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Dental Practice Heroes

Dental Practice Heroes

NewAfraid Your Employees Will Quit If You Speak Up? w/ Katherine Eitel BeltNovember 11, 2026 · 44 min
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About the podcast

Where dentists learn how to cut clinical days while increasing profits - without sacrificing patient care, cutting corners, or cranking volume.   We teach you how to grow a scalable practice through communication, leadership, and effective management. 

Hosted by Dr. Paul Etchison, author of two books on dental practice management, dental coach, and owner of a $6M collections group practice in the south suburbs of Chicago, we provide actionable advice for practice owners who want to intentionally create more time to enjoy their families, wealth, and deep personal fulfillment.  

If you want to build a scalable practice framework that no longer stresses, drains, or relies on you for every little thing, we will teach you how and share stories of other dentists who have done it!

Contributors

  • Dr. Paul EtchisonHost

Episodes 719

  1. Afraid Your Employees Will Quit If You Speak Up? w/ Katherine Eitel Belt

    44 minEpisode 719

    Afraid your team will quit if you hold them accountable? This is why so many practice owners let things slide, avoid tough conversations, and dread going into the office.Katherine Eitel Belt, founder of …

  2. Why Onboarding Might Be Your Most Overlooked System

    19 minEpisode 718

    You can feel it the moment a practice starts to drift: the phones get answered five different ways, the schedule depends on one hero employee, and “that’s how we’ve always done it” becomes the loudest system in …

  3. Tired of Being the Only One Pushing for Improvement?

    25 minEpisode 717

    Your team makes the changes you ask for. Then they slowly go back to the old way.In this episode, the DPH coaches break down how to make changes in your practice actually stick. You’ll learn the question to ask …

  4. You've Got Unscheduled Treatment. So Why Is Your Schedule Empty?

    12 minEpisode 716

    Your team looks slammed, the phones never stop, and patients keep checking in, yet production still feels soft. That disconnect is maddening, especially when you spot missed opportunities like unscheduled …

  5. The Hygienist You Can't Afford Is Costing You a Fortune

    31 minEpisode 715

    Hiring a hygienist feels like a risk. Not hiring one might be the bigger one.In this episode, the DPH coaches tackle the fears that keep you from making that hire. You'll learn the signs that tell you …

  6. Why Your Team Resists Every Change You Make

    15 minEpisode 714

    Your team isn’t rolling their eyes because they hate improvement. They’re rolling their eyes because they’ve been trained to believe the next “new system” won’t last. When we stack rules on top of rules without …

  7. The Missing Step Between Learning Implants and Actually Doing Lots of Them

    39 minEpisode 713

    You took an implant course and came home fired up. Six months later, you’re still referring those cases out.In this episode, Dr. Taher Dhoon, founder of Colorado Surgical Institute, shows you how to make your …

  8. Production Is Down. Now What?

    32 minEpisode 712

    By the time a problem shows up on your P&L, it’s been quietly building for months.In this episode, the DPH coaches share the numbers every practice should check weekly to catch problems while they’re still …

  9. The $1.5M Trap that Can Break a Practice Owner

    24 minEpisode 711

    Your dental practice can be profitable and still feel like it’s slowly breaking you. That’s the reality for many solo dentists sitting in the $1.2M to $1.7M range: the schedule is packed, the team is busy, and …

  10. Think You’re Ready for an Associate? Look at These Numbers First

    34 minEpisode 710

    Bringing on an associate is supposed to buy back your time. So why do so many owners end up regretting the decision?Brian Hanks, dental accountant and author of How to Buy a Dental Practice, works with dentists …

  11. Two Paths To A Dental Practice That Runs Without You

    12 minEpisode 709

    If you have been grinding to “improve the practice” but your days still feel the same, you are not alone and you are not lazy. We dig into a hard truth: you can spend an entire year fixing what is broken and …

  12. The Owner Mistake That Creates a Lazy Team

    15 minEpisode 708

    Being the most capable person in your dental practice can feel like a superpower, right up until it becomes the reason everything still depends on you. I’m Dr. Paul Etchison, and I see this pattern constantly …

  13. Think You’re Not Ready to Cut a Clinical Day? You Probably Are

    16 minEpisode 707

    You can have a solid team, good new patient flow, and real culture momentum and still feel weirdly stuck. That’s the trap we dig into today: the belief that you should wait until you feel 100% ready before …

  14. The Dangerous Part About Having a Good Practice

    31 minEpisode 706

    Your practice is finally in a good place. The schedule is full, the money is good, and you actually like your team.This episode is about what happens when this comfort turns into complacency. The DPH coaches …

  15. Your Team Isn’t Resisting the Change. They’re Resisting This

    17 minEpisode 705

    That uncomfortable moment when you roll out a new system and your team goes quiet isn’t about the system at all. It’s about what they think it means. We’re talking about one of the most common breakdowns in …

  16. You Might Be Wrong About Your Worst Team Member

    29 minEpisode 704

    "They're lazy." "They don't care." "This person is the problem." You probably said something like this the last time you got annoyed at the office.In this episode, the DPH coaches break down what to …

  17. Retiring Early in Dentistry and the Freedom Trap

    23 minEpisode 703

    You can do everything “right” and still feel stuck: work harder, save more, invest earlier, chase a retirement number… then wake up the next day and realize nothing changed. That moment is what we’re unpacking …

  18. Why Your Team Only Follows Systems When You’re Watching (How to Fix It) w/ Dr. Gina Dorfman

    49 minEpisode 702

    Your team does the right things when you're in the building. Turn your back and... maybe not.Dr. Gina Dorfman has spent over 20 years building practices around culture, and knows exactly what makes a team …

  19. What Your Team Isn’t Telling You Could Be Costing Your Practice

    16 minEpisode 701

    If your leadership meeting turns up “no problems,” we think you should be nervous. Silence can feel like health, but it often signals something else: people are checked out, nobody is looking closely, or your …

  20. You're Spending Time On the Wrong Thing...Focus on This Instead w/ Dr. George Hariri

    41 minEpisode 700

    Whatever is holding your practice back is probably not the thing you worked on this week.Dr. George Hariri, co-founder of Shared Practices and author of Dental Moneyball, went from one practice to nearly 50 and …

  21. Stop Talking Your Patients Out of Treatment. The Moments that Kill Acceptance.

    17 minEpisode 699

    That split second after a patient asks “Can’t you just fill it?” can quietly decide the whole case. If you hesitate, even with good intentions, you can accidentally turn your best clinical recommendation into …

  22. Simple Ways to Turn Patient Objections Into a Yes

    31 minEpisode 698

    Cost, timing, pain, insurance. These objections don't mean a patient is saying "no."In this episode, the DPH coaches share how they handle the most common patient objections and turn them into a "yes." …

  23. The Subtle Trap Undermining Your Practice's Success

    23 minEpisode 697

    Your front desk can look busy all day and still leak production, profit, and patience. When phones, check-ins, insurance questions, and balance collections are treated like one giant job, “urgency” wins every …

  24. Everyone Agreed in the Meeting. So Why Did Nothing Change?

    18 minEpisode 696

    We break down why the same operational problems keep resurfacing even after everyone “agrees” in a meeting. We share a simple leadership framework that turns talk into implementation so our dental practice …

  25. How to Train the Assistant Every Other Dentist Wants w/ Kevin Henry

    41 minEpisode 695

    Every dentist wants an assistant who anticipates their needs without being asked. Almost nobody does what it takes to get there.Kevin Henry, dental journalist and founder of Dental Assistant Nation, has spent …

  26. Your Practice Shouldn’t Feel Like a Fire Drill Every Day

    15 minEpisode 694

    We describe the moment every practice owner knows: you block CEO time to build better systems, then lose it to nonstop interruptions and tiny fires. We share how protecting leadership time, setting clear …

  27. The Hidden Reason Your Practice Feels So Hard to Run w/ David Maloley

    47 minEpisode 693

    Eight out of ten employees show up disengaged. The other two are doing all the work in your practice.In this episode, Dr. David Maloley explains what's really driving attrition and why a paycheck …

  28. Don't Try to Scale Your Practice Until You See This In Your Numbers

    31 minEpisode 692

    Hire another associate, open a second location, drop insurance — or maybe change nothing at all? The truth is, just because your practice can grow doesn't mean it should.In this episode, the DPH coaches …

  29. 3 Conversations that Will Keep You from Repeating Yourself

    16 minEpisode 691

    You know the moment: you’re having the same conversation again, trying to stay calm, trying to protect psychological safety, but quietly wondering why the message still isn’t landing. When a team member keeps …

  30. 5 Levers That Decide How Much Your Practice Produces

    32 minEpisode 690

    "I just need to get more patients into the office." It's something almost every owner tells themselves, but it's rarely what their practice needs.In this episode, you'll learn the five levers …

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