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With a well-rounded background in fee-for-service as well as public health, today's pre-owner "Brie" now wants to setup a practice she actually enjoys. She has her eye on a practice in a popular suburb, but the aging owner has let his production dwindle, and her prospective team may have a confusing mixture of expectations. Can Matt Ford and Brie right the ship on this otherwise dream practice?

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Simulcasting from the Dental Investment group on Facebook, we learn from George and Alex to think of practice ownership as an investment. Emotion easily overtakes owners in their ugly duckling phase. Today we help you back up, assess longterm vision, and continue always with the end in mind.

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Screening team candidates, retaining them longterm; Suzanne gets specific for Spidey. Plus, Matt talks about his staff turnover mistakes from his acquisition, and the do's and don'ts of forthrightly offering staff a no-harm-no-foul 90-day trial period. There's a good fit out there for every position, you owe it to yourself (and to your team) to find the staff puzzle pieces that fit.

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After our SP Dental Concepts announcement 9 days ago, George now joins Andrew to address the angst our pre-owners have about what the future looks like for *them*.

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When Hunter Smith appeared on Matt and George's weekend show 'The Billion Dollar Podcast', we knew we had to bring that information to our Shared Practices audience. Today Matt, George, and Hunter talk about DSO's as minority stakeholders; offering equity to docs working in the group, plus an extended Q&A with the audience.

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"Spidey" is a new grad and even newer owner. Having seen huge growth early on, his superhero luck is running out. He loves his team, and wants to grow into a space next door. But if he grows now, he would just be growing his front desk problems. Will he fix his front desk problems *before* growing.

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Andrew and Steven deconstruct our beliefs and preferences about business partnerships. Is having multiple owners always better? Should one partner have a controlling interest? And when would a partnership NOT make sense?

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📢 With new-grad ownership now being next to impossible, and Austin having perfected the Dentures & Implants model, Shared Practices saw a disctinct opportunity. Now, industry consolidation meets equity, as George explains what he and 5 others sacrificed to introduce this equitable solution for young owners.

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Randy's practice is turning the corner from startup to actual mature practice with recall patients. Will he remove himself from as many operations as possible? We talk about training (and TRUSTING) your team.

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Our anonymous guest Inigo Montoya is asking us to prepare to buy. With his wife finishing her physician training, he's in his early stages of settling down where he wants to live. With our very own Dr. Matt Ford by his side, he learns about what terrible hygiene production looks like on paper, learning more clinical skills to match the selling doctor's production, and spotting huge A/R issues.

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