238. Dr. Josie Horchak: Stepping away from owning her own clinic to rewriting the pet-care model, everything YOU need to know about the veterinarian career path, advice for pet owners, and the $$$ behind it all!
Trading Secrets
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5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Josie has over 15 years of experience in the vet field and is a renowned vet for the exceptional care she provides her patients. Most recently, Dr. Josie stepped away from owning her own clinics to focus on providing quality concierge vet services to a smaller group of clients in Nashville with her company, The Concierge Vet. With this company, she offers at-home wellness and sick visits, telemedicine consults, and more, all at the comfort of the patient's home. In addition to work as a vet, Dr. Josie added podcast host to her resume when she started In The Vet’s Office.
Dr. Josie opens up about her journey through the demanding world of veterinary medicine—from the years of schooling and financial investment it requires, to the lesser-known pay gap between vets and human doctors. She breaks down the typical career path in the field, the emotional and physical toll it can take, and what truly drives someone to choose this profession. Dr. Josie also shares what every pet owner should understand before stepping into a clinic, the difference between owning a practice and working in one, and how she built her own concierge-style pet care model. She discusses turning her anxiety into a strength, why pet insurance is a must from day one, and the overlooked importance of dental health in animals. Plus, she offers heartfelt advice on navigating tough end-of-life decisions for pets and answers listener questions on all things furry and four-legged from the Money Mafia community.
Dr Josie reveals all this and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Dr. Josie Horchak
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of trading secrets. |
| 0:15.4 | Today we are joined by a veterinarian, entrepreneur, and podcast host, Dr. Josie Horchek. Dr. Josie has over 15 years of |
| 0:24.4 | experience in the vet field and is a renowned vet for the exceptional care she provides |
| 0:29.3 | her patients. Most recently, Dr. Josie stepped away from owning her own clinics to focus on |
| 0:34.6 | providing quality, concierge, vet services to a smaller group of clients in Nashville |
| 0:39.7 | with her company, the concierge vet. With this company, she offers at home wellness and sick |
| 0:45.5 | visits, telemedicine, consults, and more, all at the comfort of the patient's home. In addition to |
| 0:51.9 | her work is a vet. Dr. Josie added podcast host to her resume |
| 0:55.5 | when she started in the vet's office that was picked up by the Premier Network with Bobby Bones in |
| 1:02.1 | 2024. We are going to learn all about the career of a veterinarian and discuss various |
| 1:07.2 | tips and tricks to help you with your pets in the most cost effective ways. And I was actually |
| 1:12.3 | just on her podcast. So you're going to have to tune into that. Dr. Josie, thank you so much for being |
| 1:16.5 | on Trading Secrets. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yes. As a new pet owner, |
| 1:21.1 | obviously rescued my boy from Wags and Walks. I have, I don't even need these notes. I have a million questions, but I will do what we do |
| 1:28.4 | best here. I'm going to go in chronological order. I know right now in the vet space, my understanding |
| 1:33.3 | is that the amount of vet students that are pursuing this career has decreased. And there's a little |
| 1:39.4 | bit of shortage with vets in general. We'll get into that. Before we do, you were a bachelor's degree in pre-med at University of Dayton, |
| 1:47.0 | and then you went to vet medicine school at the Ohio State. |
| 1:51.6 | Go buck eyes. |
| 1:52.2 | Go back guys. |
| 1:53.2 | Question for you there. |
| 1:54.4 | How many years of school do you have to go to be a vet, |
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