The Orthopreneurs Podcast with Dr. Glenn Krieger

If you ask many orthodontists, HR is one of the more challenging aspects of running a practice. The pandemic-induced staff shortages didn't help matters either. As a matter of fact, the shortage of good team members poses a true existential crisis to the survival of orthodontics long term, or at least the way we know it. Finding and retaining good team members is even more important, as well...

Today, I want us to talk about the most important thing you can protect. And that is your health. Good health is essential for living a happy and productive life, as it allows us to make better decisions, be more productive, and have improved relationships. Our health also impacts our longevity, and taking care of our physical and mental health can help us stay healthy and active for years to come...

Smile Doctors is the largest and fastest-growing ortho-only dental support organization (OSO). Their growth has been remarkable, and they have an even more interesting origin story. In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Scott Law, one of the founding doctors of Smile Doctors OSO, to tell us their stories and some of the lessons they have picked along the journey. He explains how the idea started way...

There's something going on in Orthodontics today that wasn't going on 10 or 20 years ago. Let's be honest…. Running a practice is much tougher today. Finding good team members is a challenge, and leading culturally can be difficult because millennials and Gen Z are different from older generations. These are just some of the problems we are facing that inevitably will lead to stress...

In this episode, we have a two-time returning champion, Dr. Jonathan Nicozisis. He has practiced orthodontics for over 23 years in Princeton, New Jersey, as his primary location and a second location in West Windsor, New Jersey.  In addition to his private practice, he is an educator and lecturer who teaches internationally about new technologies and improvements of Invisalign. He is a member of t...

All too often, we have this great idea that's going to change our lives or our practice, but we sit on it a little longer than we should. So right now, I want you to pick one thing that's really important to you. I want you to be in a hurry to understand it and get the steps ready to implement it. Why right now? Because you never know what tomorrow brings, and once you do it, you'll...

In the third and final highlight episode of the best bits from 2022, I want to take a moment and remind you what OrthoPreneur is all about. It's about being in a community that brings peers together to become the best clinicians and best business owners they can be. As an orthodontist, you are smart and have accomplished a lot to get to where you are. But despite everything, dental schools an...

Today, I have an easy, short, and simple message for you. It's about the secret to a successful business in times of stress and instability. The world economy is in a precarious place right now, with talk of a looming recession. Nobody knows exactly how things will unfold, but we are in for some tough times ahead. But the secret to a successful business in times of instability lies in working...

In a year where we had many great guests on the podcast who graciously shared their knowledge on the best ways, we can grow our practices and lower stress, choosing the best bits was not an easy task. In part 2 of this 3-part series, we continue with some of the best from the best. The excerpts from these conversations offer a glimpse into the minds of some of the most innovative people in Ortho a...

Today I want to recount one of the words of my favorite mentors, one I wish I had met. His name is Jim Rohn, and most of you probably have heard of him. He is one of the greatest motivational speakers of all time. During one of his profound talks back in 1981, he recognized that things happen at known intervals in life, just like in nature. As we know, with the four seasons, fall is followed by wi...

I recently came across a social media incident that really bothered me. The long and short of it was that someone organizing an event had received a nasty email full of colorful language from one of the would-be attendees. They proceeded to take a screenshot of the email without the full context and posted it on their social media. They included the person's email, place of work, and other su...

2022 was a great year for the Orthopreneur Podcast, with many amazing guests who enriched us with their insights and valuable advice on different aspects of our profession as well as general life advice. I hope you did enjoy all the episodes and received some actionable tips that helped you take your practice to the next level. It has been a great joy for me to do this. In this special three-part...

Do you know how much your practice is worth right now? No matter where you are in your practice life, it is important to get a valuation. You might be thinking you are worth $5 million, yet you might be worth 10, or you might be thinking you are worth $15M, but you are worth just $5M. You never know until you talk to an OSO or a DSO and get a proper valuation. The best thing is that it doesn'...

Ordinarily, taxes are not something that gets people very excited; more like orthodontics. 😊 It is something that we have to do. In this episode, I am joined by Alphonso Anderson of TaxRx group to talk about some interesting tax strategies that you’ve probably never heard about or have heard bad information about. One of these strategies is the R&D tax credits in orthodontics. If you are a me...

I've come to realize that most people are lazy. I recently did an episode on a presentation I did at the WOCON conference in San Diego about 4 ways to grow your practice and reduce stress. One of the things I shared was a new patient intake sheet which I developed after learning about the psychology of buying from many teachers and my own 30+ years of experience. Now, many doctors have asked...

When it comes to preventing disease and longevity enhancement, modern medicine available to the general population is somewhat behind the many tools and technologies available today. There's this burgeoning world of longevity health and biohacking that is safe and effective but can't be administered to the entire population now, maybe down the road. But for those who can access it, it ca...

We all have those moments where we feel like we don't want to do something we know we should be doing. Mostly happens on things we don't like, but we must do them nonetheless because they are important. Maybe it's our financial planning, perhaps it's our projections for our practices, maybe it's hiring somebody, maybe it's going on social media and growing our practic...

There seems to be something endemic to our profession right now…. And it's serious. If you speak to enough orthodontists, the overwhelming majority are not joyful in their day-to-day work. The stresses of post-covid forcing many of us to work shorthanded, a looming recession, rapid changes to our world, and the negative effect of social media on our mental health are some of the reasons that...

As we approach the start of the next year, I want to share something that helps me keep track of my financial goals during the course of the year. This can apply to your personal and, more importantly, your professional life. Start by having a general plan of what you want to accomplish by coming up with some sort of projection of your revenue and costs. This exercise will help bring some predicta...

There are those people you meet who end up having a very good connection, and a great friendship develops. Today on the show, I have one of these people. Gustavo Sanchez was a patient at the clinic who ended up becoming a very good friend. As you'll hear his story, he is an incredibly positive person who lights up any room he walks into. His attitude and positivity eventually earned him a pla...

Now more than ever, we need simpler, more profitable, predictable, and less stressful practices. That has been my whole mission and that of OrthoPreneurs. Today's special episode is a presentation I did on the 4 ways to grow your practice and reduce your stress. More starts Better clinical images Positive team culture Fewer errors To have more starts, we need to be deliberate in the way we se...

Most of you must have heard about private equity in our industry with the OSO/DSO model. But today, you'll get to hear about venture capital in dentistry and what it's all about. I am joined by Dr. Jeremy Krell, the co-founder and managing partner at Revere Partners. He is a general dentist by clinical training with multiple practices in New Jersey, where he is a silent partner but no lo...

Office culture is a kind of a buzzword in our industry right now. Everybody is talking about it, with good reason. At the 2022 OrthoPreneurs summit in Austin, many speakers spoke about how important it was. But how do you go about creating the culture you want in your office? It starts with you as the doctor and flows downwards to other team members. You cannot abdicate this responsibility to anot...

As most of you probably know, before I went back to school to become an orthodontist, I practiced as a dentist for many years. The truth is that I was exposed to dentistry when I was just 4 years old in my dad's office – the original Dr. Krieger. My father, Dr. Allan Krieger, is today's guest. He has been an inspiration to me my entire life. He has guided me in many ways, allowing me to...

What you go through, you grow through. I'm not a fan of rhymes, alliteration, or silly little sayings, but I heard this quote a while ago, and it really resonated with me. I started thinking about a number of things that have happened to me, my partner, and our practice in the last year or two. (We’re all aware that life has changed dramatically in many aspects - from employment, technology,...