Google Update! Is Your Site Ready?
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Google recently announced some updates about what it will officially take into consideration when ranking websites in their index.
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The One Thing Your Need Before You Open Your Doors
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Evaluating Your Lease During COVID
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I talk with RJ Przebinda from dentalspacesearch.com about how we should be viewing our lease options during this time of quarantine.
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Future Proofing Your Photography
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As dentists, we make lots of photos. Some of us more than others, to be sure. Social Media, however is changing that for the better and more people are taking clinical and personal photos than ever before. How are you storing your photos? Do you feel trapped by your system? Bound to forever use that brand or program? Fear not - I have been held captive once before, and I've lived to tell about it. In this episode, I talk about my new work-flow for my photography, and how I plan on using titles to help me forever know when and where a photo was made. --- Lastly - I sincerely apologize for...
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The Right Tool For The Job
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Sometimes, we have to make due with what we have at hand. Other times - having the right tool for the job is important.
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The Middle of The Road
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There's a saying that goes, "the only things that should be in the middle of the road are yellow lines and roadkill."
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The State of Dental Education
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In this episode, I have the privilege to talk to Dr. Lee Ann Brady, Director of Education at the Pankey Institute. We talked about the different types of CE available, the importance of finding your community, how she quickly fact-checks new techniques, and how to make sure you get the most ROI when you come back to work after a class.
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Measures of Success
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What is success for you?
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Radical Hospitality
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In this episode, I share a book written by the amazing man that I was named after!
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Using Sound Strategically
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As dentists, we have so much to offer our patients. Does the environment we create in our dental offices detract from that? Or - can we use what we know to enhance that experience. In our office, I use music very strategically to help our patients enter into a more relaxed and comfortable head space. To hear what represents a good example of music that fits the criteria that I described in the podcast, go ahead and
info_outlineIn this episode, I share a book written by the amazing man that I was named after!
Fr. Daniel Homan OSB was a Benedictine Monk, lover of hockey, and wonderful family friend. He was one of those people who had the ability to make you feel like you are the most important person to him. He could make everyone feel this way - and it was a magical ability that I always admired. Sadly, he died about 10 years ago. His books and the work he started at his monastery still live on, though!
The one that I am focusing on in this episode is called “Radical Hospitality - Benedict’s Way of Love”. It was written by Fr. Dan and his friend, Lonni Collins Pratt and published in 2002.
The reason for sharing this little treasure is this - people are increasingly disengaged. Why? Because very few people spend any time in solitude. Being alone is scary - and it is so easy for us to avoid it by looking at a screen. This is problematic for us - especially those of us in dentistry - because we need the trust of our patients. How can we begin to earn their trust if they are disengaged and unable to enter into relationship with us?
I believe that understanding the three types of relating: cloister, community, and hospitality are absolutely key.
Furthermore, they must be balanced in our lives.
Yes - we must spend an equal amount of time in each of those forms of relationship. Our ability to create relationships of one type is directly proportional to our ability to be in relationship in the others.
Therefore - if we expect to have a good relationship with our patients [hospitality], we must have a good relationship with ourselves [cloister].
This means solitude.
There’s a reason that Dr. Pankey put that at the top of his “cross of dentistry”.