Hey, everybody, welcome to the Fizzle Show. I'm your host, Corbett Barr, and this is our podcast

about earning a living independently, doing something you love. Today's guest is someone who has

called himself a Fizzle-born entrepreneur. And we hadn't caught up in a while, but Richard Lowe

reached out to me recently, and it had been several years, and magic has happened in those

several years, I would say. And we're going to get to hear all about Richard's story today.

He is the founder of the Shared Practices

podcast. Dr. Richard Lowe is a captain in the Army and an Army dentist based in Indianapolis.

Richard, thank you so much for being on the show today.

Thank you for having me on. This is an honor and I have been a dedicated listener to the Fizzle

show for a long, long time now. So it's kind of crazy to be here on the flip side.

I was trying to think back to when we last spoke before this recent spate of conversations,

but it had been at least three or four years. and I remember talking to you regularly every week

or so and there was this like major turning point in your life and then suddenly I didn't

hear from you and it's totally my bad for not following up with you but you know sometimes

these things happen and eventually you're like, I wonder what happened.

But then you reached out again and everything's actually been going really well.

Before we like jump into all that and the big turning point and all that stuff, tell us about the shared practices podcast and about the life that you live as an Army dentist.

Sure. No. So, and I'll take maybe just one baby step back from

that. I graduated from dental school in 2015 from Midwestern University in Arizona. And I did so

through the Army scholarship. The Army paid for dental school, which is huge because dental school

these days keeps creeping up,

and you can get federal loans for it. So the federal government keeps lending, and so schools can

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