by [email protected] | Apr 24, 2024 | Enjoying Cash Flow
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Feeling stuck in a rut with your dental practice? Discover strategies to inject excitement and purpose back into your daily routine.
Join Dr. Dave as he draws on insights from renowned entrepreneur Paul Graham’s essay, ‘How to Do What You Love.’ Learn how reigniting passion can dramatically improve your dental office.
This episode offers practical advice on revitalizing your practice, enhancing team dynamics, improving patient care, and boosting profitability—all through creativity and joy.
We’ll also examine the cultural reasons behind our dread of work and offer actionable steps to overcome this negative mindset.
- Rethink Work Culture: How can addressing our beliefs about work lead to better financial and personal outcomes?
- Enhance Team Dynamics: Is a fun and engaging work environment the key to boosting productivity?
- Superior Patient Care: Discover how a happier team can provide unparalleled care and generate more word-of-mouth referrals.
Don’t resign yourself to lackluster workdays. Listen now and start revitalizing your practice into a more enjoyable and profitable endeavor!
Are you ready to upgrade your practice? Need help implementing the Dentists Ascend Method? Don’t miss Dr. Dave’s presentation: ‘How to Build a Referral-Centric, High-Profit Dental Practice Without the Team Drama — Even if You’re Currently Overwhelmed.‘ This resource is tailored to help you enhance your operations, boost patient referrals, and increase profits while creating a self-managing team. Perfect for any dental practice owner looking to win in today’s challenging environment. Check it out now!
Key Quotes:
- “In the world of dentistry, where the precision of your practice intertwines with the satisfaction of your patients, loving what you do is not just a matter of personal fulfillment. It’s a real cornerstone of long-term success and financial prosperity.”
- “A practice led by passion rather than obligation is more likely to attract and retain both patients and the most talented team, fostering a thriving business environment.”
- “Encouraging your team to discover joy in their work, whether through continuous education, patient interactions, or community involvement, can redefine their professional lives and lift the entire practice to a new level.”
- “It’s essential for dental practice owners to look beyond the financial gains and the societal recognition that we receive when we’re defining our professional path.”
- “This mantra is vital for dental practice owners who must continually evolve to stay relevant in a rapidly changing field. Keep moving. Don’t get complacent.”
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- People: Paul Graham, is an English-born computer scientist, entrepreneur, and essayist. He is known for his work on the Lisp programming language and for co-founding Y Combinator, the influential startup accelerator that launched companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit.
- People: David Senra, hosts The Founders Podcast, dissecting the lives of influential entrepreneurs to share actionable lessons. He emphasizes the value of learning from history’s business leaders, innovators, and strategists.
- Essay: How To Do What You Love, Paul Graham
- Blog: The Key to Motivating Your Dental Employees, Relentless Dentist Podcast
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by [email protected] | Sep 13, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Have you noticed a growing trend? Highly-trained dental professionals are leaving large Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) in search of deeper meaning and purpose in their work. They yearn for environments where they can make a profound impact, collaborate within cohesive teams, and drive innovation. As a dental practice owner, this shift presents a golden opportunity, and in this podcast, we’re here to guide you on positioning your practice as the ideal destination for these professionals while enhancing the experience for your team and patients.
At the core of this transformative shift lies a transition from the traditional Productivity Paradigm to a Performance Paradigm. It’s no longer just about the quantity of patients seen or procedures performed. Instead, it’s about the quality of care, nurturing relationships, and cultivating the practice environment. We’ll share insights and strategies on how to adopt and implement these changes within your practice.
- Why ‘Grow-Time’ Matters: Join me as I reveal an overlooked approach to building a winning dental team.
- Magnetize Your Operations: Dive into the art of transformational leadership that elite dental businesses use to attract and retain top talent.
- Future-Proofing for Success: Decode strategies for sustainable growth in today’s shifting economy. Intrigued? Tune in now!
Attention single-location dental practice owners who want to build a high-performance team so that you can take more time off while enjoying elevating profits: Learn about Dental Practice 3.0 and the new Dentists Ascend Mastermind
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Key Quotes:
- “A cushy job isn’t necessarily an easy job, but it can make it feel as though life is easier when you have a great work life and the ability to have a life outside of work.”
- “A practice that prioritizes performance over mere productivity taps into the intrinsic motivation of its team.”
- “Grow time ensures that it evolves, that it adapts, that it thrives in an ever-changing landscape.”
- “If you’re making all the decisions, That looks like a heck of a lot of decision fatigue. And fatigue leads to stress, and stress leads to burnout.”
- “Engaged employees are much more likely to be committed, loyal, and motivated, and contribute to the practice’s success.”
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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 | Nov 14, 2018 | Hints for Happiness
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What comes to mind when you hear the term “work-life balance”? How about when you think about retirement? I get a fair amount of questions about these two topics—likely because this podcast is all about engineering a practice that provides for your epic life—but I’m here to tell you that I think both work-life balance and retirement are complete b.s.
In this episode, I go on a bit of a rant about why these two ideas really bother me. Listen in to hear why I don’t agree with the thought that we should have a clear distinction between work and the other aspects of our lives, the reason I think retirement is a bad idea, and how we should all go about designing lives that give us purpose and fulfillment.
Key Quotes:
- “Is ‘work-life balance’ implying that one is bad and that we should balance it with the other one? I don’t know—I have a hard time with that. Most people get their purpose and a lot of their identity from their work.”
- “Why can’t we have a vision that blurs the lines between work and play?”
- “I think that’s a common theme in 100% of people, that you should be growing and evolving and serving. And most people do that through their work.”
- “My life is fueling my work, and my work is fueling my life. So can we just all call it life and integrate it?”
- “I, quite frankly, want to work the day before I die. I want to work until the end, delivering value.”
- “You’re serving the patient by being influential. You’re serving your team by giving them a culture, a place that they enjoy and collaborate and have a shared vision. All those components fuel your life.”
- “Five years we’ve been talking about designing an epic practice to fuel your epic life. It’s a vehicle to get what you want—to live the life that you want—but it all has to be engineered with intention.”
- “Can we stop talking about retirement, and can we stop talking about work-life balance? I think they’re both complete bullshit, and I think they take people down paths that they shouldn’t even consider.”
- “Design a work schedule that gives you purpose, that gives you meaning, that gives you challenge and allows you to grow, and let that fuel your life.”
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by Karah Karah | Dec 27, 2017 | Bold Biographies
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Today’s guest has followed an unusual career path, to say the least. From going into undergrad as a football player to training to be a fighter pilot, Tim Rauch hadn’t even considered working in dentistry when he was growing up. Yet nowadays, he has the kind of successful dental career—and lifestyle—many dreams of, including shorter, flexible work weeks, frequent travel, and more.
In this episode, Tim shares the inspiring story of perseverance and intentionality that led him to where he is today. Listen in to hear how he created his ideal work-life balance and how you can overcome excuses and start designing your own epic life.
Key Quotes:
- “[In] about a four-year stretch, I went from brand new startup owner to multi-practice with associates owning a practice management guy to selling everything and starting over.”
- “A ton of professional and financial success—really more than I ever thought was possible as a dentist—and I had this total come to Jesus moment with how and why and to what end.”
- “I wanted to be able to stop and say that if I died any day now, I’d be doing exactly what I wanted to be doing.”
- “My new mantra was: I’m going to live every week, every day, every month, and plan every year like, hey, this could be it because things slip away quickly.”
- “Start today. Think very clearly about what your ideal week, or your ideal month, or the ideal year of your life could look like, and then identify what you need to do to get there, and then work your ass off until you get it.”
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