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This podcast is here to give dentists and all dental office team members, in EVERY position, TACTICAL and PRACTICAL TIPS to:
- Be more efficient
- Have more fun
- Improve doctor and team communications
- Eliminate frustration
- And make your life easier!
Jump in! We are thrilled you have decided to LEVEL UP and be part of the DENTAL A TEAM!
New episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
#216: Sexy Titles & Hiring Team Members
YIKES, are you understaffed because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Kiera and the Dental A-Team is here to save your day! When your office is understaffed, it can put pressure on the rest of the team. But it doesn't HAVE to. You can actually become your most efficient selves...Continue Reading...
14:3102/06/2020
#215: COVID Recession: Where Should You Invest?
Paul Moore — founder, CEO, and fund manager of Wellings — is back on the podcast to talk with Kiera about the reality of what the COVID-19-influenced recession is looking like, and how YOU can invest to help both yourself and others...Continue Reading...
38:2628/05/2020
#214: Mastering Risk Tolerance & Fail Safes
One of the podcast’s BFFs, Friend, is back to talk with Kiera about the side hustle of real estate... Continue Reading...
39:1527/05/2020
#213: Avoid Routine; Expel Energy in Meetings!
Kiera gathers with Tiffanie Trader to talk about ways to spice up your morning meetings! If you have the same types of meeting day after day, team members tune out the information... Continue Reading..
15:1726/05/2020
#212: The Best You Can Be- Dental Marketer
Crossover episode with The Dental Marketer! This episode is a quick and dirty look into how The Dental A-Team works...Continue Reading..
49:4525/05/2020
#211: Spice Up Your Morning Huddles
Need a little excitement or inspiration in your morning meetings? Kiera delivers! In this episode, she talks about the reason for huddles in the first place — to come together to win the day... Continue Reading...
18:0221/05/2020
#210: Peeling Back the Layers
Who are you as a real person? What’s behind your Wizard of Oz curtain? That’s the theme of this episode, and Kiera shares specific things in her life that make her her... Continue Reading...
22:3320/05/2020
#209: The Dr. Suess of Systems
The Dental A-Team has a new nickname … the Dr. Suess of Systems! Woohoo! In this episode, Kiera gives five systems for you to check on in your practice — whether they’re in place or if you need to create them...Continue Reading...
17:5019/05/2020
#208: DAT Live: Your Questions Answered- Hiring
The Dental A-Team crew gathers LIVE to celebrate lots of birthdays and answer listener questions... Continue Reading...
45:1318/05/2020
#207: Websites: Your Resume to the World
Ashley Dorn is Kiera’s special guest in this episode, and she’s talking all about her area of expertise: marketing. Specifically websites...Continue Reading...
26:0414/05/2020
#206: Tongue & Lip Ties, You Got This
Kiera is joined by Dr. Brielle Renz again (who’s previously talked about dental life hacks in episode #169), this time, discussing the implementation of tongue and lip ties in your practice...Continue Reading...
42:0713/05/2020
#205: How to Start Back Office Treatment Planning
In this episode, Kiera talks about a skill EVERY office should have in our world now that COVID-19 abounds: treatment planning and taking payments in the back...Continue Reading...
20:4112/05/2020
#204: You Need to Put This in Place
Membership plans! Yes, Kiera’s talking WHY you absolutely need to have membership plans in place in your dental practice...Continue Reading...
18:3811/05/2020
#203: This One's for You, Grandma!
Birthdays abound! Today is Kiera’s, Tiffanie Trader’s, AND Kiera’s grandma’s birthday! So a celebratory podcast episode is in order. In this episode, Kiera talks about personal growth...Continue Reading...
23:0708/05/2020
#202: Office Autopsy: Accountability Leads to Credibility
It’s time to autopsy a practice! Kiera shares information about a practice she’s visited three times, with a team that started out very resistant to her methods...Continue Reading...
19:1207/05/2020
#201: Future Traditions for Each Position- Operations Manual
The dynamic duo of Kiera Dent and Tiffanie Trader are back to offer guidance in creating or refreshing your operations manual.. Continue Reading...
24:2006/05/2020
#200: Becoming Your Doc’s Right Hand
The Dental A-Team has a BRAND NEW dental assisting course! Traveling coach and dental assistant guru Ashley Dorn joins Kiera in this episode to talk about how this course will leap-frog you into dental assisting success... Continue Reading...
33:1305/05/2020
#199: Is your office where people WANT to be?
Special guest Cheryl Cornelius is back to talk about establishing the perfect patient experience.... Continue Reading...
34:3604/05/2020
#198: How to Set Up Assisted Hygiene
Time for the Week of How finale! When it comes to assisted hygiene, it can be really good or really bad — it’s up to you...Continue Reading...
17:5530/04/2020
#197: Block Scheduling, a COVID Kick-Start
The Week of How continues! In this episode, it’s all about block scheduling and how it can totally help your business out...Continue Reading...
17:4829/04/2020
#196: Insurance Verification: Asterisk Power!
The week of step-by-steps with Kiera continues! Today is about insurance verification — not sexy, but necessary...Continue Reading...
18:2428/04/2020
#195: Roadmap to "Back to Office" Success
Kiera’s giving a game plan for heading back to the office! As a few offices begin to open back up, here are four ideas to consider as we get ramped back up into practice life... Continue Reading...
19:2327/04/2020
#194: Kiera’s Book Club, Part 2
The last time Kiera did a book club episode, it was a huge success! So she’s back for round two of inspiration and good reads...Continue Reading...
17:4723/04/2020
#193: Magic Phrases That Work Every Time
Kiera shares some key magic phrases that will take your dental squad from B-listers to the A-team... Continue Reading...
15:4922/04/2020
#192: What Makes You Feel Alive?
Kiera talks all about her trip to Antarctica in this episode, and shares some super interesting facts (who knew you had to sterilize your boots before stepping on land?)...Continue Reading...
25:3721/04/2020
#191: Remember, YOU’RE the Magic Sauce
Guess WHAT!? It’s Mark Costes’s birthday today! Happy birthday, Mark!... Continue Reading...
17:5720/04/2020
#190: Here’s What the Best Practices Do
Ahhh, nothing like a podcast topic that will fuel your inspiration to be the best practice you can be! Today Kiera shares tips on common themes she’s seeing in the best practices she visits...Continue Reading..
25:1116/04/2020
#189: Now’s the Time: Same-Day Treatment
You guys! Kiera’s talking same-day treatment in this episode, how to give patients amazing dental care AND bump up your production rate... Continue Reading...
18:5415/04/2020
#188: Treat Your Dental Office Like Disneyland
That’s right, in today’s episode, Kiera talks about how to turn your dental office into a magical wonderland for your patients. That idea centers around having an on-stage and off-stage persona...Continue Reads..
24:0014/04/2020
#187: The Success Tax
In this episode, Kiera shares a thought that can help us right now: The more we grow as a practice, the more we grow in leadership, the more we evolve as people, there is a success tax... Continue Reading...
14:5713/04/2020
#186: Successful Virtual Meetings
Here’s a super quick podcast episode to set you on a better path for having effective virtual meetings...Continue Reading...
12:5109/04/2020
#185: What is Your Identity Attached To?
Kiera is joined by Tiffanie Trader in this episode, and the two talk about reestablishing your identity in your current downtime... Continue Reading...
24:3308/04/2020
#184: Filtering the Wave of Bombardment
In this episode, Kiera shares tips for sorting through the wave of unnecessary information... Continue Reading...
16:2107/04/2020
#183: Two Sides of the Coin
A quick feel-good episode for your Monday morning. Kiera talks about how people are probably flip-flopping quite a bit these days between being super productive and sinking into depressive thoughts... Continue Reading...
22:2106/04/2020
#182: Let’s Talk Money Buckets
Kiera offers quick tips for shifting your money mindset in this episode, sharing the idea of money buckets in your life... Continue Reading...
20:5402/04/2020
#181: Billing: How to Tackle AR Successfully!
This quickie episode has billing guru Tiffanie Trader discussing with Kiera insurance and patient AR, plus tips to not get your insurance AR quite as high... Continue Reading...
21:3601/04/2020
#180: Systems 101- Nurture Your Business Now to Bloom Later
Today, Kiera and Dr. Yazdan talk about creating/improving the systems in your office. With everything happening right now, use this time to sustain your business and establish effective systems... Continue Reading...
01:01:5231/03/2020
#179: This is the New Normal
In this crossover episode with Doctor Mark Costes, Kiera and Dr. Costes dig down into the new reality of working during the novel coronavirus pandemic... Continue Reading...
39:2030/03/2020
#178: How to Work From Home Successfully
Kiera teams up with Dental A-Team traveling coach extraordinaire Tiffanie Trader to talk about the most productive ways to work from home... Continue Reading...
23:5626/03/2020
#177: Operations Manual 2.0
Kiera’s walking you through the successful creation, implementation, and next level-ness of operations manual...Continue Reading...
26:4125/03/2020
#176: Moving You Forward
With the tumultuous times right now, it’s pretty easy to get discouraged. In this episode, Kiera shares a recent snowshoeing experience she had, and how it relates to life... Continue Reading..
19:0924/03/2020
#175: 11+ Ways to Maximize Your COVID-19 Downtime
The Dental A-Team is HERE FOR YOU during this crazy time! We’ve got everything from coaching calls to biweekly webinars to all types of strategy to move you forward... Continue Reading...
20:1923/03/2020
#174: What is Your Zone of Excellence?
It’s time to shift your life from where you’ve always been to where you want to be! Just because you’ve started somewhere doesn’t mean you need to finish there, too... Continue Reading...
25:4619/03/2020
#173: How to Hook New Patients
Kiera is joined by Amol Nirgudkar, founder and CEO of Patient Prism — a software service that helps monitor and manage how front office staff handles incoming calls... Continue Reading...
18:0318/03/2020
#172: So You Want to Buy a Practice…
Real estate expert Paul Moore is back! Paul talks with Kiera about how to calculate the cost for buying a dental practice... Continue Reading...
36:0417/03/2020
#171: Bonus Episode: How Your Office Can Survive the Coronavirus
Kiera is the breath of fresh air you need in this chaotic world! Settle down with her in this episode as she talks you through ways you and your office can thrive during the coronavirus pandemic... Continue Reading...
21:3316/03/2020
#170: Function Dysfunction; Here’s How!
Today’s a dicey topic! Kiera shares her take-aways from a recent book she read, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni, and how they can apply to your team...Continue Reading...
17:3312/03/2020
#169: Dental Life Hacks
Kiera is joined by Doctor Brielle Renz and the two talk about how the best patient rapport and office culture come about... Continue Reading...
45:4911/03/2020
#168: Offices, Take the Leap of Faith!
Dr. Maxwell Johnson out of Tucson, Arizona joins Kiera to talk about leadership and accountability (something that Dr. Johnson admits to having struggled with)... Continue Reading...
26:2310/03/2020
#167: Practices! Save $20,000 in 6 Years
Zak Allmand with Apex Payment Solutions joins Kiera in this episode to talk about how the best merchant services can save you tons of money!... Continue Reading....
25:3105/03/2020