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  Vivienne Yang, Founder of "VillageOne" Coworking, sits down to discuss her journey as a foreign successful TV reporter & news anchor to building a boutique coworking space different from WeWork, The Assemblage, etc., why we seem to meet so many people but only make a few friends, the difference between "creative", vs. "artist", technology, VR (virtual reality) and the future of coworking, and the power of embracing uncertainty, fear of loss and failure, and dealing with her own challenges of imposter syndrome.

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INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

• Nothing more millennial in terms of community than coworking. How would you describe village one and the community you’re building?
• Why do you think people like it? What’s the secret sauce or magical thing that is working?
• Why? Of all the things you could be doing why this? Wework already existed, was it a specific market opportunity you saw needed to be filled? Now you have the assemblage and other competitors. Was it love of bringing people together? What is your motivation?
• Different topics..
• Culture. You had previously started a wellness company in china called China forest food and were an news anchor on Phoenix satellite tv. Were there any cultural challenges dealing with New Yorkers that maybe you didn’t anticipate or expect? Would it be any different if you were running village one in Beijing vs nyc? How would it be different?
• Branding. You are very careful to use the word creative minds as oppose to artists for example. Anyone in theory can be creative. Why? Are there any stereotypes or misperceptions of the creative community that you feel should be challenged?
• Millennials. You meet with and work with all kinds of people of all ages. How are millennials different from other clients you have in both good and bad ways? What are millennials demands as clients?
• Brick and morter. I used you own a restaurant. In a digital age when we talk about scalability, Operating real estate is hard. What do you see as some of the barriers to growth or unique challenges you deal with in growing a physical business?
• About you.
• A theme you talk about is Uncertainty is not your enemy.  Elaborate more
• What’s been your own biggest personal struggle or fear that you’ve had to overcome in building out this community?
• What is something you wish someone had told you 5 years ago, or you had told yourself, that you had to learn on your own? But would have made life so much easier had you known.
• Who is the right person for this community and how can they get involved?