Pet Boss® Podcast with Candace

This is a podcast for the local pet business owner. Get foundational business tips mixed with the latest secrets of what’s working now, especially in this challenging world. Hear honest conversations from industry peers working the streets of Main Street, where dog business is BIG business. So, if you’re a pet supply store, grooming salon, dog daycare, boarding facility, pet sitter or dog trainer - we welcome you! What really sets this show apart from others in this space is that your show host, Candace D’Agnolo, the CEO & Founder of Pet Boss Nation® - has started, scaled and sold successful pet businesses in almost every niche of the pet industry. Not only that, but her business had multiple locations, a team of 30 people, and annual revenue hitting multiple 7 figures. What this means for you is that you’ll get a holistic approach from someone who’s been on your biz journey from start to finish. Intrigued? Press play.

Pet Boss® Podcast with Candace is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 257 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 84.

Unknown Host hosts Pet Boss® Podcast with Candace, a business show with 257 episodes published.

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  Episode #255

  255: A Love Letter to the Independent Pet Business (Happy Neighborhood Pet Store Day)

  Sep 26, 202622 minS5

  This one is a love letter. It is Neighborhood Pet Store Day weekend, and it is also the one-year anniversary of Dante and Dory's!  So Candace is doing two things at once: celebrating the independent pet businesses who decided their community deserved something more personal than a box on a porch, and pulling back the curtain on exactly how she built a three-day birthday bash around the holiday. If you have never participated in Neighborhood Pet Store Day, she covers what it is, who created it, and why participation has exploded since 2023. If you did participate, she covers the part most owners skip entirely, which is everything you can still do this week! And if you sat this one out because you were not sure what to do, there is a whole list of things that cost almost nothing. Tune in to hear: What Indie Pet is reporting from stores that really leaned into this weekend Everything Dante and Dory's built for their three-day birthday bash, from $1 buckets to a dog beer toast Why the week after the event is worth just as much as the day itself Plus the one thing you will never beat Amazon at, what to do instead, and a reminder for the day your P&L is not saying what you hoped it would say. Transcript Show Notes Find us on Facebook Join our Free Pet Industry Facebook Group Follow us on Instagram Read our Blog

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  Episode #254

  254: Safety, Empathy, and Running a Brick and Mortar Pet Business

  Sep 19, 202638 minS5

  It was a normal Tuesday, around 7 in the morning. Candace pulled up behind the building to get a head start on the day. Before she could unlock the door, she had to step around someone sleeping against it. Notice what that sentence does not say. Not some guy. Not some homeless guy. Someone was asleep against the building, and she had to step around them to open her own business. That sentence is the whole episode. Two things are true at the same time. Someone out there is living through a chapter Candace is not living through. And she still has a store to open, a team to keep safe, and customers who need to feel okay walking through the door. Neither one cancels out the other. This is heavier than what we usually do here. It is not a list of bad behavior and it is not a “those people” conversation. It is one owner talking to other owners about what is happening outside our four walls, what it costs us, and what actually helps. Tune in to hear: ✅ The one thing your local police cannot do on your property unless you have told them something first ✅ Why one owner's story gets filed away, and six owners' stories change what a city does ✅ The piece of paperwork the police wish every business had printed and sitting in a drawer Plus the thing about panhandling that surprised Candace (and surprised the officer too), and the local resource she did not know existed until two weeks ago. ⁠Transcript⁠ ⁠Show Notes⁠ ⁠Find us on Facebook⁠ ⁠Join our Free Pet Industry Facebook Group⁠ ⁠Follow us on Instagram⁠

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  Episode #253

  253: Our 1.6M View Reel: Swipe this Strategy

  Sep 12, 202630 minS5

  Many of our videos get hundreds, maybe a few thousand views. This one got 1.6 million. It was a video of a filthy self-wash tub getting rinsed out. That is it. A German shepherd had just been bathed on opening weekend, the tub looked like it was growing hair, and Candace told Morgan to film it before anyone cleaned it up. Three weeks after posting, it hit 1.6 million views, 8,623 likes, 128 reposts, 215 shares, and brought in around 400 new Instagram followers. Morgan pitched this episode herself, and she walks through the six editing decisions behind it. None of them require a fancy camera or a big budget. Tune in to hear: ✅ Why the first three seconds of your reel should almost never be the first three seconds of your footage ✅ The "plant the payoff before the setup" rule that stops the scroll ✅ Why the 1.6M reel does not use its own audio (and what Morgan used instead) Plus how a question turned into days of local engagement, why branding belongs at the END of your video, and the one thing you should go do with footage already sitting on your phone. Transcript Show Notes Find us on Facebook Join our Free Pet Industry Facebook Group Follow us on Instagram Read our Blog

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  Episode #252

  252: Biscuit, Tootsie Rolls, and a 17-Year-Old: Inside Our Pet Care Certification Event

  Sep 5, 202626 minS5

  What do an animatronic dog, a bag of Tootsie Rolls, and a 17-year-old FFA chapter president have in common? They are the reason Dante & Dory's Pet Emporium just pulled off one of its best pieces of community marketing yet! Candace is joined by Dakota, the youngest member of the Dante & Dory's team, to break down the Pet Care Certification event they hosted at Discovery Depot, the local children's museum.   Tune in to hear: ✅ The four-station framework you can rinse and repeat in any community space ✅ How a toy that sat in a box for 12 years became the event's biggest marketing hook ✅ Why the least glamorous station got the biggest laugh and taught the most Plus the PETS pledge they wrote from scratch, why the certificate mattered more than anything they could have sold, and Dakota's advice to any pet business owner thinking about doing this! ABOUT DAKOTA Dakota is the youngest member of the Dante & Dory's Pet Emporium team and joined in May of her junior year, starting at the farmer's market booth before moving into the store. She is her FFA chapter president and competed on the section, state, and national soils judging teams, taking first at state and fifth in the country at Nationals in El Reno, Oklahoma. She has competed in pageants since she was six, holds several titles, and is on the high school dance team coached by PBN team member, Morgan Seabloom. Her thing is teaching younger kids, and it shows!  Transcript Show Notes - Find us on Facebook - Join our Free Pet Industry Facebook Group - Follow us on Instagram - Read our Blog

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  Episode #251

  251: Ready vs. Prepared: What Sending My Son to Preschool Taught Me About Business

  Aug 29, 202629 minS5

  This week, Candace sent her son Carmine to preschool for the first time. He was ready. She thought she was ready too. And then something happened that surprised her - and opened up a much bigger conversation about business, control, and what it really means to be ready. In this episode, she covers: ❤️ The difference between preparation and feeling ready (and why both matter) ❤️ What the readiness gap actually is and why it shows up ❤️ What you can control in business vs. what you can't ❤️ Why your emotional reaction to a big milestone matters ❤️ How your team's readiness might be ahead of your own ❤️ The real cost of extending your control too far Plus the realization that hit her in the parking lot and how it changes everything about how she's thinking about delegation and leadership at Dante and Dory's. Hear from Candace’s heart this week on what really matters, why big feelings are okay, and how you are probably more ready then you think for that next step in your business. Transcript Show Notes Join our Free Pet Industry Facebook Group Follow us on Instagram   ⁠Find us on Facebook⁠  Read our Blog 

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