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Death Before Decay
Death Before Decay is a long-form podcast hosted by Dr. Elliot Humiston — a dentist, business owner, creative, and recovering band kid from Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
This show is about confidence, craft, entrepreneurship, and building something meaningful — in dentistry, business, and life.
Some episodes dive into modern dentistry, aesthetics, leadership, technology, and patient transformation. Others explore community, creativity, identity, mental health, music, business ownership, and the people…
Episodes
- Death Before Decay
Embracing Your True Self
Episode 13 — Embracing Your True Self Alex Sargent and I started dental school at the same time, in the same place, and for a while our lives looked pretty…
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Before Everything Was Recorded
Episode 12 — Brotherhood: Before Everything is Recorded This one is a little different. I sat down with three of my oldest friends — Gavin, Spencer, and Steven…
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Design the Life You Want
Episode 11 — Design the Life You Want What does it actually look like to design your life on purpose—and what happens when you reach the end of the plan you…
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People Before Property
Episode 10 of Death Before Decay is live. This week I sat down with Michelle Hayward of Hearthstone Realty Group. Michelle’s career is technically real…
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Own Your Glow
Episode 9 — Own Your Glow Featuring Mindy Kue What does it look like to stop living inside the version of yourself you think other people expect? Mindy Kue…
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You'll be Great by Force
Episode 8 — You’ll Be Great by Force Dr. Justina Anigbo joins Death Before Decay for a conversation about identity, confidence, resilience, leadership, and…
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What If I Fail?
Episode 7: What If I Fail? Failure isn't the opposite of success—it's part of the process. In this episode of Death Before Decay, Dr. Elliot Humiston and Jon…
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My Brain Was Never Broken
Episode 6 – My Brain Was Never Broken ADHD is one of those topics that's often oversimplified. It's either portrayed as a superpower or as something that holds…
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The Things That Made Us: Growing Older Without Growing Old
In this episode of Death Before Decay, Dr. Elliot Humiston sits down with entrepreneur, community builder, and longtime friend Andrew Jakus for a conversation…
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The Way We See Ourselves
In this episode of Death Before Decay, Dr. Elliot Humiston sits down with KJ from NuArt Dental Lab for a conversation that goes far beyond dentistry. Together…
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You Can't Fake Authenticity/ Caring for the Brand
In this episode of Death Before Decay, Jon Erlien and I sit down to talk about branding, identity, marketing, confidence, and what it actually means to build…
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You Still Have to Earn It
Most people think orthodontics is just about straight teeth. But Ethan and I ended up talking a lot more about: confidence pressure legacy earning trust…
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The Long Way Around
First episode is live. In this episode, Jon and I talk about where this whole thing came from — growing up in Sheboygan, music, gaming, failing classes…