Investment Grade Practices: A Dentist Podcast

Investment Grade PracticesTM are designed to give you the lifestyle you enjoy today, while building an asset for tomorrow. Victoria Peterson, SsD helps dentists build practices that they love today while building value to secure their future.

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“Stability is what creates leverage.” - Victoria Peterson

Brief Overview of the Episode

What This Episode Reveals

• Why “busy” can be a distraction, not a strategy
• How instability creates reactive leadership, unclear standards, and team chaos
• Why financial ambiguity keeps owners stuck, even when production looks strong
• The hidden cost of scaling before the foundation is stable
• Why clarity creates relief, because clear problems are solvable

What You’ll Learn

• How to spot your escape routine (and stop letting it run the business)
• Where instability hides: write-offs, bottlenecks, team performance, owner dependency
• Why “standing still” is sometimes the highest-level leadership move
• How to move from urgency-based decisions to design-based decisions
• A simple way to create white space so strategy can finally show up

If This Sounds Familiar

• “We need more patients” but you cannot explain where profit is actually coming from
• You get to the end of the day and think, “What just happened?”
• You are always one hire, one remodel, one marketing push away from finally feeling okay
• Your team feels inconsistent, but you keep avoiding the real conversations
• You are producing more, but the anxiety never leaves
• You have reports, but they arrive too late to lead with confidence

Next Steps

• Block one “thinking session” this week. No meetings. No firefighting. Just clarity.
• Pull your last 3 months of numbers and look for truth: collections, write-offs, profitability, capacity.
• List your top 10 bottlenecks and circle the ones you keep procrastinating.
• Identify the top 1 place the practice depends on you, and write the first step to reduce that dependency.
• If you want help seeing your practice accurately, book a 30-minute clarity call: Investmentgradepractice.com. (Victoria holds five spots per week).        

Do the free assessment meeting.
Book here: https://calendly.com/productivedentistacademy/coaching-session?utm_source=IGP-Website&month=2026-02