

The Thriving Dentist Show
Gary Takacs
The Thriving Dentist Show by Gary Takacs guides dental practice owners and dentists in creating a profitable practice with financial independence while delivering hallmark-level quality of care.
Gary’s lively discussions run the gamut from eye-opening lessons for you to become successful.
Gary’s lively discussions run the gamut from eye-opening lessons for you to become successful.
Episodes
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Jun 17, 2020 • 57min
How Understanding DISC Personality Styles can Transform Your Practice!
In this episode, Gary shares his insights on the DISC personality styles while explaining in detail about each category and how to identify each personality style to help transform a dental practice. This episode will help our listeners understand the importance of DISC personality styles and how to use them to create an effective team so that they could do the tasks that suit them the most and would be impactful. On the other hand, this method will help you to understand the patients and approach them in the right manner to increase case acceptance.

Jun 10, 2020 • 52min
5 trends to watch in dentistry
In this episode, Gary shares the five trends in dentistry that every dentist should keep an eye out, especially post-COVID 19. Further, Gary explains in detail how dentists should approach their patients into a conversation about comprehensive care & how to build a relationship with them as a relationship-driven practice allows you to become the best dentist you possibly can be clinically and behaviorally. This episode will provide you with many insights on what is yet to come and assist you to be ready for these changes.

Jun 3, 2020 • 1h 3min
Is NOW the Time to Resign from PPO Plans?
In this episode, Gary answers the question if this is the time to resign from PPO plans, especially during a crisis. Tune in to the episode to learn what he has to say for this question. He further stresses on the negative points of having a higher overhead and its impacts on your dental practice & explains in detail how to share the news with the patients in a way that they wouldn't lose the patients & how they could successfully go out-of-network.

May 27, 2020 • 1h 4min
The Ideal Practice Size
Gary & Naren share their insights on how to determine the right size for your dental practice. They share six specific goals that help to determine the ideal size of the dental practice. The listeners can benefit immensely from this episode to learn why a dental practice should focus on its growth rather than the size and how to be successful with the solo-doctor practice model.

May 20, 2020 • 60min
Special Gift: Free MouthGuard Project Course for Thriving Dentist Show Listeners ($199 Value)
In this episode, Gary Takacs, along with Naren Arulrajah, delves deeper into why every one of our listeners should incorporate the mouth guard course to create NFL quality mouth guards as a marketing/ service project for their patients and their community. Gary shares with his listeners how the Mouth guard project helped him earn many new patient referrals, which brought in more than $100k per year. Tune into this episode to grasp the background essential to understand the importance of this course and how you could benefit just by creating these NFL quality mouth guards in your dental practice. Don't forget to download the Free Course worth $199 shared by Gary as a bonus gift!

May 13, 2020 • 56min
Tips to Improve Your Immune System' with Dr. Uche Odiatu
In this episode, Gary interviews Dr.Uche Odiatu on strengthening the immune system to lead a healthy life, especially during this challenging time, and encourage our listeners to be fit and healthy while showing us how 'stress' plays a major role in our health. Tune into this special episode to understand the benefits of maintaining a strong immune system and how to exclude unhealthy food from your diet.

May 6, 2020 • 50min
Thoughts From Leaders In Dentistry On Making Your Future Bigger Than Your Past
In this episode, Gary and 7 special guests share their thoughts on ''how to create a bigger future than the past.'' The 7 leaders in dentistry encourage our listeners on how to be strong during challenging times as this. The Guests are Nikkie Green, David Hornbrook, Paul Henny, Fred Joyal, Rod Gore, Mac McDonald & Ryan Lepore. This episode will help you become determined and learn how to use this time as an opportunity to come back even stronger. Listen to the messages that our special guests have to share with you!

Apr 29, 2020 • 58min
First 100 Days Plan
In this episode, Gary & Naren discuss how to plan your first 100 days. Gary has a specific ‘First 100 Days’ Plan which he uses for his personal coaching clients and he shares the same during this podcast for the benefit of all our listeners so that everyone can come back stronger once this COVID-19 pandemic has gone away. Gary also answers important questions raised by listeners during the Q&A segment.

Apr 22, 2020 • 1h 7min
What Thriving Dentists are doing NOW with Marketing
In today’s episode, Gary and Naren discuss what dentists are currently doing now with their marketing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gary and Naren also go in-depth on marketing fundamentals, Google, and Dr. Robert Cialdini’s principles.

Apr 15, 2020 • 1h 2min
Do You Really Want Things to Return to Normal?
In this episode, Gary & Naren discuss the question ‘Do You Really Want Things to Return to Normal?’ They further discuss how we can make good use of the current free time we have in hand to come back stronger & better when the pandemic situation has passed. Gary also answers questions raised by listeners, during the Q&A segment. Tune into the podcast now to learn more!