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Episode 118. Big Life Changes Require Business Changes
My podcast coaching client today is Kristen. She boards dogs in her home and offers dog walking and has had her part-time pet business for nearly a decade. She recently made some courageous life changes, and she now needs to turn her business into a full-time venture to financially support her and her kids. You’ll…
Episode 117. Discover What’s Not Working When it Comes to Hiring Staff
Heidi is an experienced pet sitter and dog walker in Naples, Florida. Lately she has been feeling frustrated about hiring staff. She’s been interviewing not-right people and also hiring flaky people who seem very interested in the beginning of the hiring process, but they back out before they are already hired or shortly after being…
Episode 116. Use Mindfulness to Recover from Burnout
In today’s episode I get more personal than I have in a long time on this podcast – you’ll hear me share what I’ve been experiencing lately and how it’s affected me, and also how it relates to today’s episode. Mimi is a pet pro who is struggling with personal and professional burnout. She has…
Episode 115. How to Hire in Your Pet Business
In the last podcast episode, I worked with a coaching client on hiring and we’ll dive a bit more in depth on that topic today with a different coaching client. My coaching client today is Shannon, a pet sitter and dog walker from Pennsylvania. Her business has grown so quickly that she’s had to scramble…
Episode 114. How to Hire and Expand Your Pet Business
Mallorie is a pet sitter and dog walker in Dallas, Texas. Her business has grown quickly, and she’d like to expand even more without compromising the quality of care she’s committed to providing her clients. She asks me the chicken-or-the-egg question that so many pet business owners ask me: “Should I hire first or advertise to…
Episode 113. How to Create Company Culture in Your Pet Business
Susan Kaplan from BeLoved Pet Sitting is a pet sitter in San Diego. In her coaching session today, she is bringing up a question that I’ve never been asked before on the podcast: How to create positive company culture. Company culture is something that is often discussed in a lot in tech companies but rarely…
Episode 112. Create Policies and Procedures to Save Time, Money and Energy
In today’s coaching session, I’m working with Tina, a pet business owner who feels like she’s constantly putting fires in her business. She has 5 part-time staff to help her, but she gets a lot of last-minute calls from them asking for time off which causes her to have to jump in and be the…
Episode 111. Dealing with Depression and Anxiety as a Pet Business Owner
In today’s coaching session, I’m working with Cora, a pet business owner who sometimes struggles with occasional bouts of depression and anxiety. When it hits her, it causes her to suffer – and her business to suffer. When she’s not experiencing depression and anxiety her energy level is high, her response time to clients is…
Episode 110. Create a Business Schedule You Love
Today’s coaching session is with Donna, a pet sitter and dog walker in Tennessee. She has owned her business for a few years and she’s struggling with creating a schedule that works for her and her full personal life with family and many pets. (Donna wins the award for the pet business owner I’ve coached…
Episode 109. How to Deal with Pet Sit & Dog Walk Client Keys
Val Goren is an Atlanta-based pet sitter and dog walker who has a quickly growing pet sitting and dog walking business. Like many pet pros who provide home-based pet services, Val is having challenges managing the vast amount of client keys she and her staff are responsible for. In this episode you’ll hear how she…