The Pet Parenting Reset

Holistic or Just Hype? How Pet Parents Can Do Better with Angela Ardolino is a straight‑talk episode about navigating the wild west of “natural” and “holistic” pet products. Angela and I dig into why you can’t just trust buzzwords on the front of the bag or bottle, and why becoming a more conscious pet parent starts with slowing down and asking better questions. We walk throu...

Is Natural Pet Care Really “Alternative”? The Original Medicine Story is a powerful idea: what we’ve been told is “alternative” was actually the original way humans and animals were cared for. Inspired by Sayer Ji’s essay “They Called It ‘Alternative.’ It Was Always the Original,” I walk through how natural medicine—plants, foods, light, movement, relationship—sat at the cent...

Choosing the Right Dog for Your Life: Lessons from Regenerative Farmer Seth Thompson takes us out to New Plymouth Farm, where the land, the goats, and a working dog named Dutch all have something to teach us about how we pick our canine companions. Seth shares how regenerative farming reshaped the way he thinks about animals, responsibility, and what it really means for a dog...

Path to Pet Wellness: Dr Jeff Feinman on Holistic Vet Care, BEAM & the Happiness Protocol brings Dr Jeff’s Pet Health Junkies conversation to The Pet Parenting Reset main feed, because this is one I want every pet parent to hear. In this episode, Dr Jeff Feinman shares the core ideas behind his new book, Path to Pet Wellness, and how they invite us to rethin...

Vegetables for Dogs? Dr Conor Brady Explains the “Plant Problem” is a deep dive into one of the most hotly debated topics in dog nutrition right now: how much plant matter, if any, belongs in your dog’s bowl. In this 250th episode, I sit down with Dr Conor Brady, author of Feeding Dogs, to unpack what he calls “the plant problem”—why dogs are biologically meat‑f...