He calls i...

What percentage of your market is actually flexible office space… and does that number even matter?

I loved this conversation with Jim Groves, founder of Rubberdesk, because he completely reframed how we think about supply, demand, and what tenants actually see when they're searching for space.

Jim built Rubberdesk around one core idea: transparency. Not just more data, but better, usable data that helps tenants actually mak...