Welcome to shared practices. This is the conversations that occur about practice ownership

that you really can't find anywhere else because you get the perspective of people who've done

this in the trenches. We've seen it over and over and over with our coaching clients,

with our own practices, and that kind of experience

to have a high-level conversation about what growing practices look like, how to pull all

these levers and navigate really what's tricky to do. You just can't find that anywhere else.

So, George, I'm so excited to have this conversation today.

Yeah, me too.

And I think that, you know, one of my favorite parts about Ask George is we essentially take

different things that we've talked about on the shared practices podcast and a term

that I like to use is double click on them.

And so, you know, this episode today is a double click on a couple of things. So I recently did

a practice underwater with Greg Oreo. So it was my first practice underwater in like maybe

four years, something like that. And I had this, it was just a great guy, not his real name,

but I call him Greg Oreo. And the editors, you know, they spelled it the traditional way,

but I wanted it to be Oreo like the cookie. But anyway, so, um, Greg hyphen Oreo. Yeah, Greg hyphen Oreo. So,

nonetheless, I think that from my perspective, you know, there were some things that we talked about

in that episode around the operational components of going from a solo practice to a group practice and the financial

components of that. And in Gregorio's case, he had an associate. So it was himself, an associate.

And then there was a conversation about going from seven operatories to like 12 and, you know,

expanding into that mega group. And I think that there's just a really needed

conversation around some of the operational levers that need to be pulled in that expansion

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