{"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":"The Subtle Trap Undermining Your Practice's Success","slug":"the-subtle-trap-undermining-your-practice-s-success","published_at":"2026-08-27T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/the-subtle-trap-undermining-your-practice-s-success","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311108/episodes/19709611-the-subtle-trap-undermining-your-practice-s-success.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311108/episodes/19709611-the-subtle-trap-undermining-your-practice-s-success.mp3","summary":"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 time. The ringing phone gets answered, the insurance fire gets put out, and the real growth work quietly disappears: filling tomorrow’s hole, following up on that $10,000 treatment plan, and building systems that keep the practice steady even when someone is out. We walk through a clean...","meta_description":"Your front desk can look busy all day and still leak production, profit, and patience. When phones, check-ins, insurance questions, and balance collection…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1294,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/episodes/the-subtle-trap-undermining-your-practice-s-success/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/the-subtle-trap-undermining-your-practice-s-success.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}