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Dental A Team Podcast
This podcast is here to give dentists and all dental office team members, in EVERY position, TACTICAL and PRACTICAL TIPS to: - Be more efficient - Have more fun - Improve doctor and team communications - Eliminate frustration - And make your life easier! Jump in! We are thrilled you have decided to LEVEL UP and be part of the DENTAL A TEAM! New episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Episodes
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#986: Stop Letting Patients Slip Through the Cracks
Tiff and Kristy look into re-care and re-activation in practices, including adopting a healthy mindset about patient outreach, encouraging medical readiness…
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#985: What It Means to Live Life On Purpose
Kiera guides listeners in an activity that will help each person be more purposeful in how they're going about their lives, and build a path toward ultimate…
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#984: Collections Behind? Here's How to Collect NOW
Tiff and Kristy give tips on how to catch up on those collections fast, including a day-ahead assessment and treatment plan presentation. The advice given in…
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#983: Outside-the-Box Summertime Marketing Ideas
Kiera shares a ton of fun ideas on ways to attract and engage with potential patients in your community. These range from a killer referral program, to…
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#982: The Future of Dentistry and How You Can Keep Up
Kiera talks about the numerous shifts on the horizon in dentistry, what your practice can do to embrace the changes, and how Dental A-Team can help. Episode…
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#981: Knowing These 5 KPIs Will Keep Your Practice Successful
Kiera is a guest on the Dentalligenstia Podcast, hosted by Nick Zagar and Remy Isdaner. She talks about the connection between success and knowing your…
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#980: How To Know If Your Practice Is Thriving (Or Just Surviving)
Tiff and Kristy give listeners examples of different practices that have different definitions of 'thriving.' They then provide questions each practice owner…
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#979: Signs You (Or Your Practice) Are Experiencing Burnout
Have you noticed signs of apathy in your practice? Does your job feel insurmountable? Kiera talks about telltale signs of burnout, how to help people bounce…
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#978: Eco-Friendly Methods To Establish Today
Tiff and Dana walk through different dental departments and share ideas many practices have used to keep things green, including reconsidering which items…
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#977: Passive Income Ideas to Scratch Your Outside-Dentistry Itch
Kiera and Dana chat about ways dentists can go "beyond the chair" with passive income streams, including real estate, investments, speaking gigs, and more…
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#976: How To Climb Out Of This Sticky Billing Spot
Kiera shares exactly how Dental A-Team helped a practice with over $2 million in accounts receivable break even — and learn how to never fall behind again…
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#975: Ideal Practice Growth Looks Like This (Or This, Or This)
Kiera gives listeners a "choose your own adventure" challenge for planning practice growth. She touches on comparing your growth to others', how and what to…
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#974: If You Don't Do This, Your Patients Won't Stay
Dentistry has a unique space in the medical world when it comes to building relationships with its patients. Tiff and Dana discuss effective ways to create…
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#973: Dr. DiPilla's Cosmetic to Holistic Dentistry Journey
Kiera is joined by Dr. Robert DiPilla to talk about his world of dentistry, including the transition from cosmetic to holistic services, how he educated his…
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#972: How to Cut Your AR in Half!
Tiff and Kristy share not only how to cut down your accounts receivable, but also how to develop systems that will keep your AR low. They discuss time…
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#971: Sealing Those Cash Flow Leaks
Kiera gives listeners 3 tactical tips on exactly how to find and put a stop to cash flow leaks and grow your practice exponentially. Episode resources: Sign up…
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#970: 3 Steps To Implement Block Scheduling
Block scheduling can transform your productivity into profitability. Kiera makes the implementation as easy as 1, 2, 3: Identify your practice's production…
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#969: It's Time For a Q1 Review
Kiera touches base with doctors on how the first quarter of 2025 has gone. Ask yourself: Are we tracking key performance indicators? How's the team efficiency…
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#968: The Financial Piece So Many Offices Forget About
Tiff and Britt discuss how a practice that was upside down financially picked through their systems with a fine-toothed comb to find success — and how you and…
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#967: Understanding Your P&L Can Be Easy As Pie
Kiera walks listeners through five steps to understanding a profit and loss statement: Know the structure Follow the revenue streams Track your spending…
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#966: Planning For Your Practice Exit
Even if retirement is a long, long way off, it's important to have an exit strategy ready to go. Tiff and Britt discuss both the emotional and business sides…
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#965: 3 Steps For a Smooth + Successful Associate Onboarding
Bringing on an associate is a big move for any practices, and while the benefits fill out a long list, the way it's done will have lingering impacts, for…
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#964: Happy National Dentist's Day!
Kiera reminds dentists to prioritize wellness and support in their day-to-day. Episode resources: Sign up for Dental A-Team's Virtual Summit 2025! Subscribe to…
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#963: How Dentists Can Help Optimize Claims
Tiff and Kristy explain how viewing claims as stories can improve how practices can streamline that process. They touch on doctor-led language to use from…
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#962: 3 Simple Steps to Boost Team Culture
Kiera shares a secret weapon to high morale in the office place: celebrations. There are three steps to maximize the fun while keeping everything running…
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#961: Solutions For Practices' Top 3 Issues
Kiera shares the most common problems dental practices face — scheduling inefficiencies, high overhead costs, and patient retention — and how to fix them…
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#960: The New Hygienist Landscape
Kiera and Britt continue their conversation from episode 958, Hiring Hygienists in Today's Economy, by discussing the shifting landscape of hygiene. This…
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#959: Build a Practice That Can Run Without You
Tiff and Kristy talk about how doctors can get to that point where their practice can function with and without them, including taking a good and hard look at…
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#958: Hiring Hygienists in Today's Economy
Kiera and Britt have a deep discussion on the ins and outs of hygiene right now, including what's on hygiene grads' minds, the right ranges for skill sets, how…
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#957: How to (Effectively) Juggle Comprehensive Dentistry
It's time for a Dental A-Team office spotlight! Dana shares with Tiff how she's worked with a practice that started off with room for financial growth, and…
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#956: 3 Steps to Healthy Cash Flow
Kiera walks listeners through easy but critical accounts receivable systems to implement in your practice so you never have to face a financial crisis again…
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#955: Spread Love Like Confetti
It's not difficult to enter a practice and feel whether a team is synergistic and they love each other versus if they have animosity and do not get along…
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#954: Getting Your Team Aligned
Kiera talks about the power of 'state of the company' meetings, how to set them up, how to roll them out, and how to continue having them quarter after…
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#953: How to Overcome Negative Production Impacts
Tiff and Dana share common pitfalls that scale back your practice's production — and what to do to address them. Included solutions are Dental A-Team's…
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#952: This Practice Has No Hygienist (and is Successful!)
Kiera is joined by Mike and Stephanie Walton of Walton Family Dentistry in Bardstown, Kentucky. For the past almost year, the Waltons have not had a hygienist…
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#951: Using AI + Other Tech in Your Practice
Artificial intelligence is steadily growing as a presence in our personal and professional lives. In this episode, Tiff and Dana talk about how AI can be used…
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#950: Staying Up-To-Date: Dentistry's Latest Techniques + Technology
Do you ever feel like there's too much happening in dentistry to keep your head on straight? Kiera talks about 4 ways you can stay up to date without being…
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#949: Add Back $600K-$1M to Your Practice
Did you know you're losing $600,000 to $1 million by having open time in your schedule? Kiera talks about what is likely impacting your schedule and how to fix…
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#948: The CEO Visionary + OM Implementer
Kiera gives insight into how CEOs and office managers (or dreamers and task-drivers) can effectively work together to run the ideal dental practice — without…
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#947: Strategically and Effectively Plan Your Wealth
Tiff and Britt give tangible tips for creating a wealth plan of action. They cover everything from knowing what your ideal work-life balance is, when you hope…
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#946: Find the Hidden Value in Your Practice
Kiera points listeners to where opportunity for hidden savings or additional value could be lurking in your profit and loss statements. Episode resources…
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#945: From $1.2 Million to $2.5 Million — Here's How
Tiff and Britt provide a play-by-play of what one practice did over the course of one year to go from producing $1.2 million to $2.5 million. This includes…
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#944: Reignite Your Passion
Kiera lists a series of questions listeners can ask themselves when they're feeling a lack of passion for their job, life, relationships, and more. Episode…
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#943: Office Autopsy: When Cash Flow is Low
Kiera summarizes a practice that was struggling with cash flow. She breaks down what the Dental A-Team did to pull back the curtain and find out where cash was…
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#942: How to Combat Loneliness
Loneliness and social isolation are factors in an epidemic across the United States. Kiera takes the time to talk about ways to fight back the loneliness in…
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#941: The Path to Multi-Practice Success
When it comes to owning and operating multiple dental practices, not everything runs the same. That's a common surprise for those overseeing multiple…
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#940: What Leaders Should Not Do
Kiera is joined by DAT Consultant Dana Morsell to talk about common leadership pitfalls, and how you can overcome them. They discuss such points as: Thinking…
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#939: Strategic Tips for 2025
Figuring out how to drink from the firehouse of the new year can be overwhelming. Tiff and Britt give suggestions on where to start your journey to improving…
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#938: Fitness Amid Everyday Business
"Humans want to move, and life gets in the way." Those are the words of Laura, Kiera's personal trainer, who's the guest for this episode. Together, Kiera and…
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#937: The Full Picture of Practice Success
Tiff and Dana start their first episode of the 2025 focused on getting the entire practice team on board with goals. This doesn't mean just the numbers or just…
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#936: 2025: The Year to Thrive
Happy New Year! Instead of setting resolutions to start off 2025, Kiera tries a different route: identity changes. What fights can you stop starting in your…
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#935: Prompts to Reflect on 2024
On this final day of 2024, Kiera gives listeners a series prompts to reflect on the past year — personal, professional, and many stops in between. Episode…
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#934: It's Time to Reevaluate Your Handbook
Did team members in your practice have to have any hard conversations this year? Maybe about dress code or drug testing? Did that new PTO policy work? Were…
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#933: Merry Christmas, Dental A-Team Family!
Kiera invites listeners to consider what gift(s) they provide others — whether it's patients or team members, or in a more personal capacity. Episode…
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#932: The Magic of Excitement
Merry Christmas Eve! Kiera talks about how dental teams can apply the excitement and anticipation associated with holidays to their practices and work spaces…
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#931: Book Club: Focusing With Deep Intent
It's Dental A-Team's last book club episode of 2024! December's book is Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport. Kiera dives…
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#930: Getting To That 10% More
Tiff and Dana are here to gameplan your goals for 2025 by starting big and breaking it into smaller and more attainable pieces. They discuss aspects to…
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#929: 3 Unexpected Attributes For a Winning Dental Team
To inspire the most effective team for your practice, Kiera shares three key attributes that need to exist among staff members: Trust and vulnerability Healthy…
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#928: Maintaining Patient Trust After A Senior Partner Leaves
Dr. Brian Harris is back once more, this time talking about how he continued the practice after his father left. He touches on financial considerations (like…
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#927: Navigating Burnout: "It's Not A Dead End, It's A Cul-de-sac"
Dr. Brian Harris of Smile Virtual gets real and raw with Kiera. The topic: burnout, and how Dr. Harris navigated it to boost himself toward success. He talks…