Podcast Episode #407: Fail Forward Fast – Lessons of an Entrepreneur – Mark Costes
Episode #407: Dentist Freedom Blueprint Podcast
Fail Forward Fast – Lessons of an Entrepreneur – Mark Costes
Failure isn’t the end—it is a crucial part of the learning and growing process and something that’s important for entrepreneurs to understand. Mark Costes is a long-time mentor, friend, and colleague, and he joins the show today to talk about the idea of failing forward. You will get tons of insight into multi-practice ownership, profitability, culture, leadership, and overcoming the fear of making mistakes.
During his career, Mark has started or acquired over a dozen dental practices during some of the most challenging times. Listen in as he opens up about his journey, setbacks, key mistakes, and tough lessons. Mark also gives great advice on who you need to be hanging around and the role of confidence, setbacks, and struggles in your career.
Minute Markers:
1:23 – Who Mark Costes is and his experience in overcoming challenges.
4:58 – Why transparency is crucial for moving forward.
8:20 – How Mark defines success and how his many failures influenced that.
11:50 – How he set himself up for success and found mentors to work with.
14:05 – Some of the biggest hurdles dentists are dealing with lately.
19:48 – How to look ahead and set the right course in the early years.
25:13 – The DSO event coming up and how they help people scale.
27:00 – What Mark is working on next and new things coming up for members.
Featured on the Show:
Mark Costes: Website | Podcast | YouTube
Dental Success Summit
Pillars of Dental Success by Dr. Mark Costes
Polaris Healthcare Partners
Scaling from Clinician to CEO
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In this episode, we finish up the second part of my interview with Rob Swanson and his eight rules of investing. (If you haven’t listened to part 1, be sure to go back and give that a listen before jumping into this one.) Today, we pick up where we left off, covering rules four through eight and talking about everything from decision-making to cash flow and risk reduction.
Listen in as Rob shares his incredible insight and experience in real estate and investing to give us a few rules that help make our decisions and investments more solid. You will hear about the importance of looking at margins before buying and what boxes need to be checked when it comes to predicting a solid income stream. Rob also discusses how to define and mitigate the different risks involved so that you can come out on top.
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