Welcome to Your Pet Business, Your Way - the podcast for pet professionals who want to grow their business without following someone else’s rulebook. If you’ve ever felt bent out of shape trying to do content “the right way” or pressured to keep up with trends that just don’t feel like you, this podcast is here to help you do things differently. I’m Rachel Spencer - journalist, accredited coach and mentor, author, and creator of the Pet Business Content Planner and Companion and the Pets Get…
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In this episode I'm talking about why this is the final episode of the Your Pet Business Your Way podcast and why I have decided to stop it for the foreseeable future.” I wanted to be really honest with you about why – not in a big, dramatic way or in a really sad way – just upfront and honest, because that's what this podcast has always been about.” I'll be sharing what goes into creating each…
When Shelina Duke started learning to train dogs back in 2020, it was just to help her own three barking poodles during lockdown. She was shielding at home with chronic asthma, and those three dogs needed some serious help with their behaviour. She didn't expect that teaching herself from a WordPress book while isolating would lead to building a thriving, global, poodle-only, force-free training…
This is a behind-the-scenes look at what I've learned from running a dog-friendly holiday property for the last three years. Having a holiday cottage has always been a dream for me and getting the keys for Sunnyside Cottage in Robin Hood's Bay in April 2023 was so exciting. In this episode and blog post I talk about what has happened at Sunnyside over the last couple of years, the changes I've…
When Wendy Thomson Melling started her cat sitting business back in 2017, it was to earn a bit of extra cash caring for creatures she loved. She didn't expect that in just a few years she'd be able to ditch her old career as an accountant and set up a franchise business caring for cats across the country. My Three Cats first started in Warrington, Cheshire, and now Wendy has 350 clients across…
Are you planning to launch a new product or service and want to get an idea of what to expect? This episode is a behind the scenes account of launching my Pet Business Content Planner for 2026. This is a product I created in 2025, so this year was the second year and I wanted to put this episode out to give an insight into the work involved. I'm sharing a 'warts and all' insight into my planner…
Would you like to improve your understanding of neurodivergence? It might be in relation to your own experience, or around how you support your clients. Katrina Bayliss is The Neurodivergent Dog Coach and she supports pet professionals and dog people in improving the way they communicate with their dogs and one another. Katrina has the most fascinating background, from working in nightclubs to…
Did you come into the New Year feeling all fired up and filled with energy about your pet business and what was going to happen in 2026? Then, as we were flung into wars, political upheaval, economic uncertainty, did it feel like you skidded to a bit of a halt? If you’re nodding along, that’s ok, it’s totally normal to feel like this. There’s a lot going on in the world right now. And when you’re…
When Kerry Whitney split up with her boyfriend, lost her dad and had to move back home to her mum's, it led to her starting her dream business. It was back in 2015, and she'd just started an Instagram account for her Pug Frank, and started making him fun bow ties as a way of coping with her grief and the upheaval she'd experienced. Things grew, she started sending out her products to other dog…
Confidence is an area that comes up as a challenge with the pet business owners I work with over and over again. When you're running a business on your own, you're already doing really brave things and taken the big risks. Yet, so often, things will make us question ourselves. I ran a workshop and a 'confidence experiment' in my membership to look at this, in particular asking people to ask…
Helen Wainwright is co-founder of the Dog Trainer School, a supportive online community for professional dog trainers that she runs alongside her partner Lee. Before working with dogs, Helen spent nearly a decade as a product tester and journalist at Good Housekeeping magazine, and later worked in community development. Going from glossy mags to working as a dog trainer meant taking a huge chance,…
