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Flying the Coop

Janel Torkington

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/18d. Total Eps: 21

For the people in rooms where hard things get built. Flying the Coop is Janel and Anna of Strange Birds, a worker-owned co-op, thinking out loud about how structure shapes what's possible. Conversations with founders, operators, and organizational leaders doing serious work on what business can actually be.

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🇩🇪 Germany - Entrepreneurship
14/08/2026
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http://strangebirds.land
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https://strangebirds.land/podcast/
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https://strangebirds.kit.com/decision-making-framework
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https://www.youtube.com/@StrangeBirdsLand
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0245FfsZIY4
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#19 We did the thing and you can too: We're a co-op!

Season 2 · Episode 19

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Duration 37:18

"We're optimizing for a sustainable container to take care of the people within it — and to do some cool work while we're at it." - Janel Torkington

Most businesses optimize for growth. Scale as much as possible, make as much money as possible, get as big as possible. It seems like the only option in the playbook.

But that path has never called to us.

Strange Birds has been operating as a cooperative for three years, and six months ago we made it official. This episode, we take a beat to stop and ask, wait, why did we do that? What are we optimizing for instead? Is it working? Also, what are you wearing?

We get into:

Why our style of consensus-based decision-making tops out around five people
Why and how we've set up equal pay for equal hours (bonus: patronage refunds vs. dividends! A tiny schmear of tax code!)
The un-touchy un-feely case for designing an anti-burnout business
Why we often advise our clients to downgrade their subscription tier with us
Janel: still detoxing from US productivity culture
Anna: anti-cutting up watermelon

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Flying the Coop is brought to you by Strange Birds, a worker owned cooperative. Strange Birds helps purpose driven companies say out loud what makes them worth choosing. We build stronger connections between audiences and brands with the right messaging. Then we implement it across the board.

Find us at http://strangebirds.land

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