Meet The Hosts

Introducing your new favorite pet health podcast!! Here's your chance to meet your hosts and see what this amazing new and free resource has in store for you and your pets. Each week we'll drop a free 30 minute episode with useful information for you to start using right away. No paywalls - just useful information to help you and your pet live your best lives. 

New episodes drop every Wednesday on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts.

For more information on specific products Dr. Katie and Clayton recommend check out Dr. Katie's store at https://drkaties.com/

Check out Claytons podcast Pet Business Disrupters https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pet-business-disruptors/id1759599442

CREDITS

Executive Producer: Kathryn Rager

Producer: Jessica Leigh

Editor: Rob Bergsma

Social Media Manager: Shana Allan

Thanks to MaxLuxe Studios @maxluxmedia

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Together, an industry disruptor.

SPEAKER_00 0:02

And renowned veterinarian discuss and debate, establish norms and new ideas in the pet world.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

This is Challenging Pet Health. Welcome to Challenging Pet Health. I'm Dr. Katie.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

I'm Glenn, and this is the premier episode of our new podcast, which is about all things pet health.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

And I am so excited to be doing this podcast together. Of course, we both know that there are other podcasts out there that offer lots of great information and resources for people highlighting veterinarians and other industry professionals.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Yeah, I know what you mean. There's some great podcasts out there, like Pet Business Disruptors, you know, my podcast, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. But I really think the two of us have something unique to bring to the table. And, you know, we're going to have a lot of cutting edge and unique conversations that are really going to bring a lot of new information and insights for everyone.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

And look, between us, we've got like more than seven decades within the pet industry, even though we both look like we're at maximum 30 each. And look, I think it's we can talk about things from a very deep knowledge base and uh really, really pull together my industry experience and your veterinary experience to give people a much more rounded picture of what's going on with their pet self.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Despite my younger appearance, I have more than 30 years of veterinary clinical experience. 20 years of that being as a special specialty veterinarian, holistic, integrative, and functional medicine.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Holistic, isn't that that woo-woo stuff?

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Um, well, not really, although we affectionately refer to ourselves as woo-woo on occasion, but holistic really means whole body approach. And so the tools that we utilize, of course, tend to be nutritional, you know, basis, food as medicine, um, herbal therapies, homeopathy, et cetera, as opposed to conventional medicine, which is typically focusing specifically on symptoms. I focus on functional medicine. We're looking at the body as a whole integrated functioning system that was designed with innate brilliance to be healthy, to stay in balance, to work in a balanced system. But truly I am integrative in that in my approach in supporting pet health, I combine regular conventional medicine strategies, surgery, sometimes medicines. I obviously very much put effort into avoiding the overuse of pharmaceuticals. But certain circumstances, of course, we need our conventional medicine. So I am integrative in applying, you know, all of that together to support the body to function in a healthy manner.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

And from my end, I'm a I grew up in a pet store and I've been in the industry my whole life. So, you know, from the from the 1980s to today, I've done everything from working in retail to manufacturing to running a distributor for more than 20 years as an industry consultant, working on marketing. So literally a holistic pet industry guy is how I see myself.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

Very great.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

But you know, like I like to see the industry as a whole and really question what we're doing as an industry. So I'm very passionate about pushing the industry forward. And I like see me and Dr. Katie getting together as a great way to actually challenge each other as well as uh challenging health generally.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

I love it. And with your background, there is so much that we get to talk about together. There are gonna be so many unique conversations and cutting edge information we're gonna get into.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Every week we're gonna be looking at different things from marketing to challenging things which have happened in clinic to talking about products, to talking about food quality, to talking about appropriateness for what you're doing. Every week we're gonna have some new topic on the line, which is gonna be looked out from me, the industry lens, and from Katie, the veterinarian lens.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

We are going to have lots of great conversations with really giving everyone helpful tips each episode. Take home cookies that you're gonna be able to start using right away in supporting your pet's health. I am eager to get going. You ready?

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Let's get on with it.