{"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":"Your Future Practice Won't Materialize Without Protecting This","slug":"your-future-practice-won-t-materialize-without-protecting-this","published_at":"2026-08-18T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/your-future-practice-won-t-materialize-without-protecting-this","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-practice-heroes-1128005","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311108/episodes/19663133-your-future-practice-won-t-materialize-without-protecting-this.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311108/episodes/19663133-your-future-practice-won-t-materialize-without-protecting-this.mp3","summary":"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 availability rules, and focusing on KPIs turns you from the bottleneck into the builder of a practice that runs without you. • why CEO time disappears faster than clinical time • protecting leadership time like production time • the difference between reacting all day and c...","meta_description":"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 sh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":840,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dental-practice-heroes-1128005/episodes/your-future-practice-won-t-materialize-without-protecting-this/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/your-future-practice-won-t-materialize-without-protecting-this.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}