The Animal Communication Podcast

What if the animals have been participating in humanity's great awakening all along and have simply been waiting for us to catch up? In this extraordinary episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith sit down with Penelope Smith, the founding pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication, for a conversation that is as expansive as it is grounding. Drawing on more than fifty years of work in the field, P...

Long before any of us had language for animal communication, we had movies. In this candid, unplanned conversation, Julie, Karen, and Meredith revisit the films and shows that first cracked them open to a deeper relationship with animals — the ones that made them cry, made them furious, and made them believe. From Bambi to Benji, King Kong to Kimba the White Lion, Snow White to His Dark Materials,...

What does it mean for an animal to travel between worlds? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith explore the rich and ancient concept of the psychopomp — a guide of souls between the realms of the living and the dead — sparked by a single word encountered in their recent conversation with The Wisdom of the Hive authors Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Bertain. Meredith takes the hosts on a...

Have you ever had a gut feeling you couldn't quite explain — and it turned out to be exactly right? In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Meredith, and Karen pull back the curtain on their own intuitive journeys, sharing the childhood moments, animal encounters, and life experiences that first cracked them open to trusting what they couldn't always see or explain. From Meredi...

Jae and Adrienne of Two Crazy Cat Ladies — the dynamic duo behind the Feline Essential supplement line — are back on the podcast, and they brought a lot of good stuff with them. In this conversation, Julie, Karen, and Meredith dive deep with these passionate feline advocates on why cats are so fundamentally misunderstood (hint: they are not small dogs), what it took to truly see their cats as teac...

What happens when the veil between worlds grows thin — and you're brave enough to step through? In this enchanting return visit, we welcome back Lisa Tully, animal healer and communicator from Ireland, for a conversation that expands our understanding of consciousness, connection, and the magical beings who share our world. Drawing on Ireland's deep mystical heritage, Lisa traces the origins of th...

We made it — Episode 100! To celebrate this incredible milestone, Karen, Meredith, and Julie turned the microphone around and handed it straight to you — the listeners who have made this podcast what it is. In this joyful, heartfelt Q&A episode, your questions spark rich conversations about how to shift from the thinking mind into the open heart for animal communication, what viral moments like Pu...

What if the real power of animal communication isn't about receiving messages at all — but about being changed by love? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith explore how the unconditional love of animals creates the safety for us to finally listen to our own truth, return to wholeness, and remember our connection to something much larger than ourselves. From Julie's story of Lukas and a brok...

In this deeply moving conversation, the hosts of The Animal Communication Podcast welcome Dr. Isla Fishburn of Kachina Canine - intuitive medicine teacher, shamanic practitioner, grief tender, and author - for a conversation that truly transcends the ordinary. Dr. Isla shares her remarkable "long walk": a lifelong initiation into the consciousness of death, woven through early losses, a near-death...

Sandra Ingerman has spent 46 years teaching people how to move through the hardest passages of their lives - not by fighting the darkness, but by learning to trust what lives inside it. In this episode, the author of Walking Through Darkness joins Julie, Karen, and Meredith for a conversation about initiation, nervous system regulation, and what it actually means to connect with animals and nature...

Spring is far more than a change in season. It's an invitation to awaken, transform, and trust the process, even when a late frost takes the wind right out of your sails. In this episode, Meredith, Karen, and Julie explore what spring stirs up in each of them: the hopefulness of new growth and the heartbreak when it gets snatched away, the divine imprint visible in migrating cranes, tadpoles growi...

In this episode, Karen, Meredith, and Julie explore one of the most quietly powerful lessons our animals offer us: how to honor boundaries - our own, theirs, and each other's. Animals set boundaries without guilt, without over-explaining, and without second-guessing themselves, and in doing so, they hold up a mirror to the places where we humans struggle most. From India's pack-disrupting behavior...

What if bees weren't just pollinators — but teachers, mystics, and guides? In this week's episode of the Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen, and Meredith sit down with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine, co-authors of The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Collective Wellbeing, for a conversation that is equal parts mystical, practical, and soul-stirring. Togeth...

What if the food in your pet's bowl — and on your own plate — is the missing piece of their health, and yours? This week, we sit down with Kara Hanrahan of Raw Remedies Holistic Health, a functional medicine nurse practitioner and canine nutritionist whose journey from conventional emergency medicine to holistic health was sparked by the animals in her life. From a cat lost too soon to a dog with...

What if your pet's body already knew exactly what it needed — and you just needed the right tool to ask? In this episode, we sit down with Pam Roussell of Perfectly Holistic, a holistic cat health practitioner who uses muscle testing and pendulum energy work to help pets and their people get to the root cause of what's going on — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Pam's journey started with...

In this heartfelt episode Meredith, Karen, and Julie explore a tender and often overlooked question: what happens for our animals when we are the ones who leave? Whether through travel, hospitalization, or death, the trio shares personal stories, client experiences, and soul-level insights about how animals perceive time, process absence, and remain energetically connected to their humans. From pr...

In this deeply personal episode, Julie Hirt, Karen Dendy Smith, and Meredith Tollison reflect on why The Animal Communication Podcast exists and how the animals themselves have shaped its heart. What begins with Julie’s tender story of Lukas’ daily “co-regulating hug” unfolds into a powerful conversation about vulnerability, grief, self-trust, and community. The trio shares how the show has helped...

In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, we welcome intuitive channeler Stephanie Banks for a deeply moving conversation about consciousness, trust, and connection beyond words. Stephanie shares how her channeling journey began through communicating with her mother during dementia — a story that resonates personally with Julie as she navigates her own mom’s Alzheimer’s — and how that e...

In this powerful conversation, we sit down with sisters Ronni and Jeannie -  authors, intuitive coaches, animal communicators, and self-described cycle breakers -  to explore healing from childhood trauma, rebuilding sibling relationships, and learning to trust yourself after growing up in dysfunction. Cast into rigid family roles of “hero” and “scapegoat,” they share how naming abuse, breaking ge...

In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen and Meredith Tollison have a heartfelt conversation about signs and how our animals, both in spirit and in body, communicate with us through subtle, surprising, and deeply personal moments. Together, they explore what signs really are (and what they’re not), how grief can heighten our sensitivity to them, and why belief, embodiment,...

As we approach the rare Year of the Fire Horse, Meredith, Julie and Karen explore what this bold, catalytic energy invites - and what it asks us to tend with care. Reflecting on personal astrology, Chinese zodiac wisdom, and lived experience with horses, the hosts discuss leadership, momentum, self-expression, and the nervous system realities of change. With horses as both metaphor and teacher, th...

In this episode animal healer and communicator Lisa Tully joins the co-hosts for a deeply moving conversation about mirroring, healing, and the profound ways our animals reflect what we carry emotionally and spiritually. Drawing from animal communication, Chinese medicine, flower essences, and lived experience, Lisa shares how animals act as loving barometers for imbalance, often expressing throug...

In this deeply moving episode, the co-hosts sit down with trauma-informed yoga instructor and grief guide Keri Kenney for an honest, tender conversation about grief, healing, and the animals who walk beside us through our darkest moments. Keri shares her profound personal story of loss and how her dogs, Lola and Carlos, quite literally helped her survive the unimaginable by teaching her how to sta...

Your co-hosts explore the lived experience of overwhelm and how our animals respond when life feels like too much, too fast, and too soon. Through personal stories, client examples, and animal wisdom, they reveal how overwhelm shows up energetically and behaviorally, and how animals lovingly interrupt the cycle by modeling presence, boundaries, grounding, and rest. This conversation offers a compa...

In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, we’re joined by clinical canine herbalist and author Rita Hogan to explore what it truly means to connect - with our dogs, with plants, and with the living ecosystems we share. Rita shares her personal journey into herbalism, her deep relationships with plants and trees, and how dogs reflect the emotional and environmental patterns of the homes they...