The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes

Many people have influenced the way I do business and live my life. One that deserves a lot of credit is Jocko Willink. The topic of today's show is leadership, and Jocko's book Extreme Ownership...Continue Reading...

Warren Buffet has the same number of hours in his day as we do. Richard Branson takes three months off every year to hang out with his family....Continue Reading...

When patients walk into your office what do they see? This is an opportunity to build trust and report. In our offices, there are pictures of our team with patients and in the community....Continue Reading...

We all hear the saying, 'begin with the end in mind.' But, what's that really mean for us? As dentists we should know if the sale of our practice is included in our retirement plan....Continue Reading...

It's easy for us to let our egos get in the way and think our patients stay because of us. But, in all reality it's our team culture that has the biggest impact on our patients....Continue Reading...

A lot of people say business is complicated. But, when you break it down step by step it's really not that hard to understand. Just like a treatment plan....Continue Reading...

So many offices we see have a front desk team that is tasked way beyond capacity. One quick solution to this is to outsource a couple of things. One of my favorites is insurance verification....Continue Reading...

Recent reports say less than half of all dentists are satisfied with their career. This paints a pretty bad picture, but there's hope when you consider that less than 80% of people in the world are satisfied with their career....Continue Reading...

We all have a number. Although we don't know when our time will come, we do know that it's coming. With a finite amount of time on this earth we need to make the most of it....Continue Reading...

It's hard to want more when we look around and see how good we really have it. I often talk about how fortunate we are to be in our profession and owning our own businesses....Continue Reading...

We all face challenges. Today's episode is centered around the process I use to assess the challenges I face, and eventually turn them into strengths....Continue Reading...

On today's show I'm catching up with Kiera Dent! Besides picking each other's brains on some of our recent struggles, we haven't talked much lately. So we decided it was time to get on a podcast....Continue Reading...

My good friend Dr. Paul Etchison joins me for today's show. Paul is an author, podcaster, and practice owner. This was such a fun interview. We quickly got into swapping best practices on things such as onboarding...Continue Reading...

My guest today is a practicing dentist in Vancouver, Washington. After associating in Denver for about five years, he jumped onboard with Comfort Dental and opened shop....Continue Reading...

My guest today is a practicing dentist in Vancouver, Washington. After associating in Denver for about five years, he jumped onboard with Comfort Dental and opened shop....Continue Reading...

Last week, we had a show with Dr. Amanda Wilson and Dr. Doug Moorehead. Go back and check that one out if you haven't already! They dropped a ton of great content...Continue Reading...

One day I jumped into a cab and started asking the driver about his business. What's your overhead? "10%" Hey that's pretty good. "Yeah I make 1k a day and work three days a week....Continue Reading...

We all have a gap between where we are and where we want to be. Gap agitation pushes us to purchase things in an effort to close that gap....Continue Reading...

My good friends Dr. Green and Dr. Dhoon are in the process of writing a book titled "The Practice Launchpad." As part of their process, they are interviewing various professionals to glean insights from multiple prospectives....Continue Reading...

My good friends Dr. Green and Dr. Dhoon are in the process of writing a book titled "The Practice Launchpad." As part of their process, they are interviewing various professionals to glean insights from multiple prospectives....Continue Reading...

We have a fun show today with Dr. Amanda Wilson coming back for round two. If you haven't already, be sure to go back and check out her first interview in which we take a deep dive on her ortho coaching program....Continue Reading...

Today we have a great show with a multiple practice owner, Dr. Jason Tanoory. Before getting into ownership, he got an AEGD and worked in three different associateships....Continue Reading...

As high school sophomores, my buddy Scott and I were on top of the world. We had just been promoted to the varsity football squad, and we won our first game....Continue Reading...

Today's episode is centered around the power of collaboration. We talk about it at all of our mastermind meetings- there are hundreds of years of dental experience present....Continue Reading...

The theme of this episode is the balance between growing as the clinician and the CEO. This concept was made popular by Michael Gerber in The E-Myth....Continue Reading...

Today, we are throwing it back to a mastermind meeting in which I discuss the law of polarity....Continue Reading...

A while back we had Craig Cody, CPA on the podcast for what was one of our most downloaded shows back then. This time around, I had the privilege of being a guest on his show....Continue Reading...

My good friend Dr. Paul Goodman is on the show today. Our paths first crossed on Facebook (something we get into during the show), and we have now shared many stages together....Continue Reading...

All the business and clinical knowledge in the world will not result in a successful practice without the presence of an effective leader. In dentistry, that leader is you, doc....Continue Reading...

Mindset is incredibly powerful. If you chose to see your challenges and setbacks as confirmation that you are not good enough, they will be....Continue Reading...

Today's show is a clip from a coaching call with a small group of our DSI clients. This portion of the call was focused around onboarding, an all too common issue....Continue Reading...

Today's show was recorded at the Dykema DSO Conference with my good friend Rashed Din. Rashed is from the Chicagoland area where he manages Maya Dental as well as Din Ventures which is a healthcare focused private equity firm....Continue Reading...

In this episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast, we have Darin Acopan joining the show. Darin plays a critical role in the Dentist Entrepreneur Organization by selecting all new DEO members....Continue Reading...

In this episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast I sit down with my good friend Amol Nirgudkar. We ran into each other at the Dykema DSO Conference and it wasn't long before we knew it was time to bust out the mics....Continue Reading...

This episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast was recorded live on stage at the Dykema DSO Conference in Dallas, TX. Brian Colao and myself teamed up to interview Don Casey Jr., who took over at the helm of Dentsply Sirona in February of 2018...Continue Reading...

Welcome back to part 2 of our bonus episodes with Dr. Peter Attia. During this part of our conversation we dive deep on concierge medical services, how he built his practice, and why he believes his ideal patient number is around 50....Continue Reading...

Today we are playing one of my favorite interviews as a bonus weekend episode. Dr. Peter Attia is a legend in the biohacking and longevity space, and it was a honor to sit down with him for this interview....Continue Reading...

Towards the tail end of an incredibly fulfilling, yet extremely exhausting trip Dr. Aaron Nicholas and I finally got the chance to sit down and bust out the mics....Continue Reading...

I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Dr. Grace Yum of The Mommy Dentists in Business Podcast. She has been a guest of The Dentalpreneur Podcast in the past and we decided it was time to flip the script...Continue Reading...

Terry Lammers is a principal at Innovative Business Advisors where they help clients buy, grow, and sell businesses. He is also the author of You Don't Know What You Don't Know in which he takes a deep dive into the processes...Continue Reading...

In this episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast we are talking compliance. This can be one of the scariest topics for practice owners....Continue Reading...

Kiera Dent is back on the show to talk accountability meetings. Podcast veterans know that Dr. Mark Costes leans on The Four Disciplines of Execution...Continue Reading...

We all know the importance of a healthy, structured morning routine. In this episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast, Dr. Mark Costes...Continue Reading...

Time journaling can be extremely tedious, but it is one of the most effective exercises when it comes to eliminating redundancy and increasing efficiency in your practice and life....Continue Reading...

As the cost of education continues to rise, people are turning to alternative ways of funding their children's college funds. Our guest today has another option....Continue Reading...

Welcome back to part two! In this episode, Kiera and Tiffanie demonstrate how powerful an issues list can be. After taking the most pressing struggles from the audience, they find the overarching issue behind them all....Continue Reading....

Do you ever feel like you're jumping from one problem to the next? Or like there's never enough time in the day? In this episode Kiera and Tiffanie coach on how to cut straight...Continue Reading...

Listen in as we put the collective experience of the DSI mastermind together to help Dr. Taher Dhoon work through some of the challenges he is facing in his practice....Continue Reading...

There's no debating that my life was changed by the actions my father took to get our family to the United States. In today's episode I'm reading an excerpt from The Pillars of Dental Success...Continue Reading...

It's important to be revisiting and reevaluating our vision often. It will change and evolve as we grow older and become more experienced. That's normal. On today's show we are playing a clip during which Dr. Mark Costes...Continue Reading...