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Prosperous Pet Business

Kristin Morrison

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

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36:39

Ep. 173: How to Get New Clients in Low-Cost,...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2026/03/10

Abby runs a dog walking and pet sitting business with a co-owner. In this coaching session, Abby discusses challenges in growing her pet business. She's expanded the client base by taking on clients outside the original area and have tried low-tech advertising methods like door hangers and lawn signs, with lawn signs being particularly successful. But when it's snowing in Buffalo, New York, lawn signs are not an option! Despite efforts to increase word-of-mouth referrals and collect reviews, they

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21:13

Ep. 172: Is Your Pet Business Falling Apart?

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2026/02/17

This episode is about something no one glamorizes when running a pet business: the messy middle. This can often look like confusion, second-guessing, restructuring, and uncomfortable change. If you've ever questioned your pricing, outgrown clients, rewritten your offers, or wondered whether you're cut out for this at all – this episode is for you. Social media shows the butterflies. It rarely shows the goo. But that dissolving stage? That's where real transformation happens. If your business

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22:04

Ep. 171: Goal-Setting Tools for a Productive New Year

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2026/01/13

Happy new year! In this episode, you'll hear goal-setting tips and tools I've used in my own business and life to to create a great year. I'm excited to share them with you too. You'll also hear a spontaneous conversation I recorded with someone I was co-working with on (with her permission!) one of my favorite productivity apps ever - Focusmate. You'll hear why she and I love Focusmate so much and how it's helped her with loneliness, and me with accountability and productivity – and how it can

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42:48

Ep. 170: Downsizing Your Pet Business + Managing...

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2025/12/02

In this pet business coaching session, Jorge discussed his need to downsize his dog daycare and boarding business. Jorge is seeking advice on adapting his operations and staff for a smaller facility. This session covers strategies for managing walk-in clients, implementing new policies for space limitations, and improving marketing efforts through social media and SEO. Jorge also shared plans to move his business to a new location and change its name while maintaining certain branding elements, with

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37:51

Ep. 169: How to Deal with Employee Challenges and...

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2025/11/20

In this coaching session, you'll hear pet sitter and dog walker Malina share challenges she's having with team member turnover and client retention in her pet sitting and dog walking business, particularly after expanding to multiple states. You'll hear strategies for delegating responsibilities and improving staff independence, various operational improvements including software systems, staff training approaches, and goal-setting tools. Visit the show notes page at:

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36:29

Ep. 168: Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Liability and...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/11/11

This episode dives into the intricate challenges of running a pet sitting and dog walking business, focusing primarily on liability and proper worker classification. Lori, who operates a dog walking and pet sitting service in the Philadelphia area, shares her concerns about managing the risks associated with her pet walkers, especially after sustaining an ankle injury herself while on the job. In this episode you'll hear the critical distinction between employees (W-2) and independent

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41:34

Ep. 167: Making the Leap to Doing the Dog Business...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/10/30

Renee is a dog trainer in Maine who wants to quit her corporate job to run her dog training business full time. However, she's concerned about letting go of job stability and stepping into full-time entrepreneurship. She's wondering when and how to make that leap and has a lot of questions about that so she can feel more confident about taking the leap to doing her dog training business full time. Visit the show notes page at: www.prosperouspetbusiness.com/podcast167 Find out more and sign up

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24:48

Ep. 166: Advanced Time Management and Deep Focus

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/10/14

This episode dives into a game-changing productivity tool: The Eisenhower Matrix (also known as the Urgent-Important Matrix). This four-quadrant framework challenges the common mistake business owners make of confusing mere urgency with true importance. You’ll hear me break down the four quadrants: Do, Schedule, Delegate, and Delete - and illustrate the importance of protecting your time by correctly classifying tasks. To help you dedicate proper time to these high-value activities, I

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49:59

Ep. 165: How to Plan for Medical Leave and Other Time...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/09/30

What if you had a medical emergency and you needed to take time off from your pet business? Or, what if you got the news that you’re pregnant and will need to take some maternity leave? Maybe you just need a chunk of time away from your business for your mental health? In this episode, you’ll hear me coach Sarah, a dog walker and pet sitter who has a knee issue that is impacting her ability to do her job. She needs to have knee surgery but has no staff to help and she’s unsure how she can take

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20:19

Ep. 164: Use Time Tracking to Gain Clarity and Focus

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/09/09

Do you feel like you're constantly working in your pet business? One minute you're walking, training or grooming dogs, the next you're updating your social media, and before you know it, the day is over and you're not sure where the time went. The answer isn't to work harder; it's to work smarter. Time tracking is the secret weapon for pet business owners who want to reclaim their days and increase their bottom line without adding more to their plate. In this episode, I’m diving deep into the

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38:16

Ep. 163: When to Hire Pet Sitters and Dog Walkers in...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/08/01

Genevieve has a pet sitting and dog walking business in Indiana and she’s recently added the service of pet wedding attendant to her pet services. She is trying to figure out when is the right time to hire staff. She’s also feeling like she should do some tasks in her business, but she does want to because these tasks drain her energy. Money is also a concern and is an important consideration to keep in mind for both of her challenges. In this pet sitting coaching session, you’ll hear us tease out

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39:35

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

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2025/07/01

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 cat owners are not even aware of exists. Many of the cat owners she may be trying to reach are likely having their

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08:26

Bonus: Money Affirmations

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/06/23

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 the neuropathways in a groove that is more in alignment with what you want, rather than what you

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49:20

Ep. 161: Do the Work to Grow Your Pet Sitting Business

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/06/03

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 happen! In this episode you’ll hear some of the actions he can take to get more clients and continue

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46:27

Bonus: Recover from Pet Business Burnout

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/05/20

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! Even if travel isn’t something you’re itching to do, you may want some time off to have fun with your family and friends, take a break from

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51:58

Ep. 160: How to Make More Money as a Pet Sitter or...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/05/13

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 her end up in a very different place than when she started in the beginning of the coaching session

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34:25

Ep. 159: Grow Your Pet Business

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/04/25

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 your business, this episode can help you too! Visit the show notes

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01:22:47

Ep. 158: Create Your Dream Pet Business Life

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/03/20

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 Marketing Unleashed podcast recently sat down with me to talk about how I went from working 7 days a week to living abroad

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23:27

Episode 157: The Power of Affirmations in Your Business

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/03/04

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 today contains some visual proof of how our words and thoughts impact things (including your business). You can see

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48:06

Episode 156. Revamp Your Pet Sitting Business – Or...

Prosperous Pet Business ·

2025/02/04

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 inquiries from new clients. Understandably this is causing her stress and strain! In this episode she will learn how

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