Between 2017 and 2018, women started an average of 1,821 new businesses a day. For those new female entrepreneurs, they need a place to launch and an office to launch from. But as more companies are moving from traditional office-type cubicles, and with more careers built out of media and production, professional women need to find more welcoming spaces for their endeavors.

While the trend of co-working spaces has been on the rise by appealing to large corporations for their location, flexibility, affordability, and employee satisfaction, they’ve been a draw to a majority of men who enjoy perks like free beer, ping pong and video games. And in the podcasting world, where more than 500,000 people upload their podcasts to Apple Podcasts, and as opposed to the 50 million people who regularly post videos to YouTube, men make up the majority in listeners in the podcasting industry and, according to 2017of the top 100 podcasts on the iTunes charts in America and the UK shows men host 63 of the top 100 podcasts, while only 13 are hosted by women. Yet the podcasting industry is is still in its infancy.

Discussing options for women in growing trends is Molly Beck, the founder of MessyFM, a site that enables users to record, edit, and publish their podcasts for free, and Amy Nelson, co-founder of female-centric co-working startup, The Riveter.

Don’t forget to listen to my new podcast on MessyFM, Once Upon a Timestamp!

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