Dr. David on the Parent Start Ups Show
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Alana Muller on “Connecting with your patients and community”
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Notes & Quotes:
- In this day and age, we can’t afford to not network . . . it’s critical for the advancement of our careers
Coffee, lunch, coffee came from the way I structured my days.- We don’t understand the real value of human connections.
- My definition of networking is really creating mutually beneficial, long-term relationships without a predetermined outcome in mind.
- Connections + community + belonging = networking
- It feels good to help people solve the problems that they are facing.
- There’s a sense of gratitude and meaning in those connections.
- Your success depends on building these relationships.
- Meaningful connections means really understanding what drives and motivates another person.
- This is not about transactional relationships.
- Be the best version of yourself wherever you are.
- Always say yes! . . . go in with a “yes” attitude.
Important links:
Connect with Alana on Twitter & Facebook
CoffeeLunchCoffee.com
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Scott Dinsmore on “What World-Changers Have in Common”
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Quotes & Notes:
- EVERYONE is meant to do work that matters to them.
- When you do work that matters to you, it will in turn matter to the people around you and start to impact them in a positive way.
- Leverage your natural talents, strengths, and passions!
- The best place to start is do mini-experiments on the side.
- Transform your career long before you quit your job.
- Strengths are at the core of fulfillment.
- Become a self expert.
- Are your values aligned with who you are spending time with and what you are working on?
- So many of us have been living toward a definition of success that is not ours.
- If you don’t know what your passion is, work your ass off until you figure it out.
- Do your impossible! What are the things that you tell yourself that you cannot do?
- It’s a compounding of confidence.
- The fastest way to do the things you don’t think can be done is hang around people who are already doing them.
- What’s the point of life? . . . to enjoy the way you spend your time!
- “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Mahatma Gandhi
- What makes you happy on your best day? I guarantee it isn’t numbers related.
- Everything is impossible until somebody did it.
Important Links:
Strengthsfinder 2.0
Live Your Legend
Follow Scott on: Twitter
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What’s with the delay?
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We haven’t released an episode for a while. Here’s why this re-launch is so important.
Dr. Dustin Burleson’s Bold Biography
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Quotes & Notes:
- Mantra – “Never quit!”
- “He was a bootstrap, built from the ground up entrepreneur…I learned a lot of lessons in business from my grandfather and my father.”
- “Every January 1st I sit down – after celebrating with the family – and I make a list of everyone that’s been influential in my life and I write them a thank you letter.”
- “Growing it from no patients in 2006 to over 7000 active patients today in four locations and five doctors was really an opportunity to express what I learned in marketing.”
- “If you’re not letting your patients know what you do, really I think you’re doing your business a disservice.”
- “We were going to be serious about letting people know who we are and what we stood for.”
- “…and my staff one day walked out at lunch, granted it was only three people but all three walked out and they never came back.”
- [In October] “We’re matching every patient we start, we’re going to treat a kid for free through Smiles Change Lives.”
- Book Recommendation – The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
- “You will become what you think of most.”
If you would like to connect with Dr. Burleson visit http://www.burlesonseminars.com/
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Deliece Hofen on “Hope Filled Living”
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Quotes & Notes:
- “He had a 30% chance for a 5 year survival.”
- “Braden and I actually had chemo on the same days. We were bald together.”
- “If you are strong enough and brave enough to just get up and keep fighting then I’m going to keep fighting too.”
- “We’re lucky we even get a chance to even try anything.”
- “If this is the only time that we get, do I want to spend it with me in bed with the pillow over my head…”
- “Just make the days good.”
- “It’s been absolutely amazing to see the beauty of the human spirit.”
- “…it makes you want to turn around and continue doing good for other people.”
- “I’m a stubborn enough person that fear actually fuels me into action.”
- “I’m scared out of my mind but I refuse to allow cancer to stop us dead in our tracks.”
- Mantra – Everything around us is a gift.
If you would like to connect with Deliece go to Braden’s Hope for Childhood Cancer – www.bradenshope.org
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Dr. Sean Tarpenning’s Bold Biography
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Quotes & Notes:
- Mantra – “The choices you make in life dictate the life you lead.”
- “You can learn a lot from people who work hard and understand people.”
- “I visited about 40 practices.”
- “I belong to mastermind groups in both marketing business area and clinical side of things.”
- “It’s about using your time wisely.”
- “He talked about a pyramid of patients – new patient for basic dentistry – existing hygiene patients – niche services.”
- “Invisalign is about 1/3 of my bread and butter practice.”
- “I had a $34,000 mistake early in my career…I decided well, it’s a good lesson.”
- “Surround yourself with a great team and delegate.”
- “Once you get a big enough reason why you want to do things…it motivates you to take action.”
- Book Recommendation – The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack
If you would like to connect with Dr. Sean go to http://www.hebertdental.com/
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Richard Rierson on “Charting Your Leadership Journey”
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Quotes & Notes:
- “It’s about lifting other people up.”
- “You’re obligated to do everything you can to learn what it means to become a leader.”
- “Assume the accountability of the success and particularly the failures of that organization.”
- “…this is a lifelong process that never ends.”
- “Every interaction with a human being is an opportunity for leadership and growth.”
- “How good are they at being a leader and handling the gray areas?”
- “Real leaders understand the emotional intelligence side…”
- “People want to be part of the solution.”
- “Confidence is the core of a natural charisma.”
- “The less confidence you have, the faster you give up trying.”
- Confidence killers: Low self-image; fear; worrying about other people’s opinion of you
- “Fear is a necessary requirement of courage.”
- “The uncertainty of the future never goes away.”
If you would like more insight from Richard, check out www.doseofleadership.com or www.richardrierson.com
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Mike Kawula on “No-Brainer Grassroots Marketing”
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Quotes & Notes:
- “The first thing you want to do is make sure you at least have some basic type of website set up.”
- “Go out and start putting some content together.”
- “Another highly searched term is emergency dentistry.”
- “Be very active in areas where housewives are active, like Facebook and Pinterest.”
- “As long as you’re posting once, twice, three times a day, which isn’t hard to do, you’re gonna start interaction.”
- “The very top searches (on the web search page)…those are all done by Google Plus Local.”
- “Bright Local…you need to have your site in all the free directories.”
- “…and you can do that on Twitter just by looking for a hashtag.”
- “Twitter is a great networking tool.”
- “Form some type of collaboration out there with other business owners in the local area that have the same type of customer.”
- “Even if you are not comfortable networking, you gotta do it.”
If you would like more insight from Mike, check out selfemployedking.com
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Tom Ziglar on “How to Stop Playing Small”
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Quotes & Notes:
- “People ask how long I’ve been in the business and I tell them almost 49 years now and that’s because I was born into it.”
- [About his Dad, Zig Ziglar] “He walked his talk.”
- “Whatever you do, do it with 100% integrity and 100% effort.” [A life lesson learned from his Dad]
- “When there’s alignment, amazing things happen.”
- “Nobody buys training, nobody! What people buy, what people invest time and money for is the results of training.”
- [On Dreams] “Our brain works from where we are to where we want to be.”
- Fear acronym – False Evidence Appearing Real
- “What are the good things that we’ve always done that are interfering with the best things that we could do?”
- “There’s no way we can change the world unless we get a lot of people helping us.”
- Tom’s Mantra – “What you feed your mind determines your appetite.”