The Animal Communication Podcast

It’s our season 3 premiere! Julie Hirt, Karen Dendy Smith, and Meredith Tollison reunite after a holiday pause to reflect on grief, embodiment, boundaries, and the deep wisdom of lived experience. Julie shares openly about navigating the second year of grief after her father’s death, while Karen and Meredith offer their own reflections on cellular memory, seasonal grief, and learning to be with wh...

It’s our season 2 finale, and we’re celebrating with a full listener Q&A episode! Over the past few months, so many of you have written with thoughtful, heartfelt, and incredibly important questions. Some came through email, some through Instagram, and some through clients we’ve worked with. Today, we’re answering as many as we can so sit back and enjoy the conversation. And if you have a question...

Back in February, we did an episode where we discussed the Chinese New Year moving us from Year of the Dragon into the Year of the Snake (episode can be found here. Now that we’re mostly through 2025, we’re realizing it has been a helluva a year. It’s been a year of personal growth, realization and transformation just like the Wood Snake said it would be. Today, the three co-hosts share their refl...

Dr. Barrie Sands is a veterinarian, healer, scientist, author, artist, and an international educator and speaker. Within a diversity of passions, she values seeking truth as it pertains to our humanity and the relationships that we have with ourselves, each other, nature, and the animals with which we cohabitate. She is also a HeartMath certified trainer and practitioner of Shamanic Medicine throu...

Julie, Karen and Meredith reflect on readings that haven’t gone exactly as they had hoped or planned. Not that they can ever be planned but well, you know, it’s a good reminder none of us are in control - the animals are! They also share what happened on their recent trip to New York City at the invitation of the International Dog Film Festival and International Cat Film Festival and a VIP Party b...

Nancy Windheart is an internationally recognized animal communicator and interspecies communication teacher. She teaches courses and training programs in interspecies communication for both lay people and those who wish to practice professionally, and provides animal communication consultations, intuitive and energy healing sessions, and professional mentoring for clients worldwide. She is also a...

A lot of previous episodes have talked about difficult topics from love and loss, euthanasia and grief. And in this poignant and vulnerable conversation, Meredith talks with Karen and Julie about behavioral euthanasia. Listeners, please take care if this is not a topic you believe you can hear.  It is important to discuss. Meredith has been through it and she has counseled others who have been thr...

Christine Noble Seller, founder of Interspecies Voices and a founding member of Nature’s Council. Christine is an intuitive interspecies communicator and activist who works to amplify the voices of animals, wildlife, and ecosystems as equal partners in shaping our shared future. And in that work, she helps humans re-establish relationship with the more-than-human world. Her organization, Interspec...

Kara Daniels is the founder of Deep Root Connections—an earth‑centered initiative focused on animal and nature communication, energy healing, and spiritual land connection. As a master gardener and hobby‑farm caretaker, she rescues and co‑lives with animals, weaving their voices into her work. Kara’s journey began in interspecies communication and expanded into tree, land, and spirit‑guardian dial...

Meet Julie Burke! She is the human heart behind the amazing animal welfare organization, NicaLove, a non-profit animal welfare organization dedicated to advocating for and protecting domestic and working animals in Nicaragua. She has built a sanctuary that shelters 300 dogs, cats and horses and she runs education programs and vet clinics in the community. Her story is one of intuition and passion...

All of us have lost beloved animals. Our best friends, our greatest teachers - when they pass away, the sadness and grief can feel overwhelming. And yet, when we work with that grief, we can find gold. It may take a while but in allowing the sadness to appear, many times, we can land in a place of deeper insight, a tighter bond and so much more than we expected. In this episode, our three co-hosts...

We’re talking with Dr. Jennifer Freed, a renowned psychological astrologer, bestselling author, and dynamic group and retreat leader, about how astrology can inform, positively impact and deepen your relationship with your animal. She provides great examples of how to use astrology for yourself and your animal as well as guidance on where to get the astrological information you need. If astrology...

Karen, Meredith and Julie reflect on all of the connections and community they have encountered with and among all of the people who lead with their heart for the animals. Animals connect us - to our own humanity, new ways of thinking, and collective camaraderie.  RESOURCES  Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman Check out the CatCon Instagram Medicine Cards by Jami Sands David Carso Do YOU want to be a...

If you’ve ever bumped up against “religion” (I’m doing air quotes) and animal communication and how they can exist together  - Victoria Loorz is someone who can help you. She is the founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality whose two-year program, Seminary of the Wild, is focused on a deep-dive yearlong Eco-Ministry Certificate program for all those who feel called by Earth and Spirit to "restor...

Are you curious about Bach Flower Essences? In this conversation, we learn all about what they are and how they can help both you and your animal with the help of our special guest, Nina Ruberti.   Nina Ruberti is an animal communicator, intuitive, energy healer, dowser, and reiki master. She also works with lost animals, home clearings and is an intuitive/spiritual painter. Today - she’s going to...

Since Karen, Meredith, and Julie have started the partnership and collaboration with the animals, they are continually shown opportunities to support animal rescues, causes and even grief support. Today’s conversation focuses on how Animal Communication has changed our lives and opened us up to becoming aware of different ways that we can help and be of service. And they hope that today’s conversa...

You may remember Anna Marie Ellison from last season when we talked about the Power of Horses. She and Julie are teaming up to help people work with and through their grief with the help of Anna Marie’s herd. And we thought it would be great to have her here as part of a larger conversion on Grief and how our animals have helped us with it.  Before we dive in, let me tell you just a bit more about...

Meredith leads a conversation with Karen and Julie on another service they all offer - one that the animals led them to - Soul Level Intuitive Coaching. In this discussion, you’ll hear how our three co-hosts met their guides, how they work with them, and how Soul Level Intuitive Coaching can help you. And sometimes, it’s even led by your animals! Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out...

This week, our guests are Denise Nestel and Christine Noble Seller, Directors of Giving Animals Voice, a ground-breaking organization that is making animal communication a resource widely available to shelters, rescues, and sanctuaries. Their goal is to improve the well-being of animals and facilitate optimal adoptions as well as to develop practices, processes and data to share with other organiz...

Meredith leads a conversation with Karen and Julie to find out how their work in Animal Communication has evolved, where they get their inspiration and what other doors have opened for them. Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Danielle MacKinnon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting you...

Julie, Karen, and Meredith answer more of your awesome questions such as can a pet’s soul lesson be cut short, pets in-spirit expressing sadness, what kind of “spirit-coaching” team do our pets have and how often the three co-hosts have to practice. If you have a question for us to answer in a future episode, email us at info@theanimalcommunicationpodcast.com or use the Open Mic Feature in the Min...

Karen leads a conversation with Meredith and Julie about what Body Mapping is, how it is used in an Animal Communication session. and how all three co-host's abilities have grown since using it.   Do YOU want to be an animal communicator? Check out the new classes and Be Open Community offered by our teacher, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Danielle MacKinnon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. It’s a great place to learn Energy Management, trusting y...

In this episode, Meredith leads Karen and Julie on a discussion about our favorite podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. If you haven’t heard of this show yet, we recommend listening to it. In fact, many animals with whom we’re communicating are recommending their humans listen! The discussion covers our reaction to the show, what we think of The Hill and how we view “intelligence” and “communication” ove...

Mindy Meiering is the author of the Rainbow Bridge Pet Loss Deck, a helpful tool Julie, Karen, and Meredith use in their Soul Level Animal Communication® sessions. Mindy is also a licensed therapist, life coach, and mindfulness teacher who specializes in grief and loss. When she lost her first dog, Ellie. Mindy was blindsided by how devastated she felt. Even though she’d supported thousands of cli...

Julie-Anne Heart is a Soul Activator for cat guardians, an empath, author, cat mum and behaviorist. She has worked with cats for 20 years and founded Naturally Cats to provide holistic help for cats and their guardians. Julie-Anne uses a combination of energy work and emotional clearing with both the cat and their human to help create a deep and spiritual bond. She also advises about environment e...