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Episodes

July 22, 2025

Cheetah Tracker | With Tim Hofmann, Canine Scat Detection Dog Handler

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 ...

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July 8, 2025

Leadership, Empowerment, & Rescue | With Awanookwe Kingbird-Bratvold,…

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...

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June 24, 2025

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:...

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June 10, 2025

Super Cat Woman | With Sassee Walker, Cat Carer and Animal Welfare Ad…

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...

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May 27, 2025

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 deepse...

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May 22, 2025

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...

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May 13, 2025

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 boardi...

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April 29, 2025

Book Club | Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

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...

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April 15, 2025

Range Rider & The Lads | With Daniel Curry, Wolf Conservationist

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,...

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April 10, 2025

We Are Back!

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...

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April 8, 2025

Encore: The Flying Primates | A Conversation with Cognitive Zoologist…

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...

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March 25, 2025

Encore: Digging Into Environmental Justice | A Conversation with Penn…

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...

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March 11, 2025

Encore: One Woman. Three Oceans. 21,000 Kilometers | A Conversation w…

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...

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Feb. 27, 2025

Kindred Statement

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...

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Feb. 25, 2025

Encore: Wild Horses | A Conversation with Tracy Wilson, Nevada State …

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...

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Jan. 22, 2025

Encore: The Power of Fire with Tony Incashola Jr. and Stephanie Gilli…

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...

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Jan. 21, 2025

60. Florida’s Ghost Cat | A Conversation with Research Scientist Dave…

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Dave Onorato, Research Scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and the Florida Panther Project. For this conversation, we get to head down to Fl...

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Jan. 7, 2025

59. Phantom Owl | A Conversation with Wildlife Ecologist Dr. Katherin…

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Dr. Katherine Gura, a research scientist at Colorado State University and a leader in raptor research and conservation, with a specific focus on Great Grey Owls. Katherine also has...

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Dec. 27, 2024

Nature’s Rest & Renewal | Kate and Jenn Wrap 2024

This time of year can be challenging. It’s dark, grey and cold. So Kat and I thought we could offer a new perspective, one that Jenn and I have been shifting for years. How can we see darker and colder times as a way to rest ...

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Dec. 17, 2024

58. Book Club | A Conversation with Painter and Author Rosalie Haizle…

In this week’s episode, we speak with Rosalie Haizlett about her new book Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains. Tiny Worlds is an immersion into the small and tiny worlds of the Appalachian Trail and a journal of both pai...

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Dec. 3, 2024

57. A Dog’s Grief | A Conversation with Veterinarian Stefania Uccheddu

In this week’s conversation, we speak with Stefania Uccheddu, Veterinarian and Coordinator of the Behavioral Medicine Service at the San Marco Veterinary Clinic and Laboratory, located in San Marco, Italy. In this conversatio...

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Nov. 19, 2024

56. Zoos: Good or Bad? | A Conversation with Historian Nigel Rothfels

In this week’s conversation, we speak with Nigel Rothfels, Professor of History from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Nigel has long been studying the history of ideas we humans have of animals and animal studies, which...

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Nov. 5, 2024

55. Baby Rhinos | A Conversation with Yolandé van der Merwe of the Rh…

In this week’s conversation, we had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Carer and Head Manager of the Rhino Orphanage, Yolandé van der Merwe. We have been following the Rhino Orphanage since their foundation in 2012, so w...

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Oct. 22, 2024

54. Seahorses | A Conversation with Kirsty-Jo Muddiman Representative…

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Kirsty-Jo Muddiman, representative for The Seahorse Trust and coordinator of the Malta Seahorse Project. Who knew that the seahorse is as fancy inside as out! This might be the mos...

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