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Kin Talk — the nightly show for people whose pets are family. Because they're more than pets — they're Kin.
Join hosts Maya and Dev every night for real conversations about the Kinsle features changing pet care: lost pet alerts, transferable profiles, care teams, and the stories behind them — plus a rotating expert guest who actually knows the science. Twice a week, Kinsle founder LaGarrick Gantt stops by with his Founder's Take.
20–30 minutes a night. Made for pet lovers, by pet lovers. New episodes daily.
It is Saturday morning, the coffee is still too hot to drink, and a brand new app is sitting on your phone with a small, patient question on the screen. Add your pet. And somehow that small question feels enormous. Where do I even start? What goes first? What if I do it wrong? And in most houses, that is where the good intention stalls. The app gets closed, the walk happens, the day happens. A week later, the profile is still blank, and the one place built to hold your pet's whole story is still waiting for its first page. Tonight we are fixing that, gently and in order. Welcome to Kintalk, the nightly show for people who believe pets are family. I am Maya. And I am Dev KinsLe is live. That is K-I-N-S-L-E. KinsLe. As of yesterday, the app is on the
App Store, free to download, and tonight's episode is the one we have been wanting to make all season. Your first week on KinsLe, day by day, one small job at a time, until a blank page becomes a living profile. Say it with us once more, because we spell it all season long. KinsLe. K-I-N-S-L-E. A profile is not built in a panic the night you need it. It is built in small, calm minutes across one ordinary week, and by the end of that week, your pet is known. Our guest tonight has walked more families through that first week than he can count. Milo is a professional dog walker and a community welcome guide, and he is a voiced character created from the experience of real pet care professionals and real first week families. He is not a real person,
but the week he describes is the real first week in the order that actually works. Milo, welcome to Kintalk. Thank you, Maya. Thank you, Dev. I will start with the sentence I say at every kitchen table and every park bench. Nobody builds a whole profile in one sitting, and nobody's supposed to. You build it the way you build trust with the animal himself. A little at a time, in the right order, on ordinary days. Give me seven days of ten quiet minutes, and I will give you a pet the whole neighborhood can know, help, and find. Seven days, ten quiet minutes. That is a promise most families can actually keep. That is the whole design of the week, Maya. Small jobs, done calmly, and in order where each day
makes the next day easier. Day one is identity. Day two is the record. Day three is the people. Day four is the hello. Day five is finding your people. Day six is the library, and day seven is simply looking back at what you built, which is my favorite day, because that is the day families realize what they are holding. Then let us walk the week. Slowly, the way Milo walks a nervous dog on his first day. Day one first. Day one. The download is done, the account is open, and the screen says add your pet. Milo, what actually happens on day one? Day one is the name, the face, and the facts that make your pet findable. You create the profile. You add the photos you already love, the ones already living in your camera roll.
Because day one is not a photo shoot. You add a short video if you have one. You write the basics down while they are easy. And here's the part I never let a family skip. Every pet on KinsLe carries a KinsLe ID that stays with the pet for life, and a unique KinsLe Verify QR ID. The code a finder can scan to reach the pet's profile and reach you. Identity is not paperwork at the end of the process. Identity is day one, because everything else in the week hangs on it. And let us be clear about the price of day one, because it is the friendliest number in the whole story. One pet is free. And if you are listening tonight with no pet of your own, pet lovers join free too, with no pet required at all, because the circle of love, the network we will meet properly on day four is stronger
with every pair of eyes in it. I want to slow down on the photos for a moment, because families freeze here. They think the profile needs perfect pictures. It needs true pictures. The slightly blurry one where he is mid laugh, if a dog can laugh, and they can. The one where her ears are doing the thing only her ears do. A profile is not a portrait gallery. It is a recognition file and a love letter in the same place. Pick the photos where a neighbor would say, oh, that is unmistakably your dog. That is the whole test. There is one more day one job, and it is the one that turns a profile from a page into a relationship. Choose your assistant. KinsLe gives every member a built-in assistant, and you select yours. Kinney or Kimmy, the two robo pups. And as of launch week,
both of them hold a genuine back and forth conversation with you inside the app. Pick the voice you want in your corner for the ordinary questions of pet life. And the honest line we always draw with Kinney and Kimmy. Milo, say it with us, because day one is exactly when families should hear it. Happily, your assistant organizes, reminds, helps you find services, and helps you draft what you need. Your assistant never treats or diagnoses illness and never pretends to. Health worries belong with your veterinarian, and a trustworthy assistant tells you so, plainly and early. That honesty is why families can trust the help with everything else. Day one ends with a name, a face, an ID for life, and an assistant in your corner.
That is not a blank page anymore. That is a beginning. Day two, Milo, the record. Day two is the calmest errand of the week, and the one future you will thank present you for. You open the profile, and you put the practical story where it belongs. The vet records you have. The vaccinations as they actually stand. The medications as you actually give them. The wish list which sounds light and turns out to matter, because it tells the people who love your pet what he needs and what he dreams of in his family's own words. And the history, the story so far, written down while you remember every word of it. This is the lesson Becca taught this whole audience last night, wearing a clinic coat. A record kept on a calm day is a faithful witness on a hard day.
She is right. And day two is when you hire that witness. Nothing about day two is urgent, and that is exactly why it works. You are not typing with shaking hands. You are typing with a cup of coffee on a Saturday while the cat supervises from the chair she is not supposed to sit in. Ten calm minutes and the profile stops being a photograph and starts being a story with facts in it. And the story travels, which is the part of day two that reaches furthest. That record you build this week is the same record that moves with the pet if life ever changes hands. Transferable profiles from our second episode, and again from the shelter side in episode 16. Adoption, rehoming, a family change. The full profile moves with the pet.
Photos, videos, vet records, wish list and history. And the ID stays with the pet for life. Day two is you writing the first chapters of a book that can be handed whole to whoever loves him next. Nobody has to start the story over. We said it last night about the health record, and it is just as true about the whole profile. Least of all, the one character who cannot tell it in words. Yes, day two is a kindness to a future family you may never meet and to the animal you share. Day three is care teams. The feature from our third episode and still the one that changes daily life the fastest. A pet is rarely cared for by one pair of hands. There is the partner who does the morning walk, the teenager who does the after school feeding, the neighbor who holds
the spare key. On day three, you name them. You build the care team inside the profile and you assign the duties to named people. Feeding, walks, medications, grooming, vet visits. And when a duty is done, it is marked done and time stamped for the whole team to see. I think so stops being an answer. I think so retires on day three. Yes, and day three has a second half for the days when the team is not family at all. When your pet stays with a sitter, a border, a groomer or a family member, you create a care pass from our 12th episode. It lives inside each pet's care team screen. It is a temporary scoped link and the other person opens it with no account and no app install. Exactly what the pet needs for exactly as long as the job lasts and nothing more.
Trust, scoped. You hand over the care, not the filing cabinet. And the handover sheet and the completion log travel with it, so the care is not just promised, it is visible. Duties marked done, time stamped. A family on a trip opens the profile and watches the visit unfold in honest check marks instead of anxious texts. I have been the walker on the other end of that log and I will tell you, being trusted that clearly makes you more careful, not less. You rise to the clarity you are given. Day three ends and the profile is no longer something only you maintain. It is a working tool for everyone who loves your pet. Identity on day one, story on day two, people on day three. Milo, I noticed the week is building exactly the way a good leash hand
builds. Nothing tangled. That is the order working as designed, Dev. Each day uses the day before you. Day four then. The hello. And if I know this show, the day with the heartbeat in it. Day four is introduce your kin, the ritual from our 28th episode. You introduce your pet to the community, the kinsley way. Show your pet, tell us the one thing that makes them family and reveal the profile. 15 to 25 seconds of pure joy and it matters far beyond the joy because an introduction made on an ordinary day is how a pet becomes known before the day they ever need to be found. Known beats big. Priya's line from that episode and it has stayed with me all week. Known beats big every time. And day four is also the day the safety net
stops being a theory. Because the introduction puts your pet into the living network that answers when it matters. The circle of love. Every profile carries the lost pet alert system. Free in every single profile. If a pet is ever lost, the alert reaches nearby circle members within 10 miles of shows on the map. And any finder can message the owner directly from the pet's profile. And that direct messaging is free in every profile. No paywall between a frightened finder and a frightened family ever. And the pet lovers from day one, the ones with no pet at all. They are not decoration in that story. They are the story. A pet lover is a pair of eyes on the evening walk. A neighbor who knows the introduce dogs by name. A person who can receive the alert and act on it. The circle is the people
who act like pets are family. Including the people whose family does not currently include a pet of their own. Day four is when new members feel that. They introduce one pet and they join a network of thousands of introductions. And suddenly the whole town's pets have names. Milo, tell them about Biscuit. Gently. This is the moment in every first week talk where the room goes quiet. And I think our listeners should hear why. Biscuit is a composite of true evenings for my walking years. And his family gave me their first week in the right order. Day one, his profile with the photo where his ears do the thing. Day two, his record. Day three, his care team, which included me. Day four, his introduction where his family told the circle that he answers
to his name and to the sound of a treat jar in that order. On the evening of day four, a garden gate that had been closed a thousand times did not latch. Biscuit followed a smell and then a squirrel and then his own confidence three streets further than he had ever been. And this is the part where the week earns its keep. A woman he had never met found him studying a hedge like it owed him money. She scanned his QR ID, his profile opened, his name, his photo, his family's direct message button right there. She messaged them from his profile, and she waited with him and she used his name because his introduction had taught the neighborhood his name before it ever needed to. His family was three streets away in four
minutes from knowing. The gate failed, the week did not. Four minutes, the pattern this show named back in the circle of love episode. A stranger, a scan, a message, a dog home because the circle was there and the profile was ready. And notice Maya, nothing heroic happened, nobody climbed anything. A neighbor did a small easy thing because every hard part had been done calmly days earlier in 10 minute pieces. That is the whole argument for the first week. You do the calm work once and it stands ready on the one evening. You cannot do calm work at all. Day five, finding your people. My favorite errand day, the groomer, the walker, the daycare, the trainer down the road you keep meaning to call. Day five, you go looking for your
pet's people and KinsLe hands you the map. Inside the app, the services search. And on the open web, the kinsley directory at kinsley.com, a public directory of pet businesses more than 69,000 of them across the country. Each with its own page, its name, its town, its kind of work, and a way to reach it. Some pages carry to verify badge, which means the business has been checked. It is really them. And day five is not only businesses, is it? It is the groups too. Day five is businesses in the morning and community by evening. The social feed is the porch where the whole neighborhoods can drift past. The groups are the kitchen tables, the smaller rooms where your kind of family gathers. The breed people, the senior dog people, the apartment cat people who have
solved problems your search engine has never even heard of. Find one group on day five, one is enough. Known beats big applies to people too. And for the business owners listening tonight, because we know you listen on the drive home, day five works from your side of the counter as well. A business on kinsley meets its clients on kinsley itself, with its own console, its own booking, its own storefront. And when a business signs a client up, that client receives a 30 day welcome instead of the standard seven. The directory page is the front door. The profile is the relationship. I am a walker. So let me say the plain version. The families who find me through a pets real profile arrive already trusting the work,
because they have seen the animal, the record and the team before we ever shake hands. Day five shortens the distance between strangers who are about to trust each other with something precious. That shortening is most of what this app is for. Day six, the library. Day six, you discover that your three in the morning questions have a home. KinsLe answers, a library of pet answers written one careful answer at a time, and still growing every single day. And it lives in two languages as two independent libraries. Every answer is written independently in English and in Spanish. Neither is a translation of the other. The same question asked in two kitchens answered in the words each kitchen actually speaks. And the newsletter carries
one great answer into your inbox every Saturday, free for the families who like their wisdom with their weekend coffee. Day six is also the day I tell families to ask their assistant a real question out loud in conversation. Not a test question. The actual thing you wondered about this week, the food transition, the new puppies first night, the older cats new habit, Kenny or Kimmy will help you find the answer, organize what matters and point you to your veterinarian for anything that belongs to a veterinarian. That division of labor practiced on a calm day six is what makes the technology trustworthy on a frightening night. Before day seven Milo, I want to test the week the way life tests everything, not on a calm Saturday,
on the messy second weekend when the family has to travel and the pet stays home with a sitter for the first time. The second weekend is the exam the first week was studying for, and I have watched it go both ways for years. Without the week it goes like this, a sticky note on the fridge with half the feeding instructions, a text thread the sitter has to scroll while a hungry dog supervises her scrolling, a phone call from three states away about a medication nobody can quite describe and a family that spends its whole trip worrying in the gaps between information. And with the week? With the week the sitter opens a care pass on her own phone, no account, no app to install, and the visit is simply there. The feeding exactly as the family does it, the walk route, the medication with
the time it was last given, because the care team log does not deal in, I think so. She marks each duty done as she does it, timestamp and the family three states away, watches the honest check marks land and gets on with being where they are. Presence by check mark. The family is at the wedding, actually at the wedding, because the care at home is visible instead of imagined. And the dog who is the only one in the story who cannot read any of it feels the difference in his own language. His routine arrives on time in the right order from a calm person who was handed calm instructions. Pets do not read profiles, dev. They read whether the humans around them are guessing. A pet whose week was built can tell nobody is guessing.
That sentence deserves the wall next to Becca's. They read whether the humans are guessing. Give it the wall. And notice what the sitter told that family when they got home. She said, I will sit for him again in a heartbeat because that profile made me look good in my job. That is the quiet engine under this whole week. Good information does not just protect the pet, it makes every professional and every neighbor around the pet more willing to say yes next time. Care, clearly handed over, comes back as more care. The week compounds. Day three's care team and care pass were not really about that first weekend at all. They were about every weekend after it. Every weekend, every trip, every late meeting, every hospital stay, nobody plans.
The week is built once on calm days and then it just keeps quietly working in rooms the family is not even in. That is when I knew the order was right, not when the profile looked finished, when it started working while nobody was watching it. There's a rhythm forming here that I do not think is an accident. Day one identity. Day two, the story. Day three, the people. Day four, the hello and the safety net. Day five, your professionals and your community. Day six, the knowledge, which leaves day seven and Milo has been protecting day seven all episode like it is a surprise party. Because day seven is not a task, day seven is a look back. You open the profile you were nervous about last Saturday and it is not blank anymore. It is a name and a face and an ID for life.
It is a record a stranger could act on kindly. It is a team with names on the duties. It is an introduction a neighborhood answered. It is a groomer found a group joined a question answered at midnight in your own language. And if your family is one of the first 1000 members who choose to join the founders club, day seven is a fine day to look at that door too. It is open to the first 1000 members. It is a choice never automatic. And it is a lifetime seat for the families who want to stand closest to the mission. No pressure in that sentence. Just a door clearly marked on the last day of a good week. A week ago, it was a button that said add your pet. And now it is a small working world around one beloved animal.
That is the week that is all it ever was seven small days, each one leaving the pet a little more known, a little more cared for, and a great deal more findable than the day before. Milo last question, the one we ask every guest in some form, a family downloads kinsley tonight, Saturday night while this episode is still in their ears. What is the one thing they do before they go to bed? Day one, just day one. The name, the true photos and let the ID be born. Do not attempt the week tonight. Attempt the evening. A profile with a name and a face exist in the world in a way a plan never will. And tomorrow morning, day two will be waiting. Calm as you please with the coffee. And if you have no pet tonight,
your day one is even simpler. Join free as a pet lover and become somebody's circle. Somewhere near you, a gate will not latch some evening this year, and the pair of eyes that brings that dog home could be yours. One more time for everyone driving, walking or folding laundry with us tonight. The name is KinsLe. K-I-N-S-L-E. KinsLe live now and ready for your first week. Milo, thank you. You gave us the week's motto and I am stealing it for the close. A gate can fail. A week done calmly does not. Thank you both due to small days in order and let the profile do the remembering. That leaves your memory free for its real job, which is loving them. KinsLe is live. Download it free on the app store tonight and start your first week
tomorrow morning. One pet is free, pet lovers join free, and every profile carries the lost pet alert system free because safety was never the upgrade. And while you are there, introduce your kin. Show your pet, tell us the one thing that makes them family, and let the circle know them on an ordinary day so they are known on every day after. The full story of tonight's episode and every episode this season is waiting in this feed. They are more than pets, they are kin. That is not just our slogan, tonight it is a first week, seven small days that turn a into a pet the whole neighborhood knows by name. Good night everyone. Take care of your kin and let KinsLe help you keep their whole story. Good night. K-I-N-S-L-E. KinsLe, we will see you tomorrow night on Kintalk.