Tranquility du Jour #371: Creating an Animal Sanctuary
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Creating an Animal Sanctuary with Dr. Lisa Davis. Hear the story behind her creation of a nonprofit animal sanctuary outside of DC, the best and hardest parts, and how you can meet the animals.
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Dr. Lisa Davis is the Co-founder and President of the Burleigh Manor Animal Sanctuary and Eco-Retreat (BMASER). She and her husband, Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, founded the Sanctuary with Davis' father, Edward Davis, Jr. in 2012 in honor of the late Margaret (Peggy) Davis, an avid animal lover and advocate. Having grown up caring for horses and numerous pets, Davis knew she had a calling to help animals. After conferring with her lifelong friends, Davis left her corporate job, where she was Vice President of Scientific and Clinical Affairs at Medifast, Inc., moved to Ellicott City, Maryland, and established the nonprofit animal sanctuary.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, May 30th, 2016. |
| 0:09.1 | Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 371st edition of Tranquility |
| 0:17.4 | DeJure. |
| 0:18.3 | Every time I give the name, or the number, I guess, is more like it. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm like, shocked. How have we been doing this for so long? 371 episodes. Amazing and |
| 0:29.7 | amazing that so many of you have been listening along really since the very beginning September |
| 0:36.7 | 2005. So a big, big thank you. Before I dive into |
| 0:43.7 | our interview with the amazing Lisa Davis, and this episode is all about her creation of an |
| 0:51.0 | animal sanctuary, just right outside of Washington, D.C. and Ellicott City, Maryland. |
| 0:56.8 | You're going to hear the story behind her creation of this nonprofit animal sanctuary, |
| 1:01.7 | the best and hardest parts of it, and how you can meet the animals. |
| 1:06.7 | We have an event coming up together June 18th from 10 to 2 and it's going to be yoga, |
| 1:13.3 | a private tour of the sanctuary and then the lovely Tim will be making a vegan meal that |
| 1:18.4 | will also come with some treats from Sticky Fingers Bakery, which is a lovely vegan bakery that's |
| 1:24.0 | here in town. |
| 1:25.0 | So if you are available June 18th, we would love to have you, and there's |
| 1:29.2 | a link in the show notes to find out more about that. And before I dive into sharing this |
| 1:36.2 | amazing interview with you, I just wanted to give a few updates. You know, I realized last night |
| 1:41.6 | as we're driving back from Pittsburgh, which we were there for |
| 1:44.7 | three days for a creative nonfiction writers conference, Tim came along and did some biking, |
| 1:50.9 | Buki came along and did some, you know, whatever he does, napping, and he had two sitters because, |
| 1:56.8 | you know, we can't leave him alone. And anyway, it was like a really, really great time, |
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