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Join Our 10-Month Creative Coworking Cohort
A quiet, beautiful place to work and create community alongside other thoughtful women
Gather Goods Co is a gift shop, classroom and coworking space in downtown Cary. Our business started in 2013 and is run by Michelle Smith a 20+ year entrepreneur, maker, and designer.
We are opening up an upstairs communal coworking room and dedicated classroom and looking for a handful of women who want to be a part of our founding group of cohorts. We are keeping this group intentionally small, and have most of our spots filled but there are still a couple left. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of our dynamic and cozy space at an affordable rate for those who don't need a private office. All of our private offices are already leased out through April 2027. Our private office tenants include therapists, speech and language pathologists as well as a jewelry company, all women owned businesses. This is the only opportunity to cowork out of our space until spring of next year. We are limiting access to this community coworking cohort to between 8 and 12 women.
Who is this for? For creative entrepreneurs, writers, designers, therapists, remote workers, makers, and women building thoughtful businesses who are tired of working alone. You also don't have to be an entrepreneur or creative, just someone looking for a space outside of the home to connect and recharge alongside others.
Women looking for a casual, cozy and consistent third space where they can allow their nervous system to reset and focus outside the home, alongside a consistent group of others. It's for you if you are looking for community and working out of your house everyday isn't cutting it and a coffeeshop isn't the right fit either. It's for you if you want casual connection that can go deeper over time and are looking for something to help motivate change or new direction and getting distracted by laundry, the dishes, etc isn't helping. This is not a space where you are expected to come in everyday, instead to just use occassionally as a touchstone and also alongside the others who happen to be there when you are too. It might be empty and times and filled with a handful of others at other times.
Here are the women who are a committed so far:
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A woman in her mid-thirties who is a single mom and a textile designer who recently moved here from New Jersey
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A woman in her fifties who is embarking on a life change and happens to make amazing crochet pieces that she wants to teach to others
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A woman in her late forties whose kids are out of the home and teaches successful online quilting instruction courses but is looking for community
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A woman in her twenties who is embarking on her entrepreneurial journey and makes holistic bath and body products
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A woman who had a stroke during covid and is rebuilding her life and others through tea blending workshops, tea parties and magical, alternative, witchy focused workshops
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A cancer survivor and mom to two middle aged kids who is a multi-times over published author of kid lit
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A woman who is soon to be an empty nester who has a background in therapy but is transitioning to coaching and workshops for women in mid-life
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Perhaps you?
We are accepting between 8-12 spots in our upstairs community coworking cohort through Spring 2027. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of our dynamic and cozy space at an affordable rate.
There are only a couple spots left for this year's cohort. We already have 7 spots filled and they will book up quickly.
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The cost is $100/month or $950 if paid in full upfront if you join before May 31st. The price goes up to $125/month if you join after June 1st
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You'll get access to our cozy upstairs communal coworking room and classroom from 7am-10pm 7 days a week except when scheduled events or classes are being hosted which are always noted ahead of time on calendar. The space feels like a cozy library and has a long wooden table, a round table with bench seating, a sofa, soft chairs and poufs, soft lighting and soft jazz music in the background. There are 2 quiet desks in the upstairs hallway that are available to coworkers, as well as an upstairs seating area in the same space. We have a covered front porch with tables and a porch swing, a large backyard for working outside, hosting events and just relaxing and are a block away from the downtown Cary park.
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The ability to host your own classes for free in the same space by booking them on our shared calendar system.
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25% Discount on all classes being hosted by Gather Goods Co
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20% Discount On everything in the Gather Goods Co Gift Shop & Online
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Free Coffee and Tea and Access to Our Communal Kitchen with Fridge, Utensils, Plates, etc
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Access to our printer and free high speed internet
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A monthly scheduled hang with other members of the Gather Studio community on the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 11am-1pm
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Once a month office hours with Gather Goods Co shop owner, Michelle Smith to bounce off ideas, strategize and talk through things. Michelle has been an entrepreneur for 22 years and also has extensive experience in strategy, marketing, web design and development, product design, retail and photography and social media marketing.
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We are located one block away from the Downtown Cary park and library with many restaurants and coffee shops nearby.
The Details:
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There are only a limited number of "Gather Studio Community Coworking" memberships and they are only available through May 31, 2026 before pricing goes up. Most spots are already filled.
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Each membership runs from June 1st 2026 through April 1st 2027, there are no short term memberships available but you can start after June 1st if you find out about this later and still want to be a part.
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Cost is $100/month or $950 if paid upfront (a $50 discount). After May 31st price goes up to $125/month or $1100 if paid upfront).
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The community coworking room is located upstairs in the Gather Goods Co building. There are a couple desks in the upstairs hallway that can be utilized as well but access is for working in those spaces and not the shop area downstairs.
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The tables and seating are set up communally at shared tables.
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Access is only for community coworking members for safety protocols. Guests of members can apply for a one-day pass for $25
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Pets are not permitted
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Parking is only available off-site at the free library parking deck one block away
