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Marisa Hoskins - Pet Travel Made Easy With Paws Abroad
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- Soul Touched by Dogs
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- May 14, 2025
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- 1175
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Summary
If you’ve ever felt torn between your passion for travel and the love for your dogs, this is the episode you didn’t know you needed. In this Soul Touched by Dogs conversation, I sit down with serial entrepreneur, business strategist, and fellow dog mom, Marisa Hoskins, the visionary behind Paws Abroad. After building (and selling!) Canada’s most nutritious dog food brand, Marisa set off on a global adventure with her rescue pups - and hit a wall of frustrating, confusing pet travel regulations. Sound familiar? Rather than accept “that’s just how it is”, Marisa turned her experience into purpose and created Paws Abroad, a digital platform designed to make international pet travel stress-free, empowering pet parents everywhere to roam the world with confidence. We talk about: The heartbreaking reality of why expats often have to give up their dogs, and how Paws Abroad is working to change that. How Marisa leveraged her startup background and software development expertise to solve one of the pet world’s most complex problems. What it really takes to build a “community over competition” platform for global dog lovers. Why “collaboration, not gatekeeping” is her philosophy for revolutionizing the pet travel industry. PLUS: An exclusive treat for Soul Touched by Dogs listeners! Get $5 off any Paws Abroad travel planner tier at https://pawsabroad.co/launch with the code BYDOGS. If you’ve got adventure in your soul and a dog at your side, this conversation will leave you inspired and equipped to dream bigger about where your journey could take you - together. 👉 Listen now and share with your fellow dog-travel dreamers! 00:00 Welcome to the Soul Touched by Dogs Podcast 00:24 Meet Marisa: A Journey with Rescue Dogs 01:09 The Challenges of International Pet Travel 02:43 From Str…