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Own Your Culture: Kyle Maxam on Building a Practice With a Mission
E114 · Republish. The full original E089 conversation with Dr. Kyle Maxam, owner of EyeDocs Family Eye Care. First aired April 16, 2026. 30:57.
The short version
Dr. Kyle Maxam started college as a business major. A talk about eye exams on mission trips to Haiti moved him into optometry.
Today he owns two locations in the Dayton, Ohio area with three associates. This is the full conversation, back in the feed: mentors, a slow two-year handoff, when to add a doctor, opening a second office, and hiring for culture.
If you own a practice and the culture feels like something that happens to you…
The skinny
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