In today’s episode, Dr. Cedric Lewis and Matt Kennedy discuss the importance of defining your practice’s core values and using them as a framework through which you measure and communicate how the practice and your team is performing ..read more

Many dental offices are struggling to retain or find employees in today’s post pandemic environment.  In today’s episode, Dr. Cedric Lewis and Matt Kennedy talk through strategies to deal with this issue.  Many times, employees think the owner puts profit before people.  This mindset among your employees is poison.  In this episode you’ll learn how to make sure that your communication with your team consistently wards off this damaging mindset ..read more

Financial Intelligence is critical to your success today and in the future.  In this episode, Dr. Cedric Lewis and Dental Wealth Coach Matt Kennedy discuss how to make smart financial decisions in the practice and in your personal world.  Understanding how money works and becoming more efficient with every dollar has the potential to create a huge impact on your future ..read more

Growing your dental practice doesn’t happen by accident.  In this episode Dr. Ced and Matt are joined by John Christensen, the founder of Chrisad.  John discusses the scientific, data driven approach to growing a dental practice as well as the dangerous approaches that will actually drive patients away from your practice.   ..read more

Getting to the place where dentistry becomes optional is hard.  But staying there can be even harder.  In this episode, Dr. Cedric Lewis and Matt Kennedy continue a series focused on how to stay out of the chair once you get there.  To do so, you don’t have to apply yourself to everything in the dental office anymore but you do have to apply yourself to a few things.  This series will cover the right things to monitor and apply pressure to from someone (Dr. Ced) who’s been there and is working to stay there.  ..read more

We’ve identified 10 distinct phases that all dental practices move through while transforming into a business that outlives the owner/doctor and allows he or she to get out of the chair.  Over the next few episodes, Dr. Cedric Lewis and Matt Kennedy will discuss each phase, how to know  which phase your practice is in and what you need to aim for to get forward momentum toward the next phase.  ..read more

You can have the best plan in the world but if you or your team don’t hold yourselves accountable to execute, the plan is really just a hope and a wish.  In this episode, Dr. Cedric Lewis, along with Matt Kennedy, get’s vulnerable and shares a leadership and accountability lesson he recently learned in his own practice.  The insight gained is fantastic and well worth listening for.  ..read more

In this episode, Dr. Ced Lewis and Matt Kennedy talk about the why’s and how’s of opening a second location and how to know if it’s the right move for you ..read more

We’ve identified 10 distinct phases that all dental practices move through while transforming into a business that outlives the owner/doctor and allows he or she to get out of the chair.  Over the next few episodes, Dr. Cedric Lewis and Matt Kennedy will discuss each phase, how to know  which phase your practice is in and what you need to aim for to get forward momentum toward the next phase.  ..read more

Many times when people get to a place where they don’t know what to do in their business, they stop.  As a result, they might fail to reach their full potential.  In this episode, Dr. Cedic Lewis and Matt Kennedy discuss a personal story that forced Ced to develop a framework for what to do when he didn’t know what to do.  He shared this framework with his team and it has since had a profound impact on the team and how he leads them.  Apply this framework to your life and business and you’ll see results.   ..read more