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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 104

Hosts: Dr. Craig Spodak & Dr. Peter Boulden

Guest: Amber Mac

• Introduction
• Amber’s background
• Impact of AI on dentistry
  
  • Dental Offices
  • Search by phrase
• Intelligent personal assistants
  
  • Cloud-based voice services
  • Amazon Alexa
• AI’s effect on service industries
  
  • Machine learning
  • Speed & efficiency
  • Chatbots
• Efficiency & productivity
  
  • Improved customer service
• Future of technology
  
  • Communications
  • Video services
  • Fulfilling things that humans want
• Changing landscapes
• Justin Trudeau’s interview with Amber
  
  • Technological advances of Estonia

References:

Search Engine Land

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If You Are Not Doing It Start Now - Dr. Boulden

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 98

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Dr. Dustin Cohen

Key Takeaways:

• Background on Dr. Cohen
• Dustin’s Journey
  • Going to business school
• Top takeaways from business school
  • Going out and marketing your business
  • Functionality of the office, great systems in place
  • Knowing your numbers
• Leveraging influences inside his practice
• Purchasing his practice
  
  • Knowing the numbers
• Service mix of his office
  • General & cosmetic
• Words of wisdom from his journey
  • Creative aspect of business & dentistry
• 10 year plan 

References:

The Practice - Beverly Hills

Dr. Cohen's GQ Article

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 96

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Kevin Reardon

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction to why Kevin reached out to Peter & Craig.
• Student Loans
  • How should students approach this?
  • First year income.
  • Looking at your student loan as performing debt, buying security in your future.
• Private practice opportunities & new graduates.
  • Ownership & making a lot of money are not exclusive with one another.
• How to position yourself as a pseudo-specialist?
  • More access to information.
  • Technology being the great equalizer.
  • How to get from new grad to CE?
• How to not get taken advantage of as a graduate.
  • Be careful of online forums.
• Get your dental education from rockstar clinicians & look for business inspiration from inspirational business people.
  • Find clinical mentors & the biggest thinkers in business.
  • Create a 3 year vision.
• Success vs failure in dentistry.
  • Valuing your time.
• How do you take the leap and start networking with the best?
  • Start doing stuff for the right reasons.
  • Doing good has a universal law to it.
• What is possible & what is the way to get there?
  • Being told you can’t do it

Tweetables:

Ownership & making a lot of money are not exclusive with one another - Peter Boulden

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 93

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction
• Summit recap
• The significance of digital marketing
• Social media in business
  • Content
  • Organic interaction
• Social media in 2019
  • Unique content
  • News hacking
  • Infiltrating other pages
  • Influencers
• Providing value
  • Videos
  • Before & afters
• Reviews
  • Yelp

References:

Titans Of Dentistry

The Bulletproof Practice

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 103

Hosts: Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Britnie Turner

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction
• BVI Stronger
  
  • Helping after the hurricane
  • Ariel Produced
• Friendship with Richard Branson
  
  • Importance of good friendships
  • Business is a creative expression of who you are
• Date With Destiny
• Social Media & success
• Focusing on the everyday
• What does the best YOU look like
• Access to best information & people
  
  • The podcast
  • Surrounding your brain with the best people
• Britnie’s struggles in business
  
  • Your excellence will come out eventually
  • Doing stuff for you
• Happiness & success
• Business as a force for change
• Aerial Global Community

References:

Aerial Global Community

Date With Destiny

Tweetable:

How can you be stronger on the other side - Britnie Turner

If you live by peoples praise, you’ll die by their criticism

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 102

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Christian Hart

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction
• Knowing your craft
• End of the predatory practice
• • Figure what you want to do & what life you want to live, that’s what is right for you
• Knowing what you don’t know
• • If you know you don’t know, you know it

• Being self-aware of what you need to improve on
• • Treating dental school as the starting line
• Taking someone else’s dream & making it yours, will not make you happy
• • Not sustainable to live someone else’s dream
  • Being pushed not pulled

• The disease of more
• Money & happiness
• What are the Dr’s sights on
• • Make an impact & have a legacy
  • Commiting to the trip
  • Support networks
  • Progress = Happiness

• The synergy between the doctors
• • Surrounding yourself with people who want you to kick ass
  • Finding people to synergise with
  • Same values & beliefs

• Failure playing a big part of your life
• • Experiences with failure
  • Don’t be fearful

• Advice to a dental student at 3 different stages of their career
• • First day of dental school
  • When they get in the clinic
  • The day they graduate

References:

The Big Leap

The Disease Of More

Tweetable:

If you are ever around people who say they have it all figured out, RUN - Dr. Boulden

You are a product of the 5 people you spend the most time with - Dr. Spodak

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 101

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Dr. Andi-Jean Miro

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction to guest Dr. Andi-Jean Miro and he stairway to success
• • Known for working side by side with dentistry legends: Dr. Michael Apa and Dr. Larry Rosenthal
• Success story
• • First met Dr. Rosenthal and Dr. Apa at NYU
  • 2015- Dr. Apa became her mentor
  • She was hired part-time after Dr. Apa became the primary partner and had bought out Dr. Rosenthal
  • Moved to New York and became a full-time practitioner
• Dr. Larry Rosenthal admiration
• • His characteristics: real, upfront and honest
  • He might be harsh but comes from the right place
• Dr. Andi’s role as a leader
• • She provides her team with technical support and works on brand growth
  • She hopes to be able to travel in the future as he role changes
  • She has absolute respect for Dr. Michael Apa and has been working with him for about 4 years now
• Business growth
  • They bring different mindsets and ideas to business
  • And are provided with a different life style and a next exciting environment
  • Dr. David and Dr. Tarak
• • Outsourcing: by bringing Brazilian lab technicians to New York
  • Dr. Michael Apa mainly works in Dubai; but travels back and forth
  • Great team in Dubai lead by two main doctors
• Digital focus
• • Digital work cases vs. monolithic work cases
• The importance of ethical behavior and integrity
  • Focuses on supporting other dentists in the industry and makes sure that it is always the dentists decision to pick the right dentist representation
• • Describe Dr. Rosenthal as a role model
• Dr. Andi-Jean’s social media success
• • Organic growth
  • Engagement
• Wrap-up: Dr. Andi’s future plans and goals
  • She makes it clear that patient experience is key to connect with them
• • Continue building a successful career
  • Teach and lecture
  • Be the best clinician to her patients

References:

Aesthetics By Andi Instagram

Tweetable:

“If you have a clear vision of what your life should or could be like, you have to execute this!” - Dr. Andi-Jean Miro

“You are rewarded in public for what you intensely practice for in private”- Dr. Craig Spodak