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Provide: The Path to Owning It
The Path to Owning It goes beyond surface-level success stories to tell the real, often messy journey of building something from nothing. Join us as we follow one entrepreneur’s path at a time — from bold ideas to breakdowns, pivots, and hard-earned wins. Told entirely in their own words, these stories reveal more than just what these entrepreneurs have built — they uncover who they became along the way. This isn’t another business podcast. It’s about the lived experience of entrepreneurship…
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- Provide: The Path to Owning It
74. Scaling The Goddard School of Doby’s Bridge, with Dipen Patel
Many people spend years building a corporate career only to wonder whether it was the right path all along. Our guest spent 16 years doing the same thing — and…
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73. Starting Momentum Growth Partners: The art of reinvention, with Patrick Hadley
Starting a business might be the biggest leap you ever take. But it also doesn't have to be the last. For many entrepreneurs, owning a business is not the…
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72. Starting Owl & Key, with Krista and Phil Franks (part two)
Building a business with your spouse sounds romantic in theory. In practice, it requires something harder: self-awareness, shared agreements, and the…
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71. Starting Owl & Key, with Krista and Phil Franks (part one)
For some entrepreneurs, the business doesn't start with a pitch deck or a market opportunity. It starts with a question they’re brave enough to answer…
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70. Acquiring MP Copiers with Sean McIlroy
For some entrepreneurs, the idea of ownership doesn't come from a lifelong dream. It comes from a conversation, a transition, and a willingness to bet on…
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69. Building and scaling Healthy Pet Veterinary Clinic with Dr. Kate McGowan, DVM
For some entrepreneurs, building a business isn't just about what they're creating — it's about who they're becoming in the process. In this episode, we sit…
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68. Starting REATA Commercial Realty with Bob and Jan Gibbons
For some entrepreneurs, starting a business isn’t just a leap of faith — it’s a leap taken together. In this episode, we sit down with husband and wife Bob and…
Provide: The Path to Owning It67. Building Podcamp Media with Dusty Weis
For some entrepreneurs, starting a business isn't a lifelong dream. It’s a moment of clarity, a calculated leap, and a willingness to build before they feel…
Provide: The Path to Owning It66. Buying your way in: The rise of entrepreneurship through acquisition, with Matthias Smith
For some entrepreneurs, the time and energy it takes to start a business from scratch is a welcome challenge. And for others, it makes more sense to buy their…
Provide: The Path to Owning It65. You built it. Now what? Planning when there’s no successor, with Alex Vantarakis
"It's my life." "It's my identity." "It's my baby." Many entrepreneurs think of their businesses in one or more of these ways. But when it’s time to build an…
Provide: The Path to Owning It64. Why an SBA loan might be right for you and your small business, with Brett Howden
If you’re a business owner, there’s one acronym you need to know: SBA. The Small Business Administration is your gateway to funding, growth, and opportunity…
Provide: The Path to Owning It63. What happens next when your best employee leaves unexpectedly, with Paul Edwards
As a small business owner, you often experience exciting growth and success — and when your top employee decides to move on, it’s an opportunity to adapt and…
Provide: The Path to Owning It62. How to build resilient PR strategies for crisis situations, with Lauren Parker
The time to prepare for a crisis is before it strikes. Having a plan to protect both your reputation and your business is important. So why is it that a…
Provide: The Path to Owning It61. How to plan for the unexpected in your small business, with Matt Martin
For many small business founders, their business is their life's work — and their livelihood. If the unexpected were to happen like a cyber attack or natural…
Provide: The Path to Owning It60. How to craft customer-centric websites that convert, with Lacey Picazo and Shane Richardson
A well-designed website needs to do more than just look good. It needs to be intuitive. It needs to be useful. It needs to anticipate your customers' needs…
Provide: The Path to Owning It59. Merchant services you need to run your business, with Cris Agenter
Paying for goods and services in today’s modern world is as easy as swiping your credit card, tapping your phone, or even waving your smart watch. It looks so…
Provide: The Path to Owning It58. Experiential Design and its powerful impact on small businesses, with Alicia Orlando
The old saying is “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” So when the time…
Provide: The Path to Owning It57. Expert insights into Generation Z and how to earn their business, with Dr. Corey Seemiller
They'd rather put money in savings than see a concert. They expect brands to share their worldviews. They will forgive mistakes, but NOT inauthenticity. These…
Provide: The Path to Owning It56. Transform your business: how to implement effective change management, with Dr. Scott Leune, DDS
Whether it's the launch of a second location or a new budgeting system, implementing change in any small business can feel daunting. Institutional inertia is…
Provide: The Path to Owning It55. Cybersecurity: unlocking tips to keep your business safe, with Jim Bennett
We've all heard the news stories about massive cybersecurity breaches costing big companies millions of dollars. However, the majority of cybersecurity attacks…
Provide: The Path to Owning It54. How to write a winning business plan, with Sean Simon
Most entrepreneurs begin their ownership journey with a business plan. The effectiveness and specificity of that plan can vary greatly, frequently reflecting a…
Provide: The Path to Owning It53. How to master problem-solving in your business, with Dr. Benjamin Taylor, DMD
Practicing dentistry can be a challenging pursuit under any circumstances. Practicing dentistry for the U.S. Army in Iraq, however, is another level of…
Provide: The Path to Owning It52. Navigating the AI revolution: the impact AI tools can have on small businesses, with Joseph Ours
By now, we've all seen videos about artificial intelligence (AI) writing poems, musing about philosophy, or even hosting podcasts. This made us wonder, what…
Provide: The Path to Owning It51. Introducing the experts who make up the Provide Advisory Network
Finding a mentor to offer expert advice is key to successfully establishing a successful healthcare practice, but it can be a challenging and daunting step…
Provide: The Path to Owning It50. What your personality type says about the business owner you’ll be, with Dr. Gerilyn Alfe, DMD, MBA
We've all met them: The leader who throws out a thousand ideas a minute The big personality who can't be trusted to follow up on anything The boss who wants to…
Provide: The Path to Owning It49. How to build a business that spans generations, with Dr. Joseph Legg II, DMD
In a profession as deeply personal as small business ownership, it's no wonder that so many small businesses are passed from parent to child. However, we all…
Provide: The Path to Owning It48. Accessibility: What you need to know when designing your practice, with Dustin Walker and Jim Nickle
Adopted in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. The ADA also creates the…
Provide: The Path to Owning It47. How to foster an inclusive culture in your business, with Kala Gibson
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are huge topics at today's largest companies. But, what about at your practice, especially when you're a small business…
Provide: The Path to Owning It46. Leave your community better than you found it, with Dr. Chriska Mustafa, DDS, and Dr. Kevin M. Kenny, DDS
Aspiring and established business owners often share a common goal to make a difference in their community beyond their place of business. Many successful…
Provide: The Path to Owning It45. Inside mental health in the healthcare industry and how to protect it, with Laura Magnuson M.A., M.S., LAMFT
In a field where helping others is one’s daily routine, the irony is that so many healthcare providers don't seek help themselves when they need it. May is…
Provide: The Path to Owning It44. Established veterinarians share advice for aspiring and new hospital owners, with Dr. Dan Markwalder, DVM, and Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM
Thirty years ago, if you were starting or acquiring your first animal hospital, it was common to introduce yourself to competing owners to seek their advice…
Provide: The Path to Owning It43. Associate buy-ins: a guide for animal hospital owners and veterinary associates, with Ed Guiducci
For hospital owners, associate buy-ins can be an important tool for retaining top talent and planning for retirement. For veterinary associates, it can be the…
Provide: The Path to Owning It42. The design-build process explained, with Ron Evans and Joe Golden
Deciding to build your own healthcare facility is a big decision. Realistically, it's just the start of a long, nuanced journey. Working with a partner who…
Provide: The Path to Owning It41. Size matters: getting the size of your healthcare practice right from the start, with Stephen Strecker
If you go too big, you're locking yourself into an expensive lease that could limit your cash flow. If you go too small, you could stunt your growth and trap…
Provide: The Path to Owning It40. Human resources: the important function your practice may be missing, with Ali Oromchian, JD, LL.M
If a practice owner's team is their most important resource, then managing that team effectively should be a top priority. Given the complexity of national…
Provide: The Path to Owning It39. What it means to be a woman in today’s veterinary industry, with Sarah Baker, DVM
With women now constituting more than 80% of veterinary industry professionals, the industry is radically different from last generation's status quo. While…
Provide: The Path to Owning It38. Taking the unknown out of hiring a healthcare attorney, with Matt LaMaster
Let's be honest. It’s not every day that you have to hire an attorney. It can be an intimidating process filled with new jargon, details, and processes to…
Provide: The Path to Owning It37. Harnessing the power of data to take your practice to new heights, with Shayne Harris and Nate Woudstra
Marketing is one of those things that's easy to take for granted; that is, until you experience great marketing, and then it's hard to live without it. But, in…
Provide: The Path to Owning It36. Managing your dental supply inventory like a pro, with Jordyn Levitas
Nothing moves through a dental office faster than supplies. Managing inventory is a huge job with major impacts on the bottom line. If something runs out —…
Provide: The Path to Owning It35. Ways to build an elite team and launch a successful startup, with Maritza Duran
"Only fools rush in." It's not just a wise dictum about falling in love. It's also great advice for startup dental practice owners about hiring the right…
Provide: The Path to Owning It34. Signs of embezzlement in your dental practice and how to avoid it, with David Harris
David Harris has one of the most interesting jobs in dentistry. When office managers, staff members, or business partners steal from dental practices, it's his…
Provide: The Path to Owning It33. Writing offers that appeal to sellers in a competitive market, with Nick Elliston
Be honest. Are you sick of hearing about the "seller's market"? In current market conditions, it doesn't seem likely that will change any time soon. If you're…
Provide: The Path to Owning It32. The three financial stages in a dentists’ life and how to “own” them, with Tim McNeely
From fresh-out-of-dental-school to mid-career-earner to aspiring-retiree, each phase of a dentists' career is unique. Each phase requires a different approach…
Provide: The Path to Owning It31. Decoding dental contracts: What to look for before you say “yes” to an associateship, with Hillary Harms Becchetti, JD
As a new dental associate, you can be forgiven if employment contracts make your head spin. They can be long, dense, and packed with terms that non-lawyers…
Provide: The Path to Owning It30. Ready to expand? How to grow your veterinary hospital into multiple locations, with Mike Robinson, VMD
Building relationships with patients can be one of the most rewarding parts of owning a healthcare practice. (Or, for veterinarians, also building…
Provide: The Path to Owning It29. Define your practice roadmap and reach the destination you envision, with Dr. Richard Low
Growing a healthcare practice is a journey. If you want to be successful, it helps to start with a destination in mind. Thankfully, other providers have been…
Provide: The Path to Owning It28. Practice, profits, and purpose: The 3 Ps of practice ownership, with Stephen Trutter
When starting a healthcare practice, it's easy to get caught up in the details – the who, what, where, and when of opening your practice, so to speak.. But…
Provide: The Path to Owning It27. Get top dollar for your practice when it's time to sell, with Thad Miller
For many practice owners, their business is their life's work – a true personal and professional investment. So when the time comes to sell, it's crucial for…
Provide: The Path to Owning It26. A buyer’s and seller’s guide to navigating practice transition day, with Dr. Lee Maddox
Buying or selling a healthcare practice is usually one of the biggest financial decisions of a doctor’s life. It can be accompanied by stress, uncertainty, and…
Provide: The Path to Owning It25. Is a remote workforce the answer to your staffing woes? With Christine Sison
Finding, recruiting, and retaining talented staff is one of the hottest topics in the healthcare industry right now (and seemingly everywhere else for that…
Provide: The Path to Owning It24. What to know before you own a healthcare practice, with Michael Dinsio
The rise of corporate dentistry and the growth of Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) is top of mind for many aspiring practice owners. The prospect of…
Provide: The Path to Owning It23. How to negotiate your commercial real estate lease like a pro, with Joseph Rossi
When it comes to legally binding documents, there are no do-overs. What you sign is what you get – sometimes for the next 10, 15, or even 20 years! When it…
Provide: The Path to Owning It22: How to avoid paying too much for your first healthcare practice, with Tom Whalen
In 10 years, the field of dentistry is going to look very different than it does today. Baby boomers who have owned their practices for decades are starting to…
Provide: The Path to Owning It21. How to brand and promote your healthcare practice to reflect your vision, with Ali Patton
When you're launching a new healthcare practice, it's easy to get lost in the work – building a space, hiring employees, and starting to treat patients. But…
Provide: The Path to Owning It20. From vision to reality: what it takes to start your own (successful) orthodontic practice, with Jill Allen
Let's get one thing straight: Orthodontics is a highly-specialized field, with demands and nuances that are unlike any other medical practice. If you're…
Provide: The Path to Owning It19. How establishing relationships with your industry partners can help grow your animal hospital, with Jon Butz
Whether it's modernizing your office to increase productivity, training employees on new procedures and practices, or managing support and service for the…
Provide: The Path to Owning It18: Proven ways to increase your hygiene department’s profitability, with Ayla Narayan
If you had a magic wand and could change one thing about your dental practice –what would it be? That's the question that Ayla Narayan asks everyone that she…
Provide: The Path to Owning It17. What it takes to create and maintain a financially healthy veterinary hospital, with Jason Castner
Veterinarians know that their expertise is specialized to the patients they serve, resulting in better care for the companion animals they see and treat. So…
Provide: The Path to Owning It16. How new dentists can achieve personal and professional balance, with Amrita Patel, DDS
Starting out in the field of dentistry is the beginning of a long journey, full of exciting opportunities — and high-stakes challenges. And for dental students…
Provide: The Path to Owning It15. The Employee Retention Credit: what it means for you and your healthcare practice, with Justin Elanjian
Your dental practice has weathered the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but you may be leaving money on the table if you haven't fully explored the options…