Episodes

As She Rises is back for its fourth season, hosted by Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist. This season, As She Rises is exploring rewilding—the practice of restoring ecosystems to their natural state. ...

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Deborah Blum, environmental journalist, Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and science columnist. Let me explain why we have asked Deborah to join us. In 1962, American marine b...

Kindred is back, hosted by Kate Coffin and Jenn Asplundh. This season, we’re flipping the script on creatures everyone loves to hate — from hyenas and vultures to bats and possums — and showing why they’re fascinating, essent...

Originally released July 23, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025. In this week’s episode, we travel to Denmark and speak with author and long time marine biologist Hanne Strager about the incredible ...

Originally released May 14, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025. In this week’s conversation, we are speaking with William Housty, Associate Director of the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management De...

Originally released January 26, 2025. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025. In this exclusive drop Jenn and I talk to brothers Dave Aguirre (my actual husband :) and Geoff Aguirre all about their brotherly ...

Originally released April 30, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025. In this week's archived episode, we are spoke with Bear Biologist Chris Servheen. We finally got to meet our grizzly bear fears head...

Originally released April 30, 2025. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025. And guess who’s back? Our favorite Zoo historian and author, Nigel Rothfels! Yes, we dragged him back to congratulate him on the new...

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Tim Hofmann, a certified dog trainer working with the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), running the Scat Detection Dog program. Since 2018, Tim has been leading the scat detection ...

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Awanookwe Kingbird-Bratvold, founder of the animal rescue Awesiinyag (Animals) Are Loved. Awanookwe is Ojibwe from the Red Lake Nation in Northern Minnesota and has her masters in...

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:...

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 a...

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 deepse...

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...

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 boardi...

It’s time for our special edition of Kindred’s Book Club! In this season’s Book Club we are featuring Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels, by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Author Ellen Ruppel Shell is professor emer...

In this week’s episode, we speak with Daniel Curry, Range Rider and founder of the non-profit Project Griph, an organisation focused on wildlife conflict mitigation. Through Daniel’s specialized methods executed on horseback,...

Welcome back to our Spring Season! We are so excited to start dropping a new season full of the most amazing guests! Look out for new episodes starting April 15th and make sure to follow us so you don’t miss any of the incred...

Originally released August 15, 2023. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in April 2025. In this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Mathias Osvath, Cognitive Zoologist at Lund University about all things corvids and specifi...

Originally released July 4, 2023. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in April 2025. In this week’s episode, we speak with Matt Rader, the President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. We dig deep into environmenta...

Originally released January 23, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in April 2025. In this week’s episode, we speak with long-haul hiker and adventurer Melanie Vogel. Melanie is the first woman to walk the Trans Can...

Our final episode of the season was supposed to air earlier this month, but due to the quickly changing political landscape, we couldn’t release it as planned. It was a tough call, but the right one. In this episode, Kate wil...

Originally released April 25, 2023. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in April 2025. In this week's conversation, we speak with Tracy Wilson, the Nevada State Director for American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) on a critic...

We are dropping this episode as an encore in light of the devastating fires LA have been experiencing the last few weeks. There are so many reasons these fires are happening and we wanted to re-share this episode on fire in s...