{"podcast":{"title":"Dental A Team Podcast","slug":"dental-a-team-podcast-899344","podcast_index_feed_id":899344,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/166040/destinations/1103258.xml","website_url":"http://dentalateam.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/9/c/f/d9cf480e746e3fa616c3140a3186d450/dental-a-team-podcast-logo.png","author":"Kiera Dent","episode_count":1192,"summary":"This podcast is here to give dentists and all dental office team members, in EVERY position, TACTICAL and PRACTICAL TIPS to: - Be more efficient - Have more fun - Improve doctor and team communications - Eliminate frustration - And make your life easier! Jump in! We are thrilled you have decided to LEVEL UP and be part of the DENTAL A TEAM! New episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T22:22:59.920055+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-a-team-podcast-899344"},"episode":{"title":"#1,197: The CEO Dentist Playbook: Lead a Practice That Can Grow Without You","slug":"1-197-the-ceo-dentist-playbook-lead-a-practice-that-can-grow-without-you","published_at":"2026-09-02T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-a-team-podcast-899344/1-197-the-ceo-dentist-playbook-lead-a-practice-that-can-grow-without-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-a-team-podcast-899344","url":"https://dentalateam.libsyn.com/1197-the-ceo-dentist-playbook-lead-a-practice-that-can-grow-without-you","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/dentalateam/Eps_1197_CEO_playbook_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=1103258","summary":"Being a CEO dentist doesn't have to mean fewer patients. It means leading your business as intentionally as you are clinically. Kiera gives specific tips on how you, as a dental practice owner, can shift your mindset so you're operating like a CEO and your practice is humming. Episode resources: Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Transcript: Kiera (00:00) Hello, Dental A Team listeners. This is Kiera. And today we're just gonna kind of like jump right into it. I hope it's an amazing day over there. And I hope, as you're listening, today this is going out to our dentist owners. and I think that a lot of dentists actually own a practice, but very few of them actually run it like a CEO. Is that fair? Would you agree? Would you not? what do you think? What do you think about that? Do you feel like that is And the way you'll know if you're running it like a CEO or if you're just being owned by it is do you feel trapped in your business or do you feel in control of your business? And I think I want to just kick this off because there are times, and I will tell you, once you hit one or the other, that's not forever. That state is not a forever state. So just because you might be there today doesn't mean you'll forever be there. So if you're trapped, great news, you won't always be there. If you're if you're feeling in control, great, you're not always going to be there either. But The goal is like being a CEO dentist doesn't mean that you're actually having to see fewer patients. It's about leading your business as intentionally as you are clinically. And being the leader of that, being the person who actually is setting the tone and being a CEO. And I think when I started my business, I didn't know what a CEO was. I did no…","meta_description":"Being a CEO dentist doesn't have to mean fewer patients. It means leading your business as intentionally as you are clinically. Kiera gives specific tips…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1106,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dental-a-team-podcast-899344/episodes/1-197-the-ceo-dentist-playbook-lead-a-practice-that-can-grow-without-you/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-a-team-podcast-899344/1-197-the-ceo-dentist-playbook-lead-a-practice-that-can-grow-without-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}