What Foster Parenting Taught a Dog Breeder About Trust, Connection & Sustainable Business | Heather Gibson

There are skills we deliberately learn for business. Marketing. Finance. Sales. Client communication. Leadership. And then there are the lessons life teaches us long before we realise they will become part of the way we work. For Heather Gibson, founder of Big Hearted...

From Dog Walker to City Dog Expert: Cancer, Reinvention & 20 Years in the Dog Industry | Kimberly Freeman

Sometimes a business evolves because we decide to change direction. Sometimes it changes because life gives us no choice. My latest guest on The Pet Business Wellbeing Podcast, Kimberly Freeman, has experienced both. Over roughly 20 years in the dog industry, Kimberly...

Rebuilding After Trauma: What Matt Jones Learned About Mental Health, Purpose and My Anxious Dog

There are moments in life that divide everything into before and after. For my latest guest on The Pet Business Wellbeing Podcast, that moment happened on 16th June 2019. Matt Jones, husband of My Anxious Dog founder Sarah Jones, went out on what should have been an...

Permission to Pause: What One Dog Taught Biggi Junge About Mindfulness, Acceptance and Wellbeing

What if you didn’t need to do more, achieve more or have everything figured out before giving yourself permission to slow down? As pet professionals, we spend so much of our time looking after others. The dogs in our care. The people who love them. Our clients. Our...

The Dark Side of Dog Agility: Neurodivergence, Perfectionism and the Importance of Connection

Dog sport is supposed to be fun. A shared activity. A way to strengthen the relationship between human and dog. But what happens when pressure, performance and perfectionism begin to take over? In the latest episode of The Pet Business Wellbeing Podcast, I was joined...

Juggling Multiple Pet Businesses Without Losing Your Why: What Emily Thomas Learned About Letting Go

Running one pet business can be demanding enough. Running several at the same time brings a whole different set of questions. Where should your time go? Which idea deserves your energy? What happens when something you have spent years building no longer fits? And...

Force-Free Dog Training, Imposter Syndrome and Staying in Business When You Want to Give Up

Running a pet business can be incredibly rewarding. It can also be incredibly hard. Both things can be true at exactly the same time. In the latest episode of The Pet Business Wellbeing Podcast, I spoke with Becky Walker, founder of B Pawsitive, a force-free positive...

How to Pivot Your Pet Business Without Feeling Like a Failure

Changing direction can feel uncomfortable. When we have invested months or years building a service, business or career, deciding that it no longer fits can very quickly trigger thoughts such as: Have I failed? Did I waste all that time? What will everybody else...

Feeling Overwhelmed in Your Pet Business? 6 Ways to Create More Space in Your Week

This was not the podcast episode I had originally planned to record. I was meant to be joined by a guest, but she was extremely busy and after several demanding days of pet sitting, I was exhausted too. Over those few days, I had been caring for 26 dogs, including...

20 Years in Dog Training: What Canine Fitness, Chronic Illness and a Trick Duck Taught Joe Nutkins

Many pet professionals begin their careers because they love working with animals. Far fewer begin because they dream of managing accounts, completing administration, learning social media, remembering tax deadlines and running every other part of a small business....

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