Do you want a better practice in 2025? If you want more balance and more freedom in the new year, don't miss this episode! Kirk Behrendt brings back Miranda Beeson, ACT’s director of education, to reveal the keys to getting what you want out of life through your practice. To set yourself up for success for next year — and every year — listen to Episode 819 of The Best Practices Show!

Learn More About Miranda:

• Send Miranda an email: [email protected] 
• Follow Miranda on ACT’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actdental
• Send Gina an email: [email protected] 
• Email the ACT Team for their free resources: [email protected] 

More Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:

• Subscribe to The Best Practices Show: https://the-best-practices-show.captivate.fm/listen
• Join The Best Practices Association: https://www.actdental.com/bpa
• Join ACT’s To The Top Study Club: https://www.actdental.com/ttt
• See the ACT Dental/BPA Live Event Schedule: https://www.actdental.com/event
• Get The Best Practices Magazine for free: https://www.actdental.com/magazine
• Please leave us a review on the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-practices-show-with-kirk-behrendt/id1223838218

Episode Resources:

• Watch the video version of Episode 819: https://www.youtube.com/@actdental/videos
• Download ACT’s Creating Your Vision resource: https://23476641.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/23476641/Creating%20Your%20Vision%20with%20Worksheet.pdf
• Download ACT’s Identifying Your Practice’s Core Values guide: https://23476641.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/23476641/Identify%20Your%20Practices%20Core%20Values.pdf
• Read The E-Myth Dentist: by Christopher Barrow and Michael G. Gerber: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-e-myth-dentist-christopher-barrow/9739339?ean=9781618350251

Main Takeaways:

• Craft a vision for your practice.
• Develop your core purpose and core values.
• Align your leadership on vision, core purpose, and core values.
• Create a healthy culture by developing a trusting work environment.
• Consistently evaluate whether your core values are alive in your practice.
• Utilize data to measure the efficacy or inefficiencies of systems in your practice.
• Stay aligned with your team by having consistent meetings, check-ins, and huddles.

Snippets:

0:00 Introduction.

2:03 Why this is an important topic.

11:16 The origins of Better Practice, Better Life.

17:44 The three pillars: Aligned.

22:52 Align through meetings, check-ins, and huddles.

27:48 The three pillars: Smart.

31:12 Why you need a coach.

37:22 The three pillars: Healthy.

42:10 Develop your vision, core purpose, and core values.

48:10 Final takeaways.

Miranda Beeson, MS, BSDH Bio:

Miranda Beeson has over 25 years of clinical dental hygiene, front office, practice administration, and speaking experience. She is enthusiastic about communication and loves helping others find the power that words can bring to their patient interactions and practice dynamics. As a Lead Practice Coach, she is driven to create opportunities to find value in experiences and cultivate new approaches.

Miranda graduated from Old Dominion University, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Chuck, and her children, Trent, Mallory, and Cassidy. Family time is the best time, and is often spent on a golf course, a volleyball court, or spending the day boating at the beach.