BRAIN CROPS - with Chelsea Myers

Sina Amiri, Vice President of Revenue at Zentist, has 15 years of cross-sector and cross-functional experience in North American healthcare markets, 10 years of multi-disciplinary business experience in domestic and international dental services industries, Multi-unit P&L/KPI management, organizational design, change management and financial forecasting experience at a healthcare private equity backed M&A driven dental support organization (DSO), Scaled the revenues of five enterprise healthcare software companies through direct or channel sales (two were publicly traded and later acquired) and two healthcare professional services firms. Follow Sina on Twitter: @betterdentistry Chelsea Myers, host, is the founder and CEO of Dental Life Coach (www.DentalLife.Coach). Dental Life Coach works with C-Suite, doctors, and teams to create scalable culture and increased profitability in some of the most successful dental support organizations. Dental Life Coach tools and resources are making a marked improvement in the way that goals are achieved and leaders are developed. To learn more about Dental Life Coach, executive coaching for dentists, increasing case acceptance rates, talent retention, and creating scalable culture visit www.DentalLife.Coach

Over the past couple of weeks I said goodbye to someone who I love very much who had become ill and eventually passed away, and within days of that news learned that my youngest son needed emergency surgery. And these things are things that happen in our lives. People become ill, people require emergency surgeries, people die… The flexibility comes in how we decide to experience these things... To learn more about Dental Life Coach, executive coaching, increasing case acceptance rates, talent retention, and creating scalable culture visit www.DentalLife.Coach.

TUSK Partners (https://tusk-partners.com) is an industry-leading M&A Advisor with 50+ years of experience focused on the success and sale of large dental practices and DSOs across the United States. Kevin Cumbus, President of TUSK, has over a decade of experience in the dental industry. He has valued and sold over 120 dental practices, managed over $100MM of revenue in a DSO, and is co-owner of a start-up dental practice, Mundo Dentistry. He earned his BA from Washington & Lee University and MBA from the Babcock School of Management at Wake Forest University. Chelsea Myers, host, is the founder and CEO of Dental Life Coach (www.DentalLife.Coach). Dental Life Coach works with C-Suite, doctors, and teams to create scalable culture and increased profitability in some of the most successful dental support organizations. Dental Life Coach tools and resources are making a marked improvement in the way that goals are achieved and leaders are developed. To learn more about Dental Life Coach, executive coaching for dentists, increasing case acceptance rates, talent retention, and creating scalable culture visit www.DentalLife.Coach.

I want to prepare you with some important components to consider as you’re planning for your organization’s growth, specifically in relation to your leadership development initiatives. Now whether you’re working on a slow and steady growth strategy, or you have a more aggressive plan – your bottom lines are going to be hit or missed in correlation with the type of leadership that exists. And leadership is a widely understood priority, we spent over 40 billion dollars last year in the US on leadership development. So if you recognize that there’s room for or a need for development in this area in your teams, you’re probably onto something. So the first thing I’ll say when looking at adding something to your leadership development is to determine the type of development that you’re after. Some things to consider are who will be participating and what types of skill sets are needed. For example, for new participant some of the areas we train on include communication – styles, interpretation, and delivery, utilizing time, energy and outcomes, creating results while feeling good, failure and success, and taking action. Once there’s a deeper understanding and development with the participant, they become ready to move into more advanced masteries that allow him or her to create coachable environments and lead with techniques and strategies that develop team members toward their own leadership advancements. Some indicators that our coaching and tools are needed include inconsistent performance, incohesive teams, lacking leadership, turnover rates, low case acceptance, mismanaged time, stress or tension in the practices, lack of clarity in what is wanted or expected, dissatisfaction and negativity, escalating concerns that aren’t being resolved, cultural disharmony, lack of ownership mentality, blaming, excuses, and disengagement.

Prior to founding Pearl (https://www.hellopearl.com/), Ophir Tanz was the founder and CEO of GumGum, an applied computer vision company focused on the media category. Prior to this, Ophir was CEO and co-founder of Mojungle.com, a mobile-media sharing platform that was sold to Shozu.com in 2007. Before this, Ophir co-founded and sold Fluidesign, an interactive and branding agency. He holds a BS and MS from Carnegie Mellon University.   Chelsea Myers, host, is the founder and CEO of Dental Life Coach (www.DentalLife.Coach). Dental Life Coach works with C-Suite, doctors, and teams to create scalable culture and increased profitability in some of the most successful dental support organizations.    Dental Life Coach tools and resources are making a marked improvement in the way that goals are achieved and leaders are developed.    To learn more about Dental Life Coach, executive coaching for dentists, increasing case acceptance rates, talent retention, and creating scalable culture visit www.DentalLife.Coach.

Let's talk about labels and how they impact our leadership, but before we can go down that road we need to do a little review on the system that takes place in our brains with just about every experience that we have - and that is the thought-feeling-action system We do a really good job of knowing – if we like how we feel or we if we don’t... Many of us do a moderately good job of knowing exactly what we’re feeling, particularly when we don’t like how we feel – in other words identifying the exact emotion that we’re experiencing when it’s not a good feeling – And without practice and coaching most of us are pretty ill-equipped to identify the connected thought to each emotion we have Said differently, we have some blind spots! I want to talk about what happens in our brains from a scientific perspective so that you can decide how much time, effort, and energy you want to put into mastering what may be a significant bottleneck for you at times. When we have a new experience, we have a lot of choices about how we’re going to experience it – we get to choose what we think about going into it if we have enough notice, and then throughout the experience we get to decide what to think about and believe about the details of the person, or situation That initial exposure then becomes our reality – and it becomes a memory that we file away about the person, or situation involved – which can be great, especially, if it’s a positive experience that we’d like to repeat On the other hand, let’s say that your thoughts about the person or situation were that it was a bit of a bummer, or a total disaster – Left untouched, that memory also gets filed away, but there’s something that we need to be aware of: When we land on a conclusion – and file it away – it becomes accessible And this concept exists in habit formation, so if you’re only half listening, this is a good one to sink your teeth into...

StraightSmile Solutions® is a web-based, e-commerce, orthodontic consulting service that supports general and pediatric dentists, dental labs and the dental industry. They can support you to launch de-novo orthodontic operations or scale your existing orthodontic operations. Their team supports you with case selection, team training, operations, case support and treatment plans. Chelsea Myers, founder and CEO of Dental Life Coach, is an professional coach and speaker working with CEOs, founders, doctors, and leaders to create highly productive dental support organizations through advanced leadership training. Visit www.dentallife.coach 

Attorney Justin Marti is a seasoned entrepreneur and real estate investor. He co-founded a dental group at 25 years old, grew it to over 45 locations across four states, and sold it in a private equity transaction. At that time, he also began to build his own real estate investment portfolio. He then pivoted to law, using his extensive experience to help clients with a variety of legal needs in the areas of business, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate. Justin's experience in building and scaling his own fifty-million-dollar organization gives him the rare ability to think like a true entrepreneur and business operator, as opposed to just another lawyer. He has consummated a number of complex healthcare and real estate transactions, and likes to think of himself as an "advisor first, attorney second." https://www.martilawgroup.com/justin-marti  Chelsea Myers, host, is the founder and CEO of Dental Life Coach (www.DentalLife.Coach). Dental Life Coach works with C-Suite, doctors, and teams to create scalable culture and increased profitability in some of the most successful dental support organizations.  Recently awarded best in class, Dental Life Coach tools and resources are making a marked improvement in the way that goals are achieved and leaders are developed. 

Cory Pinegar is Chief Executive Officer of Utah-based CallForce, a groundbreaking dental service startup helping dental practices increase patient engagement and revenue. In 2016, at the age of 22, Cory struck gold and purchased the company—then named Recall Solutions—from software giant Weave for just one dollar. Since then, the visionary entrepreneur has grown CallForce from 35 clients to nearly 3,000 and a workforce of close to 200 employees. CallForce has been named one of the fastest-growing companies by Inc. 500 and has been recognized repeatedly by the Salt Lake Tribune as one of the Best Places to Work. https://www.getcallforce.com In 2021, Cory founded the remote staffing company Teem, which helps simplify hiring international talent. Teem allows businesses to circumvent domestic staffing issues and find qualified talent without worrying about complicated research to understand legalities, fair compensation, and the like.  Chelsea Myers, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dental Life Coach and host of the Dental Brain Crops podcast can be found on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Visit www.DentalLife.Coach for more information on the show and coaching services. 

Mick Janness is the CEO of Oakpoint (https://oakpoint.us). He is a well respected business strategist with expertise in driving revenue growth, creating actionable insights, resolving complex issues, and launching commercialization strategies. Mick has a comprehensive background in business development, private equity fundraising, deal structuring, and business plan development. In this conversation, Mick and Chelsea Myers (CEO and founder of Dental Life Coach) talk about the growth that Oakpoint is experiencing, the importance of harnessing core values, and the exciting results of having a clear plan.  Visit DentalLife.Coach for more information about executive coaching for dentists to increase case acceptance rates, retain dentists and team members, and ultimately scale culture.