Don't Call Me Catty

About Don't Call Me Catty

Don’t Call Me Catty is the unapologetic, plain-talking podcast for veterinary professionals who want real conversations, not sugarcoating. Hosted by Jillian Carr, a veterinary financial strategist, and Leilani Saad, co-founder and CEO of a 24/7 veterinary teletriage company, the show dives into the messy, meaningful parts of vet med: burnout, boundaries, big decisions, money moves, and midnight emergencies. The podcast began as a pop-up at a veterinary trade show, where unscripted, in-the-moment conversations with the community struck a chord and sparked something bigger. Today, it continues to grow into a movement connecting vet med professionals and their clients through honesty, humor, and the courage to say the quiet parts out loud. Whether you’re leading a practice, on the clinic floor, or you just love animals, this is your space for truth, tools, and the occasional F-bomb.

Publisher

Jillian Carr and Leilani Saad

Category

business · business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

11 Aug 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Is Vet Med Supporting Its People, or Just Talking About It? | Charlotte Fahy, BA MBA ACC

   We go to the conference. We attend the mental health session. We come back inspired. Then someone calls in sick, the surgical board fills up, and everything goes back to normal. So what actually changes? Recorded at the CVMA convention in Charlottetown, this episode features Charlotte Fahy, business development manager at Kelowna Veterinary Hospital and co-founder of The Practitioners' Lounge. With a background in corporate hospitality and senior living, Charlotte brings an outside perspectiv...

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Vet Med Has a Judgement Problem | Dr. Ellen Nicklassen, DVM, MACP

   Veterinary medicine asks a lot of people clinically. But what about the human skills that determine how we handle mistakes, conflict, vulnerability, and each other? Dr. Ellen Nicklassen is a veterinarian, practice owner, trained counsellor, and founder of The Practitioners Lounge. She joins Leilani and Jillian to talk about the parts of veterinary medicine that don’t always get taught in school. They get into psychological safety, mentorship, anxiety, vulnerability, and what happens when we t...

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   The Vet Med Ladder Could Start in High School | Tamara Anderson, RVT

   What if the next generation of veterinary professionals got to test-drive vet med before they even graduated high school? Tamara Anderson, RVT, BA Sociology, is an instructor in the Veterinary Technical Assistant program at Olds College of Agriculture & Technology, where she teaches high school students through dual-credit programming. She joins Leilani and Jillian live from the 2026 CVMA Convention in Charlottetown to talk about her own winding path from failing college courses to emerge...

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