Are you ready for the holidays? 🎄 Do you actually know what your customers are going to want this year and how they are thinking about spending? Candace has been digging through the 2026 holiday trend reports and there are some interesting shifts happening. People
This episode is a special treat. It’s an impromptu recording around a hotel fire pit in Perham, Minnesota, with wine in plastic cups, a train going by, and a surprise guest who walked up mid-recording and got handed a microphone. Candace drove 9.5 hours each
Q4 is here, and for most of you that means holiday prep and chasing down year-end numbers. For Candace it means something else entirely. This is the last quarter of the first decade of Pet Boss Nation. Ten years and thousands of clients through our
This one is a love letter. 💌 It is Neighborhood Pet Store Day weekend, and it is also the one-year anniversary of Dante and Dory’s! So Candace is doing two things at once: celebrating the independent pet businesses who decided their community deserved something more
It was a normal Tuesday, around 7 in the morning.Candace pulled up behind the building to get a head start on the day. Before she could unlock the door, she had to step around someone sleeping against it. Notice what that sentence does not say.
Many of our videos get hundreds, maybe a few thousand views. This one got 1.6 million. It was a video of a filthy self-wash tub getting rinsed out. That is it. A German shepherd had just been bathed on opening weekend, the tub looked like
What do an animatronic dog, a bag of Tootsie Rolls, and a 17-year-old FFA chapter president have in common? They are the reason Dante & Dory’s Pet Emporium just pulled off one of its best pieces of community marketing yet! 🎉 Candace is joined by
This week, Candace sent her son Carmine to preschool for the first time. He was ready. She thought she was ready too. And then something happened that surprised her – and opened up a much bigger conversation about business, control, and what it really means
It is a double celebration on the Pet Boss Podcast this week! Episode 250 of the Pet Boss Podcast is also the debut of the Pet Boss Trade Show Awards. 🎉🎉🎉 Candace and Morgan are back from SUPERZOO 2026 in Las Vegas with awards for
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