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The Animal Communication Podcast

The Animal Communication Podcast

Mind Body Spirit.fm 110 Episodes Sep 21, 2026

Hosted by Soul Level Animal Communicators Julie Hirt, Karen Dendy Smith, and Meredith Tollison, this podcast offers insights into animal behavior from the animals' perspective. Each episode draws on their professional experiences communicating with animals, both alive and in spirit. Topics include health, behavior, play, and spiritual practices. The hosts encourage listeners to deepen their relationships with pets through what they call Soul Level Lessons and to embrace a more connected life.

Episodes

Hella Martens and The Wild Oceans
Hella Martens and The Wild Oceans Sep 21, 2026 3718 In this episode, we sit down with marine mammal naturalist Hella Martens, a longtime friend from our animal communication training days, who has spent over two decades guiding ship expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica.Hella traces her journey from a horse-loving only child in the Netherlands to a career spent tracking whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals across some of the planet's most
Day Schildkret on Ritual and Pet Loss
Day Schildkret on Ritual and Pet Loss Sep 14, 2026 3292 This week on the Animal Communication Podcast, we sat down with Day Schildkret, author of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change and creator of Morning Altars, to explore why ritual matters so deeply, especially when we're grieving a pet. Day drew a clear line between routine and ritual: routine moves us from one point to the next, while ritual exists to make the uns
Meet Our Producer - Tony!
Meet Our Producer - Tony! Sep 7, 2026 2965 This week, we flip the mic around and welcome someone who usually stays behind the scenes: Tony, our audio editor for the past three seasons and over 100 episodes. Tony has spent every week listening closely, smoothing out our ums and coughs, and turning our conversations into the show you hear. In this episode, we finally get to know the person doing that work.Tony shares how he found his way her
Solstices and Equinoxes
Solstices and Equinoxes Aug 31, 2026 2975 In this episode, we take a journey through the ancient Wheel of the Year, exploring the solstices, equinoxes, and the lesser-known cross-quarter days (Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, and Samhain) that ancient cultures across the globe have honored since long before recorded history. We trace how many of today's religious holidays, from Christmas to Halloween, have roots in these earth-based, solar ce
Kara Daniels - Gaia's Upgrade: Reweaving the New Earth
Kara Daniels - Gaia's Upgrade: Reweaving the New Earth Aug 24, 2026 3338 Something stirred in the fall of 2024, and many of us felt it without having a name for it. In this return conversation with Kara Daniels, founder of Deep Root Connections, we find the shape of what that was. Kara brings us the story of Gaia's upgrade: not an abandonment, not a disappearance, but the same beloved Earth Goddess stepping into a higher-frequency version of herself - younger, spunkier
A Doorway to Your Destiny: Animal Wisdom with Kim Shotola
A Doorway to Your Destiny: Animal Wisdom with Kim Shotola Aug 17, 2026 3485 This week on the Animal Communication Podcast, we welcome Kim Shotola of The Lightfoot Way, Julie's very first animal communication teacher from way back in 2018. Kim shares how her heart horse Tara set her on a decades-long path from holistic animal care into animal communication, energy work, and a 20+ year career at the Houston Zoo, eventually guiding her to write The Soul Watchers: Animal's Qu
Why Animal Communication Is Needed Now
Why Animal Communication Is Needed Now Aug 10, 2026 3331 This week we're asking the question that we’re passionate about: why does animal communication matter right now, in this moment, in this world? Not as a curiosity, and never as a party trick, but as something sacred and necessary. Each of us comes to this work from a different place, so we start there, with our own why: Meredith's lifelong pull toward listening and counseling, now finding its full
No Bad Cats with Lora Lee Medley
No Bad Cats with Lora Lee Medley Aug 3, 2026 3076 This week, Lora Lee Medley, founder of Moon Mojo Feline, intuitive animal communicator, and certified holistic cat practitioner, joins the podcast for a conversation that reminds us there are no bad cats, only cats responding to the energy around them. Lora Lee's own journey began with her cat Monty's kidney disease diagnosis, which led her to Reiki, and deepened through her cat Emmett's health st
Intuitive Katja
Intuitive Katja Jul 27, 2026 3183 In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen, and Meredith sit down with Intuitive Katja Wostradowski, a long-time friend and colleague rooted in Nordic ancestry, now living and working in the Sacred Valley of Peru. Katja shares the extraordinary arc of her journey: growing up in atheist East Germany, where her natural sensitivity and deep connection to animals had no space
Books That Influenced Our Path
Books That Influenced Our Path Jul 20, 2026 2248 What books shaped the animal communicators we are today? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith take a warm and wonderfully nostalgic trip down memory lane, sharing the childhood and young adult books that, looking back, quietly set them on the path to the work they do now. Together, they invite you to look back at the books that found you as a child because they may have been pointing you so
How Animals Help Us Start Over
How Animals Help Us Start Over Jul 13, 2026 1777 What if your animals have been guiding you toward your true path all along, even when you didn't know it yet? In this episode of The Animal Communication Podcast, Julie, Karen, and Meredith get personal, sharing the winding, grief-marked, joy-lit stories of how their animals first set them on the path of animal communication and how they've continued to be redirected, re-inspired, and nudged towar
In Conversation with Penelope Smith
In Conversation with Penelope Smith Jul 6, 2026 3350 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,

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