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The TEC Talk Podcast: Presented by Natural Encounters, Inc.

Natural Encounters, Inc.

Join co-hosts Chris and Ari for a discussion of animal training, behavior, human-animal relationships, and all things NEI-TEC (the Natural Encounters Inc Training and Education Center), and featuring guests from the NEI team and around the professional animal care world! Email us at podcast@naturalencounters.com if you have a question or something you"d like us to discuss on the show!

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Episode 142: TEC Talk's Plans for 2023

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2023/01/05

After a bit of reminiscing over their "holiday drywalls," Ari and Chris share some of the fun new ideas they'll be trying out for the show in 2023. Stay tuned - and glued to our Facebook page - to find out more, and we hope you'll all come along for the ride! Have a question, a topic you'd like us to discuss, or a book you'd like like us to tackle for our new book club? Let us know at podcast@naturalencounters.com!

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Episode 141: Many People Talking into Many...

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2022/12/29

For the last episode of 2022 we're featuring...everyone! The staff of NEI share some of their highlights of the year as we stare down the barrel of 2023. Thanks for listening, and here's to another great year! Have a question or a topic you'd like us to discuss on a future episode? Let us know at podcast@naturalencounters.com!

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Episode 140: Attitude Determines Your Altitude (with...

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2022/12/22

Ari and Chris get a second sit-down with Bearizona Wildlife Park's "Grand Poo-Pah" Dave O'Connell! Dave "returves" to the show to talk about what he and the other staff at BZ do to create high functioning teams: encouraging people to be themselves when they're being interviewed, training humans like they're animals, making time for fun, leaning on the strengths of others, being happy in "crusty situations," and simply letting people fit in. Do you have a secret to creating great teams that you want

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Episode 139: Purposeful Recognition and Reinforcement

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2022/12/15

After a quick review of the 2022 NEI Holiday Party, Chris and Ari chat about the importance of specificity when praising and recognizing others, the line between social niceities and behavor strengthening, and the problems with the statement "just let me know if there's anything I can do to help." To learn more about the upcoming IAATE talk on Raptor Center Culture, please visit http://www.iaate.org. Have a question or something you'd like us to discuss on the show? Please let us know at

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Episode 138: Playing Ketchup From Last Week

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2022/12/08

Ari and Chris go face to face via "Internet tubes" to talk about keto ketchup, Frank Lloyd Wright, birds that aren't Harris hawks, the 2022 ZAA Annual Conference, and NEI's Professional Contemporary Bird of Prey Training and Management Workshop. Helpful Links: NEI Training Workshops: https://naturalencounters.com/workshops/ ZAA: https://zaa.org/ GRAZE Monthly Virtual Support Group: https://zoomentalhealthsupport.com/support-services/ ABMA presents "ABC's: Animal Behavior Chats" for December 8,

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Episode 137: Welcome to the BOP Shop! (with Amy...

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2022/12/01

Welcome to Workshop Week, Bird of Prey Style! Chris sits down for a quick chat with fellow workshop instructors Adam Triska, Dan Blair, and Amy Fennell to talk about the history of NEI's Professional Contemporary Bird of Prey Training and Management Workshop, to reflect on Amy and Dan's experience of being a part of every BOP workshop to date, to talk to Adam about being a first-time workshop team lead, and to share as a team the things we're most looking forward to for this week. Wish us all luck!

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Episode 136: Mom So Hard (with Danielle Poirier Larson)

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2022/11/24

Happy Turkey Day in the USA! Ari sits down for some mom-talk with Danielle Poirier Larson, Curator of Birds & Training at Southwick's Zoo! Ari and Danielle chat about the challenges of being a mom and a manager in the animal field, the ever-popular concept of work/life balance, and the importance of setting (flexible) boundaries! Do you have a question or a topic you'd like us to discuss on a future episode, or a desire to be a guest on the show? Drop us a line and let us know at

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Episode 135: Telling "White Dog Stories" to Save...

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2022/11/17

It's Contemporary Animal Training and Management Workshop Week at the Ranch, so Chris sits down to chat with one of our attendees, livestock guardian dog (LGD) trainer Cindy Benson! Cindy talks about how her work raising miniature donkeys led her to becoming a KPA certified trainer, the similarities between her work raising and training LGDs and the practices of other animals trainers across the industry, the priviledge of being able to teach others as a "big fish that found its pond," and the cool

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Episode 134: Keeping Positive (with Natalie Sunray)

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2022/11/10

Ari hosts solo while Chris is...somewhere, but she's not alone! Natalie Sunray is our guest this week, currently interning at Metro Richmond Zoo, and feeling really excited about her future in the field! Ari chats with Natalie about how she plans to stay motivated as she follows her current career path by keeping a positive attitude and celebrating her colleagues' successes as she faces the many challenges that comes with starting life in an animal care role. Have a question or a topic you'd like

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Episode 133: Training Alliances, Monkey Mamas, and...

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2022/11/03

Moorpark College's Gary Wilson returns to the show! After a quick discussion about the start of another NEI "Growvember," Gary talks about the beginnings of the Animal Behavior Management Alliance, his wife Cindy's transition from leaving the animal field to becoming Moorpark's resident "monkey mama," and his thoughts on why anthromorphism doesn't have to be a bad word in animal training. Have a question or a topic you'd like us to discuss on the show? Reach out and let us know at

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Episode 132: Work-Life Integration and Chameleon...

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2022/10/27

Chris and Ari are joined by Zoo Miami director WIll Elgar! Will talks about his path from starting as an animal trainer in the UK to leadership roles in the US, the importance of pushing your limits and taking advantage of (sometimes scary) opportunities, thoughts on the challenge of trying to achieve "work-life balance", and the roles that listening, adapting, and creating challenges for himself have played in his personal growth. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like us to discuss on the

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Episode 131: Baby's First Midyear (with Scott Trauger)

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2022/10/20

Midyear? Mid year? Mid-year? However you spell it, Chris chats about his experience (so far) at his first midyear conference as an ABMA board member with NEI Supervisor Scott Trauger! Chris and Scott discuss how the first day went, reflect on how midyear conferences differ from annual conferences, and muse on the unique opportunities afforded to people who get to be a part of a organization that's not their full-time workplace. Do you have any questions ot topics you'd like us to discuss on a

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Episode 130: The Student Becomes the Teacher (with...

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2022/10/13

Ari and Chris are joined by one of our most frequently-requested guests: former professor and co-department chair of the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program at Moorpark College, Gary Wilson! Gary talks about his path towards becoming a student - and later a faculty member - of the program, his history with (and the EATM program's connection to) the Navy's marine mammal training program, and how the EATM program fits into today's professional animal care field. We're calling this episode

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Episode 129: Post Hurricane Wrap-Up

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2022/10/06

Ari and Chris are tired (but otherwise great!) as they share how NEI and their birds fared during Hurricane Ian, and discuss everything that transpired to get our shows up and running again. Have a question or a topic you'd like us to discuss on a future episode of the show? Let us know at podcast@naturalencounters.com!

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Episode 128: Hurricane Moving Day (A Theme Park Story...

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2022/09/29

It would take an act of God to keep us from bringing you a show every week. And then one happened, and still we were like, "nah, we got this." It's moving day for our shows at THAT theme park as Hurricane Ian has forced us to cancel our normally scheduled programming. First, Chris uses his early-morning drive to work to share the team's plan for the day. Second, Ari uses her drive back home from work to talk about how the bird move went. Finally, our intrepid Ride Out Crew of Katelyn, Grace, Aaron,

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Episode 127: Behaviour is What We Do (in the UK)

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2022/09/22

Greetings from Across the Pond! Chris does a solo-cast from the UK to talk about the great work the team back home has done in getting our birds back home from a temporary show shutdown, to detail the timeline of what he and his wife have been up to driving back and forth between Scotland and England, to give details on his experience of having the opportunity to visit Queen Elizabeth II as she was lying-in-state, and to tease some potential fun things for future episodes. Have a question, query,

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Episode 126: The L-Squared Takeover (with Lucy Rutt...

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2022/09/15

It's an "L-Squared Takeover" as Lucy and Lisa take over the podcast! Will they share insightful thoughts about our field? Share what they've got for lunch today? Sow the seeds of sedition and plan a permanent takeover of the podcast?? Listen and find out! Have a question or a topic you'd like us to tackle on the show? Let us know at podcast@naturalencounters.com!

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Episode 125: Pride for the Past and Ambitions for the...

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2022/09/08

Ari and Chris use two fully-functioning microphones to answer the following questions from our staff: what are you most proud of that you've accomplished in your career so far, and what are your bigger goals and ambitions in the field? It's no surprise that there's some overlap and parallels in our responses but it does give us a great opportunity to stroll down memory lane and look a bit into the crystal ball of the future. We would LOVE it if people wanted to write in to share the accomplishments

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Episode 124: The Dos and Don'ts of Venting

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2022/09/01

One computer. Two mics. Two people. One office. Ari and Chris share physical space once more to talk about the subject of venting, and how to do it without ruining your career and your reputation. Big thanks to the "As We Work" podcast from the Wall Street Journal for inspiring this episode! Do YOU need someone to vent to? We're all ears at podcast@naturalencounters.com!

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Episode 123: Feathered Friends and Flight

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2022/08/25

While Ari is away, Chris does his best to discuss one of the hottest topics in the companion parrot world: to free fly, or not to free fly? It's a big subject with a lot of moving parts, and it gives Chris the opportunity to discuss the challenges with dealing with absolutes, different views of what constitutes good animal welfare, the importance of flight in the early life of a bird, different definititions of what the phrase "free-flight" even means, and some things that we believe make a bird a

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