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Prosperous Pet Business
by Kristin Morrison
Welcome to Prosperous Pet Business podcast.Your host is pet business and life coach, Kristin Morrison.
Episodes
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Episode 180: Re-Release: 9 Quick and Easy Ways to Find Calm When You're Stressed
This episode aired a few years ago and it's being re-released today. This episode is all about chilling out and getting your calm on. These are time-tested methods I've used in my own life when the poop hits the fan (or I'm frazzled); my coaching clients have also had good success with these...
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Episode 179: Re-Release: How to Deal with Overwhelm
This episode aired a few years ago and it's being re-released today. The pet business coaching client I'm working with on this episode is Alexis, the owner of Hand and Hound Pet Sitting. After ten years of pet sitting for neighbors and friends, Alexis Campbell turned her side job into a...
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Ep. 178: Replay: Dealing with Depression and Anxiety as a Pet Business Owner
In this podcast episode replay from a few years ago, you'll meet Cora, a pet business owner navigating the impact of depression and anxiety on her pet business and her life When feeling well, Cora is high-energy, responsive, and prompt with billing. However, during depressive episodes, she feels...
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Ep. 177: 5 Steps to Recover from Pet Business Burnout
Today you'll learn how even the busiest and most stressed-out pet professionals can make a full recovery from business burnout! This episode will walk you through some of what I use in my own life - and some (or all of them!) may work for you too. Also, congratulations to Norma, Rose Maria, and...
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Ep. 176: Make Good Changes and Decisions in the Pet Business
Kathryn is a pet sitter and dog walker in Oregon who is not quite ready to sell her business but would like to create a game plan to do that in the future. She's also exploring some feelings around mortality given that her parents both died fairly young and she's nearing the age her parents died....
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Ep. 175: Self Care for Busy Pet Pros
For busy pet business owners, the usual self-care like scheduling spa days or going on a weekend retreat can feel stressful when time is tight. In this episode, you'll learn now to reframe self-care as essential daily maintenance rather than a luxury, focusing on micro-habits that reset your...
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Ep. 174: Millionaire Mindset
This episode originally aired in 2017 and since then has helped a lot of pet business owners reshape their money mindset - I hope the re-release of this episode will help you too! Want to make more money in your business? So did Marc Allen. In this episode, he shares his journey from poor person…
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Ep. 173: How to Get New Clients in Low-Cost, Effective Ways
Abby runs a dog walking and pet sitting business with a co-owner. In this coaching session, Abby discusses challenges in growing her pet business. She's expanded the client base by taking on clients outside the original area and have tried low-tech advertising methods like door hangers and lawn...
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Ep. 172: Is Your Pet Business Falling Apart?
This episode is about something no one glamorizes when running a pet business: the messy middle. This can often look like confusion, second-guessing, restructuring, and uncomfortable change. If you've ever questioned your pricing, outgrown clients, rewritten your offers, or wondered whether…
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Ep. 171: Goal-Setting Tools for a Productive New Year
Happy new year! In this episode, you'll hear goal-setting tips and tools I've used in my own business and life to to create a great year. I'm excited to share them with you too. You'll also hear a spontaneous conversation I recorded with someone I was co-working with on (with her permission!) one...
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Ep. 170: Downsizing Your Pet Business + Managing Negative Reviews
In this pet business coaching session, Jorge discussed his need to downsize his dog daycare and boarding business. Jorge is seeking advice on adapting his operations and staff for a smaller facility. This session covers strategies for managing walk-in clients, implementing new policies for space...
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Ep. 169: How to Deal with Employee Challenges and Staff Turnover
In this coaching session, you'll hear pet sitter and dog walker Malina share challenges she's having with team member turnover and client retention in her pet sitting and dog walking business, particularly after expanding to multiple states. You'll hear strategies for delegating responsibilities...
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Ep. 168: Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Liability and Worker Classification
This episode dives into the intricate challenges of running a pet sitting and dog walking business, focusing primarily on liability and proper worker classification. Lori, who operates a dog walking and pet sitting service in the Philadelphia area, shares her concerns about managing the risks...
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Ep. 167: Making the Leap to Doing the Dog Business Full-Time
Renee is a dog trainer in Maine who wants to quit her corporate job to run her dog training business full time. However, she's concerned about letting go of job stability and stepping into full-time entrepreneurship. She's wondering when and how to make that leap and has a lot of questions about...
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Ep. 166: Advanced Time Management and Deep Focus
This episode dives into a game-changing productivity tool: The Eisenhower Matrix (also known as the Urgent-Important Matrix). This four-quadrant framework challenges the common mistake business owners make of confusing mere urgency with true importance. You'll hear me break down the four…
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Ep. 165: How to Plan for Medical Leave and Other Time Off
What if you had a medical emergency and you needed to take time off from your pet business? Or, what if you got the news that you're pregnant and will need to take some maternity leave? Maybe you just need a chunk of time away from your business for your mental health? In this episode, you'll…
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Ep. 164: Use Time Tracking to Gain Clarity and Focus
Do you feel like you're constantly working in your pet business? One minute you're walking, training or grooming dogs, the next you're updating your social media, and before you know it, the day is over and you're not sure where the time went. The answer isn't to work harder; it's to work…
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Ep. 163: When to Hire Pet Sitters and Dog Walkers in Your Business
Genevieve has a pet sitting and dog walking business in Indiana and she's recently added the service of pet wedding attendant to her pet services. She is trying to figure out when is the right time to hire staff. She's also feeling like she should do some tasks in her business, but she does want…
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Ep. 162: How to Pivot to Provide a Brand-New Pet Service
Today's coaching client is Randye, a pet business owner in Pennsylvania who is pivoting her business to create a totally different type of service: she wants to create a mobile cat nail trimming business. The good news: she has no competitors in her area and in the past she created a successful...
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Bonus: Money Affirmations
If you're struggling to make money and/or you've got a scarcity mindset that is making you feel hopeless about your financial future (example: "there's not enough", "I can't earn enough", "I'll never earn enough", etc.), or you just want to give yourself a leg up when it comes to improving your...
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Ep. 161: Do the Work to Grow Your Pet Sitting Business
Today you'll hear me work with coaching client Pretteek, a pet sitter and dog walker in Northern California. He's got a new business and already has 3 five-star Yelp reviews! He has had a lot of pet owners reach out via Yelp but rarely do those leads turn into actual clients. He feels frustrated…
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Bonus: Recover from Pet Business Burnout
If you've got pet business burnout, this is the episode to listen to! Heather Gibson, from Big Hearted Breeders, interviewed me for her Pet Breeder Summit and this is the interview. I overcame burnout in my own pet business and built a pet business that allowed me to have lots of time off and…
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Ep. 160: How to Make More Money as a Pet Sitter or Dog Walker
Today's coaching client is Nicole, a long-time pet sitter and dog walker in San Diego, California. She's had some big challenges that impacted her pet business, including helping her dad during his illness and an injury she got from dog walking. She's needs to make more money because the cost of...
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Ep. 159: Grow Your Pet Business
Today's coaching client is Kai, a pet sitter and dog walker who has had her business for a few years but has had some personal setbacks including a recent divorce, and some business setbacks including having to change her business name because of a similar name in her area and losing some…
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Ep. 158: Create Your Dream Pet Business Life
That dream of a pet business, promising a life of freedom? Yeah, it probably didn't pan out exactly as planned, did it? More hours, less you-time? You're not alone if you can relate to that. If the daily grind of running your pet biz is suffocating your initial vision of a flexible life, and…
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Episode 157: The Power of Affirmations in Your Business
This episode is different from the pet business coaching sessions you're used to hearing lately on this podcast! Today's episode is about how affirmations can help your pet business. Whether you've never done affirmations before (and maybe you even think they are a bunch of hokey woo-woo) or you...
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Episode 156. Revamp Your Pet Sitting Business – Or Other Pet Biz
Brooke is a long-time pet business owner who has a large pet sitting and dog walking business in Los Angeles. She no longer does the pet sitting and dog walking visits herself; she has a large team of staff to help her. One of the challenges Brooke is currently struggling with is how to get new...
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Bonus: Breaking Negative Mindsets
Is Your Mindset or Your Habits Sabotaging Your Success? In this episode, Kristin Morrison was interviewed on the podcast, Pet Sitter Confessional. You'll hear how she delves into the profound impact of mindset on both personal and professional growth. Kristin unravels the strategies to break free...
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Episode 155. Set Boundaries in Your Pet Business
Luis has been in business for 12 years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He has a thriving dog walking business. Lately his clients have been using his pet service as more of a 'ride share app" (using his services periodically instead of consistently) which has made planning very difficult because his...
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Episode 154. How to Deal with Client Cancellations
Maddie is struggling with many of her clients cancelling at the last minute. This is impacting her schedule and her cash flow and her peace of mind! She's concerned about how to enforce a cancellation policy because she also doesn't want conflict with her clients. In this pet business coaching...
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Episode 153: Get Your Mind and Business Pointed in the Right Direction
Tonya has owned her pet sitting, dog boarding and dog walking business for over 10 years. She's struggling with the pet industry competition in her area, especially the large amount of Rover pet sitters, hobby and neighborhood dog walkers and pet care providers. Tonya is understandably feeling...
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Episode 152: How to Get Client Referrals
Jeremy has owned his pet care business for a few years, and he's got a lot of 5-star Yelp reviews and many clients who love his pet services. In this coaching session, he's feeling frustrated because he would like to get referrals from his clients, but it rarely happens. He's not sure what to do…
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Episode 151: Hiring Staff and Converting ICs Into Employees
Maria has owned her pet business for many years. She had a business partner, but she recently bought her partner's portion of the business, so the business is all hers now. For the last several years, Maria has been managing her business remotely because she's living in a different state than her...
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Episode 150: "My 50 Clients Are Like Having 50 Bosses!"
Heather wants to have more time with her kids and herself. She bought a pet sitting business and now that's she's been running it for a while, she wants to change some fundamental ways she's currently running it. Like a lot of pet business owners (especially newer pet business owners), Heather is...
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Bonus: Special Announcement from Kristin Morrison
Hi pet business owners! There's something brand-new that's happening VERY soon: It's the Pet Business + Self Care Accountability Group! This is an opportunity to connect with me in real-time and meet other pet business owners from all over the world. If you can't make the live class date(s)…
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Episode 149: Get Intentional about Hiring Staff
Katie is a pet sitter and dog walker who has had her business for 17 years. She needs to hire staff in her pet business. Katie has experienced a lot of growth in her business and, though she does have a few staff members, she is still doing some of the services as well as managing her business.…
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Episode 148: Feast or Famine in Your Pet Business
Kendra is a pet sitter and dog walker in Florida who needs some help with some specific areas in her business. She wants to expand her client base and also wants to figure out how to best navigate the seasonal demands. She has a hard time predicting (and working with) the feast and famine aspect...
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Episode 147: Post-Pandemic Pet Business Revamp
Tanya is in the midst of restarting her pet sitting, dog walking and dog boarding business in New Jersey. Her pet business was doing well pre-pandemic but then when the pandemic happened, a lot of her clients stopped needing pet care and she had to let her pet care team go. She is in the…
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Episode 146: Start or Grow a New Pet Business
Rob is starting a new dog training business, and he's got a lot of questions! No matter what kind of service-based pet business you have, in this pet business coaching session you'll learn how you can also start and grow your pet business! Go to the show notes page at:...
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Episode 145: Clear the Past to Create Your New Future
Today's episode is coaching session I did with Amy, a pet sitter and dog walker based in Texas. Like a lot of business owners, Amy is finding some experiences from her past are impacting her future. Amy's courage and vulnerability are something powerful to behold. So many business owners go…
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Episode 144. Pet Business Digital Nomad
Today's episode is a conversation that Kristin Wilson had with me on her podcast, Badass Digital Nomads. You'll hear Kristin and I discuss the various ways we kept ourselves away from traveling (sniff sniff!) You'll also learn how the desire to travel eventually pushed us to set up our businesses...
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Episode 143. Cultivate Intuition in Business and Life
This episode is an interview that Laura West did with me on her podcast, A Guided Life Podcast. It's also a conversation that can help you too! You'll hear us discuss how we cultivated deep trust in our businesses and in our life. You'll also learn ways we have sharpened our intuition, which has...
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Episode 142. Clearing Calendar Clutter
This episode is your invitation to clear out the clutter in your calendar (you can do it along with me as you listen!) and create more space for what truly matters in your life and pet business. By revisiting those recurring appointments and events that may be unknowingly weighing you and your...
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Episode 141. Create Calm While Running a Busy Pet Business
If you've got a busy pet business, you may think that is the cause of your stress, but it may be the way you're running your business or your relationship to the daily tasks that you do (or don't do). In this podcast episode, you'll learn the "what, why and how" when it comes to your stress and…
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Episode 140. Productivity Hacks
Learning how to maximize productivity is an important skill for pet business owners! There are simple actions you can take, starting right now, to help you get more done in less time. This podcast episode will help you do that! In this episode, you'll learn how to: -Set goals in ways that will...
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Episode 139. Create Sustainable Success
This is Stephanie's third and final coaching session in this episode series. Her first coaching session is Episode 137 and her second session is Episode 138. If you haven't already heard the prior sessions, it's recommended you listen to those before listening to this one. (This episode builds…
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Episode 138. Release the Overwhelm
This is Stephanie's second coaching session. Her first session is Episode 137. If you haven't already heard her first session, it's recommended to listen to her first session before listening to this session. Since the first coaching session, Stephanie has stopped spending time on social media...
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VIP Coaching Day in Hawaii or California
If you would like to combine a wonderful vacation along with an empowering day of private 1:1 pet business coaching with me, Kristin Morrison, the VIP Coaching Day is for you! In this episode you'll hear from Karissa, a pet sitting and dog walking business owner from Michigan. Karissa combined…
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Episode 137. Pet Business Pivot
Stephanie has had a dog business for many years and though she wants to continue growing her pet business, she also wants to create a new online business that is targeted to pet parents. She is thinking that an online business could be a good "branch" off her current pet business. She has a lot…
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Episode 136. Create Financial Awareness, Self-Esteem and Confidence
Today's podcast coaching client is Kristen. She boards dogs in her home and has three sons who keep her busy. She is going through a divorce and her soon-to-be ex-husband supported most her financial needs and now she needs to make more money in her dog boarding business. What becomes apparent as...
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