1186 Orthodontist: A Day in the Life
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Dr. Sonia Palleck: "I love dentistry. I love working with my hands. It's quite artistic and very challenging. It also requires you to have a lot of compassion and good communication skills. I felt it tapped into a lot of things that I was gifted with.
"The reason I went into dentistry was to become an orthodontist. My siblings and I all had braces. We had terrible crooked teeth. What the orthodontist did for me was really life changing. It gave me a lot of confidence. It gave me the ability to smile, to show up, and to speak my mind without fear or self-consciousness. I thought this was an amazing thing to do for people, and that's what I chose.
"Orthodontics is an amazing profession. It is possibly the best of the 10 areas of dentistry. I'm biased, but I absolutely adore what I do. I feel like I change people's lives on a daily basis. I get to interact with people of all ages, but especially young people, which is invigorating and rejuvenating. And I get to problem solve and use my mind. That is just a beautiful way to spend each day."
Sonia Palleck was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She went to school at Western in London, Ontario and graduated from Dentistry in '93 and Orthodontics in '99. She pioneered the use of digital orthodontics in practice and has lectured all over the world to share her knowledge with others.
Sonia has written the "Leave the Little Light On" book series, designing and painting all the book covers, and editing and self-publishing her contribution to the world. Through these books she is a special advocate for love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.7 | Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:26.6 | Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Sonia Pollock, and our topic, A Day in the Life, what's it really like to be an orthodontist? |
| 0:35.6 | Welcome, Sonia. How are you? I'm great, Don. Thanks so much for having |
| 0:40.4 | me. It is so great to connect with you again. Sonia, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 0:46.5 | I certainly am. All righty. Well, you've got an amazing story, and we're going to share it with our |
| 0:50.8 | audience. Sonia was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:56.5 | She went to school at Western University in London, Ontario, and graduated from dentistry in 93 |
| 1:02.8 | in orthodontics in 99. She pioneered the use of digital orthodontics and practice, and has lectured |
| 1:09.4 | all of the world to share her knowledge with others. |
| 1:12.6 | She's also written, The Leave the Little Light on series, designing and painting all the book |
| 1:17.8 | covers, editing and self-publishing or contribution to the world. She's an advocate for love. |
| 1:23.3 | Well, I love that you're an advocate for love, so we're going to dive into all the details. |
| 1:34.4 | Take just a minute or so and tell our listeners around the world what you're involved in right now that has you excited, motivated, and then we'll get into your backstory. |
| 1:43.1 | Right now, what I'm most excited about is the launch of my first book, leave the little light on, Book 1, Windsor. |
| 1:47.2 | I wrote four books starting March 1st, 2020, |
| 1:55.0 | and just trying to balance practice and writing, editing, and self-publishing and getting that book out. |
| 2:01.3 | That's what I'm most excited about right now. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I can imagine. We'll certainly share all that information with listeners. Sonia, everyone's life is about turning point or passages from the day we're born |
| 2:06.8 | until we leave this plane of existence. So take us into the backstory, your backstory, Sonia Palak, |
| 2:11.7 | where it all began, family of origin, and tell us about the people and choices and changes that have |
| 2:16.4 | gotten to where you were today. |
| 2:18.3 | I was born in 1968, two lovely people who were a second-generation Canadian. |
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