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Death Before Decay
Death Before Decay episodes
- You Still Have to Earn It
Most people think orthodontics is just about straight teeth.
But Ethan and I ended up talking a lot more about:
- confidence
- pressure
- legacy
- earning trust
- patient experience
- and what it means to build your own identity inside a profession
We also got into skiing, competition, growing up around high expectations, and how much modern dentistry is changing.
Episode 2 of Death Before Decay with Dr. Ethan Just drops Thursday.
🎧 Available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
57 min - The Long Way Around
First episode is live.
In this episode, Jon and I talk about where this whole thing came from — growing up in Sheboygan, music, gaming, failing classes, starting dental school at 27, building confidence, and why I wanted to finally start this podcast.
This isn’t a polished interview show. It’s just real conversation about identity, ambition, dentistry, creativity, and trying to build something meaningful without completely losing your mind in the process.
If you’ve ever felt behind, underestimated, burned out, or stuck between who you were and who you’re trying to become, this episode is probably for you.
1 hr 4 min
About Death Before Decay
From the publisher's feed
Death Before Decay is a long-form podcast hosted by Dr. Elliot Humiston — a dentist, business owner, creative, and recovering band kid from Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
This show is about…
confidence, craft, entrepreneurship, and building something meaningful — in dentistry, business, and life.
Some episodes dive into modern dentistry, aesthetics, leadership, technology, and patient transformation. Others explore community, creativity, identity, mental health, music, business ownership, and the people building interesting things around us.
Guests range from dentists and medical professionals to entrepreneurs, artists, business owners, and longtime friends with great stories to tell.
The conversations are honest, relaxed, occasionally chaotic, and built around one core idea:
Confidence changes people’s lives.
Whether that confidence comes from rebuilding a smile, starting a business, creating art, overcoming failure, or simply figuring out who you are — this podcast is about the process of becoming something better without losing yourself along the way.
New episodes feature:
- long-form conversations
- local and out-of-town guests
- solo episodes
- dentistry and aesthetics
- entrepreneurship and branding
- stories about failure, growth, and ambition
- the occasional dark joke or tangent
Hosted by Dr. Elliot Humiston and featuring recurring appearances from photographer and marketing creative Jon Erlien.