Finding Our Place | With Carolyn Finney, Cultural Geographer
In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Carolyn Finney, a cultural geographer, storyteller, actor, lover of pop culture, and author. Carolyn has her Doctorate in geography and is the author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. She has also held positions at Wellesley College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Kentucky. We have often wondered what it means to have ‘a sense of place’ and what that means for humans in the intersection of place, history, and geography. Where are you from? What does that mean to you? What does it mean to have a place or a sense of home and have that taken away from you? Can it be? Carolyn graciously walks with us through what a sense of place means to her and expands our narrative on what that means. And as it turns out, a sense of place isn’t just about geography - it’s about how we as individuals, and the bigger collective, experience the natural world and the planet and what that tells us about who we are. What is your connection and relationship to the world outside your door - the place you live or were born to? We’d love to hear!Lots of Love. Time Stamps:Intro: 00:17Interview: 6:27TA: 1:14:25Show Notes:https://www.carolynfinney.com/about-carolynfinneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89xQdWau9vwhttps://www.carolynfinney.com/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/🔎 Please find out more info and message us at: Website: www.kindredpodcast.coYouTube: @TheKindredPodcastInstagram: @thekindredpod Facebook: @Kindred ☕️ Please support us at Buy Me A Coffee or Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.✏️ Please follow, rate, and review - wherever you listen to your podcasts.💚 Thanks.
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Super Cat Woman | With Sassee Walker, Cat Carer and Animal Welfare Advocate
In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Sassee Walker, founder of the non profit cat rescue Sassee Cats operating in New York City, specifically Brooklyn and East New York areas. She also works full-time for NYC Health and Hospitals in their billing department. Sassee started working in cat rescue and welfare in 2011 so she’s been doing this for a long time. And she is another person out there, boots on the ground, walking the walk, and making a HUGE impact on the welfare of street cats in New York. She is also supporting and educating other animal lovers on how to trap through getting certified to do TNR or trap/neuter/return, and how we all can learn how to help so many cats get fed, vet care, and find homes. Sassee is deep in the stray cat trenches, and she's here to take us through a day in the life of a cat rescuer and what it really means to be all-in for one of our favorite companions. We're so happy to introduce you to our new favorite Catwoman. Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer were iconic, sure, but in our book no one beats Sassee Walker.Lots of Love.Time Stamps:Introduction: 00:16Interview: 6:32TA: 1:00:29Show Notes:https://www.sasseecats.org/https://www.instagram.com/sassee_badass_tnr/🔎 Please find out more info and message us at: Website: www.kindredpodcast.coYouTube: @TheKindredPodcastInstagram: @thekindredpod Facebook: @Kindred ☕️ Please support us at Buy Me A Coffee or Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.✏️ Please follow, rate, and review - wherever you listen to your podcasts.💚 Thanks.
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Challenger Deep | With Dr. Dawn Wright, Oceanographer
In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Dr. Dawn Wright, chief scientist at Esri, or Environmental Systems Research Institute and a specialist in marine geology, geography, and oceanography, and not least of all a deepsea diver. Dawn Wright also made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the oceans deepest and most unexplored place on Earth, an experience she goes into detail about in her new book, co-written with Esri Press, Mapping The Deep: Innovation, Exploration, and the Dive of A Lifetime. Dawn walks us through why mapping the oceans' depths is so critical and the positive impacts this information is having on not only the health of our oceans but what that means for us terrestrial beings!To me, Dawn is a Renaissance woman in the world of oceanography and mapping systems and her breadth of understanding of all things oceans is as far reaching as the depths of Challenger Deep. Please join us on this dive of a lifetime and enter into the mysterious and breathtaking world below! Lots of Love. Time Stamps:Introduction: 00:17Interview: 6:29TA: 01:12:09Show Notes:https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/author/dawn-wrighthttps://www.esri.com/en-us/esri-press/browse/mapping-the-deepThe link below is a book reference Dawn made during the interview: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324006718🔎 Please find out more info and message us at: Website: www.kindredpodcast.coYouTube: @TheKindredPodcastInstagram: @thekindredpod Facebook: @Kindred ☕️ Please support us at Buy Me A Coffee or Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.✏️ Please follow, rate, and review - wherever you listen to your podcasts.💚 Thanks.
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Special Episode | With PennFuture, Environmental Advocacy Organization
This is a Special Episode of Kindred, and we’re throwing it in mid-season because we have questions! Let me explain. Recently, the federal government has been eliminating or cutting federal programs and funding in context to conservation-from protection of wildlife and forest, to clean air and water acts. This has ignited many questions about the effects that the federal government is having on not only a national level, but on state and local levels as well. So, we want to know how we can take action to support local and state governments, and non profit organizations, who are working hard to protect long standing and critical protections in support of wildlife and nature.So we have asked Patrick McDonnell, CEO and President of the non profit PennFuture to join us today to walk us through the effects that the federal government is having on a state and local level, and specifically Pennsylvania, our home state. Patrick brings over 20 years of experience on climate, clean energy and environmental issues to his role as president and CEO of PennFuture.Thanks so much to Patrick and PennFuture for jumping into this conversation and sharing your insights from your many years of experience in this field, and also sharing some great go-to’s in Pennsylvania! And make sure to listen to the end. We have some extra fun facts! Lots of Love. Time Stamps:Introduction-00:16Interview-7:18Show Notes:https://www.pennfuture.org/https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dcnr/glen-onoko-falls.htmlhttps://www.pa.gov/agencies/dcnr/recreation/where-to-go/state-parks/find-a-park/leonard-harrison-state-park.html🔎 Please find out more info and message us at: Website: www.kindredpodcast.coYouTube: @TheKindredPodcastInstagram: @thekindredpod Facebook: @Kindred ☕️ Please support us at Buy Me A Coffee or Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.✏️ Please follow, rate, and review - wherever you listen to your podcasts.💚 Thanks.
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Healing With Dogs | With Oscar Rodriguez, K9 Trainer
In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Oscar Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Underdogs K9 Training. Oscar’s training focuses on dog psychology and dog behavior and his professional services include dog walking, dog boarding, and working with dogs and their humans to navigate through behavioral issues and help owners understand dog psychology to better connect them to each other, and help their dogs grow in confidence and live their most happy and balanced life. Oscar shares his story of how he came to work with dogs during his incarceration and how those dogs led him to a path of self-awareness and healing, and now thriving. This is a story of a journey born out of the courage to heal oneself and the incredible power that animals like dogs can offer us. We are so grateful to Oscar for sharing his inspirational story and inviting us into a space deep in the heart. This conversation is steeping in courage, vulnerability, and we are so grateful to Oscar for sharing his wisdom with us.Lots of Love.Time Stamps:Introduction: 00:15Interview: 6:36TA: 1:12:53Show Note Links:https://www.instagram.com/underdogsk9training/https://www.marleysmutts.org/pawsitivechange🔎 Please find out more info and message us at: Website: www.kindredpodcast.coYouTube: @TheKindredPodcastInstagram: @thekindredpod Facebook: @Kindred ☕️ Please support us at Buy Me A Coffee or Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.✏️ Please follow, rate, and review - wherever you listen to your podcasts.💚 Thanks.
The Kindred Podcast explores the intricate and interdependent relationship that humans have with animals and nature.
Every episode presents compelling interviews and thought-provoking discussions with leading experts from diverse fields of study including scientists, conservationists, authors, and educators.
From the world of science to cultural traditions and beyond, Kindred examines how humans can inspire a new awareness in order to reconnect us to the natural world.
Hosted by Kate Coffin and Jenn Asplundh. www.kindredpodcast.co
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