Dr. Yazdan

The Social Dentist - Dr. Yazdan

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The Social Dentist with Dr. Desiree Yazdan is an informative podcast focusing on the healthcare industry, social media and marrying the two to maximize your business. Dr. Yazdan is a cosmetic dentist based in Newport Beach, CA. She has over 130k followers on Instagram and over 80k followers on Facebook. Dr. Yazdan wants to help you gain a valuable social media following and increase your profitability. Sign up for Dr. Yazdan’s informative newsletter at https://dryazdan.lpages.co/grow-your-business-lead-page/Follow Dr. Yazdan on Instagram @dryazdan and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Dr...

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Dr. Yazdan

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Business

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dryazdan.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 248 - Selling Expensive Things 2.0 02.05.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan goes back to teaching the skill of selling, but from a different perspective versus the last episode she did on selling expensive things (go back and listen to episode 101 for that one). She wants you to check in with yourself about your mindset when it comes to money and your prices. She has the right questions to reveal what could be stan...

Episode 247 - The Three Biggest Mistakes Doctors Make on Social Media 25.04.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan gets back to talking about social media. She is here to help you get your best patients through Instagram. Dr. Yazdan keeps seeing doctors make the same mistakes on social media, so she’s addressing those problems in today’s episode. Listen to this valuable podcast to find out what those three huge mistakes are, and how to fix them. Dr. Yaz...

Episode 246 - Hiring 18.04.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is focusing on hiring. She starts off with the basics of just finding someone to hire. She has practical advice on how to handle what can seem like an impossible task. Dr. Yazdan even suggests things you can do to support a new hire so that they can be a valuable part of your team. Spoiler alert: Dr. Yazdan believes every practice owner sho...

Episode 245 - Leadership as a Female Doctor 11.04.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan has advice on leadership for her fellow female doctors. Leadership skills and style have a huge impact on everything in your office, from culture to communication to patient care. You need to hear Dr. Yazdan’s example from her own experience in her own practice of when her leadership style made all the difference, and actually turned what c...

Episode 244 - Emotions Holding You Back & How To Move Forward 04.04.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is addressing a little talked about subject when it comes to marketing your business and it could be the one thing holding you back - fear. She points out areas and times when it’s easy for fear to creep in and you don’t even realize. Dr. Yazdan makes it easy to understand the concepts she’s introducing and how they affect the way you do bu...

Episode 243 - Creating Demand 28.03.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is teaching the skill of creating demand in your healthcare practice. She starts by focusing on marketing, but not expensive, paid marketing - Dr. Yazdan is a proponent of using free marketing tools, like Instagram and social media. She shares other ideas that fall under marketing your business that you may not have thought of before. She e...

Episode 242 - An Exceptional Experience 21.03.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is focusing on delivering an exceptional patient experience in your practice. She’s using her own recent experience as an example of why and how the level of customer service can make all the difference when it comes to customer satisfaction and retention. Dr. Yazdan wants you to take what you can from her story, and think about your own me...

Episode 241 - Priorities & Overcoming Overwhelm 14.03.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is discussing ways to avoid feeling overwhelmed in life. You won’t want to miss at 1:10 when Dr. Yazdan introduces her tool, the priority filter. It may be an unpopular opinion with some people, but Dr. Yazdan points out why work shouldn’t be your top priority. She makes it easy to understand how that can easily lead to burn out. Dr. Yazdan...

Episode 240 - Increasing Case Acceptance 07.03.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is helping her fellow dentists increase their case acceptance rate. She isn’t talking about the necessary and obvious procedures your patients come to you for; Dr. Yazdan is here to help you increase your practice revenue through a concept she calls advanced selling. It includes successfully selling patients on services you offer that they...

Episode 239 - Become More Fee For Service 29.02.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist Dr. Desiree Yazdan wants to help you become more fee-for-service based in your business. Dr. Yazdan has helped so many dentists just like you make more money by adopting a fee-for-service model. If you are already running a fee for service practice, this is still a worthwhile listen because Dr. Yazdan has advice for you too. Because Dr. Yazdan is a dentist her...

Episode 238 - Your 2.0 Version of Yourself 22.02.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan wants to help you become the best version of yourself in 2024. Dr. Yazdan has an exercise she takes us through to help us see the path to actually reach our goals. Find out what she means by “work from our future.” Dr. Yazdan wants us to keep things in perspective so we can enjoy life now, and embody our future goals now. The exercise Dr. Y...

Episode 237 - Your Social Media Strategy for 2024 15.02.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is here to help you plan your social media strategy for 2024. If you’re wondering what platforms you should be active on, Dr. Yazdan is helping you decide. Of course, if you’ve been listening along, you know Dr. Yazdan’s favorite social media platform for business marketing is Instagram, and she’s giving us the reasons why. If you want to m...

Episode 236 Episode 236 - When Your Staff Doesn’t Support You 08.02.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan, wants to help you have a happy and harmonious workplace. Too often Dr. Yazdan hears stories about employees not respecting their business owners. Dr. Yazdan is not here for it, and won’t let you stand for it either. This episode starts with Dr. Yazdan illustrating how damaging these issues can be by using one of her real life coaching clie...

Episode 235 - Gossip in the Workplace 01.02.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is addressing an all-too common and pervasive issue in many offices - gossip. She wants to help you get some things in place to mitigate this problem before it inevitably gets worse. You definitely want to hear how Dr. Yazdan defines gossip; it could be a new way of thinking about and framing communication. Dr. Yazdan even has us looking at...

Leadership and Profitability with Dr. Mark Costes 31.01.2024

Connect w/Dr. Mark Costes: https://www.truedentalsuccess.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmarkcostes Sign up for Dr. Yazdan’s Free Masterclass, Instagram Patients - www.dryazdan.com/newpatients Watch Dr. Yazdan’s Make More Money Video - www.dryazdancoaching.com/mdm Join Dr. Yazdan’s Coaching Waitlist - www.dryazdancoaching.com/waitlist Schedule a Free Consult with Dr. Yazdan - dryazdan.c...

Episode 234 - Motivating Team Members 25.01.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is talking to her fellow business owners about leading their team. Given Dr. Yazdan’s experience, she knows & understands the dynamics of a dental or healthcare practice, and she is here to share her wisdom to help you succeed. After listening to this episode, you’ll know how to empower your staff and employees to be better team members who...

Episode 233 - 3 Ways To Get New Patients From Instagram 18.01.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is getting back to her roots of social media marketing. She’s here to talk to you about using Instagram to market your business and get new clients. Dr. Yazdan points out that there can also be unexpected benefits from using Instagram and social media to market your business. Whether you’re new to Instagram, or have been using it, Dr. Yazda...

Episode 232 - How To Navigaate Being An Associate Doctor 11.01.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan is speaking directly to the associate dentists and doctor listeners. This episode is a worthwhile listen for practice owners as well. Dr. Yazdan has been on both sides of this issue - she’s been the associate and now she’s a practice owner with associates. She starts this episode off by acknowledging the inconvenient truth of office dynamics and ge...

Episode 231 - The Cost of Your Goals: How to Know When to Keep Going & When to Stop 04.01.2024

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is focusing on growth in the new year. She wants to help you set yourself up for success in 2024. Dr. Yazdan’s methods work so well that she can help you grow your business and help you reach business goals you thought weren’t possible, even through big life changes. Dr. Yazdan is coaching you through effective goal-setting in this valuable...

Episode 230 - 130k in 4 weeks vs 130k in 2 weeks 28.12.2023

In this episode Dr. Yazdan is showing us that just because we work more, doesn’t mean we will make more money. She is helping us curate the right mindset to create success in our business. Dr. Yazdan is here to show you that you can consistently hit your goals without it being a fluke or coincidence, and without stress or drama. Listen to find out what Dr. Yazdan means when she says “it’s the thou...

Episode 229 - Changing Your Relationship With Money 21.12.2023

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan jumps right in on talking about money, specifically your relationship with money. She fires off questions we can ask ourselves to honestly evaluate our own relationship with money. Dr. Yazdan is here to help us thrive, and part of that is changing the way we think about money. Whatever preconceived notions you have about money, Dr. Yazdan i...

Episode 228 - Trapped Bird Energy 14.12.2023

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is encouraging us to stay calm. She sets the stage for this episode by sharing a story from her personal life, and the lesson that goes along with it. Dr. Yazdan points out that being or feeling frantic and/or having a scarcity mentality is not serving you. And she knows best, because she was once in that frenzied/scared place with her own...

Episode 227 - Professional Athletes, Your Business, and Accountability 07.12.2023

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is using sports and athletes to frame how we think about business. She uses the common practices in elite and professional sports teams as a new way to look at how we operate our business. Dr. Yazdan points out why this model isn’t working for your business, but she doesn’t stop there. As always, Dr. Yazdan has solutions. When you listen to...

Episode 226 - What To Do When Things Are Slow 30.11.2023

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan is addressing the issue of being slow in your healthcare practice. She’s showing us how to look at a slow time in our business as a positive. Dr. Yazdan has wise words you may want to come back to when you’re feeling anxious about being slow in your practice. After listening to this episode, you’ll be more busy than ever during your slow time. Dr....

Episode 225 - 3 Most Common IG Questions Answered 23.11.2023

In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is answering the 3 most common questions she hears from fellow healthcare professionals about marketing their business on Instagram. If you have your own healthcare practice, or are an associate, Dr. Yazdan is here to help you successfully market your business and find new patients through Instagram. Dr. Yazdan’s methods do not rely on paid...

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