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Business of Dentistry

Dr. Russell Kirk is a private practice oral surgeon who is on a mission to help dentists succeed in the business and clinical aspects of practice ownership. On the podcast he shares experiences from his own practice. He also interviews influencers in the profession to get additional insights. His discussions focus on fixing broken business systems in dental offices, reducing overhead while maximizing profit, recognizing burnout and battling against it, building healthy teams, creating positive customer experiences, improving self awareness and mindset for dentists (in life and practice), and creating successful marketing plans. The Business of Dentistry features practical strategies for dentists interested in improving and growing their businesses.
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Now displaying: April, 2018
Apr 24, 2018

My guest this week is Travis Hornsby, the founder of Student Loan Planner, a student loan advisor company.

Behind every great man there’s a great woman, they say. In Travis’s case, the great woman is his wife, a physician in Saint Louis. When they first started dating, she had a lot of student debt. So Travis decided to help her out by making a model of how they can pay off her student debt.

He used all the knowledge he got from bond trading and modeling complex debt instruments and started researching what are the most advantageous choices you can make while repaying your debt.

His then girlfriend, now wife, started spreading the word about what he was doing, so he started helping more and more dentists. He advised about 250 dentists and dental specialists in the past 18 months.

Key takeaways:

  • The grim current landscape of student debt
  • Choose your plan according to your goals
  • The current state of student loans is not sustainable, and that might change

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Apr 17, 2018

This week I am joined by Dr. Paul Etchison, host of The Dental Practice Heroes Podcast, and author of Dental Practice Hero: From Ordinary Practice to Extraordinary Experience.

Paul comes from Illinois, and studied in Chicago. After finishing dental school, he worked for a specialist who owned several practices. There he got the chance to learn a ton of things, and after about two and a half years, he started thinking about creating his own business.

The next step for him was taking Dr. Scott Leune’s Breakaway Practice Seminars and gathering as much information as humanly possible.

He then started looking for a location for his office, found the perfect spot and grew the business really fast. Fast forward to six years later, they now have almost 3 million visits every year and still counting!

Key takeaways:

  • Success narrowed down to effort and dedication
  • Devoted to creating an exceptional practice culture
  • Some of the marketing strategies they’ve used
  • Burnout and coming up with a solution
  • Why he become an author

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Apr 10, 2018

My guest this week is a self-declared Nebraska farm boy whose first career pursuit was athletic medicine. He later realized that athletic trainers are really married to their job, and this wasn’t the lifestyle he wanted for himself.

Dave Maloley then switched to dentistry and never looked back.

Today we talk about why it’s necessary to keep an eye on your vision, and why you should constantly remind yourself of what’s important to you.

We also touch on Dave’s 16 life categories that help him be more focused on his goals, on how he discovered high-performance training and how it completely turned his life around.

Finally, it’s useful to remind you that you can always sign up for the Dental Success Network, whenever you have questions, or if you need to double-check something. It’s an enormously valuable resource.

Key takeaways:

  • Building vision and clarity
  • Dave’s 16 life categories
  • How high-performance training changed his life
  • The Dental Success Network initiative

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Full show notes at: http://businessofdentistrypodcast.com/

Apr 3, 2018

This week I speak about two things that have helped me improve my practice and my wellbeing.

 

The first one is treating myself to a buffer day before jumping back to work on a Monday morning. I realized that by doing so, I was more relaxed, and I could tackle the everyday problems better. I strongly suggest you give it a try if you’ve never considered it before.

The second thing that I truly benefited from is painting a whiteboard in front of my desk. So now every time I need to add something to my schedule, I can just add it to the list, and I will have it in front of my eyes until I solve it. This small trick has helped me be more organized and it took away the stress of having to keep things in my head.

Key takeaways:

  • Why I find buffer days important
  • A small trick: using a whiteboard in order to keep everything in check
  • What’s next for the show

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