by [email protected] | Mar 13, 2019 | Wealth Wisdom
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Today I’ve got four friends on the line to talk about life, dentistry and the Life and Dentistry Conference coming up on March 23rd. Lewis, Scotty, Cole and John are all part of the Life and Dentistry team, and they’re here to share their vision and passion for bringing great dental minds together in a fun and inspiring way.
In this episode, you’ll get a taste of what to expect from the Life and Dentistry Conference, as well as our thoughts on how the last few years have made an impact and helped us grow. It’s important to nurture yourself and keep growing on a personal level as you grow your dental practice, and that’s what this conference is all about. You’ll get inspiration from real people who have gone through real struggles and gain insight to help you in your life and career.
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Key Quotes:
- “We just want to add value to others. We just want other people to grow in a lot of aspects of life. That’s why we call ourselves Life and Dentistry.”
- “It’s the lack of connection that kept me under for so long.”
- “Every person’s path should be unique, but you can borrow ideas, steal clues, get leveled up by tapping the minds of people who’ve been through it.”
- “It’s important to show some drive and stick to it.”
- “The one danger zone I see dentists fall in is comfort.”
- “They have the capability, but they don’t have the courage, and so that can be a really strong boundary that keeps people stuck for decades.”
- “The most successful people in dentistry and life fail a lot.”
- “If you don’t have something to work towards, if you’re not striving to get bigger and better, you’re getting worse.”
- “Success definitely leaves clues, but true success is a byproduct of alignment.”
- “You gotta step out of your comfort zone and you gotta know where you want to be, even if it means sacrificing being comfortable right now.”
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by Karah Karah | Oct 17, 2018 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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This episode is all about understanding your fears and finding effective ways to lead and grow your practice. The pain of fear can be so crippling but it doesn’t have to hold you back if you don’t let it. We’ll go over the common fears people have when it comes to their practice and challenge you to not let that fear get in your way by choosing courage over comfort.
First you’ll learn about the different hats that dentists, especially leaders, should be wearing and how to develop your leadership skills to bring out the best in your team. The next step is finding where fear is holding you back so you’ll learn about some common ways that fear keeps you from growing and how to push past those issues.
Key Quotes:
- “There are several hats that dentists have to wear and I think the leader themselves should wear a few different hats.”
- “The common theme I see in the purpose of all people is that they should be growing and expanding and they should be serving.”
- “The way that we’re going to grow now is to grow the people. Grow their confidence and grow their capabilities.”
- “If you’re not intentional about growth, increasing the skillsets of people that are there and increasing your own skillsets, it’s an easy way to have your practice inadvertently plateau.”
- “In a practice you actually have to encourage people to make mistakes.”
- “Capability comes after courage. After some reps you’re developing some confidence.”
- “You can’t be the leader who criticizes them for making mistakes because they will stop making the effort.”
- “Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s doing something that you fear. The fears never really go away.”
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by Karah Karah | Jun 20, 2018 | Maverick Mind Shifts
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It’s easy to see the highlight reel of peoples’ careers and think that things should be easier. Coty Shores shares how important it is to embrace the “dark side” of your career and use it to motivate you and push you forward. He also gives us some great inspiration when it comes to learning from people you admire and endeavoring to constantly improve yourself and your skills.
Coty touches on the role of courage and how he beat the odds and proved people wrong to get where he is today. He emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and how he has had massive success with blood spinning and its incredible, life changing procedures. Coty also shares some insight on successful team management, delivering value and finding the grit to get through what’s hard.
Key Quotes:
- “I’ve always heard – “Oh it will cost you their year salary to train a staff member..” – Well, they cost you about three times that much by keeping that terrible staff member around.”
- “They confuse courage with, like you said, having no fear.. and that’s a problem. You’re always going to be scared, you just gotta push through and have the grit to do it.”
- “You can’t outrun your team.”
- “That’s what you gotta do with life – you have to take the negative and learn from it.”
- “Your failures are where you learn everything that’s gonna move you forward.”
- “It’s really about being better for your patients.”
- “Always remember that with all the success that you see, there was late nights and a lot of missed events and all kinds of stuff.”
- “Once you get in the middle of it, don’t quit. Have that grit. Have that piss-off determination to get it done.”
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by Karah Karah | Apr 5, 2017 | Legendary Leadership, Maverick Mind Shifts
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I met Dr. Jason Campbell at the Voices of Dentistry Summit in Nashville, TN. He has a fascinating story and is engaged in groundbreaking work with patients at his clinic, Cosmetic and Family Dentistry, in Prescott, AZ. From an early age, Jason’s always wanted to be a dentist. Since genetic problems with teeth plagued him from the beginning, he brings a sense of passion to working with patients who present unique challenges.
Jason is a general dentist, but he’s also engaged in complex surgeries and reconstructive dentistry. It wasn’t until he was 14 years old that he was able to get the reconstructive surgery he needed. This allows Jason to relate to patients with challenging cases that other dentists can’t or won’t touch.
Jason is an expert in biomechanical problems and can often bring people relief with minor treatments. He trains doctors to identify underlying causes that often generate a host of symptoms that can lead to an improper diagnosis. He specializes in helping dental refugees who haven’t found success in resolving tooth-related illnesses. In this episode of Relentless Dentist, we’ll talk about how Jason is leading the pack in transforming the practice of dentistry. He’s helping patients who feel like there are no hope and training other dentists to follow in his footsteps.
Key Quotes:
- I feel like there’s this third thing in dentistry that we’re missing – interventional care.
- Dentistry is an act of charity. Charity brings good things into your life.
- You hear of interventional medicine, but you don’t hear that term a lot in dentistry.
- In dentistry, there really are only three things that we contend with. If we can help people avoid these three elements, we can stop 99% of dental problems.
- Inflammation systematically increases your risk for type II diabetes. It increases your risk for pancreatic cancer.
- When you have these three issues: biomechanical problems, acidity problems, and inflammation – that’s what really causing tooth issues.
- You have to start peeling back the symptoms to get the cause to determine what’s the best course of treatment for the person.
- There’s life beyond dentistry.
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by Karah Karah | Mar 29, 2017 | Bold Biographies, Maverick Mind Shifts, Prescriptions for your Practice
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Today’s episode is a little different. Instead of me interviewing our guest, Dr. Bilal Saib of The Passionate Dentist podcast, we interview each other about the highs and lows of our careers and the joys of podcasting.
Dr. B is a fellow dentist and podcaster based in North Carolina. He’s also a frequent missionary to the West Bank, where he performs free dental work in communities in need. In this episode, we talk about how our shows have given us a greater sense of community with other dentists, and dig into our careers.
Dr. B and I talk about the lack of confidence among dentists, which is exacerbated by our tendency to only talk about the good things happening in our practices. We discuss the self-reflection that goes into building your own practice and learning how to manage a team, and how it’s made us better people. Dr. B also shares some of his experiences with missionary work, a unique but meaningful challenge he feels compelled to undertake.
Key Quotes:
- When you decide to own dental practice, you have to step up to the plate and do what is required of you.
- The thing that makes us more fulfilled and makes our practices grow is the psychology of you, the owner, and there’s nothing more powerful in psychology than confidence.
- What the practice requires of me has made me such a better person.
- I go on mission trips because I’m sharing my gift. And my gift is all these little tidbits of things that are lined up perfectly to create this perfect environment.
- I chose to have a low volume, high-quality practice even before I started my practice.
- Dentists are sometimes so benevolent that we forget the time and energy that we put into our education, hiring and firing staff, and patient relationships – there’s a lot of equity there – either because we come from humble beginnings or because we come from a place of give, give give.
- One of the first questions I ask dental students is: “why did you choose to become a dentist?”
- The first check I ever wrote myself was $100. It was a symbolic gesture of my three year anniversary.
- You learn a lot from practice management because when you have a busy practice, you learn what you want and you learn what you really don’t want. And there’s huge value in knowing what you want.
- Don’t treat insurance patients differently than non-insurance patients. Don’t cut your quality short. Do your very best with every patient, even if they’re on insurance.
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