>> Hi. My name is Melissa Alam and I'm the CEO and Founder of the Hive,
which is Philadelphia's first co-working space for women.
So a co-working space is a shared office space between typically entrepreneurs or freelancers.
So it's in substitute of working out of a coffee shop or working out of your apartment.
It's a space where you can go, use the Wi-Fi,
and be surrounded by other motivated people and get your work done.
So being your own boss you don't really have anyone to, you know,
keep you on track of your projects or tasks or what not.
So, kind of, being in that environment of a co-working space really helps.
I gear toward women because there's no other co-working space for women in the city so I,
kind of, saw a hole in the market.
I split my time between mostly actually answering emails all day,
but emails for new membership.
Giving people tours.
I actually just brought on a membership director who's also a Temple alum.
She just graduated.
So thanks, Nicky [assumed spelling].
And, yeah, so we work on membership.
And then beyond that we host events and workshops
for further personal and professional development.
So at 6 p.m. we stop co-working and we typically have events either held by myself
or other people come in and teach workshops.
So we're doing a lot of event planning.
And then on top of that we are planning a signature week
of events called Fearless Philly Week.
So it'll be this upcoming November and hopefully an annual thing where we have a week full
of events for women and then a women in business conference at the end.
So it's going to be really just jam-packed for Philadelphia women to come and network
and meet other women and just learn more about, you know, their career and how to grow that.