Investment Grade Practices: A Dentist Podcast
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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Know Your Value: Navigating Practice Transitions (E.154)
“Know the terrain before you navigate it. Information is power.” – Matt Zolfo BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE EPISODE Selling a dental practice is no longer as simple as getting an offer and handing over the keys. The market is shifting, private equity is holding longer, and consolidation is changing...  Read More
Robots, Revenue & Risk: The Implant Edge That Scales Without You (E.152)
What This Episode Reveals In this episode, Dr. Jon Ehlers shares how implant robotics creates predictable workflows, empowers younger associates, and drives practice scalability. Discover how this technology positions your practice for growth and prepares you for a seamless transition out of...  Read More
The Diagnostic Drift That’s Destroying Your Value (E.151)
What This Episode Reveals Your philosophy of care doesn’t live in your team’s heads. It lives in yours. When that happens, diagnostic drift begins. Small inconsistencies pile up. Treatment quality slips. Patients hesitate. Left unchecked, it erodes patient outcomes and the long-term value of...  Read More
Your Schedule is Costing You More Than You Think (E.150)
WHAT THIS EPISODE REVEALS Most dentists think they’re building value by staying busy. But what if your schedule is actually eroding it? In this powerful conversation, Victoria Peterson and Dr. Bruce Baird uncover why most dental schedules run on autopilot — and how this hidden dysfunction limits...  Read More
The Three Phases of Long-term Practice Growth (E.148)
“Where you set your mind and your focus is where you will end up.” ~Dr. Victoria Peterson Think about this: what is your 10-year goal? I often invite business owners to talk about their 10-year goal. It seems easy so you might be surprised to learn how many owners balk at doing that. I get it....  Read More
The Keys to Exceptional Dental Partnerships (E.147)
“It was never about a number, it was about lifestyle.” ~Dr. Clint Euse When he was a new dentist and saw an ad that said he could make $1000 an hour, work 3 days a week, and take a month of vacation each year, Dr. Clint Euse thought that was crazy…impossible. Now, ten years down the road, he’s not...  Read More
Optimization and the Investment Grade Practice (E.146)
“That sense that you’ve plateaued but know that there is more…that’s what tells so many of us our practices aren’t optimized.” ~Dr. Victoria Peterson My most recent guest Dr. Nikki Green knew her practice wasn’t optimized because of her feeling that there was more she could accomplish in her...  Read More
What Productive Dentists Gain When They Own an Investment Grade Practice (E.145)
“I was growing, but if I hadn’t realized that I wasn’t optimizing my EBIDA, then wouldn’t have gotten the value out of my practice that I did.” ~Dr. Nikki Green Having an Investment Grade Practice gives you choices. This is something my guest today, Dr. Nikki Green, knows well. Dr. Green is a...  Read More
Understanding the Metrics that Drive Your Dental Practice (E. 144)
In this special crossover episode of the Investment Grade Practices Podcast and Everyday Practices your hosts Dr. Victoria Peterson and Regan Robertson bring together their expertise and insights and cover high-level visionary planning with essential nuts-and-bolts day-to-day practice management....  Read More
Vision vs. Reality (E. 143)
“If we don’t have a strong foundation in our practice or in our life, everything that sits on top of it can begin to show wear and tear.” ~Regan Robertson Welcome to a special crossover Episode of Everyday Practices Dental Podcast and the Investment Grade Practices Podcast. This collaboration...  Read More
Preparing for the Sale of Your Dental Practice (E.142)
“Ninety-five percent of dentists cannot retire and maintain their standard of living, which is sad. It’s not fair.”  ~ Dr. Victoria Peterson Join Investment Grade Practices Podcast host Dr. Victoria Peterson and Dr. Bruce B. Baird (host of The Productive Dentist Podcast) in this raw and candid...  Read More
The Power of Personal Philosophy (E.141)
“It’s not about working more, because I was working very hard. It’s about working smarter.” ~Dr. Maggie Augustyn In this episode of the Investment Grade Practice Podcast, Dr. Maggie Augustyn shares her journey from burnout to building a thriving, patient-centered practice. She reveals how defining...  Read More
Supporting Your Future by Building Your Dental Practice (E.140)
“If you don’t know where you’re going then you better enjoy the ride, because you’re never going to get there.”  ~ Victoria Peterson Do you know where your business is going?  Have you ever been thinking about your business and found these questions chasing themselves around your brain: Should I...  Read More
Attracting High-quality Patients: Top Dental Marketing Strategies for Practice Growth (E. 139)
“Talk about what you care about. Being authentic attracts the people who are like-minded.”  ~ Victoria Peterson When it comes to marketing, dentistry is late to the game. Many of you may not know that it was illegal to market dental practices until the late 1980s. So it’s no surprise that so many...  Read More
Get the Freedom to Put Patients First (E.138)
“There’s a freedom that comes when you’re truly in control.” ~Dr. Bruce B. Baird In this powerful episode, we’re diving into the concept of freedom – what it really means and how we can achieve it, both in business and life. Dr. Bruce B. Baird, Victoria Peterson S.s.D., and Regan Robertson share...  Read More
Requested Replay: Staying In Relationship With Your Patients (E.137)
“In this scenario, your treatment coordinator could pull in an additional $30,000 per month based on treatment that you’ve already recommended.”  ~ Dr. Victoria Peterson Over the last two episodes of the Investment Grade Practice podcast, we discovered the most important metric in your practice to...  Read More
Episode 136:Requested Replay: Building the Best Team
“If you’re going to grow your business, you need to grow your people.” Building and retaining a fantastic team is key to building your Investment Grade Practice™. But so many dentists and business owners struggle with their team and office culture. In fact, it can be downright debilitating when...  Read More
Episode 135: Requested Replay: Enhancing Communication
“Nobody wants dental treatment. But here’s what we all want: we all want solutions to the problems that we know we have.”  ~ Dr. Chris Bowman In this episode of Investment Grade Practices Podcast, your host Dr. Victoria Peterson is joined by Dr. Christopher Bowman of Advanced Dentistry of...  Read More
Episode 134: Requested Replay: Setting Standards
“The number one job of a leader is to provide clarity.”  ~ Dr. Victoria Peterson In this episode of the Investment Grade Practices podcast, your host Dr. Victoria Peterson recaps her conversation with the remarkable Dr. Jonathan Ehlers from the previous episode, and provides listeners with some...  Read More
Episode 132: Requested Replay: Paving the Way for Your Associate
“You have to be honest with yourself, and establish standards and your practice philosophy early. Don’t just cross them, you have to have the hard conversations, because at the end of the day it’s going to make your life better.”  ~ Dr. Jonathan Ehlers In this episode of the Investment Grade...  Read More
Episode 131: Requested Replay: Philosophy Of Care
“Figure out who you are, who you serve, and then develop your philosophy of care from there.”  ~ Victoria Peterson There are so many different metrics that we can use to measure the success of your dental practice. But if you truly want to gauge how well your practice is doing, it comes back to...  Read More
Episode 130: Requested Replay: Ethics in Dentistry
“How much are we willing to violate our ethics at the expense of the patients?”  ~ Dr. Maggie Augustyn This special episode of the Investment Grade Practices podcast finds us at the intersection of ethics and productivity. Dr. Victoria Peterson warmly welcomes Dr. Maggie Augustyn, a distinguished...  Read More
Episode 129: But They Were So Good In The Interview…
“You hired the most amazing person, and 30 days later they suck. What happened?” ~Dr. Victoria Peterson In this episode of Investment Grade Practices, Dr. Victoria Peterson takes a deep dive into the common post-hire conundrum many dental practice owners face: Why do promising new hires sometimes...  Read More
Episode 128 - Employer Branding Marketing
“Growing practices should always be in the mindset of hiring great talent when it comes along.” ~Dr. Victoria Peterson In today’s competitive landscape, the way you brand yourself as an employer can make or break your practice. Join Dr. Victoria Peterson in this episode of the Investment Grade...  Read More
Episode 127: Hiring: Proactive vs. Reactive
“Figure out who you are. Understand your overhead. Start branding and marketing yourself as one of the leading employers in the area.” ~Dr. Victoria Peterson Are you stuck reacting to hiring challenges or are you taking proactive steps to build your ideal team? This episode of the Investment...  Read More
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