{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Coworking Values Podcast","title":"Audience, Community, or Village? The Framework for Real Connection with Rose Radtke","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1770,"description":"“Community is a really irritating word to me right now. We ask it to carry too much. Everything’s a community.”Rose RadtkeTired of running yourself into the ground?Then stop running alone.On February 24th, the London Coworking Assembly presents Unreasonable Connection Goes Live!—a one-day working session for the people running London’s most vital neighbourhood spaces and the public sector allies working to help them thrive. It’s a day to share the load, find real solutions, and build a new playbook, together.Rose Radtke is a brand strategist, writer, and community manager. She positions herself as a “smart connector”—someone who finds the links between brand, community, and marketing.Six years deep in community building, she’s watched the word “community” stretch thinner each year.Everything became a community. Discord servers. Email lists. Substack comments. The word stopped meaning anything specific.Rose makes a distinction that matters.Audience, community, and village are not the same thing.One lets you lurk. One expects participation. One demands mutual care.Bernie and Rose unpack the framework. They move from COVID’s online community boom to the messy reality of engineering community in coworking spaces.Rose is watching 2026’s trends closely.Coworking spaces struggling to meet rent.Pricing strategies getting flexible—day blocks, modular memberships.The lines between workspace and third space blurring.Pop-up markets in coworking spaces. Coworking desks in bookshops and gyms.And she’s asking a question that hospitality venues should be terrified of:Why don’t they have community managers?This episode is for operators tired of using “community” to mean everything and nothing.It’s for anyone trying to work out whether they’re building an audience, a community, or a village—and what the difference actually means for the people who show up.Timeline Highlights[01:51] Rose describes herself: “I’m actually a bit of an octopus. I am a brand strategist, I am a writer,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WIBJeL0fXbpb8oNZHEtSu5qeC3870OdCYV3XNCIVY1M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZTBm/NGQ1N2YzYTcyNmE3/NTc2ZmU5NTBlYmNj/OTEwOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}