meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

In Search of Cats of the World

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4636 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rebroadcast:There are few places in the world where you won't encounter a cat. So a few years ago, Hannah Shaw, who has dedicated much of her life and work to caring for them, set out tomeet and document has many as she could across the globe—spotlighting the extraordinary places they live and the people who care for them along the way. Lale chats with the animal welfare advocate, bestselling author, and educator about her many travels, from Turkey to Chile to Oman, and finds out what she learned along the way.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Well, I was down on my last dollar, then I started saving, because the bank said fiscal restraint is what you're craving.

0:06.0

So I put my earnings in a high yield account, let the savings compound and the interest mount.

0:12.0

I'm optimizing cash flow, putting debt in check now.

0:15.0

Time is my friend and now a pain in the neck.

0:17.0

And we've got a little cash to rebuild the old deck.

0:21.1

Boring money moves make kind of lame songs, but they sound pretty sweet to your wallet.

0:25.8

PNC Bank, brilliantly boring since 1865.

0:32.7

Hello, I'm Lale Aricoglu, and this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condonass Traveler.

0:40.5

Today's show is a little out of the box for us, which I'm quite excited about.

0:45.8

It's about people, but people caring for cats around the world and the cats bossing us around.

0:57.1

Loving cats felt like a secret handshake that gave me access to the world.

1:01.5

A huge goal for me also was just to highlight the amazing compassion that exists everywhere.

1:08.0

There's not a corner of the world where you cannot find somebody doing

1:11.4

some kind of amazing, compassionate, courageous act to help animals. I'm talking to New York Times

1:17.7

bestseller author and Animal Rescue expert Hannah Shaw. My history with cats really started about

1:26.4

15 years ago. I was an animal lover, but I didn't know

1:31.0

anything about cats and kittens. And I was living in Philadelphia. I was sitting on a park

1:37.2

bench and I looked up into this tree and saw a little kitten looking down at me. And I ended up

1:43.4

climbing this tree and bringing her back down

1:45.8

and kind of going, oh gosh, what have I gotten myself into here? I got really involved in

1:51.5

kitten rescue in the U.S. We have some really unique challenges with the zero to eight week

1:58.2

old population for kittens here. So I sort of ended up dedicating my life to problem solving

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Condé Nast Traveler, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Condé Nast Traveler and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.