{"podcast":{"title":"Wholehearted with Shawn Zajas","slug":"wholehearted-with-shawn-zajas-6410588","podcast_index_feed_id":6410588,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/shawn-zajas-show/","website_url":"https://shawnzajas.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ea40e6f8-01bb-4d2e-b5ec-cf48de12c96b/wholehearted-cover-light.jpg","author":"Shawn Zajas","episode_count":93,"summary":"Somewhere along the way, a lot of good men lost heart. Not their nerve — their heart. The part that used to hope, create, and believe it could still be good. It got buried under shame, under failure, under the quiet verdict that it's too late for them now. Wholehearted is for those men. This is a show about the who, not the what. I've spent years sitting across from people in the middle of their story — not the polished \"after,\" the messy middle — and I've never gotten tired of the same thing: the beauty that comes out of brokenness when a person is finally seen and finally honest. So that's what we do here. Real conversations with people who've walked through moral failure, loss, addiction, doubt, or the slow death of a dream — and found their way back to life. No advice. No fixing. No five-step formulas. Just presence, honesty, faith, and the stubborn belief that restoration is real and no one is past it. If you're a man who's quietly given up on part of yourself — or you love someone who has — pull up a chair. You're not as far gone as the shame keeps telling you that you are. It all starts at the root: becoming whole. From there comes authentic brilliance, and a life that crea…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T02:21:20.464259+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wholehearted-with-shawn-zajas-6410588"},"episode":{"title":"84 ::: Data-Driven Dentistry: How Dr. Matt Allen is Transforming Dentistry With Different Kind","slug":"84-data-driven-dentistry-how-dr-matt-allen-is-transforming-dentistry-with-different-kind","published_at":"2025-05-19T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wholehearted-with-shawn-zajas-6410588/84-data-driven-dentistry-how-dr-matt-allen-is-transforming-dentistry-with-different-kind","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wholehearted-with-shawn-zajas-6410588","url":"https://shawn-zajas-show.captivate.fm/episode/embracing-change-dr-matt-allen-on-passion-rest-and-data-driven-dentistry","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2c686778-11e8-4071-9f0f-78fc98351564/riverside-matt-allen-full-episode-03-apr-6-2025-the-shawn-zajas.mp3","summary":"In this illuminating conversation, Dr. Matt Allen shares his authentic journey from dental director to founding Different Kind, a dental technology company transforming how practices collect and utilize patient feedback. The episode explores Matt's sabbatical year that created space for his authentic brilliance to emerge, his experience navigating uncertainty without guarantees, and his vision for revolutionizing dental data collection. Through powerful metaphors about rivers, boats, and placing stones one at a time, Matt reveals how embracing his unique path led to creating technology that helps practices improve both patient outcomes and business performance. His story exemplifies how stepping beyond clinical dentistry can lead to unprecedented impact when we trust our vision even without seeing the full road ahead. Connect with Matt Allen: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/differentkind/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imdifferentkind/ X: https://twitter.com/imdifferentkind ","meta_description":"In this illuminating conversation, Dr. Matt Allen shares his authentic journey from dental director to founding Different Kind, a dental technology compan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3250,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wholehearted-with-shawn-zajas-6410588/episodes/84-data-driven-dentistry-how-dr-matt-allen-is-transforming-dentistry-with-different-kind/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wholehearted-with-shawn-zajas-6410588/84-data-driven-dentistry-how-dr-matt-allen-is-transforming-dentistry-with-different-kind.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}