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Compassionate Collaboration w/Mikkel Becker

·1 hr 1 min·4 clips

I don't have the compassion that I have for others for myself - it never makes its way back to me.

Mandi Bautel hosts Mikkel Becker from Fear Free Pets for a deeply personal conversation about mental health challenges in the dog training profession. They discuss how training courses never addressed emotional well-being, the evolution from competitive backstabbing to collaborative support among trainers, and how childhood trauma and people-pleasing patterns fuel compassion fatigue and imposter syndrome in animal behavior professionals.

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A grounded look at the emotional cost of dog training.

Mikael Becker of Fear Free Pets joins Mandi Bautel in a conversation that looks back at the early, competitive dog-training internet and the strain of doing behavior work with other people's dogs.

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If you need a kinder read on dog-training burnout, start here.

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