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KinsLe's Kin Talk

New episodes nightly — the stories and features behind KinsLe.

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.

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Kin Talk Ep23: A Profile for Life

Oct 31, 2026 · 21 min 43 sec

A profile built on an ordinary day is what answers on the worst night. Maya and Dev are joined by Ellis, a lost-and-found volunteer (a voiced character), for a Halloween-night story: forty open doors, one slipped dog, and two versions of the search — the blank page, and the profile that was ready. On KinsLe, every pet has a profile (your first pet is free) holding photos, videos, vet records, a wish list, and history, under a KinsLe ID that stays with the pet for life and a unique KinsLe Verified QR ID. Follow the…

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Ep 23 Short: A Profile for Life

Oct 31, 2026 · 4 min 6 sec

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Kin Talk Ep22: The Pet Portal

Oct 30, 2026 · 23 min 12 sec

One pet, one hub, everything in one place. Maya and Dev are joined by Jonah, a veterinary records coordinator (a voiced character), to tour KinsLe's Pet Portal: the per-pet hub screen with a search bar that reaches across records, chat, and care team, and three grouped neighbourhoods — Health and Identity (Medical Record, Health Charts, Pet Pass, Travel ID, Docs, Provider History, Official Records, Insurance), Community and Care (Chat, Care Team, Family Share, Tasks), and Profile and Extras (Gallery, Service Galler…

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Ep 22 Short: The Pet Portal

Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min 27 sec

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Kin Talk Ep21: The Referral Program

Oct 29, 2026 · 22 min 7 sec

A recommendation is a piece of your name, lent out. Maya and Dev are joined by Theo, a dog trainer and training-studio owner (a voiced character), to talk about KinsLe referrals: inside the business console a business shares its referral link and tracks its conversions, and a client a business signs up to KinsLe gets a 30-day free trial — instead of the standard 7 days they'd get signing up on their own. A week is a tour. A month is a life. Follow one referral at the training-studio door: a family joins through tru…

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Ep 21 Short: The Referral Program

Oct 29, 2026 · 3 min 53 sec

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Kin Talk Ep20: Meet Kimmy

Oct 28, 2026 · 20 min 54 sec

It is 11:40 p.m., and you are whispering a question in a dark kitchen about your own dog, by name. You deserve a voice you chose answering it. Maya and Dev are joined by Willa, a multi-pet family lead (a voiced character), to meet Kimmy — Kinny's new counterpart on KinsLe. Kimmy has caramel hair, pink accents, a glowing pink heart, and a gold KIMMY tag. She joins Kinny, KinsLe's built-in assistant, so every member can pick the assistant voice that feels like home in the Settings "Your assistant" picker — and switch…

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Ep 20 Short: Meet Kimmy

Oct 28, 2026 · 3 min 24 sec

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Kin Talk Ep19: Business Payments

Oct 27, 2026 · 20 min 43 sec

She did the work this week. She'll be paid next month — minus a cut. Maya and Dev are joined by Sam, a boarding, daycare and training owner (a voiced character), to talk about the money itself: how pet businesses on KinsLe get paid directly. Inside KinsLe, a business connects its own Stripe, PayPal or Square account and receives payments directly — instead of platforms that collect the payment, take a cut of up to 30%, and release what's left 30 to 45 days later. Invoices go out from the Business Console with a pay…

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Ep 19 Short: Business Payments

Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min 4 sec

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Kin Talk Ep18: The Social Feed

Oct 26, 2026 · 22 min 43 sec

Your pet's best moment should not sink under a thousand strangers by breakfast. Maya and Dev are joined by Mara, a pet community organizer (a voiced character), to explore the KinsLe Social Feed: a built-in feed where every post is a chapter in a real pet's profile, not a photograph floating free. Inside KinsLe you friend people and pets, gather in groups with families living your exact chapter, and share the ordinary moments that make a pet known — because a community is not an audience: an audience watches and mo…

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Ep 18 Short: The Social Feed

Oct 26, 2026 · 3 min 18 sec

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Kin Talk Ep17: KinsLe Answers

Oct 25, 2026 · 23 min 54 sec

A pet question is never asked casually — it's asked scared, tired, or at two in the morning, and whatever answer you find becomes the care your pet gets. Maya and Dev are joined by Noah, a pet-care educator (a voiced character), to introduce KinsLe Answers: the real questions pet owners actually ask, answered honestly. KinsLe Answers is live at kinsle.com/answers. It began with one thousand real pet questions — my puppy won't eat, my senior dog is slowing down, what do I do the first night a new kitten comes home —…

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Ep 17 Short: KinsLe Answers

Oct 25, 2026 · 3 min 29 sec

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Kin Talk Ep16: Transferrable Profiles

Oct 24, 2026 · 21 min 39 sec

Adoption day should never mean a blank page. Maya and Dev are joined by Hannah, a shelter and rescue adoption coordinator (a voiced character), to tell Transferrable Profiles from the shelter side — the story Ep2 first told from the breeder's side, now from the doorway where a pet's life changes hands mid-story. Inside a pet's KinsLe profile, the owner can transfer the pet to another owner — and the full profile moves WITH the pet: photos, videos, vet records, wish list, and history. The pet's KinsLe ID stays with…

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Ep 16 Short: Transferrable Profiles

Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min 49 sec

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Kin Talk Ep15: Family Sharing

Oct 23, 2026 · 20 min 22 sec

Two phones buzz at the same second — one at home, one in an airport. Maya and Dev are joined by Elena, a partner and co-owner (a voiced character), to explore Family Sharing in KinsLe: a per-pet care circle the owner builds by inviting people by name, email, or phone, each with a role — Partner (full access, treated like a co-owner), Family, Sitter, or Walker. Everyone in the circle gets every alert and update for that pet, with phone numbers collected for SMS alerts — so a lost-pet alert lands instantly on the pho…

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Ep 15 Short: Family Sharing

Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min 16 sec

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Kin Talk Ep14: Kinny

Oct 22, 2026 · 21 min 49 sec

A question at 11:40 p.m. deserves an answer about YOUR pet, not a stranger's dog. Maya and Dev are joined by Caleb, a veterinary technician and multi-pet owner (a voiced character), to meet Kinny — KinsLe's built-in assistant, with his own screen, a per-pet context switcher, nudges, reminders, live voice, and an input that says "Ask Kinny about Jai." Kinny's tiles connect the whole product: Find services routes to the Pet Services Directory (Ep13), Draft alert connects to the free Lost Pet Alert System and the Circ…

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Ep 14 Short: Kinny

Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min 51 sec

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Kin Talk Ep13: Pet Services Directory

Oct 21, 2026 · 21 min 10 sec

Your first Sunday in a new town, and you know nobody — the Pet Services Directory in KinsLe finds your people. Maya and Dev are joined by Owen, a former veterinary clinic front-desk manager (a voiced character), to show how finding care close to home builds trust, one honest listing at a time. In the Directory you search pet services by ZIP code and refine in your own natural language — cat-friendly, twenty-four hour, the words you would say to a friend. Results are powered by Google Places, badged right on screen,…

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Ep 13 Short: Pet Services Directory

Oct 21, 2026 · 4 min 6 sec

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Kin Talk Ep12: Care Pass

Oct 20, 2026 · 20 min 10 sec

Leaving your pet with someone is an act of trust. Maya and Dev are joined by Tessa, a professional pet sitter (a voiced character), to show how Care Pass makes that trust easy to give — and easy to verify. Care Pass lives inside each pet's Care Team screen in KinsLe. The owner creates a temporary, scoped link for that one pet — exactly what the pet needs, for exactly as long as the job lasts, and nothing more. The sitter, boarder, groomer, or family member opens it with no account and no app install. Care Pass serv…

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Ep 12 Short: Care Pass

Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min 38 sec

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Kin Talk Ep11: Circle of Love

Oct 19, 2026 · 20 min 8 sec

Every account type makes the Circle stronger. Maya and Dev are joined by June, a neighborhood lost-pet rescue-network organizer (a voiced character), to build the whole episode on that one sentence: the Circle of Love is not just the free tier — it is every kind of KinsLe member, working together, so a lost pet gets home faster. Pet Lovers join free with no pet at all — they watch, they share, and they answer alerts. Pet owners put real profiles into the Circle, so a lost pet is findable and its people are one dire…

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Ep 11 Short: Circle of Love

Oct 19, 2026 · 3 min 52 sec

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Kin Talk Ep10: The KinsLe Business Console — Part 2

Oct 18, 2026 · 18 min 30 sec

Last night: the front of the house — the website, the booking, the trust. Tonight: behind the counter. Maya and Dev return to Rosa's grooming shop (Rosa is a voiced character, back in Part 2 in the same voice) for the back office: how she runs the whole business from one KinsLe console. Rosa's Thursday starts on the Dashboard — the Daily highlight flagging what needs attention, and an analytics overview of storefront views, appointments booked, reviews, broadcasts, inquiries and waitlist joins. From there: the guid…

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Ep 10 Short: The KinsLe Business Console — Part 2

Oct 18, 2026 · 4 min 12 sec

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Kin Talk Ep9: The KinsLe Business Console — Part 1

Oct 17, 2026 · 20 min 14 sec

It is Sunday night, and a pet owner is on her couch scrolling for a groomer she can trust — a blurry photo, prices from two years ago, a phone number and a prayer. Tonight on Kin Talk, Maya and Dev follow one client, Jenna, and her dog Milo through a completely different front door, with groomer and business owner Rosa (a voiced character): Part 1 of the KinsLe Business Console story — the front of the house. Rosa's KinsLe website is a real public website included in the Business plan. She picked from five template…

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Ep 9 Short: The KinsLe Business Console — Part 1

Oct 17, 2026 · 4 min 28 sec

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Kin Talk Ep8: The Founders Club

Oct 16, 2026 · 23 min 10 sec

Seat #1 is already taken — by LaGarrick "LG" Gantt himself, with his English bulldog Jai. Tonight on Kin Talk, Maya and Dev open the doors to the KinsLe Founders Club with pet business owner Dana (a voiced character): a club capped at 1,000 members, where one payment brings lifetime access — Family Large $179.99 or Business $899.99, one time — plus a Founders badge, a private members-only group with direct access to LG to help shape policy and features, a quarterly live video conference call with the founder — Foun…

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Ep 8 Short: The Founders Club

Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min 42 sec

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Kin Talk Ep7: KinsLe Messenger

Oct 15, 2026 · 21 min 12 sec

A finder spots a lost dog, opens his Lost Pet Alert, and messages his family from the alert itself — "I have Milo. He is safe." — and the reunion starts in under a minute. Tonight on Kin Talk, Maya and Dev explore KinsLe Messenger with rescue coordinator Nina (a voiced character): the communications hub for each pet — one system: inbox, pet-to-pet chat, and friend requests — that works inside Care Teams, inside Lost Pet Alerts, and member to member across the Circle of Love. Plus: the 6 PM meds thread ("Meds done,"…

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Ep 7 Short: In-App Messaging

Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min 22 sec

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Kin Talk Ep6: Kinsle Verified / QR IDs

Oct 14, 2026 · 20 min 49 sec

A wet dog, no leash, no person — just a collar. Tonight on Kin Talk, Maya and Dev explore KinsLe Verified and QR IDs: every pet gets a permanent KinsLe ID for life and a Verified Pet Pass that anyone can open with one scan — no app, no account, no login — so a lost pet can be identified in seconds. You'll meet Marcus, a shelter lost-and-found coordinator, on dead-end engraved tag numbers, the two-black-labs problem, and Professor Buttons, the indoor cat who got home in eleven minutes because a teenager scanned his…

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Ep 6 Short: Kinsle Verified / QR IDs

Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min 45 sec

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Kin Talk Ep5: Memorial Accounts

Oct 13, 2026 · 21 min 9 sec

A pet's whole life is scattered — a photo here, a video on an old phone, a vet record in a drawer — and no single place holds the whole story of who they were. Tonight, Maya and Dev explore the gentlest feature on KinsLe: Memorial Accounts. Memorial Accounts are free accounts that honor pets who've passed — with themes you can choose, a memory timeline that holds their whole life, collaborator invites so everyone who loved them can add photos and memories, a gentle Rainbow Bridge transition that happens only when y…

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Ep 5 Short: Memorial Accounts

Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min 47 sec

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Kin Talk Ep4: Business Care Teams

Oct 12, 2026 · 19 min 29 sec

A dog eats three dinners in one day because three different staffers each thought feeding him was still on the list. Another dog misses her allergy pill because everyone assumed somebody else gave it to her. Sound familiar? Tonight on Kin Talk, Maya and Dev take Business Care Teams inside the pet business — the owner and manager view where every duty (feeding, walks, meds, grooming, play sessions) is assigned to a real staffer, notified instantly, and stamped with a timestamp the whole team can see. You'll meet Dou…

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Ep 4 Short: Business Care Teams

Oct 12, 2026 · 3 min 48 sec

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Kin Talk Ep3: Care Teams

Oct 11, 2026 · 20 min 38 sec

Somewhere in America, a family is arguing about who fed the dog. Right now. KinsLe's Care Teams end that argument with a timestamp. Maya and Dev walk through a full day with Care Teams — assigning feeding, walks, meds, and grooming to each family member, with notifications for every duty and timestamped completions the whole team can see. Professional pet sitter Renee joins to talk consistency as the professional standard, medication safety, divorced and aging-parent households, and how kids stand taller when a cre…

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Ep 3 Short: Care Teams

Oct 11, 2026 · 4 min 6 sec

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Ep 2: Transferrable Profiles

Oct 10, 2026 · 21 min 6 sec

Breeder A hands you a complete KinsLe profile — every vaccine, every photo, every milestone since birth. Breeder B hands you vibes. Which puppy would you buy? Tonight on Kin Talk, Maya and Dev dig into Transferrable Profiles, one of the most emotional features in KinsLe. You'll hear the pet-owner side — the love encoded in a complete profile that follows a pet for life, the warm handoff note that tells a new family how to love their puppy on day one, and the story of Dana and Maple — and the business side: how bree…

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Ep 2 Short: Transferrable Profiles

Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min 31 sec

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Ep 1: The Lost Pet Alert System

Oct 9, 2026 · 19 min 1 sec

Your dog slips the leash. Your cat darts out the door. Every pet parent's worst nightmare — and exactly why Kinsle built the Lost Pet Alert System. In our premiere episode, Maya and Dev break down how it works: one tap alerts your Circle of Love, finders can message you directly, and it all shows on the map. Emergency veterinarian Dr. Lisa Chen joins to share what the first critical minutes really look like — and why indoor cats are the toughest to bring home. Kin Talk is Kinsle's nightly show for people whose pets…

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Ep 1 Short: The Lost Pet Alert System

Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min 20 sec

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