The Entrepreneurial Dentist: Balancing Wealth, Risk, and Fulfillment
Shared Practices | Your Dental Roadmap through Practice Ownership
Dr. George Hariri | Shared Practices Network
4.9 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Shared Practices Podcast, Dr. Richard Low and Dr. Alex Sharp tackle an important question: Once you’ve built a thriving practice and reached financial success, what’s next?
Most dentists focus on growing their practice and increasing income, but after hitting a financial milestone, the next steps become less clear. Richard and Alex explore the challenges, mindset shifts, and opportunities for investing beyond the dental practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to shared practices. |
| 0:05.6 | I have back with me today. |
| 0:07.7 | This is a part two. |
| 0:08.5 | So if you missed part one and you are a dentist who still is worried about finances |
| 0:15.1 | and has not kind of grown a practice or grown an opportunity where you're really taking home good pay. You've got a way to |
| 0:24.2 | grow net worth through partnerships or other vehicles. Go back and listen to episode one of this series. |
| 0:30.8 | Episode two, I have with me the CEO and president of shared practices, Dr. Alex Sharp, how's it going, man? |
| 0:38.6 | Man, Richard, I am great. I'm excited for this episode because I feel like we spend a lot of |
| 0:43.6 | our time focusing as we should on taking people from zero to one. Yeah. And this is an episode |
| 0:49.0 | where we're going to help people to go from one to 10, where we're going to help people to |
| 0:53.1 | go to that next level. |
| 0:55.0 | And this is interesting because I had a great conversation with Suzanne the other day. |
| 0:59.0 | And some of the feedback that she's received over the years centers around how shared practices. |
| 1:05.0 | We have a sweet spot. |
| 1:06.0 | We have a very tried and true way of helping people to take a practice and to double it, to improve it, |
| 1:13.4 | to grow it, to make that practice into what it could conceivably become. But then there's |
| 1:19.6 | always that question of what's next. And for us today, we're going to talk about that with |
| 1:24.4 | regards to finances of understanding, I built my engine, I built my practice, |
| 1:30.2 | things are humming, knock on wood, relatively speaking. What is that next big, hairy, audacious |
| 1:35.4 | goal in terms of investing or with regards to financial achievements? Because that's the fun |
| 1:42.4 | stuff. That's what we put all the years in |
| 1:44.1 | undergrad dental school developing the communications acumen the clinical acumen to build that |
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