Prosperous Pet Business

Prosperous Pet Business

Welcome to Prosperous Pet Business podcast. Your host is pet business and life coach, Kristin Morrison.

Episodes

Ep. 162: How to Pivot to Provide a Brand-New Pet Service

July 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Today’s coaching client is Randye, a pet business owner in Pennsylvania who is pivoting her business to create a totally different type of service: she wants to create a mobile cat nail trimming business. 
 
The good news: she has no competitors in her area and in the past she created a successful service-based pet business. 
 
The challenge: This is a brand-new service in her area c...
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Bonus: Money Affirmations

June 23, 2025 • 8 mins
If you’re struggling to make money and/or you’ve got a scarcity mindset that is making you feel hopeless about your financial future (example: “there’s not enough”, “I can’t earn enough”, “I’ll never earn enough”, etc.), or you just want to give yourself a leg up when it comes to improving your financial situation, affirmations can help!
 
Affirmations are an empowering way to reprogram the brain and get ...
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Ep. 161: Do the Work to Grow Your Pet Sitting Business

June 3, 2025 • 49 mins
Today you’ll hear me work with coaching client Pretteek, a pet sitter and dog walker in Northern California. He’s got a new business and already has 3 five-star Yelp reviews! He has had a lot of pet owners reach out via Yelp but rarely do those leads turn into actual clients.
 
He feels frustrated by this and wants to get more clients. Pretteek is very eager and willing to do the work to make that h...
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Bonus: Recover from Pet Business Burnout

May 20, 2025 • 46 mins
If you’ve got pet business burnout, this is the episode to listen to!
 
Heather Gibson, from Big Hearted Breeders, interviewed me for her Pet Breeder Summit and this is the interview.
 
I overcame burnout in my own pet business and built a pet business that allowed me to have lots of time off and even travel extensively –I spent many months in Bali and India!
 
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Ep. 160: How to Make More Money as a Pet Sitter or Dog Walker

May 13, 2025 • 51 mins
Today’s coaching client is Nicole, a long-time pet sitter and dog walker in San Diego, California. She’s had some big challenges that impacted her pet business, including helping her dad during his illness and an injury she got from dog walking. She’s needs to make more money because the cost of living in San Diego keeps going up and up, but her profit is not going up.
 
In this session, you’ll hear...
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Ep. 159: Grow Your Pet Business

April 24, 2025 • 34 mins

Today’s coaching client is Kai, a pet sitter and dog walker who has had her business for a few years but has had some personal setbacks including a recent divorce, and some business setbacks including having to change her business name because of a similar name in her area and losing some lucrative clients. 
She is rebranding and wanting to get more clients as well as hire some staff to help her. 
If you’re struggling with growing ...

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Ep. 158: Create Your Dream Pet Business Life

March 20, 2025 • 82 mins
That dream of a pet business, promising a life of freedom? Yeah, it probably didn't pan out exactly as planned, did it? More hours, less you-time? You're not alone if you can relate to that.
 
If the daily grind of running your pet biz is suffocating your initial vision of a flexible life, and you're longing for that promised freedom, listen up.
 
Mikaela Vargas from the Pet Ma...
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Episode 157: The Power of Affirmations in Your Business

March 4, 2025 • 23 mins
This episode is different from the pet business coaching sessions you’re used to hearing lately on this podcast! 
 
Today’s episode is about how affirmations can help your pet business. 
 
Whether you’ve never done affirmations before (and maybe you even think they are a bunch of hokey woo-woo) or you used to say affirmations, but it’s been a while, what I have to share with you toda...
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Episode 156. Revamp Your Pet Sitting Business – Or Other Pet Biz

February 4, 2025 • 47 mins
Brooke is a long-time pet business owner who has a large pet sitting and dog walking business in Los Angeles.
 
She no longer does the pet sitting and dog walking visits herself; she has a large team of staff to help her.
 
One of the challenges Brooke is currently struggling with is how to get new clients. She used to get a lot of new client requests but lately she hardly gets any i...
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Bonus: Breaking Negative Mindsets

January 21, 2025 • 62 mins
Is Your Mindset or Your Habits Sabotaging Your Success?
 
In this episode, Kristin Morrison was interviewed on the podcast, Pet Sitter Confessional.
 
You’ll hear how she delves into the profound impact of mindset on both personal and professional growth. Kristin unravels the strategies to break free from negative thought patterns, crafting affirmations that truly resonate, and integ...
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Episode 155. Set Boundaries in Your Pet Business

January 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Luis has been in business for 12 years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He has a thriving dog walking business.
 
Lately his clients have been using his pet service as more of a ‘ride share app” (using his services periodically instead of consistently) which has made planning very difficult because his clients aren’t being consistent and scheduling regular, ongoing service like they used to do.
 
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Episode 154. How to Deal with Client Cancellations

November 26, 2024 • 39 mins
Maddie is struggling with many of her clients cancelling at the last minute. This is impacting her schedule and her cash flow and her peace of mind! 
 
She’s concerned about how to enforce a cancellation policy because she also doesn’t want conflict with her clients.  
 
In this pet business coaching session, you’ll hear how Maddie can begin to set boundaries with her clients a...
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Episode 153: Get Your Mind and Business Pointed in the Right Direction

November 12, 2024 • 60 mins
Tonya has owned her pet sitting, dog boarding and dog walking business for over 10 years. 
She’s struggling with the pet industry competition in her area, especially the large amount of Rover pet sitters, hobby and neighborhood dog walkers and pet care providers.
 
Tonya is understandably feeling confused and upset because the people reaching out to her for pet services lately aren’t willing to...
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Episode 152: How to Get Client Referrals

October 22, 2024 • 38 mins
Jeremy has owned his pet care business for a few years, and he’s got a lot of 5-star Yelp reviews and many clients who love his pet services. 
 
In this coaching session, he’s feeling frustrated because he would like to get referrals from his clients, but it rarely happens. He’s not sure what to do to get referrals from his clients without being pushy. 
 
Obviously, Jeremy can’t forc...
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Episode 151: Hiring Staff and Converting ICs Into Employees

October 8, 2024 • 49 mins

Maria has owned her pet business for many years. She had a business partner, but she recently bought her partner’s portion of the business, so the business is all hers now. For the last several years, Maria has been managing her business remotely because she’s living in a different state than her service-based business is located.

She has a lot of staff members who are ICs, and she needs to convert those ICs to employees.

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Episode 150: “My 50 Clients Are Like Having 50 Bosses!”

September 24, 2024 • 45 mins
Heather wants to have more time with her kids and herself.  She bought a pet sitting business and now that’s she’s been running it for a while, she wants to change some fundamental ways she’s currently running it. 
 
Like a lot of pet business owners (especially newer pet business owners), Heather is trying to be too many things and doing too much for many of her clients which is causing her to feel burne...
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Bonus: Special Announcement from Kristin Morrison

September 19, 2024 • 4 mins

Hi pet business owners!

There’s something brand-new that’s happening VERY soon:
It’s the Pet Business + Self Care Accountability Group!

This is an opportunity to connect with me in real-time and meet other pet business owners from all over the world. If you can’t make the live class date(s), you’ll automatically get the recording!

So, if it feels right for you, jump on it quick to save some money and I’ll see you there:
www.Pros...

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Episode 149: Get Intentional about Hiring Staff

September 17, 2024 • 49 mins
Katie is a pet sitter and dog walker who has had her business for 17 years. She needs to hire staff in her pet business. Katie has experienced a lot of growth in her business and, though she does have a few staff members, she is still doing some of the services as well as managing her business. She feels exhausted and needs to find good help quickly! 
 
 
Go to the show notes page at: 
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Episode 148: Feast or Famine in Your Pet Business

September 6, 2024 • 42 mins
Kendra is a pet sitter and dog walker in Florida who needs some help with some specific areas in her business. She wants to expand her client base and also wants to figure out how to best navigate the seasonal demands. She has a hard time predicting (and working with) the feast and famine aspect that can sometimes be at the center of a pet sitting business.
 
 
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Episode 147: Post-Pandemic Pet Business Revamp

August 27, 2024 • 47 mins
Tanya is in the midst of restarting her pet sitting, dog walking and dog boarding business in New Jersey. Her pet business was doing well pre-pandemic but then when the pandemic happened, a lot of her clients stopped needing pet care and she had to let her pet care team go. She is in the beginning stages of restarting her business and she has a lot of questions.
 
 
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