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| Victoria Loorz - Religion and Animal Communication | 02 Nov 2026 | 00:58:40 | |
This week we welcome back Victoria Loorz, MDiv, wild church pastor, author of Church of the Wild, host of The Holy Wild podcast and co-founder of the Wild Church Network, to answer a question we’ve heard for years: does my animal go to heaven? It started with a client’s heartbreak after her church told her that animals have no souls and no place in the afterlife. Instead of only sharing what the animals themselves say (though we do that too), we asked someone who’s spent her life inside the religious texts to help us understand how that story got told, and where it broke.
What unfolds is far more than a theology lesson. Victoria traces the idea of “kingdom of heaven” back through Greek philosophy and Hebrew cosmology to show it was never about another place at all; it was about bringing that love, right here, to earth. She names the deeper pattern underneath doctrines like “animals don’t go to heaven”: a vertical morality that strips the soul from anyone an empire needs to oppress, whether that’s animals, women, indigenous people, or anyone unwilling to bow to the “right” authority.
If you’ve ever been told your love for an animal doesn’t fit inside your faith, this conversation offers something better than permission; it offers a wider story.
RESOURCES:
Our guest, Victoria Loorz
Website: wildspirituality.earth
Book: Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred
Forthcoming book: Wild Spirituality
Podcast: The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz
Substack: victorialoorz.substack.com
Seminary of the Wild / Wild Church Network
People & projects referenced in conversation
Vanessa Wijngaarden — anthropologist leading ANICOM, a five-year ERC-funded research project at the University of Liège bringing Indigenous and Western animal communicators together with scientists. Featured on The Holy Wild, Season 2.
César Rodríguez-Garavito — Earth rights scholar and NYU law professor, founding director of the MOTH (More-Than-Human Life) Program, partnering with Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) to explore the legal case for sperm whales to be heard in court. Also featured on The Holy Wild.
Lisa Dahill — eco-theologian and Bonhoeffer scholar, Director of the Center for Transformative Spirituality at Hartford International University. Books: Eco-Reformation and Reading from the Underside of Selfhood: Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation.
Thomas Berry — cultural historian, source of the “liminal time between stories” language.
Thomas Moore — author; recent book is The Cure at Walden Pond: A Guide to Recovering Our Humanity.
Julie Tumamait — Chumash elder who led the Ash Wednesday ritual honoring animals lost in the Ojai wildfire.
From earlier episodes
Dr. Isla Fishburne — “death as a shepherd” / consciousness framing
Penelope Smith — on separateness
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®?
Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Hella Martens and The Wild Oceans | 21 Sep 2026 | 01:04:27 | |
In this episode, we sit down with marine mammal naturalist Hella Martens, a longtime friend from our animal communication training days, who has spent over two decades guiding ship expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Hella traces her journey from a horse-loving only child in the Netherlands to a career spent tracking whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals across some of the planet's most remote waters, sharing hard-won lessons about sacrifice, following her heart, and stepping outside her comfort zone again and again.
We talk about her most humbling encounters, including an unforgettable close pass with a juvenile blue whale in the Azores, and dig into the deeper questions her work raises: who wildlife management really serves, the pressures tourism places on wild animals, and what it means to approach them with genuine respect rather than force.
Hella also opens up about weaving animal communication more intentionally into her field work, including a profound moment witnessing a total solar eclipse in Greenland, and closes with a moving quote from writer Henry Beston on seeing animals not as lesser beings but as "other nations" sharing this earth with us.
RESOURCES:
You can read Hella at the following links -https://www.hellamartens.com/https://www.facebook.com/hella.martens.1https://www.instagram.com/hellamartensphotoSee Hella’s Photography - https://www.hellamartens.com/portfolio
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®?
Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Day Schildkret on Ritual and Pet Loss | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:57:21 | |
This week on the Animal Communication Podcast, we sat down with Day Schildkret, author of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change and creator of Morning Altars, to explore why ritual matters so deeply, especially when we're grieving a pet. Day drew a clear line between routine and ritual: routine moves us from one point to the next, while ritual exists to make the unseen seen and to transform our relationship to what we're going through. We talked about grief as something we get under rather than get over, how our culture has grown "grief illiterate" in its rush back to normal after loss, and how ritual can hold us safely enough to let buried feelings finally surface.The conversation closed on relationships as the true heart of ritual, since ritual's deepest function is remembering, gathering our scattered attention back to what and who we cherish. Day reminded us that it's never too late to create a ritual for an old, unmarked loss, even one from decades ago, and that something as simple as a date on the calendar can become an annual doorway back to a beloved animal. We are so grateful to Day for this rich, moving conversation, and we've linked his book and his Morning Altars teacher training below for anyone wanting to go deeper.
RESOURCES:
https://www.dayschildkret.com/https://www.morningaltars.com/
Teacher Training: https://www.morningaltars.com/teachertrainingDay’s book: Hello, Goodbye
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Meet Our Producer - Tony! | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:51:54 | |
This week, we flip the mic around and welcome someone who usually stays behind the scenes: Tony, our audio editor for the past three seasons and over 100 episodes. Tony has spent every week listening closely, smoothing out our ums and coughs, and turning our conversations into the show you hear. In this episode, we finally get to know the person doing that work.
Tony shares how he found his way here: a decade behind the bar in the restaurant industry, a growing obsession with podcasts as an escape during long prep shifts, a broadcasting program, and eventually a connection through the Empower Network that led him to Diane and Tina at MindBodySpirit.fm. Tech was never the intimidating part for him, he tells us; being on camera is what makes him nervous.
From there, the conversation opens into everything Tony has absorbed from the other side of the editing booth: the recurring theme of animals carrying people through hard times, the tenderness in how our audience finds comfort in "the woo," and the mix of inspiring and humbling moments that come with meeting people's heroes.
We dig into a question Tony has wondered about for a while: the difference in cognition between domesticated and wild animals. Each of us weighs in with our own take, touching on boundaries, communication styles, and the deeper soul-level reasons animals choose to enter our lives.
The conversation moves through animals in storytelling (Redwall, Homeward Bound, Timbuktu, and the shared trauma of "does the dog die?"), our favorite guests and most meaningful episodes over the seasons, and a joyful detour into dog breeds, herding instincts, and a Border Collie story from Tony's own life that captures just how much intelligence and personality animals bring to their play.We close by turning the spotlight back on Tony's role. He reminds us that everything is made by many hands, and that he's happy being, in his words, the one "editing out the red lights and making sure the tires don't sound funny."
RESOURCES:
Kara's Website - https://deeprootconnections.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Solstices and Equinoxes | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:52:04 | |
In this episode, we take a journey through the ancient Wheel of the Year, exploring the solstices, equinoxes, and the lesser-known cross-quarter days (Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, and Samhain) that ancient cultures across the globe have honored since long before recorded history. We trace how many of today's religious holidays, from Christmas to Halloween, have roots in these earth-based, solar celebrations, and reflect on what gets lost and gained when sacred cyclical wisdom gets absorbed into linear tradition.
Karen brings in the lens of traditional Chinese medicine, describing the solstices and equinoxes as the "cosmic breathing of the earth" and unpacking how our elemental natures (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) tie us to the seasons in deeply personal ways; we even find out Julie's element live on air. Meredith shares her own complicated relationship with fire and the fear she's working to transform into reverence, while Julie reflects on the years she spent in Alaska, where telling time by the solstice and the blooming of fireweed was simply a way of life.
We talk about the mythic battle between the Oak King and the Holly King, the balance of light and dark, and how the animals in our lives never lost their connection to these cycles, even as we did. We close with an invitation: step outside at dawn or dusk this week, set down the agenda, and just watch what the animals around you are doing. That's where the reconnection begins.
RESOURCES:
Kara's Website - https://deeprootconnections.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Kara Daniels - Gaia's Upgrade: Reweaving the New Earth | 24 Aug 2026 | 00:57:58 | |
Something stirred in the fall of 2024, and many of us felt it without having a name for it. In this return conversation with Kara Daniels, founder of Deep Root Connections, we find the shape of what that was. Kara brings us the story of Gaia's upgrade: not an abandonment, not a disappearance, but the same beloved Earth Goddess stepping into a higher-frequency version of herself - younger, spunkier, and ready to shake things up - because the old cycle was complete and a new one had begun.
What unfolds from there takes us deep: into Earth dragons reawakening after centuries of dormancy, carrying original creation codes in their bodies; into fairies and star beings collaborating with our animals in the afterlife to experiment with light codes and weave the blueprints for new species into physical reality; and into the surprisingly accessible ways all of us can begin receiving those codes right now, through sunrise, bare feet on soil, a hand on a tree.
We also talk about fire as an ecosystem, as grief, and as a portal. And we go somewhere unexpected and important: the shame many of us carry around reclaiming a relationship with nature, and the wisdom the trees themselves offer in response. This is a conversation about what is waking up, what is being rewoven, and why communicating with nature, as the trees told Kara, is everyone's birthright.
Kara Daniels is an energy healer, interspecies communicator, and channel for the guardians of the land. She is the founder of Deep Root Connections, a master gardener, and a hobby-farm caretaker who rescues and co-lives with the very animals whose voices show up in her work. Kara's fall programs, Animal and Nature Communication Foundations and Gaia Reiki and Healing Techniques, are open for enrollment now.
RESOURCES:
Kara's Website - https://deeprootconnections.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| A Doorway to Your Destiny: Animal Wisdom with Kim Shotola | 17 Aug 2026 | 01:00:26 | |
This week on the Animal Communication Podcast, we welcome Kim Shotola of The Lightfoot Way, Julie's very first animal communication teacher from way back in 2018. Kim shares how her heart horse Tara set her on a decades-long path from holistic animal care into animal communication, energy work, and a 20+ year career at the Houston Zoo, eventually guiding her to write The Soul Watchers: Animal's Quest to Awaken Humanity and develop her healing modality Sacred Animal Spirit Alchemy (SASA). We talk about the animals' now-famous message that they are "a window to your soul and a doorway to your spiritual destiny," what it's like to channel messages live from horses, wolves, and other beings during her Soul Watchers series, and how her horse retreat (The Power Within) and wolf retreat at Howler's Inn each offer very different medicine, from grounding and heart coherence with horses to the wild, courageous truth-telling energy of wolves. Kim also shares how people can connect with her work, including her upcoming SASA Zoom class starting September 1st and her Wolf Retreat November 4th–7th, with an optional fifth day into Yellowstone.
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Kim and The Lightfoot Way - https://www.thelightfootway.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Why Animal Communication Is Needed Now | 10 Aug 2026 | 00:57:52 | |
This week we're asking the question that we’re passionate about: why does animal communication matter right now, in this moment, in this world? Not as a curiosity, and never as a party trick, but as something sacred and necessary. Each of us comes to this work from a different place, so we start there, with our own why: Meredith's lifelong pull toward listening and counseling, now finding its fullest expression through the animals; Karen's story of being woken up again and again since a childhood encounter with a gorilla at the zoo, and how reconnecting with the animals got her out of bed on the hardest days; and Julie's experience of collective grief and unmooring since her dad's passing, and the sense that the animals aren't ignoring any of it, they're strengthening the invitation to come back.
Karen shares what disconnection from animals and nature actually costs us physically and energetically, right down to the organs and meridians. Meredith traces the thread through mythology and folklore, and tells the story of a hummingbird in her backyard that reminded her that nature doesn't need to follow the rules we've built around it.
We talk honestly about skepticism, what it means to ask someone for just a tiny thread of potential, and why "proof" might be a standard the collective is finally outgrowing. There's a detour into a lecture on the difference between knowledge, knowing, and wisdom, and how that maps onto Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine balance.
And, of course, we come back to our own animals and what they're teaching us this season: Lukas asking Julie to rest, play, and trust more; Barnabas showing Meredith a whole new level of calm in the face of backyard chaos; and Karen's cats reflecting the steadiness she's finally found amid a big life transition. Our animals aren't waiting for us to be ready. They're already communicating. The question is simply, are we listening?
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| No Bad Cats with Lora Lee Medley | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:53:37 | |
This week, Lora Lee Medley, founder of Moon Mojo Feline, intuitive animal communicator, and certified holistic cat practitioner, joins the podcast for a conversation that reminds us there are no bad cats, only cats responding to the energy around them. Lora Lee's own journey began with her cat Monty's kidney disease diagnosis, which led her to Reiki, and deepened through her cat Emmett's health struggles into crystal healing, herbalism, cat chakras, and animal communication, eventually training under Sylvie Sterlin to become a certified holistic cat practitioner working with the soul-level purpose, or archetype, each cat carries.
The conversation includes her Feline Essentials Herb Gardens she co-created, dried herb blends cats select for themselves through the art of self-selection, and how a cat's chakras, colors, and physical positioning can reveal exactly what they're working to release. Lora Lee walks us through her signature philosophy, No Bad Cats, unpacking how inappropriate urination, fighting between housemates, and sudden shifts in behavior are never about a cat being difficult; they're a cat absorbing and reflecting the unprocessed energy, stress, or emotion of the humans they love.
You’ll hear how her own cats Bodie and Zazzles taught her to recognize her own emotional patterns before conflict could even begin, how a client's skittish foster cat found safety through a story of protection and belonging, and how Lora Lee's sixteen cats, thirteen of them black, have deepened not just her practice but her own capacity for connection, respect, and the shadow work none of us particularly want to do but all of us are better for doing. It's a conversation full of heart, humor, and a reminder that our cats aren't just companions; they're teachers, healers, mirrors, and guides, showing us how to live more fully awake if we're willing to pay attention.
RESOURCES:
Lora Lee Medley / Moon Mojo Feline website
Feline Essentials Herb Garden Kits — Calm, Ageless, Peace, and Boundless gardens, co-created with Two Crazy Cat Ladies.
Sylvie Sterling, "The Cat Whisperer"
Julie-Anne Heart, Naturally Cats
Two Crazy Cat Ladies on the Podcast - season 3 and season 1
Julie-Anne Heart on the Podcast - season 2
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Intuitive Katja | 27 Jul 2026 | 00:55:24 | |
In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen, and Meredith sit down with Intuitive Katja Wostradowski, a long-time friend and colleague rooted in Nordic ancestry, now living and working in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
Katja shares the extraordinary arc of her journey: growing up in atheist East Germany, where her natural sensitivity and deep connection to animals had no space to unfold; relocating to London for a career as a German teacher; and then following an inexplicable, years-long calling to South America that eventually led her to Bolivia and finally, to Peru.
Along the way, she discovered the work of Danielle McKinnon, which helped her make sense of the intuitive awakening she was experiencing, and she began to understand how the land, the mountains, and the indigenous traditions of the Andes were alive and speaking to her.
Katja opens up about the profound healing journey she undertook with her partners Roxana and Oscar - a process rooted in ancestral biography, Bach flowers, ritual, and the sacred medicine of cacao, and how her son's birth became the catalyst that cracked her open to her own depths.
She also takes us into her life as an animal communicator and intuitive channel in the Sacred Valley: communicating with the corn, the pond, and the mountains in her garden; working with sacred cacao as a gentle bridge to the heart; and participating in a years-long series of collective healing fires aimed at reconciliation between cultures and the healing of ancestral wounds.
An episode about the courage of following your calling, the solitary nature of the spiritual path, the wisdom that lives in the land and how coming home to yourself changes everything.
RESOURCES:
Katja's Website - https://www.intuitivekatja.com
The organization she co-founded with Roxana and Oscar is: SFL Association: Reparación Julia Tupaq Yupanqui.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Books That Influenced Our Path | 20 Jul 2026 | 00:39:48 | |
What books shaped the animal communicators we are today? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith take a warm and wonderfully nostalgic trip down memory lane, sharing the childhood and young adult books that, looking back, quietly set them on the path to the work they do now. Together, they invite you to look back at the books that found you as a child because they may have been pointing you somewhere all along.
RESOURCES:
Books Mentioned in This Episode
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Newberry Medal, 1973)
Dog's Body by Diana Wynne Jones
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (adapted as the film The Secret of NIMH*)*
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Babar by Cécile de Brunhoff (original story); illustrated and published by Jean de Brunhoff; series continued by Laurent de Brunhoff
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Instagram Account Mentioned
@myoldbooks — DM them a description of a half-remembered childhood book and the community helps you identify it
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| How Animals Help Us Start Over | 13 Jul 2026 | 00:31:58 | |
What if your animals have been guiding you toward your true path all along, even when you didn't know it yet? In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen, and Meredith get personal, sharing the winding, grief-marked, joy-lit stories of how their animals first set them on the path of animal communication and how they've continued to be redirected, re-inspired, and nudged toward new beginnings ever since.
From Meredith's "accidental" career pivot and the puppies who lit the spark, to Karen's cats who communicated across the veil before she even knew she could receive it, to Julie's Westie, Noah, who saw clearly what she couldn't, that she wasn't taking care of herself - this conversation is a beautiful reminder that starting over isn't always a choice we make. Sometimes it's a gift our animals give us.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| In Conversation with Penelope Smith | 06 Jul 2026 | 00:58:10 | |
What if the animals have been participating in humanity's great awakening all along and have simply been waiting for us to catch up? In this extraordinary episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith sit down with Penelope Smith, the founding pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication, for a conversation that is as expansive as it is grounding.
Drawing on more than fifty years of work in the field, Penelope illuminates the concept of the Great Turning, the essential shift from a way of living that extracts and depletes, toward one that sustains and reconnects, and reveals how animal communication sits at the very heart of that transformation. Together, they explore why animals don't carry the human burden of forgetting who they are, how the Great Turning is already present in those who simply live with kindness and presence, and why the antidote to overwhelm isn't more information, but deeper reconnection.
The conversation moves into grief; the grief we hold for our animal companions, and the collective grief that may be quietly driving so much of the world's unrest and Penelope offers a perspective that gently dissolves the illusion of separation: that love doesn't wait on the other side of a rainbow bridge; it's right here, right now. This is one of those episodes that stays with you long after it ends.
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Penelope Smith and her wonderful books and blog at her website: https://animaltalk.net/
Other mentions in this episode:
Joanna Macy: Buddhist scholar and eco-activist; originator of the concept of The Great Turning
The Great Turning: Joanna Macy's framework describing humanity's essential shift from an extractive, life-depleting civilization toward a life-sustaining one
Ram Dass / Be Here Now: Referenced by Julie as well as Penelope’s message at the end of the conversation.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Our Favorite Animal Movies | 29 Jun 2026 | 00:39:30 | |
Long before any of us had language for animal communication, we had movies. In this candid, unplanned conversation, Julie, Karen, and Meredith revisit the films and shows that first cracked them open to a deeper relationship with animals — the ones that made them cry, made them furious, and made them believe. From Bambi to Benji, King Kong to Kimba the White Lion, Snow White to His Dark Materials, the stories they loved as children were doing something: seeding empathy, shaping intuition, and asking questions that would take decades to answer. This episode is a love letter to the animal stories that woke us up — and an open invitation to share yours.
Listener Invitation
The hosts invite listeners to share their own favorite animal movies and shows! Email the podcast (info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com) or use the open mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to record a 30-second response.
RESOURCES:
Le Secret de la île magique (The Secret of Magic Island): French animated film (originally); animals-only cast, no human characters (Karen)
Dr. Dolittle: the 1960s musical film series, not the Eddie Murphy versions (Karen)
Kimba the White Lion: Japanese manga animation, aired on TV in the late 1960s/early 70s (Karen)
Dean Spanley: period film starring Sam Neill, themes of reincarnation; a man discovers he was a dog in a past life (Karen, with Julie)
Bambi: Disney animated film (Julie)
King Kong: the 1976 remake of the classic (Julie)
Benji: 1974 live-action film; trainer Frank Inn, known for gentle positive-reinforcement methods and sourcing dogs from shelters (Julie)
The Incredible Journey: the original 1963 live-action film, not the 1990s remake (Meredith)
Lassie: TV series (Meredith)
Flipper: TV series (Meredith)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Disney animated film (Meredith)
Cinderella: Disney animated film (Meredith)
The Muppet Movie (Meredith)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Meredith)
Frozen: Disney animated film; Meredith's favorite character: Sven (Meredith)
The Lion King: Disney animated film (Julie)
The Chronicles of Narnia: film series (Julie)
The Lord of the Rings: film series; the talking trees (Julie)
His Dark Materials: three-season HBO Max series (all three); Julie's note: skip the Nicole Kidman film The Golden Compass — watch the series instead
Star Wars - referenced for interspecies relationships and the Chewbacca/Han Solo bond (Julie, Meredith)
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Psychopomps | 22 Jun 2026 | 00:36:58 | |
What does it mean for an animal to travel between worlds? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith explore the rich and ancient concept of the psychopomp — a guide of souls between the realms of the living and the dead — sparked by a single word encountered in their recent conversation with The Wisdom of the Hive authors Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Bertain.
Meredith takes the hosts on a journey through mythology and culture, from Anubis in ancient Egypt and the Aztec Xolo dog to Norse Valkyries and the bird messengers of countless traditions, revealing how deeply animals have been woven into humanity's understanding of transition and the afterlife. Karen shares a moving personal experience of a hairless spirit guide appearing in meditation, Julie reflects on what animals share during pet loss grief sessions about who accompanied them across, and all three explore encounters with crows, cardinals, moths, and more. Along the way, they ask a profound and tender question: do animals — and perhaps even we, as animal communicators — serve as guides between the realms in ways we're only just beginning to name?
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Tips to Open Your Intuition | 15 Jun 2026 | 00:42:10 | |
Have you ever had a gut feeling you couldn't quite explain — and it turned out to be exactly right? In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Meredith, and Karen pull back the curtain on their own intuitive journeys, sharing the childhood moments, animal encounters, and life experiences that first cracked them open to trusting what they couldn't always see or explain.
From Meredith feeling a mysterious vibration between her nose and a little dog's as a child, to Karen bursting into tears at a gorilla's gaze at the zoo, to Julie discovering her intuition quietly at work in her advertising career — each path is beautifully unique.
Together, they explore the everyday practices that keep their intuitive channels open (think walking with your dog, yin yoga, Qigong, and yes, the shower), how to tell the difference between intuition, fear, and ego, and why gratitude for even the smallest signs — a bird that lingers a moment too long, a song on the radio at just the right time — is one of the most powerful things you can do to keep the channel flowing.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| The Two Crazy Cat Ladies | 08 Jun 2026 | 01:03:10 | |
Jae and Adrienne of Two Crazy Cat Ladies — the dynamic duo behind the Feline Essential supplement line — are back on the podcast, and they brought a lot of good stuff with them. In this conversation, Julie, Karen, and Meredith dive deep with these passionate feline advocates on why cats are so fundamentally misunderstood (hint: they are not small dogs), what it took to truly see their cats as teachers, and how the whole-home environment of a cat's human family directly impacts feline health.
Jae and Adrienne share the story behind their newest product, Antarctic Krill Oil — two years in the making and thoughtfully packaged to preserve its potency — and the science of why omega-3 fatty acids are so critical for cats' kidney, heart, and brain health. They also give a sneak peek at their upcoming book, The Herbal Cat, a comprehensive guide to holistic cat care that's years of lived experience and research in the making.
The conversation wraps in beautiful territory: the power of community to shift how we care for animals, staying inside our sphere of influence when headlines feel discouraging, and the profound gift of learning to truly listen to what our cats are asking of us — in their health, their needs, and even their passing.
RESOURCES:
Two Crazy Cat Ladies website
Pre Order the Herbal Cat Book!
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Mystical, Magical Creatures with Lisa Tully | 01 Jun 2026 | 00:58:40 | |
What happens when the veil between worlds grows thin — and you're brave enough to step through? In this enchanting return visit, we welcome back Lisa Tully, animal healer and communicator from Ireland, for a conversation that expands our understanding of consciousness, connection, and the magical beings who share our world. Drawing on Ireland's deep mystical heritage, Lisa traces the origins of the fairy folk — the Tuatha Dé Danann — and how studying her own ancestry opened doorways to regularly conversing with these elemental presences, who now guide her work with animals. She also takes us along on an extraordinary journey to Mongolia, where she witnessed Mongolian shamans channel the spirit of a sacred lake and came away with a profound understanding that the land, the rivers, the trees, and the mountains are living, conscious beings — waiting for us to remember. From the protected Hawthorn trees of Ireland to the semi-wild horses of the Mongolian steppe, Lisa invites us to take even one small step toward these mystical realms — because, as she reminds us, they will meet us tenfold.
Places/Concepts mentioned that you may want to explore:
Newgrange — the ancient stone structure in Ireland (c. 3000 BC) where light enters the portal on the winter solstice
Lake Khövsgöl (she calls it "Lake Hussevol") — the sacred site in Outer Mongolia where she witnessed the shamanic ceremony
The Tuatha Dé Danann — the Irish mythological tribe at the heart of fairy folklore, for anyone curious to go deeper into the history
Samhain — the Celtic New Year/Halloween origin story she traces, if listeners want to explore that connection further
RESOURCES:
Lisa Tully - https://animalhealing.ie/
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| 100th Episode with Listener Q&A | 25 May 2026 | 00:38:33 | |
We made it — Episode 100! To celebrate this incredible milestone, Karen, Meredith, and Julie turned the microphone around and handed it straight to you — the listeners who have made this podcast what it is. In this joyful, heartfelt Q&A episode, your questions spark rich conversations about how to shift from the thinking mind into the open heart for animal communication, what viral moments like Punch the Monkey reveal about soul contracts and collective awakening, and how to wrap your mind (and heart) around the expansive world of 5D consciousness — with a little help from quantum physics, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and yes, the Keebler elves. We are so deeply grateful for every single one of you who has listened, shared, asked questions, and shown up for this community. One hundred episodes in, and we are just getting started. Thank you for being part of the journey.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| The Power of Animal Communication | 18 May 2026 | 00:57:28 | |
What if the real power of animal communication isn't about receiving messages at all — but about being changed by love? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith explore how the unconditional love of animals creates the safety for us to finally listen to our own truth, return to wholeness, and remember our connection to something much larger than ourselves. From Julie's story of Lukas and a broken leg in the Alaska mountains, to Karen's cat Dusty who stayed through a divorce, to Meredith's cat Boris who showed her she could trust herself — this conversation is an invitation to see animal communication not as a technique, but as a doorway home.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Talking with Death: Dr. Isla Fishburn | 11 May 2026 | 01:12:27 | |
In this deeply moving conversation, the hosts of The Animal Communication Podcast welcome Dr. Isla Fishburn of Kachina Canine - intuitive medicine teacher, shamanic practitioner, grief tender, and author - for a conversation that truly transcends the ordinary. Dr. Isla shares her remarkable "long walk": a lifelong initiation into the consciousness of death, woven through early losses, a near-death experience, an abusive marriage, and the profound teachings of her wolf dog, Tunkashila. Together, they explore death not as an ending to be feared, but as a sacred, intelligent consciousness, an ancient ally that has always been waiting at the edge of our circle, asking to be let in. From the concept of "soulspan" and animals as body-hoppers across infinite lifetimes, to the lost art of ceremony and the village that once held us in grief, to the beautiful truth that a heart that breaks is a heart that wakes, this episode will shift the way you think about loss, love, and the animals who walk us home.
RESOURCES:
Dr. Isla Fishburn’s website - Kachina Canine - https://kachinacanine.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com).
Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Darkness as a Doorway with Sandra Ingerman | 04 May 2026 | 01:00:04 | |
Sandra Ingerman has spent 46 years teaching people how to move through the hardest passages of their lives - not by fighting the darkness, but by learning to trust what lives inside it. In this episode, the author of Walking Through Darkness joins Julie, Karen, and Meredith for a conversation about initiation, nervous system regulation, and what it actually means to connect with animals and nature on a soul level. Sandra challenges us to move beyond "give me a message" and into true sacred reciprocity, offering before we ask, and opening our hearts before we speak. She also shares a beautifully simple exercise to help you recognize your own intuition in your body. If you've ever wondered how to find your footing in uncertain times, this conversation is for you.
RESOURCES:
Walking Through Darkness (Sandra’s Book)
Sandra’s Website - https://www.sandraingerman.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| What Spring Teaches Us: Awakening, Transformation & Trust | 27 Apr 2026 | 00:37:02 | |
Spring is far more than a change in season. It's an invitation to awaken, transform, and trust the process, even when a late frost takes the wind right out of your sails. In this episode, Meredith, Karen, and Julie explore what spring stirs up in each of them: the hopefulness of new growth and the heartbreak when it gets snatched away, the divine imprint visible in migrating cranes, tadpoles growing legs, and crows who carry messages between worlds, and the deeper emotional undercurrents such as anger, frustration, grief, and the slow work of letting go, that rise to the surface just like the worms after a long winter. Drawing on Chinese medicine, astrology, animal communication, and the wisdom of trees, they invite you to consider what your own animals and the natural world around you might be reflecting back to you this season.
RESOURCES:
Trevor Noah's podcast — Julie references an episode with a wildlife biologist discussing a puma and a llama species in South America, and the human tendency to see nature in black and white terms
Past Episodes of our show mentioned:
The Wisdom of the Hive mentioned by Meredith in connection with the idea of a "divine imprint" and how animals/insects know what to do
Rita Hogan — Karen references a past episode where Rita talked about weeds as medicinal herbs
Maria Rodale — Julie briefly mentions her shamanic journeys with plants (Lungwort was mentioned), referencing an earlier season of the show
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| How Animals Honor Boundaries | 20 Apr 2026 | 00:40:45 | |
In this episode, Karen, Meredith, and Julie explore one of the most quietly powerful lessons our animals offer us: how to honor boundaries - our own, theirs, and each other's. Animals set boundaries without guilt, without over-explaining, and without second-guessing themselves, and in doing so, they hold up a mirror to the places where we humans struggle most. From India's pack-disrupting behavior that first awakened Julie to her peacekeeper patterns, to Meredith's unforgettable nose-to-nose encounter with Pedro Pascal Possum, to the nipping little dog who was simply trying to wake his human up to her own unmet needs - the animals in our lives are constantly communicating. The question is whether we're paying attention. Together, the hosts reflect on throat chakras and self-expression, reactive dogs and energy management, lost animals refusing to come home until their humans learn surrender, and the beautiful truth that the stronger our own boundaries, the more fully we can show up for community, co-creation, and the ones we love most.
RESOURCES:
Medicine Cards - Julie references looking up opossum in it after Meredith's Pedro Pascal Possum story -
https://bookshop.org/p/books/medicine-cards-the-discovery-of-power-through-the-ways-of-animals-david-carson/a159e15cfb37631c?ean=9780312204914&next=t
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| The Wisdom of the Hive with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine | 13 Apr 2026 | 01:02:47 | |
What if bees weren't just pollinators — but teachers, mystics, and guides? In this week's episode of the Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen, and Meredith sit down with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine, co-authors of The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Collective Wellbeing, for a conversation that is equal parts mystical, practical, and soul-stirring. Together, they explore bees as psychopomps traveling between realms, the sacred geometry encoded in honeycomb, the profound lessons of darkness and stillness, and what it might mean for humanity to live more like a superorganism — building together, tending together, and healing together. If you've ever paused to watch a bee move through a garden and felt something stir in you, this episode will put words to that feeling — and then take you somewhere much, much deeper.
RESOURCES:
“The Wisdom of the Hive” - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-wisdom-of-the-hive-what-honeybees-can-teach-us-about-collective-wellbeing-amy-burtaine/a71b71aa339d7b83?ean=9781649633811&next=t&next=t&affiliate=100934
Michelle’s Website - https://www.michellecjohnson.com
Amy's Website - https://www.amyburtaine.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| The WHY Behind Your Pet’s Health with Kara Hanrahan | 06 Apr 2026 | 00:44:49 | |
What if the food in your pet's bowl — and on your own plate — is the missing piece of their health, and yours? This week, we sit down with Kara Hanrahan of Raw Remedies Holistic Health, a functional medicine nurse practitioner and canine nutritionist whose journey from conventional emergency medicine to holistic health was sparked by the animals in her life. From a cat lost too soon to a dog with chronic pancreatitis who transformed almost overnight on fresh food, Kara shares how real food became the medicine she never learned about in school — for people and their pets.
The conversation goes deep on the difference between lifespan and healthspan, the gut-brain-behavior connection, and why your animal's mood, energy, and even their affection toward you may have more to do with what's in their bowl than you'd think. Kara also offers grounded, practical guidance for families ready to explore fresh food — without the overwhelm. Whether you go all-in or just toss some veggie scraps in the kibble, she wants you to know: you're already advocating for the ones you love.
RESOURCES:
Kara’s website - https://rawremedieshealth.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Muscle Testing for Your Pet's Health with Pam Roussell | 30 Mar 2026 | 01:03:47 | |
What if your pet's body already knew exactly what it needed — and you just needed the right tool to ask? In this episode, we sit down with Pam Roussell of Perfectly Holistic, a holistic cat health practitioner who uses muscle testing and pendulum energy work to help pets and their people get to the root cause of what's going on — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Pam's journey started with her own health crisis, her cats' mysterious illnesses, and ultimately the grief of losing her beloved Tonkinese Snow Bear — an experience that launched her life's work and her company, Perfectly Holistic.
In our conversation, Pam breaks down how muscle testing works, why emotional blocks can create physical imprints in our animals, and how spirit energies can sometimes play a role in a pet's imbalance. She even puts her skills to work live with all three of us at the end — and yes, Lukas only needs to lose a couple of pounds. He'll be fine. And Dia needed a bit of energy clearing with her rabbit protein.
RESOURCES:
Website: PURRRfectlyHolistic.com
Email: pam@perfectlyholistic.com
Social: @PerfectlyHolistic on Facebook, Instagram & YouTube
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| When You Leave | 23 Mar 2026 | 00:40:07 | |
In this heartfelt episode Meredith, Karen, and Julie explore a tender and often overlooked question: what happens for our animals when we are the ones who leave? Whether through travel, hospitalization, or death, the trio shares personal stories, client experiences, and soul-level insights about how animals perceive time, process absence, and remain energetically connected to their humans. From practical communication tools and end-of-life planning to moving stories of hospital reunions and animals choosing when to transition, this conversation invites listeners to consider how we can support our animals before, during, and after separation, temporary or permanent, with compassion, clarity, and conscious preparation.
RESOURCES:
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| The Heart of Our Show | 16 Mar 2026 | 00:45:19 | |
In this deeply personal episode, Julie Hirt, Karen Dendy Smith, and Meredith Tollison reflect on why The Animal Communication Podcast exists and how the animals themselves have shaped its heart. What begins with Julie’s tender story of Lukas’ daily “co-regulating hug” unfolds into a powerful conversation about vulnerability, grief, self-trust, and community. The trio shares how the show has helped normalize animal communication, not as performance or spectacle, but as relationship, and how working with animals has transformed their own lives by teaching them to speak their truth, release false narratives, and step more fully into their gifts. Together, they explore common misconceptions about animal communication, the deeper soul-level lessons animals bring, and why this work ultimately reconnects us, not just to our animals, but to ourselves, each other, and something greater.
RESOURCES:
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Stephanie Banks - Intuitive Channel | 09 Mar 2026 | 00:48:02 | |
In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, we welcome intuitive channeler Stephanie Banks for a deeply moving conversation about consciousness, trust, and connection beyond words. Stephanie shares how her channeling journey began through communicating with her mother during dementia — a story that resonates personally with Julie as she navigates her own mom’s Alzheimer’s — and how that experience transformed her understanding of presence, identity, and soul-level communication. We explore the nuances of channeling, heart coherence, environmental stewardship, and what it means to reconnect with the more-than-human world. The episode closes with a special birthday message channeled from Julie’s beloved dog, Lukas, offering a tender reminder of steady trust, joy, and the enduring bond between humans and their animals.
RESOURCES:
Stephanie's website - https://soulinsight.com
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website (https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com). Learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective at https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Intuitively Navigating Trauma with Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver | 02 Mar 2026 | 00:54:44 | |
In this powerful conversation, we sit down with sisters Ronni and Jeannie - authors, intuitive coaches, animal communicators, and self-described cycle breakers - to explore healing from childhood trauma, rebuilding sibling relationships, and learning to trust yourself after growing up in dysfunction. Cast into rigid family roles of “hero” and “scapegoat,” they share how naming abuse, breaking generational cycles, and ultimately stepping away from their parents became necessary acts of protection and self-trust.
We also dive into the profound role animals played in their healing journeys - offering safety, grounding, and a steady presence when trust in the human world felt impossible. This honest and compassionate conversation is a testament to the courage it takes to reclaim your voice and rebuild trust from the inside out.
RESOURCES:
Ronni and Jennie’s Website
Healing Begins with Us - their book
Their Podcast
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her and her monthly Pet Loss Grief Circles at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Signs | 23 Feb 2026 | 00:39:39 | |
In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen and Meredith Tollison have a heartfelt conversation about signs and how our animals, both in spirit and in body, communicate with us through subtle, surprising, and deeply personal moments. Together, they explore what signs really are (and what they’re not), how grief can heighten our sensitivity to them, and why belief, embodiment, and emotional resonance matter more than external proof.
Through intimate stories involving feathers, wind chimes, pennies, music, animals in the wild, and everyday interruptions, this episode invites listeners to soften, trust themselves, and recognize that signs are less about certainty and more about connection - reminders that we are never truly alone.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| The Year of the Fire Horse | 16 Feb 2026 | 00:44:51 | |
As we approach the rare Year of the Fire Horse, Meredith, Julie and Karen explore what this bold, catalytic energy invites - and what it asks us to tend with care. Reflecting on personal astrology, Chinese zodiac wisdom, and lived experience with horses, the hosts discuss leadership, momentum, self-expression, and the nervous system realities of change. With horses as both metaphor and teacher, this episode offers grounded insight into how to move forward without overriding tenderness, intuition, or grief - and how partnership, rather than force, may be the key to navigating the year ahead.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Lisa Tully - Sacred Animal Medicine | 09 Feb 2026 | 00:54:48 | |
In this episode animal healer and communicator Lisa Tully joins the co-hosts for a deeply moving conversation about mirroring, healing, and the profound ways our animals reflect what we carry emotionally and spiritually. Drawing from animal communication, Chinese medicine, flower essences, and lived experience, Lisa shares how animals act as loving barometers for imbalance, often expressing through their bodies and behaviors what we may not yet be able to name. Together, the conversation explores tenderness, grief, and the heart as a place of wisdom, offering listeners a compassionate lens for understanding their animals, themselves, and the sacred bond that connects them.
RESOURCES:
Lisa Tully’s website: https://animalhealing.ie/
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| How Animals Help with Grief with Keri Kenney | 02 Feb 2026 | 00:47:22 | |
In this deeply moving episode, the co-hosts sit down with trauma-informed yoga instructor and grief guide Keri Kenney for an honest, tender conversation about grief, healing, and the animals who walk beside us through our darkest moments. Keri shares her profound personal story of loss and how her dogs, Lola and Carlos, quite literally helped her survive the unimaginable by teaching her how to stay present, nourish herself, and keep her heart open even in devastation. Together, the hosts explore how animals help us remain connected to tenderness rather than bypassing pain, and how grief, when met with presence, compassion, and support, can become a pathway back to love, connection, and embodied healing.
Learn more about Keri and her work at https://www.kerikenney.com.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Overwhelm and our Animal's Perspective | 26 Jan 2026 | 00:41:53 | |
Your co-hosts explore the lived experience of overwhelm and how our animals respond when life feels like too much, too fast, and too soon. Through personal stories, client examples, and animal wisdom, they reveal how overwhelm shows up energetically and behaviorally, and how animals lovingly interrupt the cycle by modeling presence, boundaries, grounding, and rest. This conversation offers a compassionate reframe of overwhelm as an invitation to slow down, listen, and come back into balance—with our animals as guides.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Rita Hogan, The Canine Herbalist | 19 Jan 2026 | 01:00:51 | |
In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, we’re joined by clinical canine herbalist and author Rita Hogan to explore what it truly means to connect - with our dogs, with plants, and with the living ecosystems we share.
Rita shares her personal journey into herbalism, her deep relationships with plants and trees, and how dogs reflect the emotional and environmental patterns of the homes they live in.
Together, we talk about plants as teachers, weeds as misunderstood allies, and the profound healing that becomes possible when we slow down, listen, and reconnect to the natural world. This episode is an invitation to remember that connection is not something we create, it’s something we return to.
RESOURCES:
Rita Hogan Website - The Canine Herbalist
Ethos School of Canine Herbalism
Rita’s book - The Herbal Dog
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Beginnings for 2026 | 12 Jan 2026 | 00:33:57 | |
It’s our season 3 premiere! Julie Hirt, Karen Dendy Smith, and Meredith Tollison reunite after a holiday pause to reflect on grief, embodiment, boundaries, and the deep wisdom of lived experience. Julie shares openly about navigating the second year of grief after her father’s death, while Karen and Meredith offer their own reflections on cellular memory, seasonal grief, and learning to be with what arises rather than pushing through it. Together, they explore how honoring emotions, saying no without justification, and listening to the body’s timing can become profound acts of connection; to ourselves, to one another, and to the unseen guidance that weaves through our lives and relationships with animals.
RESOURCES:
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even finding a great, supportive community.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective
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| Listener Questions Season Finale | 24 Nov 2025 | 00:59:08 | |
It’s our season 2 finale, and we’re celebrating with a full listener Q&A episode! Over the past few months, so many of you have written with thoughtful, heartfelt, and incredibly important questions. Some came through email, some through Instagram, and some through clients we’ve worked with. Today, we’re answering as many as we can so sit back and enjoy the conversation. And if you have a question for next season (coming in January 2026!) you can email us at info@thenaimalcommunicationpodcast.com.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Reflections on Our Year of the Snake | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:41:50 | |
Back in February, we did an episode where we discussed the Chinese New Year moving us from Year of the Dragon into the Year of the Snake (episode can be found here. Now that we’re mostly through 2025, we’re realizing it has been a helluva a year. It’s been a year of personal growth, realization and transformation just like the Wood Snake said it would be. Today, the three co-hosts share their reflections on a big year of change.
RESOURCES:
Website Karen mentions
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Dr. Barrie Sands - Co-Creating Health | 10 Nov 2025 | 01:03:42 | |
Dr. Barrie Sands is a veterinarian, healer, scientist, author, artist, and an international educator and speaker. Within a diversity of passions, she values seeking truth as it pertains to our humanity and the relationships that we have with ourselves, each other, nature, and the animals with which we cohabitate. She is also a HeartMath certified trainer and practitioner of Shamanic Medicine through the 4 Winds Society. Her work marries spirituality, quantum physics and science and she calls this - Illumina Scienca. She says, “Illumina Sciencia is a term that I use to describe the concept of shedding light upon or becoming enlightened with the sense of Knowing. Everything we do in life, our lifestyle choices, health and wellbeing, what we think, what we eat, what we feel and believe; our relationships with ourselves, each other or our pets and animals are all related to how we define ourselves and the world around us.”
RESOURCES:
Dr. Barrie Sands Website - https://drbarriesands.com
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| When Readings Don't Go As Planned | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:48:26 | |
Julie, Karen and Meredith reflect on readings that haven’t gone exactly as they had hoped or planned. Not that they can ever be planned but well, you know, it’s a good reminder none of us are in control - the animals are!
They also share what happened on their recent trip to New York City at the invitation of the International Dog Film Festival and International Cat Film Festival and a VIP Party beforehand that benefited Animal Lighthouse Rescue.
RESOURCES:
Tracie Hotchner and the Film Festivals - https://traciehotchnerpets.com
Animal Lighthouse Rescue - https://www.alrcares.com
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Animal Reincarnation with Nancy Windheart | 27 Oct 2025 | 01:07:41 | |
Nancy Windheart is an internationally recognized animal communicator and interspecies communication teacher. She teaches courses and training programs in interspecies communication for both lay people and those who wish to practice professionally, and provides animal communication consultations, intuitive and energy healing sessions, and professional mentoring for clients worldwide. She is also a Reiki Master-Teacher and has a complete Reiki training program: Reiki for All Species. She is a contributor to the book from Sounds True, The Karma of Cats: Spiritual Wisdom From Our Feline Friends , and the newly published anthology: Dark Matter: Women Witnessing--Dreams Before Extinction.
RESOURCES:
Nancy Windheart’s website - https://nancywindheart.com
Brian Weiss - https://www.brianweiss.com
Michael Newton - https://www.newtoninstitute.org
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Behavioral Euthanasia | 20 Oct 2025 | 00:43:53 | |
A lot of previous episodes have talked about difficult topics from love and loss, euthanasia and grief. And in this poignant and vulnerable conversation, Meredith talks with Karen and Julie about behavioral euthanasia. Listeners, please take care if this is not a topic you believe you can hear.
It is important to discuss. Meredith has been through it and she has counseled others who have been through it. She is part of a larger community of people offering support for each other. Behavioral Euthanasia is a subject we NEED to talk about, and our co-hosts hope is that by sharing Meredith’s story, we can offer support to someone else going through such a painful experience.
RESOURCES:
Losing Lulu - https://www.losinglulu.com
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Interspecies Voices with Christine Noble Seller | 13 Oct 2025 | 01:08:23 | |
Christine Noble Seller, founder of Interspecies Voices and a founding member of Nature’s Council. Christine is an intuitive interspecies communicator and activist who works to amplify the voices of animals, wildlife, and ecosystems as equal partners in shaping our shared future. And in that work, she helps humans re-establish relationship with the more-than-human world. Her organization, Interspecies Voices, creates bridges between humans and the more-than-human world, and she collaborates with scientists, conservationists, and advocates to bring those voices into the conversations that matter most. We explore Christine’s personal journey, the mission behind Interspecies Voices, the challenges and breakthroughs of this work, and how each of us can deepen our own listening with the natural world.
RESOURCES:
Christine’s website: Interspecies Voices
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| Deep Root Connections with Kara Daniels | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:54:37 | |
Kara Daniels is the founder of Deep Root Connections—an earth‑centered initiative focused on animal and nature communication, energy healing, and spiritual land connection. As a master gardener and hobby‑farm caretaker, she rescues and co‑lives with animals, weaving their voices into her work. Kara’s journey began in interspecies communication and expanded into tree, land, and spirit‑guardian dialogues, helping others attune to the unseen intelligence of nature.
She leads workshops, classes, and offers services including wildlife consultations, land‑clearing, and animal communication sessions. Her approach is to “instill a deep connection of place through body, mind, soul and spirit,” fostering harmony between humans, Earth, and the broad intelligence of the natural world.
We’ve followed her on Instagram for many years now - always inspired by how a rock or a being from the unseen will get her attention. And we’re so excited to have a chance to talk with her on this week’s episode.
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator or learn more about Soul Level Intuitive Coaching®? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
YOUR HOSTS
Julie is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner and Certified Trauma-Informed Grief Coach. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can find all of our episodes at MindBodySpirit.fm. Reach out to us with questions or comments via the Contact Us form on our website. And learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective.
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| The Story of NicaLove | 15 Sep 2025 | 01:02:55 | |
Meet Julie Burke! She is the human heart behind the amazing animal welfare organization, NicaLove, a non-profit animal welfare organization dedicated to advocating for and protecting domestic and working animals in Nicaragua. She has built a sanctuary that shelters 300 dogs, cats and horses and she runs education programs and vet clinics in the community. Her story is one of intuition and passion as she navigates the joy and sadness of animal rescue.
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season. Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
Meet the hosts-
Julie Hirt is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach® and Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Julie is also the Social Media Director for The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen Dendy Smith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith Tollison is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can also learn more about podcast news, your hosts and upcoming events at https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com/. And to learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective, please visit https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Lessons from Loss | 01 Sep 2025 | 00:32:59 | |
All of us have lost beloved animals. Our best friends, our greatest teachers - when they pass away, the sadness and grief can feel overwhelming. And yet, when we work with that grief, we can find gold. It may take a while but in allowing the sadness to appear, many times, we can land in a place of deeper insight, a tighter bond and so much more than we expected. In this episode, our three co-hosts share their own stories of pet love and loss - and what they learned from each animal that touched their lives.
Our Season Finale is coming soon and we want you to be a part of it! Submit your questions to us and we’ll try to answer them on the last episode of the season.
Email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic feature on the MindBodySpirit.fm app to leave a voice message.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
Meet the hosts-
Julie Hirt is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach® and Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Julie is also the Social Media Director for The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen Dendy Smith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith Tollison is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can also learn more about podcast news, your hosts and upcoming events at https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com/. And to learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective, please visit https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| Astrology, Relationships and Our Animals with Dr. Jennifer Freed | 25 Aug 2025 | 00:51:26 | |
We’re talking with Dr. Jennifer Freed, a renowned psychological astrologer, bestselling author, and dynamic group and retreat leader, about how astrology can inform, positively impact and deepen your relationship with your animal. She provides great examples of how to use astrology for yourself and your animal as well as guidance on where to get the astrological information you need. If astrology confuses you - this conversation helps you feel more comfortable to engage with the stars.
RESOURCES
Dr. Jennifer Freed’s website where you can find her books, Substack, Instagram and more.
TextCeleste Astrology/Tarot App - where you can get a free astrology chart for you and your animal OR try Astro.
AHA! Santa Barbara
And check out this Substack article she wrote that was the inspiration for this episode.
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
Meet the hosts-
Julie Hirt is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach® and Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Julie is also the Social Media Director for The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen Dendy Smith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith Tollison is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can also learn more about podcast news, your hosts and upcoming events at https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com/. And to learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective, please visit https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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| The Animals Help Us Create Community | 11 Aug 2025 | 00:43:25 | |
Karen, Meredith and Julie reflect on all of the connections and community they have encountered with and among all of the people who lead with their heart for the animals. Animals connect us - to our own humanity, new ways of thinking, and collective camaraderie.
RESOURCES
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
Check out the CatCon Instagram
Medicine Cards by Jami Sands David Carso
Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, Danielle MacKinnon. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting yourself and even how to do the inner work we mention in this episode.
Meet the hosts-
Julie Hirt is a Certified Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Certified Heart Animal Soul Professional Communicator, Certified Soul Level Intuitive Coach® and Certified Spirit Animal Sacred Alchemy Practitioner. She writes the column “Trust the Animals” on Substack and is a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. Julie is also the Social Media Director for The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.juliehirt-intuitive.com/
Karen Dendy Smith is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Pangu Shengong (qigong) Instructor and Energy Healer. She is an End-of-life Companion Animal Doula through the UVM certificate program and a teaching assistant for the Danielle MacKinnon School. She is also on the board of NicaLove Animal Rescue and the Founder and a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.karendendysmith.com/
Meredith Tollison is a Soul Level Animal Communicator®, Soul Level Intuitive Coach®, Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Practitioner, and certified dog trainer with a focus on behavior modification and positive reinforcement. She is also a Director of The Animal Communication Collective®. Find out more about her at her website: https://www.meredithtollison.com/
You can also learn more about podcast news, your hosts and upcoming events at https://www.theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com/. And to learn more about the fundraising work Karen, Meredith and Julie do with The Animal Communication Collective, please visit https://www.animalcommunicationcollective.com/.
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