Mothering Wildlife

Click here to send me a text! Have a story to share or just want to chat? Let's connect - because moms need moms! Getting back into the zoo field once you've left can feel impossible but my guest this week shares her story of how she re-entered the field once her children were older.  I talk to Jessica Price of Tanganyika Wildlife Park about finding your place and balancing kid schedules...

Click here to send me a text! Have a story to share or just want to chat? Let's connect - because moms need moms! Postpartum life is full of changes - to your body, to your routine, to your family and relationships, and to your priorities.  This week I talk to Dani Poirier Larson of Southwick's Zoo about the ups and downs of postpartum life that for some moms includes anxiety and depressi...

Click here to send me a text! Have a story to share or just want to chat? Let's connect - because moms need moms! Putting your family first can be challenging in a passion field with atypical working hours, high physical labor needs, and other living beings that rely on you for their health and wellbeing.  In this episode, Libby and I talk about how as a young mom she found it hard to advocate...

Click here to send me a text! Have a story to share or just want to chat? Let's connect - because moms need moms! Sometimes you might need to transition away from full-time animal care to another role within the zoo field.  Registrars are animal-adjacent and serve an amazingly important role in zoos!  During this episode, I talk with Jenifer about how her focus has changed since having kids, h...

Click here to send me a text! Have a story to share or just want to chat? Let's connect - because moms need moms! Welcome to the first episode of the Mothering Wildlife podcast!  In this episode, I'll explain how this podcast came to be and I'll talk to my very first guest, Whitlee Turner of the Metro Richmond Zoo.  Whitlee shares a cool story of how she came to breastfeed her son to...