The Gentle Barn with Ellie Laks

The Morning Spotlight with Mike Ham

Ellie Laks is the original founder of The Gentle Barn Foundation, a national organization that rescues and rehabilitates unwanted animals and helps to heal people with the same stories of abuse and neglect. She is a powerful speaker, celebrated animal welfare advocate, humane educator and author of My Gentle Barn: Creating a sanctuary where animals heal, and children learn to hope.

She founded The Gentle Barn in 1999 and invented her own “gentle-healing method” that allows old, sick, injured and terrified animals to fully recover using a mixture of Western medicine, holistic healing modalities, holding therapy and lots of love. Ellie is an expert in healing orphaned and sick animals, like puppies with Parvo and calves from veal crates. She has hosted hundreds of thousands of at-risk, inner-city and special needs children, war veterans, seniors, victims of domestic violence, children in foster care and those in recovery from drug, alcohol and gang affiliation.

The Ellen Show, People Magazine, Life Magazine, Animal Planet, The Huffington Post, Turning Point, Women’s World, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, and The New York Times are just some of the influential media outlets in which Ellie has been featured. She is also a highly sought-after guest speaker who has presented at animal rights conferences, environmental conferences, eco-feminist summits, self-discovery retreats, corporate functions and universities nationwide that serve to motivate their audiences towards higher awareness, profound compassion, realizing dreams and an enhanced sense of purpose. Ellie is a TEDx speaker, and the keynote speaker at West Coast Eco Feminist Conference, Animal Wisdom World Summit, The Difference Maker series, Phoenix House, Winnipeg’s Vegfest, UCLA, USC, The Los Angeles Green Fest and many more.

To date, Ellie has saved thousands of animals and hosted over 500,000 visitors. The Gentle Barn is currently home to approximately 200 animals and has three locations in Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee and St Louis, Missouri. It is her goal to be the voice for animals, share their stories and open the hearts of humanity towards all living beings, “Teaching people kindness and compassion to animals, each other and our planet.”

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