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The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes

The goal of this podcast is to assemble the greatest minds of the dental profession and to pass on their most valuable and succinct lessons, in order to help you to achieve your full potential in practice and in life. Let’s face it. Dentistry can be a frustrating and isolating profession… but you don’t have to be an island anymore. It’s possible to become more profitable, less stressed and more fulfilled in your career and it’s our mission is to help you get there.
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Now displaying: March, 2022
Mar 31, 2022

Our guest today has built a video marketing company while living abroad. Nathan French has been helping dentists with their video marketing campaigns on various platforms such as instagram, facebook, and youtube for over five years. With typically engagement of tens of thousands of views, it's clear these guys are up to something special. Tune in for more.

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Mar 30, 2022

This is a sneak peak into the DSN team retreat that took place just a few days ago in San Diego, CA. We are always talking to our clients about the importance of sharing their practice's origin story with their teams. Doing so gives everyone more purpose and a greater reason for showing up with their A game everyday. So, we did just that during our retreat- pulled back the curtain on the origin of DSN and why the company exists.

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Mar 29, 2022

The operations manual is a daunting task, no question about it. The good news is we’ve found an easy way to create some momentum and start the transition to a systems-dependent practice. Tune in today to hear why we start with these three protocols and how they tie in to the larger project.

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Mar 28, 2022

Today Dr. Mark Costes is walking through how to build your operations manual from the ground up. We often talk about the importance of being a systems dependent practice as opposed to a staff dependent practice, and the operations manual is really where this concept comes to life. So, tune in for some very tactical advice on how to get the project off the ground.

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Mar 26, 2022

Dr. Chris Green and Dr. Addison Killeen team up for this episode of Start Up Saturday to talk about construction. These two guys have a ton of experience when it comes to practice build outs. So tune in to hear their tips on getting architects and contractors to work well together, the timing of hiring contractors, and how to show these guys that you know what you’re talking about.

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Mar 25, 2022

Co-Founder of Voices of Dentistry, Dr. Alan Mead joins the show today. Listen in as Dr. Mark Costes and Dr. Alan Mead catch up following VoD 2022. They get into the early days of podcasting, raising a family while building a business, and what it’s like to age in our profession.

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Mar 24, 2022

Dr. Ingrid Murra joins Dr. Mark Costes in this episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast. Dr. Murra is an orthodontist and mission-driven entrepreneur who has secured over $5M of venture capital funding to launch Two Front — a free platform empowering dentists to offer Invisalign-as-a-service at their office while staying completely hands off. Dentists incorporate a top orthodontic team into their office who uses Invisalign as a tool for preventative oral care instead of aesthetics alone, while leveraging Two Front's digital workflow to offer patients a modern experience.

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Mar 23, 2022

Clarity is the most efficient path to greater bandwidth. Listen in today as Dr. Mark Costes walks his private clients through an intense workshop around clarity. He gets right to the deep work with exercises on overcoming negativity bias, adding bandwidth, and uncovering trends in all areas of your life.

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Mar 22, 2022

Clarity is the most efficient path to greater bandwidth. Listen in today as Dr. Mark Costes walks his private clients through an intense workshop around clarity. He gets right to the deep work with exercises on overcoming negativity bias, adding bandwidth, and uncovering trends in all areas of your life.

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Mar 21, 2022

Today we have a very special episode as Dr. Mark Costes shares his eulogy for his father, Percy Costes. Tune in to hear about the man to which Dr. Costes credits everything, and the impact he had on everyone he touched.

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Mar 19, 2022

Startup Saturday with Dr. Chris Green and Addison Killeen. This is one you don’t want to miss as we are dropping a ton of nuggets on every aspect of building out a practice. On the show today, Chris and Addison get into minimum square footage per operatory, ground up builds vs. building within a lease space, how to minimize wasted space, and much more.

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Mar 18, 2022

Dr. Addison Killeen joins Dr. Mark Costes today to talk about associate hunting, hiring, onboarding, and more. They get right into the transfer for team members, vetting associates by the questions they ask, and what to do with the free time once things are up and running. Furthermore, they unpack the owner’s role as clinical director and what that looks like on a tactical level.

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Mar 17, 2022

Our guest today is a marketing professional with over fifteen years of experience in the premium wine and cosmetics industries. As a brand cultivator, Marisol Castillo loves to focus on the consumer experience to drive volume and profit growth. Tune in to the show today to hear about how she has linked health and wellness with multi-brand programming in her current arena.

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Mar 16, 2022

Caitlin Parsons recently spoke to the DSI mastermind, and it was so well received that we asked her to come on the show today. After practicing hygiene for twelve years, Caitlin knew she needed to find a solution for the neck and back pain she was experiencing. After discovering yoga, she became a certified yoga therapist and ergonomic specialist. Now, she helps dentists and hygienists alike to thrive both in and out of the operatory by optimizing their physical health.

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Mar 15, 2022

Today we are going over the six steps of effective leadership. It all starts with helping team members understand what success in their position looks like. We also take it all the way to how to encourage feedback and authorship amongst team members. Stick around for some tips on futurecasting and closing the gap between where you are now and where you want to be.

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Mar 14, 2022

Today we are going over the six steps of effective leadership. It all starts with helping team members understand what success in their position looks like. We also take it all the way to how to encourage feedback and authorship amongst team members. Stick around for some tips on futurecasting and closing the gap between where you are now and where you want to be.

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Mar 11, 2022

Dr. Addison Killeen and Jake Conway take over the show today as they offer up a comprehensive strategy on how to double your profitability. Starting with analysis of fixed vs variable expenses, they get into goal setting and planning. With tips on both the production and expenditure side of things, this is an episode you do not want I miss.

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Mar 10, 2022

Dr. Addison Killeen and Jake Conway take over the show today as they offer up a comprehensive strategy on how to double your profitability. Starting with analysis of fixed vs variable expenses, they get into goal setting and planning. With tips on both the production and expenditure side of things, this is an episode you do not want I miss.

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Mar 9, 2022

In this episode we are featuring three guests from one of the largest privately held dental labs in the country. Joe co-founded Maverick with Larry in 2003 with the goal of creating a lifestyle company. Together they had decades of experience in the industry through companies like Brassler and other private labs. Joe’s son Steve also joins us today to talk about why he passed on dental school to fight the commoditization of dental labs across the country.

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Mar 8, 2022

It’s no secret that finding and retaining talent in the current labor market is a challenge for practices across the country. Dr. Summer Kassmel and Ashlee Evans are on the show today to discuss tactical strategies on how to overcome this challenge in a consistent and predictable way. These two have made a ton of hires as Ashlee serves as the COO of DSN and Dr. Kassmel has built an eight figure practice in the Vail Valley.

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Mar 7, 2022

It’s no secret that finding and retaining talent in the current labor market is a challenge for practices across the country. Dr. Summer Kassmel and Ashlee Evans are on the show today to discuss tactical strategies on how to overcome this challenge in a consistent and predictable way. These two have made a ton of hires as Ashlee serves as the COO of DSN and Dr. Kassmel has built an eight figure practice in the Vail Valley.

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Mar 4, 2022

Our guest today is Dave Monahan. His passion for creating technology-enabled businesses led to his founding of Kleer. The Kleer platform is based on dentist and patient feedback and publicly advocates for dentists and patient rights. Prior to joining Kleer, Dave served as the CEO of FitLinxx, where he created simple and affordable wearable devices that enabled patients to monitor and manage chronic conditions and athletes to monitor and improve their performance. Tune in for some insight into how Dave is bringing more technology into dentistry.

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Mar 3, 2022

Our guest today has aspired to become a dentist since childhood. Following in her parents footsteps, Dr. Kalli Hale launched into an impressive dental career. She is passionate about the oral systemic link, and has grown her practice to provide care for the whole person. She’s on the show today to discuss how she has implemented sleep dentistry so effectively and give us some secrets that will work in any practice.

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Mar 2, 2022

Austin Hair interviews Dr. Mark Costes in today’s episode. Dr. Costes and Austin are fellow entrepreneurs and podcast hosts. Austin is the creator of the Commercial Real Estate Secrets podcast and managing partner of Leaders Real Estate. On the show today you’ll hear them discuss open versus closed mindsets, the value of continuing education, the difference between simulated and real world business knowledge, and current takes on the workforce environment.

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Mar 1, 2022

Our guest today is Boyd Shepherd, DDS JD. Boyd runs a very successful law practice in Texas where he advises and represents dentists on the numerous issues that we are faced with. After going through dental school and beginning to practice, he realized the void in the marketplace. With that, he decided to go back to school again and fill that niche.

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