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Send us Fan Mail What if you had a better year in business than you think? As 2026 comes to a close, it's easy to focus on the revenue goals you didn't reach, the unexpected expenses, or the plans that didn't work out. But those numbers don't always tell the whole story. In this encouraging episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman shares a different way to evaluate your...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays are coming. Is your business actually prepared, or have you already started mentally checking out? As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, many business owners begin postponing responsibilities, accepting reduced productivity, and assuming everything unfinished can wait until January. But the final weeks of the year can have a significant impact on your company's...

Send us Fan Mail Your business isn't always suffering because you made the wrong decision. Sometimes it's suffering because you refuse to make one at all. With the final weeks of 2026 approaching, Sarah Beth Herman is challenging business owners to stop carrying unresolved problems into another year. As the owner of seven companies, including a new business launched just eight weeks ago,...

Send us Fan Mail It must be nice to own a business.” What people usually mean is that it must be nice to own a successful business. And it is. But what they don't see are the decisions, responsibilities, and operational problems that come with keeping that business successful. In this episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman talks about something that happens quietly inside growing com...

Send us Fan Mail “We need another person.” Maybe you do. But before you add another salary to payroll, Sarah Beth Herman wants you to answer a different question: What exactly are you hiring them to do? In this episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth looks at something that happens quietly inside growing companies: work accumulates. Temporary responsibilities become permanent. Processes get dupli...

Send us Fan Mail ou crossed $1 million. Or $5 million. Or maybe you're having the biggest revenue year your company has ever had. Great. How much money did you actually make? In this episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman challenges one of the numbers entrepreneurs love talking about most: revenue. Revenue can be growing while payroll grows faster. Your biggest client can be one of y...

Send us Fan Mail We have roughly 100 days left in 2026. That is not the end of the year. That is still a lot of business. In this episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman kicks off the real work of Season 6 with a 90-day business reset built around five areas: revenue, expenses, people, operations, and leadership. This isn't another conversation about manifesting harder, joining anothe...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Beth Herman opens season six of No Silver Spoons by transitioning from season five’s self-focused leadership work to a new emphasis on what leaders are actually building, arguing that good leadership must produce results and that September is a better reset point than January because it offers evidence. She warns against funding old decisions, confusing revenue with success,...

Send us Fan Mail One day, you will lead someone for the last time—and there is a very good chance you won’t know it when it happens. There will be a final meeting. A final conversation. A final correction. A final ordinary Tuesday when someone works for you. And eventually, your name may come up in a room you aren't in. What will they say it was like to be led by you? In Episode 140 of No Sil...

Send us Fan Mail What if the recurring problem in your organization is not your employee, your culture, your process, or your systems? What if part of the problem is you? In Episode 139 of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman continues The Human Side of Leadership™ Summer Series with one of the most uncomfortable leadership conversations of the season: self-awareness, blind spots, accountability,...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 138 of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman talks about the uncomfortable line between supporting employees and rescuing them—including lessons she's learned from hiring family, former coworkers, and people she believed would perform differently for her. This episode explores mistakes versus patterns, psychological safety versus accountability, what happens to your...

Send us Fan Mail Your team is reading you before you ever say a word. They notice the rushed entrance, the change in your tone, the unusually short response, the tension you're carrying from the meeting before theirs. They may have no idea what happened, but when you're the leader, people naturally try to make sense of what they're experiencing. In Episode 137 of No Silver Spoons ,...

Send us Fan Mail In this No Silver Spoons episode from the “Human Side of Leadership” summer series, the host (a CEO at Dentistry Support) argues that good leadership doesn’t require being liked all the time, but it does require kindness, respect, clarity, and accountability. She distinguishes being liked from being trusted, and kindness from people-pleasing, warning that measuring leadership by o...

Send us Fan Mail Every leader has asked the question. "How do I become better?" But what if we've been asking the wrong question all along? In this episode of The Human Side of Leadership™ Summer Series , Sarah Beth Herman challenges one of the biggest myths in modern leadership: the belief that successful leaders all look, sound, and lead the same way. Drawing inspiration from Seth...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Human Side of Leadership™ Summer Series , a special ten-part series on No Silver Spoons where we go beyond business strategies and leadership clichés to explore what truly drives the way we think, lead, communicate, and make decisions. In this episode, The Stories We Tell Ourselves , Sarah Beth Herman explores one of the most overlooked forces shaping our leade...

Send us Fan Mail What if resignation isn't the beginning of the story? What if it's simply the moment you finally realize someone has already been leaving for months? In this episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman explores one of the most overlooked realities of leadership: people rarely disengage overnight. Whether it's an employee, a client, a patient, a friend, or even a...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Beth Herman continues her 10-part series, The Human Side of Leadership, with an episode subtitled “Why Smart People Stay Stuck,” exploring how being stuck can look productive or successful while real change is avoided. She argues smart people don’t stay stuck due to lack of information, but because the brain’s primary job is survival, constantly predicting risk based on past...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Beginning of a New Series What if the greatest leadership skill isn't having better answers? What if it's learning to better understand people? In this special episode of No Silver Spoons , Sarah Beth Herman, MBA, launches The Human Side of Leadership™ , a brand-new 10-part series exploring the psychology behind leadership, communication, decision-making,...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Beth Herman reflects on 130 episodes of No Silver Spoons and explains the podcast’s purpose: thinking together across dentistry, business, leadership, neuroscience, and entrepreneurship while encouraging listeners to question her rather than borrow certainty. Drawing on years of learning from books, coaches, clients, and experience building multiple companies, she argues the...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Beth Herman reflects on a dentist frustrated by unscheduled diagnosed treatment and argues the issue is often misnamed as “treatment acceptance” when it is really a decision-making problem rooted in uncertainty and perceived risk. Drawing on neuroscience and experience, she explains that patients can understand a diagnosis yet still hesitate because the brain treats uncertai...

Send us Fan Mail Host Sara Beth Herman argues that going out of network isn’t a strategy if a dental team doesn’t understand the revenue cycle and can’t consistently verify and explain benefits, collect patient portions, document limitations, track and appeal claims, and communicate clearly. She reframes insurance verification as revenue protection, patient communication, treatment acceptance, and...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Beth Herman hosts a podcast swap episode featuring her interview with Dr. Howard Farran focused on dental insurance, billing, and practice operations. Farran raises concerns about young dentists facing debt, DSOs, stagnant insurance fees, and staffing shortages; Herman argues dentistry has been overcomplicated and urges removing “noise” with simple standards: work every outs...

Send us Fan Mail Host Sarah Beth Herman explains that angry dental patients are usually the result of earlier breakdowns—especially assumptions and gaps in communication—rather than isolated incidents like a bill or negative review. She argues communication should be measured by patient understanding, not information delivered or signatures obtained, and notes dissatisfaction in healthcare is ofte...

Send us Fan Mail Host Sara Beth Herman of No Silver Spoons shares that she was named one of Phoenix Magazine’s 2026 Healthcare Heroes, explaining she paused to fully acknowledge the milestone and emphasizing that the recognition reflects operational impact in healthcare rather than transactional visibility. She discusses continuing to build amid uncertainty, including taking a major private risk w...

Send us Fan Mail Host Sarah Beth Herman challenges the popular phrase “not my circus, not my monkeys,” arguing that while boundaries matter, emotional disengagement is increasingly being confused with wisdom, quietly eroding workplace and relational culture through breakdowns in communication, trust, and shared responsibility. Drawing on her leadership experiences—being denied a hard-earned promot...