20/20 MONEY: The Business of Optometry
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Are you building wealth...or just feeding the machine?? A conversation with Nathan Hayes on investing capital in your practice
Jun 1, 202655 min
Making These Merchandising Mistakes is Costing You Tens of Thousands of Dollars: An Optical Conversation with Kayla Ashlee
May 25, 20261h 2m
Practice financing decoded: what owners need to know now about how banks think about deals
May 18, 20261h 3m
How great practice owners build teams that stay and perform
May 11, 202646 min
Don't make these financial and business mistakes! (the talk I give at every optometry school's private practice club)
May 4, 20261h 29m
Using EOS to Create Clarity and Traction in Your Practice with Tom Restivo
Apr 27, 202654 min
How a Limiting Mindset Can Cost Practice Owners More Than They Realize with Dr. Steve Vargo
Apr 20, 202653 min
Independence vs Isolation in Private Practice with John Marvin
Apr 13, 202653 min
The Blueprint for Growing a Multi-Million-Dollar Optometry Practice with Dr. Kurt Steele
Apr 6, 202646 min
Sponsoring a health insurance plan in your practice may not be as expensive as you think
Mar 30, 202655 min
Tax Strategies to Embrace and Avoid & A Case Study on Where to Look for Errors on Your Tax Return: My Guest Appearance on Eye Own A Business Podcast
Mar 23, 202636 min
How VOSH International is changing global eye care—and how you can be part of it w/ Dr. Vicki Weiss, President of VOSH International
Mar 16, 202646 min
Chemistry in the practice: why alignment beats authority with Dr. Todd Cohan, Polly Stearns, & Sadie Blair
Mar 9, 202637 min
SNEAK PEEK: How to give patients choices when in the exam lane - The Optometry Success Podcast
Mar 4, 202622 min
Why you can't ignore AI as a practice owner (and a beginner's path to using it) with Eugene Shatsman
Mar 2, 202659 min
SNEAK PEEK: What is "schedule health" and why should practice owners be measuring it - The Optometry Success Podcasts
Feb 25, 202623 min
Getting unstuck from the messy middle of business operations with Mandy Brown
Feb 23, 202649 min
SNEAK PEEK: This is why you're losing money with vision plans - The Optometry Success Podcast
Feb 18, 202622 min
Design tips to maximize the patient experience (and thus your profitability) with Bill Gerber
Feb 16, 202656 min
PREVIEW: The Optometry Success Podcast - Reducing business risk when adding associate ODs in an established practice
Feb 11, 202620 min
Why value creation matters more than timing your exit: a conversation with Tom Turmell
Feb 9, 20261h 6m
How one owner left his practice for 30 days—and why more owners should consider it
Feb 2, 20261h 2m
Flippin' the script: What I've learned about ODs & the profession of optometry producing 300+ episodes of 20/20 Money
Jan 26, 20261h 14m
Improving your practice by tracking the right KPIs (and ignoring the wrong ones) with Nathan Hayes
Jan 19, 202659 min
A blueprint to successfully recruit ODs to join small town practices with Dr. Andy Yaryan, OD
Jan 12, 20261h 2m
Remembering my grandpa: 3 financial lessons learned from Grandpa and Grandma Scholz that can shape your relationship with money
Jan 5, 202636 min
Rewind^3: Forget goal-setting and focus on purpose: a mindset conversation with Stephanie Bogan
Dec 29, 20251h 18m
My most impactful books I read during 2025 (and the lessons I've learned)
Dec 22, 202553 min
The how and why of taking time (literally) out of the practice to work ON your practice with Drs. Julie Helmus & Paul Mormon, OD
Dec 15, 20251h 5m
Why failure can be your friend with Dr. Chris Wolfe, OD
Dec 8, 202541 min
Failure and Risk (and why practice owners should embrace them) with Nathan Hayes
Dec 1, 20251h 6m
The benefits of shifting your mindset from practice owner to CEO (and the 3 numbers to measure daily) with Dr. Brianna Rhue, OD
Nov 24, 202557 min
If you think "sales" is a dirty word, this episode was made just for you.
Nov 17, 202534 min
From the Exam Room to the Executive Table: A Conversation with Dr. Pete Kehoe on How Managed Vision Care Can Enhance the Provider Experience
Nov 10, 202559 min
Solving for optionality and the importance of community up to and through retirement with Roger Whitney
Nov 3, 202557 min
Educate & inform, don't sell: a patient experience conversation with Tim Merrigan from Acquios Advisors
Oct 27, 202552 min
Where's my money?! with Sharon Carter
Oct 20, 20251h 24m
Finding the right buyer: a PE sale built on trust, not just numbers, with Dr. Adam Bryan
Oct 13, 20251h 15m
Embracing vision plans to profitably grow your practice
Oct 6, 202550 min
The legal side of selling to PE: setting expectations the right way
Sep 29, 20251h 1m
Selling with integrity: Dr. John Abbondaza's journey of ownership up to and through a sale to private equity
Sep 22, 20251h 0m
Hidden financial compression squeezing optometry practices in 2025 (guest appearance on Power Hour)
Sep 15, 202559 min
Is an 8x multiple on a $1M EBIDTA a good deal? A transition convo with Nathan Hayes
Sep 8, 20251h 5m
How OD practice owners should think about long term care insurance with Bryan Langdon, CLU
Sep 1, 20251h 5m
Hidden gems in retirement planning: what practice owners might be missing after the sale with Taylor Schulte, CFP®
Aug 25, 202550 min
A simple strategy to make the pain of quarterly estimates less (emotionally) stressful for optometry practice owners
Aug 18, 202538 min
Lessons from the (former) President of TSO: cooperative strategies to counter PE disruption and empower private practice ownership with John Marvin
Aug 11, 20251h 14m
2024 Books & Benchmarks Report Discussion with Nathan Hayes
Aug 4, 20251h 6m
Are Opportunity Zones really an opportunity or is the tax tail wagging the investment dog with Peter Lazaroff, CFA, CFP®
Jul 28, 202546 min
Building my ideal "Frankenstein" practice discourse, 3 important practice metric numbers to focus on, and examples of AI use in practice with Dr. Dodge Perry, OD
Jul 21, 20251h 3m