OneSpace for All
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We recently had the amazing opportunity to sit down with the women behind OneSpace.
OneSpace recently opened on February 1st, 2021 and is already breaking barriers and filling gaps where it matters. It is a space dedicated for work and wellbeing designed to meet the needs of parents, entrepreneurs and human beings. OneSpace provides a handful of services in-house such as flex space, childminding, fitness (a stunning rooftop gym!), health & wellbeing, event space, and finally the OneSpace Collective.
We cannot rave enough about this organization and the women behind the operation, especially in our current environment brought on by COVID-19.
Join us and the women of OneSpace in the conversation. Keep reading for all the details from the OneSpace Collective, operating AND opening during a pandemic and much more!
What is OneSpace?
I don’t have time to...I don’t have the space to...But my kids…As of lately, particularly throughout COVID-19, many sentences seem to begin this way. OneSpace is an organization that strives to fill these gaps by offering their community and members more than just a space (but the space is stunning too!). OneSpace offers community members a range of services from well being, work spaces, child minding, and much more!
How would you describe the OneSpace Collective?
The OneSpace Collective, similar to OneSpace, aims to fill a gap that exists for entrepreneurs and many community members when it comes to practical business services. From branding, public relations, strategic development and the list goes on, the OneSpace Collective offers a space for talented individuals to come together and leverage their services to help entrepreneurs grow their business through community building. As a whole, it really is about removing the barriers that many entrepreneurs have when it comes to accessing resources they need to advance their business and connecting fellow entrepreneurs with field experts; because at the end of the day, we recognize we are not super people, and doing it all, all the time is not always possible! Interested in learning more about how to get involved with the OneSpace Collective? Visit their website here for all the details!
This business model aligns with many community needs that would have existed pre-pandemic, why do you think other businesses or startups have not applied this business model used for the OneSpace Collective?
It’s challenging because women have not always had the same access to knowledge, the network, and resource capital in order to implement and build a business using the same model. As mom’s, these alone are big barriers but the concept of time and energy at the end of a long day also provides a challenge to overcome. For the founders of OneSpace, all that OneSpace offers became rather urgent as some of them were coming out of maternity leave and looking to regain some balance of work and family!
Q: Do you think if you were to start the same business pre-COVID it would have been any different?
For many businesses, COVID-19 prompted some challenging decisions, changes in operations and an overall change of perspective. If you were to start a business today, tomorrow or pre-pandemic, you probably would have created a concept that caters to gaps in products/services that you and your friends, family, currently struggle to overcome. This is the same mentality that the women behind OneSpace and the OneSpace Collective applied when taking the first steps to opening this one of a kind space in the heart of Vancouver.
If you launched the same business pre-pandemic, what, if anything would you have done differently?
Launching pre-pandemic, the OneSpace community could have been more actively built and cultivated through the leveraging of the space. OneSpace really is intended to act as a venue, or a starting place for people to come together and pick each other's brains and to empower other individuals on their own journeys in a fun and collaborative way!
Is there any advice that you would give to people starting out?
Get good partners! Whether that is direct business partners… Ask for help when you need it and be able to receive help when it is offered.
Asking for help can take form in relentless information gathering. Information gathering from reading and data but more importantly from building connections with people to understand what they do, how they do it, and why they do it and how that can potentially impact your business model and the choices that you are making because the more diverse situations, opinions, and people that you can integrate when you are building an organization i think it is an enormous asset.
You are all successful women in your own right brought together with OneSpace, but how do you manage to find balance between the personal and professional?
It can be less about finding balance in terms of actually being able to perform deliverables, and it's more about being happy with what you are accomplishing on a daily basis. Working with such an amazing group of people and being a part of this community, with an outlet to collaborate and bounce around ideas, it really helps you find some balance in a work environment.
Check out the links below to learn more about OneSpace, the OneSpace Collective and the ladies behind the action:
Website: https://www.onespaceforall.ca/about-us
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onespaceforall/about/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onespaceforall/