Meet Abigail

 

Abigail Schilling is the founder of Medford Cowork Collective and a Certified Coworking Space Operator from Jamie Russo’s Coworking Startup School. A former product manager and community manager at a coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles, Abigail’s career spans two decades of business, marketing and management experience. She currently works as a business development coach and digital marketing strategist for entrepreneurs and specializes in helping small business owners scale their products and services.

  • Abigail began her career working her way up in a company she was truly passionate about. She was on the right track with no place to go but up.

    But she wasn’t happy.

    Drained and burned out, Abigail quit and took a path less traveled.

    She joined a startup incubator and coworking space in a high-rise Los Angeles office where she could cross-pollinate with other entrepreneurs from all walks of worklife. For three years, she met other creative thinkers and gained value and insight into what makes a coworking space … well … work.

    She set out on the adventure of a lifetime, crisscrossing the United States in a vintage travel trailer.

    She visited, worked in and learned from coworking spaces across the country. Along the way, she quickly became an expert in remote freelancing, turning a side gig on UpWork into a $50,000 business on a part-time schedule working as a business development coach and digital marketing strategist for entrepreneurs.

    Now Abigail has turned nearly 20 years of experience into a full-time passion project developing and maximizing resources to empower others. 

    With a sort of “open road policy,” she blends the love and energy she receives from the great outdoors with a soul for strategy, helping others assess the big picture, map a vision and create a roadmap. 

    In 2018, Abigail planted herself in the place she’d never known she was looking for: Southern Oregon.

    Away from the city and congestion, Medford had been a respite and favorite summer spot for Abigail as she visited grandparents in the area, and she now calls Medford home. 

    Looking for a coworking place to work from, she realized she had the passion and purpose of creating the ideal place for others like herself to connect, collaborate and grow.

    The result? Well, you’ll have to drop by and see for yourself. Book a tour.

 
 
 

Lightning round

Get to know your Medford Cowork Collective founder in a flash!

  • the business owners, service providers, freelancers and hustlers who hit the streets (or the keyboard) every day to build something new.

  • hiking Southern Oregon, trying our local wines at the Rogue Grape, and reading novels (downloaded to my Kindle with my JCLS library card, of course). But when I’m not here in Medford, I’m traveling--visiting far-flung friends and eating, walking and learning my way through new places.

  • Rosie the Riveter a few years back or Lord Licorice (from CandyLand) when I was in college!

  • Greyson and Ever, whose feline work ethic (non-existent!) balances out my own. But mostly I’m passionate about collaboration, entrepreneurship and the opportunities we create for ourselves (with a little help from a kickass network).

What are you creating? Drop me a line and let me know.