Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - How To Get Your Team to Care About Your Vision 25:51 - Listener Question: What Dry Eye Testing Do We Use 31:23 - Closing Thought: You Are the Culture I’m starting to see glimpses of the practice I want to build, and that possibility…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:51 - How Do You Measure a Day That Produces No Revenue 26:50 - Closing Thought: What is Success? My practice slowed down just as we had three doctor schedules to fill, and for the first time my instinct wasn’t to add more patients to my…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Three Patient Complaints That Almost Derailed My CEO Goals 16:24 - Closing Thought: It's All About Perspective I’ve been working on developing leaders and getting out of the middle of everything, then three patient complaints made me want to walk in and take control…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 01:16 - Why The Gaps You Leave Will Get Filled With Someone Else’s Story 22:40 - Closing Thought: 3 Things Leaders Must Provide I thought cross-training made complete sense until my staff pushed back, and I realized they couldn’t see the same vulnerabilities I could. In…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - What Your Practice Problems Are Trying to Teach You 21:16 - Closing Thought: Do More of Fewer Things I’ve sat in rooms with incredibly successful practice owners, listened to their frustrations, and wondered how in the world they could could say they're struggling when…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - Why Your Future Practice Doesn’t Need You to Know Everything 24:04 - Closing Thought: My Competitive Advantage I don’t know how to run the bigger optometry business I want to build today, and being around successful owners at Eyeare B.O.S.S. Live helped me get…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 01:03 - What Successful Owner s Mean By “Be Careful What You Wish For” 20:16 - Closing Thought: The Early Bird & The Second Mouse I love talking with owners who have built the kind of optometry practices I can imagine building, but lately a few…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - How to Grow an Optometry Practice Without Owning Every Problem 21:00 - Closing Thought: Fall in love with some activity and do it! I used to think that growing my optometry practice would eventually make some of the daily problems go away, but the…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 1:14 - The Struggle Your Team Actually Needs 17:19 - Closing Thought: Building a Life You Don't Want to Escape It's easy to get stuck thinking about change instead of actually making it. And one thing I keep coming back to is that clarity comes from…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - What If Your Greatest Impact Isn’t in the Exam Room? 23:43 - Closing Thought: 100 Rejections Away I’ve talked a lot about what it means to take your practice to the next level, and I’m realizing that the bigger vision isn’t actually about me…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - The 90-Day Plan That Changed How I Run My Optometry Practice 25:37 - Closing Thought: Lazy People vs. Winners I’ve always struggled with the temptation to change things too quickly—come up with a new idea, get some resistance, and then move on to the…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - What If Keeping Your Options Open Is Actually Hurting You? 21:08 - Closing Thought: One Decision It can be very easy to keep every door open as a practice owner—but sometimes having too many options actually keeps you from moving forward. In this episode,…
Timecode: 00:00 - Intro 00:51 - The CEO Mindset Isn't What You Think It Is 25:42 - Closing Thought: Making Intentional Decisions for the Future You Want In this episode, I’m talking about the difference between ambition and leadership, why being busy or growth-focused doesn’t automatically make you a better…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - The Secret to Getting Your Optometry Team Excited About Growth 22:05 - Closing Thought: The real prize of achieving a goal I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really means to have a vision for your practice—and I’ve realized that keeping that vision…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:41 - Why Confidence Comes After Action, Not Before 27:22 - Closing Thought: Resiliency The longer I own a practice, the more I realize that growth has less to do with finding better strategies and more to do with becoming a better leader. In this episode,…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Why Your Optometry Practice Feels Stuck (And How to Move Forward) 20:01 - Closing Thought: Old Habits vs. New Standards One of the hardest lessons I’m learning as a practice owner is that the decisions that got me here aren’t always the ones that…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - Belief Before Ability: The Leadership Secret Every Optometry Practice Owner Needs 20:20 - Closing Thought: Keep the Friction One of the biggest breakthroughs I’ve had as a practice owner is realizing that people don’t become exceptional because of their skills—they become exceptional because they…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - How to Create Teams That Believe in the Mission 14:42 - Closing Thought: Privilege One of the biggest leadership lessons I’ve learned is that having a vision isn’t enough—your team has to believe it too. In this episode, I’m sharing what I took away…
Timecodes: 00:49 - The Identity Crisis Every Growing Practice Owner Faces 19:48 - Closing Thought: Risk Not, Have Not As my practice continues to grow, I’ve realized the hardest part isn’t adding another doctor—it’s letting go of the identity that got me here in the first place. In this episode,…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 01:11 - The CEO's Greatest ROI: Their Thoughts 24:59 - Closing Thought: The story of two monks One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a practice owner is realizing that my value isn’t measured by how many patients I see—it’s measured by the quality of…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - What the Best Mentors Taught Me About Leadership and Life 21:27 - Closing Thought: What we're praised for in public, we pay for in private Training a new associate has reminded me just how much of who I am today came from the mentors,…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - The First Thing I Teach A New Associate (And It’s Not Clinical) 15:21 - Closing Thought: What Only Time Can Teach When I’m training a new associate, I’m not starting with dry eye, myopia, or advanced disease management—I’m starting with communication, connection, and the…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - Excellence vs Success: The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything 21:30 - Closing Thought: Preparing for a Future As practice owners, it’s easy to get obsessed with revenue goals, new technology, and the next big opportunity—but I’ve learned that real growth comes from mastering the…
Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - The “Monster” Mindset: Raising Your Standards in Private Practice 22:29 - Closing Thought: Be Consistent I’ve realized one of the fastest ways to level up your optometry practice is to put yourself in rooms where you’re no longer the best in the room. In…