“Compassionate Badassery,” episode 7 of The Best Friends Podcast, is a wellness-focused conversation about the emotional, mental, and physical demands of animal-welfare work. Published by Best Friends Animal Society on April 30, 2020, it features shelter director Amanda Paris and compassion-fatigue educator Jessica Dolce.
What the episode covers
Best Friends Animal Society describes animal welfare, municipal sheltering, and field services as work that can take a toll emotionally, mentally, and physically. The effects vary by person, but the episode emphasizes acknowledging them over time and caring for ourselves and one another as part of sustaining lifesaving work.
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The episode is the first in a series focused on wellness. Its framing is qualitative: the episode page does not report statistics about compassion fatigue, burnout, or worker wellbeing.
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- Amanda Paris, identified by Best Friends as Shelter Director at Southern Pines Animal Shelter. The episode page says she is recognizing the impact of ten years in the field.
- Jessica Dolce, identified as a Certified Compassion Fatigue Educator. The page describes her as sharing expertise on practicing “compassionate badassery.”
Those descriptions come from the episode page; they are not direct quotations from either guest.
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Resources listed with the episode
Best Friends lists the following resources alongside the episode. The page does not establish whether they are currently available, their prices, or their formats beyond the descriptions noted here.
- “Animal Caretaker Burnout”
- Jessica Dolce’s Compassion in Balance, described as a year-long online course focused on building resistance
- Jessica Dolce’s resources and webinar, “Coping with Stress during COVID-19”
- “Healing the Wounded Healer,” attributed to Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA, and identified as a Best Friends National Conference 2013 resource
- “Mindful Lifesaving,” by Dr. Linda Harper, Ph.D., and Faith Maloney
- “Self Inventory Screening for Animal Advocates”
For episode details and the original resource list, see Best Friends Animal Society’s episode page.
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The conversation is aimed at people doing emotionally demanding animal-welfare work, including those in shelters and field services. It may also interest colleagues or managers thinking about how to recognize the strain of this work and support one another. The episode page does not present the discussion as a clinical treatment or a substitute for professional care.
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