{"podcast":{"title":"Dental Practice Heroes","slug":"dental-practice-heroes-1128005","podcast_index_feed_id":1128005,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2311108.rss","website_url":"http://www.dentalpracticeheroes.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/vfqjnjjvrfm6velki8v9cbhuaa4i?.jpg","author":"Dr. Paul Etchison","episode_count":702,"summary":"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!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T20:19:46.974979+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005"},"episode":{"title":"How to Talk About Dollars and Numbers and Not Sound Greedy","slug":"how-to-talk-about-dollars-and-numbers-and-not-sound-greedy","published_at":"2026-05-18T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/how-to-talk-about-dollars-and-numbers-and-not-sound-greedy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311108/episodes/19193251-how-to-talk-about-dollars-and-numbers-and-not-sound-greedy.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311108/episodes/19193251-how-to-talk-about-dollars-and-numbers-and-not-sound-greedy.mp3","summary":"You’re alone in your office after hours, staring at the numbers, and you can feel it: the practice has more potential. The hard part isn’t the math. The hard part is saying “production goals” out loud without feeling like you’ve betrayed patient care or turned into a salesperson. We’ve been trained to talk dentistry, not revenue, so it makes sense that money talk can feel awkward, corporate, or even greedy. We walk through a simple but powerful reframe for dental practice management: i...","meta_description":"You’re alone in your office after hours, staring at the numbers, and you can feel it: the practice has more potential. The hard part isn’t the math. The h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1329,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/episodes/how-to-talk-about-dollars-and-numbers-and-not-sound-greedy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/how-to-talk-about-dollars-and-numbers-and-not-sound-greedy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}