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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #446: Rescuing Ladybugs

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, Jennifer Skiff and I discuss stories from her latest book, Rescuing Ladybugs, of people who didn't look away from seemingly impossible-to-change situations and instead worked to save animals.

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Guest:

Jennifer Skiff is an award-winning journalist, author, and animal advocate. Her best-selling inspirational books, The Divinity of Dogs and God Stories, are published in seven languages. Her next book, Rescuing Ladybugs released in September, 2018.
 
For more than a decade Jennifer traveled the world working as an investigative environmental correspondent for CNN. Her independently-produced programs about animals have aired on The Discovery Channel and other networks globally. Among other honors, she's received the prized Environmental Media Award.
 
Passionate about animals and their welfare, Jennifer works with charities throughout the world to bring relief to abused, exploited, and abandoned animals. She led the successful campaign to build the first bear sanctuary in Laos and initiated and supervised the release of twelve chained monkeys into their natural habitat in Indonesia. Skiff is the chair of the Humane Society of the United States Maine State Council, chair of the SPCAHC Trustee Council, advisor to Animal Aid USA and the Institute for Humane Education, and a trustee of the Dogs' Refuge Home in Australia. In 2015, she was featured in the bookOne Hundred and One Reasons to Get Out of Bed: Small World Steps, Big Planet Heroesalong with Dame Jane Goodall and Sir Richard Branson. In 2018, she was celebrated for her contribution to animal welfare at Parliament House, Western Australia.
 
With her favorite Aussie and beloved rescue dogs, Jennifer spends her life in perpetual summer between Maine and Australia.

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Tranquility Dejure, March 4th, 2019.

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Restore and reflect while nurturing your creative spirit at a gorgeous secluded villa nestled on an Italian hilltop.

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Indulge in daily yoga, Tuscan cuisine, a Puccini opera, and the magic of Chincatera.

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Join me this July for Tranquility in Tuscany. Learn more at

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Kimberlywilson.com slash Italy. Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the

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446 edition of Tranquility DeJure. In this week's edition, I have the

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pleasure of chatting with Jennifer Skiff, and we discuss stories from her latest book,

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Rescuing Ladybugs, of people who didn't look away from seemingly impossible to change situations

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and instead worked to save animals. You can follow

0:57.7

along in the show notes at Kimberlywilson.com slash 446. Also, for any of you who are new to

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Tranquility DeJure, you can find out more about us over in the show notes. There's a learn more here link.

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And then also join our biweekly love notes and get access to tranquil treasures,

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which is an assortment of PDF, MP3s, and videos to ideally spread a little bit more

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tranquility into our every day. And also, I will be sending out a love note this week.

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So be sure to sign up if you're not yet on the list.

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And before I dive in to chatting with Jennifer, I want to share a few things that are coming

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up.

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First on Friday, it is International Women's Day, March 8th.

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And at 8 p.m. I'm hosting a Year of Tranquility online book launch fat. And so it'll be a one-hour gathering. We're going to have a fun little

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kind book to go along with it and just a way to connect. And so anyone who has gotten the book from

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Amazon or through me as a PDF, you can sign up for

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this and get access to it. So basically go to Kimberlywilson.com slash YOT and then click on the piece

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