Love was the beginning. The questions kept changing.

Why I began

The Raw Entrepawneur began with Meow. She was my adopted cat, and she was ill. I was following every instruction I had been given. She was still getting worse. I remember that particular helplessness: trying so hard to help and watching it not help.

I went looking beyond the answers I had been handed. I shared what I found with other people caring for animals, and slowly the search became something larger: a public apprenticeship, recorded as I went.

The part before the success story

I spoke with people whose lives had been redirected by an animal. Some built something out of it. Others were still working out what the experience had asked of them. I wanted the part before the polished success story: what happened, what failed, what kept them going, and what they wished they had understood sooner.

Across those conversations my questions became more personal. We spoke about grief, self-forgiveness, the limits of fixing and saving, and what it means to care without pretending that love gives us control.

What happened next

The last episode went out in January 2023, partway through a book-review series with Shana Allan. Then it stopped, and I did not explain why.

I got ill in a way I could not describe at the time, which is part of why I said nothing. Screens made everything go fuzzy. I could not hold a sentence to the end of it, in speech or on the page. Reading a book, a thing I had done all my life without thinking about it, became work I could not sustain. My memory stopped doing for free what it had always done for free.

A podcast is words and questions and remembering what someone said three minutes ago. I had none of that.

Somewhere in that stretch I lost the last four recordings Shana and I made. Four conversations that existed and now do not. I still find that hard to write down.

Getting better took years and it was not elegant. I went back to the beginning and rebuilt from there, one thing at a time. Almost everything I tried, I had first heard from a guest on this podcast. I had spent years asking people how they cared for a body that was struggling. It turned out I had been taking notes for myself.

While the podcast was quiet, I put more of what I had into HV Little Library, a small free library in my neighbourhood, and into the community of people and animals around it. The work is hyper-local and physically grounding. It is helping my body slowly heal, and it has become part of how I live and care.

The conversations are all still here, and the questions are still open. The next episode will arrive when it is ready, and so will I.

A note on these conversations

They belong to their moment. They offer lived experience and hard-won perspective, not final veterinary answers. These are conversations, not medical advice. Talk to your own vet.

The original audio remains authoritative. Where available, the machine-assisted transcripts help you search, read and return to what was said.

About Amrys

Amrys Wang is an animal wellness advocate and community practitioner. Through The Raw Entrepawneur, she explores how care actually gets done: who does it, what it asks of them, and the relationships and practical structures that allow it to continue.

She co-founded HV Little Library, where neighbourhood life brings community care and animal care together. Her own experience of illness and recovery sharpened a question that now runs through her work: how do we sustain the people doing the caring, as well as those receiving it?

Amrys is also a Mindvalley Certified Holobody Coach, a Holden Qigong teacher-in-training and the co-author of two personal-development books.

Her guiding credo is F.L.Y.: First Love Yourself—not as a retreat from caring for others, but as part of making care sustainable.