The TEC Talk Podcast: Presented by Natural Encounters, Inc.

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Join co-hosts Chris and Ari for a discussion of animal training, behavior, human-animal relationships, and all things NEI-TEC (the Natural Encounters Inc Training and Education Center), and featuring guests from the NEI team and around the professional animal care world! Email us at podcast@naturalencounters.com if you have a question or something you'd like us to discuss on the show!

Episode Date
Episode 211: "Do Science Better": Leadership Growth Through the Lens of Accessibility (with Jennie Janssen)
May 02, 2024
Episode 210: Nuggets of Knowledge from Nashville (with Scott Trauger)
Apr 25, 2024
Episode 209: She Wanted a Sticker, She Got on a Podcast (with Lauren Vieira)
Apr 18, 2024
Episode 208: Chopping Floors and Sweeping Fish (with Marty MacPhee)
Apr 11, 2024
Episode 207: A New Model for Ambassador Animal Welfare (with Steve Martin)
Apr 04, 2024
Episode 206: So...Are We Promoting Rob Parson Or Not???
Mar 28, 2024
Episode 205: Magical Moments Over Breadsticks (2024 Podcast Summit with Jon Rossi and Elizabeth Johnson)
Mar 21, 2024
Episode 204: Coaching for Coaches Who Coach Coaches
Mar 14, 2024
Episode 203: We 'People' All Day Long (with Kaitlyn Bohnet and BJ Rice from North Sky Raptor Sanctuary)
Mar 07, 2024
Episode 202: Fly-Offs and Shutdowns and Evals, Oh My!
Feb 29, 2024
Episode 201: They Understood the Assignment (Recap of the 2024 IAATE Annual Conference)
Feb 23, 2024
Episode 200: Thanks For Nothing, Spain! (with the NEI Podcast-iversary Super Group)
Feb 15, 2024
Episode 199: Balancing Wellbeing for Animals (with Margaret Rousser)
Feb 08, 2024
Episode 198: Neurodivergence in the Animal Field (with Aaron Rose)
Feb 01, 2024
Episode 197: Show Day with the Next Generation
Jan 25, 2024
Episode 196: 3-2-1...Ambush!
Jan 19, 2024
Episode 195: Surprise Pocket Walnuts, and Other Ways to Connect (TEC Talk Takeover with Lucy Rutt and Adam Geltz)
Jan 11, 2024
Episode 194: Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals for 2024
Jan 04, 2024
Episode 193: Bye Bye, 2023! (TEC Talk Throwback featuring The End of 2020)
Dec 28, 2023
Episode 192: A "Dichotomous Key" for Control Inputs and Welfare Outputs
Dec 21, 2023
Episode 191: Kreepin' on ZooKreepers (From Two Continents!)
Dec 14, 2023
Episode 190: Give Them the Tools, Don't Be the Tool! (with Tim Sullivan)
Dec 07, 2023
Episode 189: It's Almost Like Repetition Builds Confidence... (with Amy Fennell)
Nov 30, 2023
Episode 188: Traditions (with the Team from Winged Encounters)
Nov 23, 2023
Episode 187: Humaning Revisited? Sweet As! (TEC Talk Throwback featuring Amy Fennell)
Nov 16, 2023
Episode 186: Enriched Experiences (with Nicki Boyd)
Nov 09, 2023
Episode 185: When the People Lead, the Leaders Follow (with Ron Magill)
Nov 02, 2023
Episode 184: Putting Rungs on Your Ladder (with Tim Sullivan)
Oct 26, 2023
Episode 183: Q & A with Santa Fe! (Live from the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo's Field Trip to NEI)
Oct 19, 2023
Episode 182: The "P" Stands for "Applications" (with Tim Van Loan)
Oct 12, 2023
Episode 181: Life is Life-ing Really Hard This Week
Oct 05, 2023
Episode 180: Catching Up With Old Friends, Stepping Up With New Harpies (with Steve Martin)
Sep 28, 2023
Episode 179: "ChoiceNControl" for the Human Animal
Sep 21, 2023
Episode 178: DIY, AZA, and Other Paths to Leadership (with Misha Body and Dr Taylor Gilley at the 2023 AZA Annual Conference)
Sep 14, 2023
Episode 177: Habits (of the Atomic Variety)
Sep 07, 2023
Episode 176: Hurricanes, USDA, Abraham Lincoln, and You
Aug 31, 2023
Episode 175: Be a Pelican, Not a Pelican't (with Greg Peccie)
Aug 24, 2023
Episode 174: Minnesota Nice (with the Minnesota Zoo World of Birds Show Crew)
Aug 17, 2023
Episode 173: Butterflies, Immediate Butterflies (with Shayna Gruman)
Aug 10, 2023
Episode 172: Final Thoughts on Conversing Crucially (Crucial Conversations Chapters 10-12)
Aug 03, 2023
Episode 171: Wait, Who Shot the Dog First? (The Ten Laws of Shaping, Part 3)
Jul 27, 2023
Episode 170: Be Careful How You Spend Your Equats! (with Shareen Knowlton and Jen Rudolph)
Jul 21, 2023
Episode 169: Employee of the Month, EVERY MONTH! (with Erik Montgomery)
Jul 13, 2023
Episode 168: "The Asian Chick in the Back of the Room" (with Jennie Janssen)
Jul 06, 2023
Episode 167: As Always, "It Depends" (The Ten Laws of Shaping, Part 2)
Jun 29, 2023
Episode 166: Animal Podcasters of the World Unite (with Dr Grey Stafford, Ryan Cartlidge, and Shane Gorbett)
Jun 22, 2023
Episode 165: Once Upon A Time in Rhode Island (with Sean Hoelle, Kassidy King, and Morgan Lopes)
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 164: Staying Constructive in an Evolving Animal Field (with Lizzi Fricker)
Jun 08, 2023
Episode 163: How is "DRSA" Not a Thing? (The Ten Laws of Shaping, Part 1)
Jun 01, 2023
Episode 162: Disaster Response (with ZDR3's Julia Wagner)
May 25, 2023
Episode 161: Best. Zoom. Background. EVER!
May 18, 2023
Episode 160: Return of the TEC Talk Book Club (Crucial Conversations, Chapters 7-9)
May 11, 2023
Episode 159: Spending Time in the Messy Middle Bit (with GRAZE's Shannon McKinney and Hannah Fulmer)
May 04, 2023
Episode 158: One Order of Show Feedback, Hold the Poop Sandwich
Apr 27, 2023
Episode 157: Happy Third Anniversary, TEC Talk!
Apr 20, 2023
Episode 156: Listener Feedback for Pod-iversary Eve
Apr 13, 2023
Episode 155: Out of Control! (with Steve Martin)
Apr 06, 2023
Episode 154: The TEC Talk Book Club Strikes Back (Crucial Conversation, Chapters 4-6, with Bella Sorensson)
Mar 30, 2023
Episode 153: We Have Different Viewpoints of What Flight Means for Humans (with Dave Womach, Jamie Womach, and Daryl Peterson)
Mar 23, 2023
Episode 152: Professional Relationships with Animals
Mar 16, 2023
Episode 151: So Many Good Steves! (Live from the 2023 ABMA-IMATA Conference)
Mar 09, 2023
Episode 150: Welcome to the TEC Talk Book Club! (Crucial Conversations, Chapters 1-3)
Mar 02, 2023
Episode 149: Better Humans All Around (with Shelby Jecius)
Feb 23, 2023
Episode 148: Pet Floofy Kittens (Live from the 2023 IAATE Conference)
Feb 16, 2023
Episode 147: The First Rule of Book Club is We Talk About Book Club (with The NEI Book Club)
Feb 09, 2023
Episode 146: Multitasking to Talk About Multitasking
Feb 02, 2023
Episode 145: When "Helping the Animal" Hurts the Behavior
Jan 26, 2023
Episode 144: Keep It 100! (with Adam Triska)
Jan 19, 2023
Episode 143: Inspiration at the Shrub of Living Things (Live from the Workshop!)
Jan 12, 2023
Episode 142: TEC Talk's Plans for 2023
Jan 05, 2023
Episode 141: Many People Talking into Many Microphones (aka NEI Says Goodbye to 2022)
Dec 29, 2022
Episode 140: Attitude Determines Your Altitude (with Dave O'Connell)
Dec 22, 2022
Episode 139: Purposeful Recognition and Reinforcement
Dec 15, 2022
Episode 138: Playing Ketchup From Last Week
Dec 08, 2022
Episode 137: Welcome to the BOP Shop! (with Amy Fennell, Dan Blair, and Adam Triska)
Dec 01, 2022
Episode 136: Mom So Hard (with Danielle Poirier Larson)
Nov 24, 2022
Episode 135: Telling "White Dog Stories" to Save Lives (with Cindy Benson)
Nov 17, 2022
Episode 134: Keeping Positive (with Natalie Sunray)
Nov 10, 2022
Episode 133: Training Alliances, Monkey Mamas, and Anthropomorphism (with Gary Wilson)
Nov 03, 2022
Episode 132: Work-Life Integration and Chameleon Leadership (with Will Elgar)
Oct 27, 2022
Episode 131: Baby's First Midyear (with Scott Trauger)
Oct 20, 2022
Episode 130: The Student Becomes the Teacher (with Gary Wilson)
Oct 13, 2022
Episode 129: Post Hurricane Wrap-Up
Oct 06, 2022
Episode 128: Hurricane Moving Day (A Theme Park Story in Three Acts)
Sep 29, 2022
Episode 127: Behaviour is What We Do (in the UK)
Sep 22, 2022
Episode 126: The L-Squared Takeover (with Lucy Rutt and Lisa Haggadone)
Sep 15, 2022
Episode 125: Pride for the Past and Ambitions for the Future
Sep 08, 2022
Episode 124: The Dos and Don'ts of Venting
Sep 01, 2022
Episode 123: Feathered Friends and Flight
Aug 25, 2022
Episode 122: Thoughts on Thoughts on Training
Aug 18, 2022
Episode 121: Urine Big Trouble, Mister!
Aug 11, 2022
Episode 120: What Are Your Zoo Job "Can't Live Withouts"?
Aug 04, 2022
Episode 119: Flexibility, Operationalized
Jul 28, 2022
Episode 118: Relationship Death By a Thousand Cuts
Jul 21, 2022
Episode 117: Three Ways to Violate the Known Laws of the Space-Time Continuum
Jul 14, 2022
Episode 116: How to Ask for a Raise (with Scott Trauger)
Jul 07, 2022
Episode 115: The Official Chris Jenkins Super Simplified Guide to Behavior™
Jun 30, 2022
Episode 114: On Mavericks and Martyrs (with Carrie Patel)
Jun 23, 2022
Episode 113: Catch-Up Mini-Sode (Live from... Taco Bell!)
Jun 16, 2022
Episode 112: Don't Forget - This is FUN! (with Donnie Crook)
Jun 09, 2022
Episode 111: Happy World Parrot Day! (with NEI's Winged Encounters Team)
Jun 02, 2022
Episode 110: "Real Chat (About Shows) with Ray and Ari" (with Ray Minchey)
May 26, 2022
Episode 109: When Reality and Your Training Plans Don't Play Nice Together
May 19, 2022
Episode 108: Downspout Sparrow (with Hardy Kern)
May 12, 2022
Episode 107: MomCast! (with Lucy Rutt and Katie Bello)
May 05, 2022
Episode 106: Seeing "All the Things" During Training Sessions
Apr 28, 2022
Episode 105: ...Is This a Restaurant? (with Adam Geltz)
Apr 21, 2022
Episode 104: Should You "Always End on a Positive Note"?
Apr 14, 2022
Episode 103: Telling Stories to Make Connections (with Ron Magill)
Apr 07, 2022
Episode 102: This Water is 'The Good Blue' (with Meg Meyer)
Mar 31, 2022
Episode 101: Take Your PTO! (with Lucy Rutt)
Mar 24, 2022
Episode 100: Here's to a "Play to Grow" Future! (with Steve Martin and the TEC Talks Collective)
Mar 17, 2022
Episode 99.5: Welcome to the President's Board Room (Live from the 2022 IAATE Conference)
Mar 10, 2022
Episode 99: Ya'll, It Has Been a Week (with Sukie Jenkins)
Mar 03, 2022
Episode 98: Lunch and Learn - The S-Delta, Punishment, and Extinction (with Dr Susan Friedman)
Feb 24, 2022
Episode 97: A Training Plan for Talking About Training (with Adam Geltz)
Feb 17, 2022
Episode 96: Tales from the (Renovated) Trailer
Feb 10, 2022
Episode 95: Don't Overshoot Your Joy (with Greg Peccie)
Feb 03, 2022
Episode 94: From Mentee to Mentor to Mentee (with Kaitlyn Wiktor)
Jan 27, 2022
Episode 93: Let's All Be Dumb Together (with Joe Quadara)
Jan 20, 2022
Episode 92: The Politics of Open Communication (with Wouter Stellaard)
Jan 13, 2022
Episode 91: General Honesty, Reporting for Duty
Jan 06, 2022
Episode 90: Your Homework for Winter Break
Dec 30, 2021
Episode 89: A Very Merry COVIDcast (with Ellen Matza, Megan Geddes, and Aaron Rose)
Dec 23, 2021
Episode 88: Chop the Log! (with Aaron "Rose" Tapia)
Dec 16, 2021
Episode 87: Who Cares, Just Reinforce It Already! (w/ Dr. Grey Stafford)
Dec 09, 2021
Episode 86: The Birds and the Bees (with Morgan Belle)
Dec 02, 2021
Episode 85: Birdability! (with Virginia Rose)
Nov 25, 2021
Episode 84: Leveling Up Your Work Culture (with Joe Quadara)
Nov 18, 2021
Episode 83: Live from The Training Game!
Nov 11, 2021
Episode 82: At 4 O'Clock, It's Different Soup (with Ellen Matza)
Nov 04, 2021
Episode 81: It's All Real (with Dave O'Connell)
Oct 28, 2021
Episode 80: Career Ping Pong (with Sylvia Ronquillo)
Oct 21, 2021
Episode 79: TEC Talk Live! (The Pilot Episode)
Oct 14, 2021
Episode 78: We Built a Zoo (with Adam Geltz)
Oct 07, 2021
Episode 77: How DO You Find "The One"?
Sep 30, 2021
Episode 76: Retro Big Tex
Sep 23, 2021
Episode 75: Mistakes Were Made... (with Shari Stern)
Sep 16, 2021
Episode 74: The Pitfalls of "Romanticizing Suffering" (with Brad Moore)
Sep 09, 2021
Episode 73: Of COURSE You Need Your Own Axe! (with Mary Ewers Joyner)
Sep 02, 2021
Episode 72: It's Just Good Humaning (with Amy Fennell)
Aug 26, 2021
Episode 71: We Can Chew Ice, It's Fine (with Dan Blair)
Aug 19, 2021
Episode 70: Parenting in the Pandemic's Second Wave (with Lisa Haggadone)
Aug 12, 2021
Episode 69: Anatomy of a Pilot Program (with Scott Trauger and Corey Derryberry)
Aug 05, 2021
Episode 68: Board Pod! (with the IAATE Board)
Jul 29, 2021
Episode 67: Begone, Comfort Zones!
Jul 22, 2021
Episode 66: Where Are My Invert Peeps??
Jul 15, 2021
Episode 65: Meditations on Mediation
Jul 08, 2021
Episode 64: Everyone Should Work Retail
Jul 01, 2021
Episode 63: The "F" Word We're Allowed to Say (with Jessica Ruiz)
Jun 24, 2021
Episode 62: Why Are You Still Here??? (with Corey Derryberry)
Jun 17, 2021
Episode 61: The Call In Conundrum
Jun 10, 2021
Episode 60: Our Favorite Condor Mom (with Helen Dishaw)
Jun 03, 2021
Episode 59: Assessing Welfare for Our Teams
May 28, 2021
Episode 58: "Good Communication" Operationalized
May 20, 2021
Episode 57: The Flyoff Episode!
May 13, 2021
Episode 56: I Appreciate You! (Live from the 2021 ABMA Conference)
May 06, 2021
Episode 55: Everybody Has an Opinion on Ghosts (with Kat Donald)
Apr 29, 2021
Episode 54: Greetings from NEI West! (with Katie Bello, Amy Zimmerman, and Kyle Alexander)
Apr 22, 2021
Episode 53: Why Does This Audience Hate Us???
Apr 15, 2021
Episode 52: Happy Podcast-iversary!
Apr 08, 2021
Episode 51: Cocktails and Conversations (with NYC AAZK)
Apr 01, 2021
Episode 50: The "Falcondry" Episode (with Abbey and Joe Krumrie)
Mar 25, 2021
Episode 49: Monkey High Five! (with Erik Montgomery)
Mar 19, 2021
Episode 48: The Great "Four 10s" Debate
Mar 11, 2021
Episode 47: What's Your Gyprock? (Live from the 2021 IAATE Conference)
Mar 05, 2021
Episode 46: From Gator Wrestling to Jurassic Park (with Marco Zeno)
Feb 25, 2021
Episode 45: The Motivation Conversation
Feb 18, 2021
Episode 44: Expanding Your Bubble (with Scott Trauger)
Feb 11, 2021
Episode 43: Everyone's A Mentor (with Adam Geltz)
Feb 04, 2021
Episode 42: The Problems with Labels
Jan 28, 2021
Episode 41: Making Connections with BIG Ideas (with Len Austrevich)
Jan 21, 2021
Episode 40: The Joy of Being Alone
Jan 14, 2021
Episode 39: What We've Learned and Where We're Going
Jan 07, 2021
Episode 38: 2020 Can Go Kick Rocks
Dec 31, 2020
Episode 37: Q and A and Q (with Hardy Kern)
Dec 24, 2020
Episode 36: Finding Success Beyond "The Field" (with Kevin Zimmer and Flannery O'Brien)
Dec 17, 2020
Episode 35: The 16 Personalities of NEI (with Scott Trauger)
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 34: Merry Enrichmas!
Dec 03, 2020
Episode 33: Giving Thanks in 2020
Nov 26, 2020
Episode 32: Show Performance Review (in Review)
Nov 19, 2020
Episode 31: Breaking Glass Ceilings (with Erin Katzner)
Nov 12, 2020
Episode 30: Welcome to Growvember!
Nov 05, 2020
Episode 29: A "Macarena"-Dancing Bigfoot Underneath a Bridge
Oct 29, 2020
Episode 28: Everything We (Don't) Know About Empathy
Oct 22, 2020
Episode 27: GIRLCAST!!! (with Ray Minchey)
Oct 15, 2020
Episode 26: Space Giraffe at Animal World (with Amy Fennell)
Oct 08, 2020
Episode 25: Rhinos and Roshams (with Lisa Haggadone)
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 24: Zen and the Art of Lawn Care
Sep 24, 2020
Episode 23: The Shape of Things to Come
Sep 17, 2020
Episode 22: Futures Beyond the Field (with Flannery O'Brien)
Sep 10, 2020
Episode 21: The NEI Comedy Hour! (with Steve Martin)
Sep 03, 2020
Episode 20: Gators and Ramen and Feedback - Oh My!
Aug 27, 2020
Episode 19: Interview Lightning Round! (Part I)
Aug 20, 2020
Episode 18: How to Read Minds and Influence People
Aug 13, 2020
Episode 17: Your Podcast Dose of Vitamin Z (with Tim Van Loan)
Aug 06, 2020
Episode 16: You Get What You Reinforce
Jul 30, 2020
Episode 15: Snake Hooks and Smiles (with Aaron Tapia)
Jul 23, 2020
Episode 14: Nerding Out (with Ash Sevilla)
Jul 16, 2020
Episode 13: Our NEI Top "10," Part 2!
Jul 09, 2020
Episode 12: Fun with NE(Alumn)I! (with John Scott)
Jul 02, 2020
Episode 11: Behind the Scenes of NEI TEC (with...Everyone!)
Jun 25, 2020
Episode 10: Our Not-So-Secret Life of Pets
Jun 18, 2020
Episode 9: Parrot Conservation (with Jose Antonio Diaz)
Jun 12, 2020
Episode 8.5: Technical Difficulties!
Jun 11, 2020
Episode 8: Support, Inclusion, and Community
Jun 04, 2020
BONUS EPISODE: Well Wishes From NEI! (w/ Flannery and Kyle)
May 29, 2020
Episode 7: The Right Fit (with Benita Raphan)
May 28, 2020
Episode 6: Collaboration Celebration (with Dave Miller)
May 21, 2020
Episode 5: Origin Stories
May 14, 2020
Episode 4: Growth in the Time of COVID (with Megan Geddes)
May 07, 2020
Episode 3: Our NEI Top "10"
Apr 30, 2020
Episode 2: Happy Earth Day! (with Steve Martin)
Apr 23, 2020
Episode 1: Tales from the Feedback Loop
Apr 16, 2020
Episode 0: Welcome to TEC Talk!
Apr 08, 2020