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Dental Practice Heroes

Dental Practice Heroes

By: Dr. Paul Etchison
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Where dentists learn how to cut clinical days while increasing profits - without sacrificing patient care, cutting corners, or cranking volume. We teach you how to grow a scalable practice through communication, leadership, and effective management.

Hosted by Dr. Paul Etchison, author of two books on dental practice management, dental coach, and owner of a $6M collections group practice in the south suburbs of Chicago, we provide actionable advice for practice owners who want to intentionally create more time to enjoy their families, wealth, and deep personal fulfillment.

If you want to build a scalable practice framework that no longer stresses, drains, or relies on you for every little thing, we will teach you how and share stories of other dentists who have done it!

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Episodes
  • Why You Can't Leave Your Work Stress at the Office w/ Neo Positivity
    Jun 29 2026

    Feeling lost? The biggest thing holding your practice probably isn't your team, your overhead, or the economy — it’s the stories you’re telling yourself.

    In this episode, Neo Positivity, creator of the Thoughts Become Things movement and author of Your ATM, explains how the brain's "algorithm" can keep you stuck and how to take back control of your thoughts. You'll learn daily exercises and mental habits that combat negative thinking and change how you lead your practice.

    Topics discussed:

    • Why most of your thoughts run on autopilot
    • The stories you tell yourself about your practice
    • Why the leader is often the real problem
    • How to stop a negative thought
    • Why your home and work mindset can't be separated
    • The question that reveals your purpose

    This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com


    Invest in your Team and the Leaders you Need at the DPH Leadership Intensive Here

    Invest in your Team and the Leaders you Need at the DPH Leadership Intensive Here

    Join our Newest and Best Coaching Program, Click Here for More Information

    Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life

    We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams.


    Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

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    39 mins
  • You're Busy, So Why Isn't Your Practice Growing?
    Jun 25 2026

    If your days feel jam-packed but your dental practice still isn’t improving, the problem usually isn’t effort. It’s urgency. The loudest problems in a practice always win, and they trick us into believing we’ll work on systems, leadership, and growth “once things slow down.” They don’t slow down, and that’s exactly why so many practice owners feel stuck, overworked, and quietly frustrated.

    We unpack the real difference between reactive work and proactive work in dental practice management. Reactive work is the constant stream of fires: insurance denials, upset patients, schedule chaos, staffing surprises, and equipment problems. It keeps the lights on, but it doesn’t build the future. Proactive work is what creates a practice that runs without you: onboarding systems, checklists, phone scripts, KPI scoreboards, P&L review, and leader development that prevents issues before they explode.

    We also talk about why this matters for your key leaders, especially the office manager. Many office managers spend their whole day reacting like a highly skilled admin employee, when what you really need is protected time for true management. I share the shift I had to make when I hit a breaking point, and how blocking and defending CEO time became the turning point for building momentum again.

    If you’re ready to stop living in reaction mode and start building a calmer, more profitable practice, listen now, share this with a colleague, and subscribe so you don’t miss what comes next. And if you want help installing systems and protecting proactive time, book a free strategy call at dentalpracticeheroes.com/slash strategy, then leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

    Invest in your Team and the Leaders you Need at the DPH Leadership Intensive Here

    Join our Newest and Best Coaching Program, Click Here for More Information

    Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life

    We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams.


    Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

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    20 mins
  • The One Conversation That Raises the Standard in Your Dental Practice w/ Katherine Eitel Belt
    Jun 23 2026

    What's one thing you've been avoiding in your practice? Maybe it's a slipping standard or a team member no longer pulling their weight — and every week you wait, your practice feels it a little more.

    In this episode, Katherine Eitel Belt is back to help you finally have these conversations without losing the team you've built. You'll learn how to have what she calls "invitation conversations,” what it takes to get a real commitment, and where coaching ends and micromanaging begins (and why most owners get it backwards).

    Topics discussed:

    (00:00) The conversation you keep avoiding

    (03:29) How a near-firing became an “invitation”

    (10:01) The clarity that comes before the conversation

    (12:18) Why owners avoid hard conversations

    (14:29) When fear-based management backfires

    (16:06) Team calibration: running the invitation

    (20:43) Holding boundaries and identifying non-negotiables

    (23:35) Real-life example of an invitation conversation

    (27:33) Coaching vs. micromanaging

    Learn more about Katherine Eitel Belt and the LionSpeak Leadership Academy:

    https://www.lionspeak.net/

    This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com


    Invest in your Team and the Leaders you Need at the DPH Leadership Intensive Here

    Invest in your Team and the Leaders you Need at the DPH Leadership Intensive Here

    Join our Newest and Best Coaching Program, Click Here for More Information

    Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life

    We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams.


    Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

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    44 mins
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