Alanna, Author at Vibe Coworks

This year, I’m giving thanks for the tiny interactions

As we do our best to pause (!) and reflect this week, I’m struck by a podcast I listened to a few weeks back that hits on the heart of the very thing that makes this place we call Vibe so phenomenally impactful: the power of tiny interactions.

Introvert, extrovert or ambivert, social connections matter, even if it’s little more than a passing hello shared with someone outside of our family over the office coffee pot. In fact, social connections are the root of all that I am thankful for at Vibe this year.

Your office of old is gone (And that’s a good thing)

I did a thing last month: I stepped on a plane, flew across the country, and attended an industry conference for the first time in two years.

Systemic inequity has forced women out of the workforce in droves: Coworking can help bring them back

As we approach the one year mark of the COVID19 pandemic in the United States next month, news headlines are unequivocally confirming with urgency that which we already know: women in our communities are beyond the breaking point.

Welcome to the Year of the Catapult

For weeks now, I’ve been trying to put the experience of this last year into words, while also clearing my head enough to articulate clearly what I feel in my gut is coming up next. There’s a reason it’s been such a struggle: 2020 was unlike anything any of us had ever experienced.

Celebrating monsters, coworking and the year of the Rat in Kitsap

What do Chinese New Year and coworking have in common? Possibly nothing. Possibly a whole hell of a lot.

Poulsbo’s great experiment in coworking: Is it working?

We had a dream: that we ourselves—along with 15,000 other reported work-from-homers in Kitsap county—could do the work that we love, from the place that we love. That we could do meaningful, fulfilling work surrounded by people and ideas that inspire us—right here in Kitsap. And that we could do all of that without feeling forced to succumb to exhausting commutes, expensive coffee-shop hopping or home offices that all-to-often turn lonely.

Fostering the startup ecosystem in Kitsap

All across the globe, startup ecosystems are exploding, with varying levels of success. Will Kitsap and the greater West Sound region be next? Many of us believe the answer can be yes.

Coworking meets preschool in Poulsbo

An exciting new collaboration between Vibe Coworks and Magnolia Forest Preschool means working parents in Kitsap now have more flexibility than ever before. All Vibe members with a monthly membership of 5 days/month or more can now receive a 10% discount on Magnolia Forest Preschool and summer camps.

Your charitable donations could be doing so much more

When Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce chief, Sue Allison asked if I’d speak at this month’s Networking Luncheon, the answer was easy (yes!). And while I would have loved to hop on stage and spend 30 precious minutes of your time talking about why everyone and their mother (and brother, and sister, and father…) really should […]

For this I am thankful

I’ve got to hand it to you, Poulsbo. It’s not even a full moon right now and you’re giving me all the feels. This week, some 300-odd million of us Americans are preparing to belly up to the table in celebration of that time honored tradition that is Thanksgiving. This of course also means that […]