We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tyler Gines. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tyler below.

Tyler, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?

Boujie & Beyond didn’t start with a business plan. It started with loss… and then, eventually, a conversation with my dog.

In 2021, my soul dog Stella was hit by a car while I was out of town. She had run off from the dog sitter, and she didn’t survive. There are no words for that kind of grief. Stella wasn’t just a pet, she was a piece of me. And losing her the way I did, suddenly and from a distance, left a wound I didn’t know how to close.

Fourteen months later, I was facing another goodbye. Paris, the second rescue I had adopted alongside Stella… was ready to cross over. One Sunday night, I sat with her and I said out loud: “If you’re ready to go, tell me, and I will help make you as comfortable as possible. If you’re not ready, I will keep fighting.”

The next morning I was at the gym. I had just finished arms and moved toward cardio when I heard it, clear as anything, “I’m ready.” I stopped. Was that me? Was that her? I didn’t fully trust myself yet, so I hired an animal communicator to tune into Paris. And what came back took my breath away. Paris told the communicator exactly how she wanted to go. Surrounded by daisies, her and Stella’s favorite flower. Melodic music playing. The color purple, the crown chakra, the color of connection to the spiritual realm, as her signal to me. And her sister Stella beside her on the living room floor.

She orchestrated her own crossing. And I was there for every detail of it.
Paris and Stella are not just the reason this business exists, they are my co-founders. They have guided every step of what Boujie & Beyond has become.

The gift itself? It had always been inside me. But it was in Bali, sitting with a shaman friend, that I was helped to remember it. That’s the word that feels most true, not discover, but remember. Because this has always been part of who I am.

What I saw clearly, once I stepped into this work, was a gap that no one was talking about. Pet parents were cycling through vet visit after vet visit. Test after test. Pill after pill, symptoms masked, never solved. Their animals were suffering and they were getting no real answers. Because the answers weren’t showing up on lab panels. The origin point. The energetic and nervous system root of what’s happening, wasn’t even being looked for.

My own dog Daisy became my greatest teacher in this. Together, we developed a methodology and framework that I now use with clients. I watched her allergies, which had her breaking out in hives, itching, scratching, licking, begin to shift when we worked with the emotional root underneath them. Betrayal and abandonment, stuck in her nervous system. When those emotions were addressed, she began eating foods that used to trigger full reactions, with zero symptoms. Symptoms are always the last thing to appear. The origin is everything.

What I’ve built isn’t just animal communication, though that is at the heart of it. I am the Pet Whisperer. I bring in energy work modalities, medical mediumship, somatic and nervous system work, grief support, and certifications. I serve coaches, healers, entrepreneurs, and pet guardians who are completely devoted to their animals, people who know, on a soul level, that there is more going on with their pet than what anyone has been able to explain.

Is there fear in bringing this to the world? Absolutely. There’s doubt. There’s the weight of imposter syndrome that comes with standing for something that goes against everything mainstream culture has taught us. But that’s also exactly where the excitement lives, because the world is shifting. Holistic and integrative approaches are no longer fringe. People are ready for this. And I believe, with everything I have, that the animals have been waiting for it too.

Stella and Paris made sure I would be the one to answer that call.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Some people find their calling. My calling found me, through grief, through near-death, through a dog named Paris whispering “I’m ready” from across a gym, and through years of living a life that refused to stay ordinary.Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, I am the founder of Boujie & Beyond and one of the most singular voices in the world of animal wellness today. My title is Pet Whisperer, and once you understand the depth of what I bring to that role, you’ll understand why no other title quite fits.

A Life That Built Something Extraordinary
My path to this work was anything but linear… and that’s exactly what makes me so effective.

Before Boujie & Beyond, I built a highly successful title and escrow business from the ground up, becoming one of the youngest sales leaders in the industry. Before that, I worked as a CNA in the operating room and in labor and delivery, standing at the threshold of life’s most sacred moments before I even knew that threshold work would define my life’s purpose.

But it’s what happened in between the résumé lines that truly shaped me.

I came out in a deeply religious family. I survived abuse in childhood, emotional, physical, the kind that leaves marks on the nervous system long after the body heals. I was in a near-fatal car accident when a teenager crossed three lanes of traffic and T-boned me. The cop on the scene looked at the wreckage and told me plainly: “I’m sorry I didn’t stop here sooner. I thought you were dead.”

I have faced the kind of losses and transformations that most people never survive, let alone alchemize into a gift they give the world. And then there were Paris and Stella, whose stories, whose crossings, whose love, cracked me open to the work he was always meant to do.

I don’t just understand trauma, grief, nervous system dysregulation, and energetic imprinting. I have lived every layer of it. That is not something you can certify your way into. That is embodied wisdom, and it is the foundation of everything I do.

My credentials are as rigorous as his intuition is sharp.

I hold over 500 hours of coaching training and carry certifications as a Master Coach, Certified NLP Trainer, NLP Master Practitioner, Somatic Coach, and Advanced Trauma, PTSD & Addiction Coach. I am certified in two hypnotherapy modalities. On the spiritual side, I am a fully initiated Shaman, a psychic medium, a seer, a Reiki Master Teacher in both Usui Tibetan Reiki and Usui Holy Fire® Reiki, and fully initiated into Huna.

I am not a dabbler. I am not self-styled. I am one of the most comprehensively trained practitioners working at the intersection of animal wellness, energy medicine, and trauma-informed healing, anywhere.

What I Actually Do.

Boujie & Beyond is not your grandmother’s pet psychic. This is a full-spectrum approach to animal wellness that goes places conventional veterinary medicine simply cannot reach.

I work as the bridge between pet guardians and their animals, reading what the animal is carrying energetically, somatically, and spiritually, and tracing it back to its true origin point. Because here’s what most people don’t know: symptoms are always the last thing to appear. The root is almost always energetic. And the root is almost always connected to the human on the other end of the leash.

Take Banksy, a dog who came home from the sitter and let out a gut-wrenching yelp when his owner touched his throat in the exact way he always had. Vet visit one: nothing found, gabapentin prescribed. Vet visit two: maybe it’s the food, maybe it’s a breed condition. Then Banksy’s owner came to me. In their session, I zeroed in on the throat chakra and asked the owner one question: “What are you not saying that you need to say?” The owner paused, and then took full responsibility for what he’d been holding back. In that moment, he took it back from Banksy. And Banksy? Completely fine. Immediately.

That is the work.

I offer private one-on-one sessions for pet guardians who need answers, real ones. My signature four-session offer, Modern Day Medicine For Your Pet, goes deep into the energetic and somatic root of what an animal is experiencing and creates lasting transformation. Monthly workshops and webinars bring his methodology to a wider audience. And this fall, I am launching my Metaphysical Pet Certification, training the next generation of practitioners in my proprietary framework.

I serves pet guardians, coaches, healers, and entrepreneurs who are devoted to their animals, people who know in their bones that there is more going on than any lab panel has been able to show them.

What Sets me Apart
Where do we even begin?

There are animal communicators. There are energy healers. There are trauma coaches and somatic practitioners and reiki masters and shamans. I am all of that, simultaneously, seamlessly, and in service of your pet.

I have developed an original methodology, built alongside my own dog Daisy, that identifies the emotional and energetic origin point underneath an animal’s physical symptoms. I have watched allergies dissolve when the betrayal and abandonment stored in a nervous system were finally addressed. I have helped animals cross with dignity and intention. I have given grieving pet parents answers that years of vet visits never could.

And I do all of this as someone who has personally walked through abuse, grief, near-death, spiritual initiation, and profound loss, and come out the other side not just intact, but gifted. My animals, Paris and Stella — are my co-founders. They guide this work from the other side. And that is not a metaphor.

There is simply no one doing exactly this. Not like this. Not with this depth.

What I Most Want You to Know
If you’ve been to vet visit after vet visit and still don’t have real answers, you are not crazy, and you are not out of options.

If you’ve lost a pet and the grief feels like it has no bottom, you are not alone, and there is more available to you than you know.

If something in you has always believed your animal is trying to tell you something, you’re right. And I can help you hear it.

You are not alone. And there are other ways to get answers.

That is the heartbeat of Boujie & Beyond. And I have dedicated his life… All of its chapters, all of its pain, all of its magic, to making sure you know it.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I don’t have one story. I have a life that kept asking me how much I could carry, and kept showing me the answer was more than I thought.

Resilience, for me, isn’t a single moment. It’s a thread that runs through everything. And when I look back, I can see it was always being woven, even when I had no idea what it was becoming.

I grew up in a religious family and came out at a time and in an environment where that was not met with open arms. I survived abuse as a child, in every form. The kind of experiences that don’t just leave bruises. They leave imprints. They wire your nervous system for survival mode. They teach you, in ways no child should ever be taught, that the world is not always safe and that love can come with conditions.

And then I was in a car accident that should have killed me. A seventeen-year-old girl crossed three lanes of traffic and T-boned my car. When the cop arrived on scene, he looked at the wreckage and said to me, “I’m sorry I didn’t stop here sooner. I thought you were dead.” I wasn’t. But I had to figure out, once again, what it meant to still be here.
I built a life in spite of all of it. A successful business. A career. A self. I became one of the youngest sales leaders in the title and escrow industry. I became someone who thrived in operating rooms and labor and delivery wards — spaces where life and death are not abstract concepts but things you witness with your hands and your heart. I was good at showing up. I was good at pushing through.

But resilience isn’t just surviving. I didn’t fully understand that until I lost Stella.

My soul dog. Hit by a car while I was out of town. Gone before I could get there. That grief broke something open in me that every previous hardship had only cracked. And then, fourteen months later, I was holding space for Paris, her sister, my other rescue, as she prepared to cross over. I told her one Sunday night that if she was ready, I would help her go with dignity and love. The next morning at the gym, mid-workout, I heard her voice: “I’m ready.”
That moment didn’t break me. It became me.

Because here’s what I’ve learned after a lifetime of hard things… the abuse, the accident, coming out, the grief, the losses that had no warning and no clean ending: none of it was random. Every single piece of it was building something. My nervous system knows trauma from the inside. My body knows what it is to store pain that has nowhere to go. My heart knows what it is to lose someone and still have to keep moving. And my soul knows what it is to be cracked open so completely that the only thing left to do is become who you were always supposed to be.
Paris and Stella didn’t just lead me to this business. They led me home, to a gift I had always carried, to a purpose that finally made sense of every hard chapter that came before it.

I now work with animals and their humans at the intersection of energy, trauma, and the nervous system. And when a client sits across from me, terrified, exhausted, out of answers. I am not just a practitioner. I am someone who knows, in my bones, what it feels like to be in that place. To have been through things that don’t make sense. To be desperate for something to shift.

Resilience didn’t give me an easy life. It gave me an honest one. And it gave me the ability to look another person in the eye, or tune into their animal, and say with complete conviction:
You are not alone. And there are other ways through.
That’s the story. That’s all of it. And I wouldn’t trade a single chapter.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

I didn’t choose my pivot. My pivot chose me.

After years of building a successful career in title and escrow, becoming one of the youngest sales leaders in the industry, excelling in a world that rewarded performance, ambition, and results, I was laid off. Just like that. The identity I had built, the structure I had relied on, the version of Tyler that showed up in a suit and closed deals and knew exactly what came next, gone.

And if I’m being real… I didn’t handle it gracefully at first.

But here’s what I’ve come to understand about being cracked open: it’s rarely destruction. It’s almost always direction.
I didn’t go quietly into a job search. Something in me, maybe the part that had already survived a childhood full of hard things, a car accident that left a cop thinking I was dead, losses that had no clean endings, that part knew this wasn’t the end of something. It was the beginning of something I didn’t have language for yet.

So I started building a coaching business. I leaned into the over 500 hours of training I had accumulated, the NLP, the somatic work, the trauma and addiction certifications, the hypnotherapy, the master coaching credentials. I had spent years quietly becoming one of the most comprehensively trained practitioners in the personal development space. The layoff just forced me to finally use it.

And that was its own kind of pivot, from corporate high-performer to coach, from climbing someone else’s ladder to building my own. It was uncomfortable. It was uncertain. There were moments of real doubt. Walking away from a predictable income and a title that the world understood is not a small thing. But I kept moving.

And then the animals found me.

Or more accurately, Paris and Stella led me the rest of the way.

Their crossings, their messages, the gift that my shaman friend helped me remember in Bali, it all converged into something I never could have mapped out on a whiteboard. I had started as a coach. I stepped into animal communication. And then I realized that neither label was big enough for what I was actually doing. I wasn’t just communicating with animals. I was tracing the energetic and nervous system roots of their symptoms. I was doing medical mediumship. I was bringing somatic healing, energy work, grief support, and spiritual initiation into a space that had never seen all of those things in one place, in service of one purpose, the wellbeing of animals and the humans who love them.

Boujie & Beyond wasn’t the plan. It was the revelation.

The pivot wasn’t one moment, it was a series of them, each one building on the last. Layoff to coaching. Coaching to animal communication. Animal communication to something entirely its own… A methodology, a movement, a calling that now has its own certification program and is preparing to train the next generation of practitioners.

What I know now that I didn’t know standing in the wreckage of that layoff is this: the universe doesn’t always ask permission before it redirects you. Sometimes it just removes the floor and trusts you to find your wings on the way down.

I found mine. And they turned out to be far more extraordinary than anything I could have built from the safety of what I already knew.

Contact Info:

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