📥 Free Resource: https://mydentalplaybook.com/episode/why-some-dentists-earn-200k-others-750k/
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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Income gaps in the dentistry are not about talent. They are about intention, leadership, and financial clarity.
In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird break down the real differences between practices that stay stuck and those that scale income, freedom, and optionality.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 Why most dentists do not know their true overhead
📌 How culture and standards directly impact take-home pay
📌 The revenue vs expense decisions that shape your future

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

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→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://mydentalplaybook.com/episode/dental-tech-stack-for-130-new-patients
🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://bit.ly/48RHMt2
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/my-dental-playbook
🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
More software does not mean more clarity. In fact, it usually creates hesitation and inaction.
In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin walks through the exact tools he uses and explains why simplicity wins when it comes to tracking performance, improving case acceptance, and reducing insurance friction.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 Which platforms track what actually matters
📌 Why “North Star” metrics beat deep dashboards
📌 How financing and analytics work together to unlock growth

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://mydentalplaybook.com/episode/build-a-20k-dental-op/
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
🚀Dental Equipment Company: https://www.dhpdental.com/
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Dentists think growth means more space, more equipment, and more debt. In reality, the wrong expansion decisions slow patient flow, create stress, and crush margins.
In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird break down how to expand intentionally, avoid common equipment traps, and protect profitability while growing capacity.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 Why buying “top-tier” equipment too early hurts growth
📌 How to prioritize flow, uptime, and flexibility when adding ops
📌 The expansion decisions that actually create leverage, not chaos

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/my-dental-playbook
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
If you plan to hire associates, expand locations, or go out of network, your practice name matters more than you think. This episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird give you simple frameworks for deciding between SEO strength and brand strength, plus how to think about geography (urban vs rural) and long-term reputation risk.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 Your practice name is a strategy decision (branding, SEO, market positioning, future growth).
📌 Avoid naming the practice after yourself if you plan to hire associates, it creates friction when patients only want “the name on the door.”
📌 There are 3 proven scaling models for naming and branding (Aspen single-brand, Heartland multi-brand, Pacific hybrid).

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://mydentalplaybook.com/episode/why-your-bonus-system-is-failing/
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/my-dental-playbook
🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird pull back the curtain on the bonus systems inside top-performing dental practices. Most offices build bonus plans that accidentally reward the wrong behavior. In this conversation, you’ll learn how to create a system that is fair, motivating, measurable, and easy to run month after month.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 How to build a bonus system that removes entitlement and creates ownership.
📌 Why accountability dies without clear expectations and simple scoreboards.
📌 How to align bonuses with KPIs that actually drive practice growth.

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://mydentalplaybook.com/episode/3-steps-to-attract-and-retain-top-dental-team/
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/my-dental-playbook
🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
Dental practices don’t have a hiring problem, they have a positioning problem. In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin breaks down the exact frameworks he uses to attract and retain true A-players. If you’ve ever felt like you’re drowning in turnover, culture issues, or underperforming team members, this episode gives you the roadmap to fix it. Gary and Dr. Blake walk through the Pain–Process–Paradise model, the interview structure that filters out B-players, and the leadership habits that keep your best people long-term.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 The real reason your job ads don’t attract high performers
📌 How to interview in a way that reveals who’s an A-player within minutes
📌 The retention levers that stop turnover and create a leadership-driven culture

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/my-dental-playbook
Your associate’s case acceptance is probably lower than you think, and it’s costing you growth. In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin breaks down the exact four-pillar framework he uses to move associates from low acceptance to confident closers. Gary Bird pushes deeper into the mindset, metrics, systems, and phrasing that make treatment presentations work across personalities.
Whether your associate is missing the mark, avoiding financial conversations, or simply unsure how to guide a patient emotionally, this framework gives you everything you need to build confidence and consistency.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 Why owner doctors always close more treatment and how to close that gap
📌 The “Talk” you must have with your associate and how to deliver it without causing tension
📌 The four pillars that make case acceptance predictable for any doctor who follows them

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://mydentalplaybook.com/episode/why-dentists-are-trapped-in-a-24-7-job/
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/my-dental-playbook
🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
If you can’t leave your dental practice for 30 days, you don’t own a business. You own a job. In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird break down the leadership skills, systems, and accountability structures that let a practice grow without the doctor being tied to every decision.
Whether you’re overwhelmed, burnt out, or trying to scale, this conversation gives you the exact roadmap Dr. Blake used to turn a dentist-dependent practice into a true business that functions even when he’s out of the office.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌 Why accountability is the foundation of real leadership
📌 How to replace yourself and delegate without losing control
📌 The systems required so your practice keeps running when you're not there

🎧 Listen on:
Apple: https://bit.ly/4mvFu8g
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Ugtnjc

🎯Support the Channel:
→ Follow + hit the bell 🔔
→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook