Ellie Laks: The Gentle Barn

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

“The truth is that in between all of those wonderful events was huge debt, maxing out 20 different credit cards and absolutely annihilating my credit, moving from that little half acre backyard into where we are now in Santa Clarita, refinancing the house five times, having people show up in the middle of the night to repo our cars, the bank trying to take the house, my parents doing literal intervention, saying, ‘Ellie, stop your nonsense.’” – Ellie Laks

Ellie Laks is the founder of The Gentle Barn, a sanctuary that houses and heals some of the most traumatized animals around. And in turn, those animals heal the humans who come there. It's a pretty remarkable place.

It started out on half an acre in Ellie's backyard, and it grew to many many acres and multiple locations. There's one in California, one in Tennessee and a third in Missouri. Since its inception, The Gentle Barn has saved thousands of animals and been host to over 500,000 people.

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0:00.0	Species,
0:05.0	species, unite, unite.
0:10.0	The truth is unite.
0:14.1	The truth is that in between all of those wonderful events was huge debt, maxing out 20 different credit cards and absolutely annihilating my credit.
0:26.0	Moving from that little half acre backyard into where we are now in Santa Clarita refinancing the house five times
0:32.1	having people show up in the middle
0:34.0	and night to repo our cars, the bank trying to take the house, my parents doing
0:38.9	literal intervention saying, Ellie, stop your nonsense. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is
0:50.0	Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats.
0:52.0	This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a spare minute.
0:59.7	Could you please rate and review Species Unite on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to Podcasts?
1:07.0	It really helps people to find the show. This conversation is with Ellie Lacks.
1:17.0	Ellie is the founder of the Gentle Barn. The Gentle Barn is a sanctuary that houses and heals some of the most traumatized animals around.
1:30.0	And in turn, those animals heal the humans who come there.
1:35.0	It's a pretty remarkable place.
1:37.0	The General Barnes started out on half an acre in Elie's backyard
1:41.0	and it grew to many acres and multiple locations. There's one in California,
1:46.3	one in Tennessee, and a third in Missouri. Elliot is so good to have you here. Thank you so much.
2:07.0	Thank you for having me.
2:09.0	Why don't you just tell us a little bit about who you are what you're doing.
2:13.7	I'm Ellie Lacks. I'm the founder of the General Barn Foundation, which is a national
2:18.2	organization that takes in animals that have nowhere else to go because they're too old, too sick, too
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