Finding Inspiration in Every Stage of Your Career
Career Stage 1 - Finding My Spot
I found my calling in TV news and while I sorted thousands of Mother’s Day contest entries as part of a freelance gig with “Live with Regis &...
The Growth of the Movement: Entrepreneurial Women
We may think we are the women of today's equal opportunity movement. And I will be the first to acknowledge there is tremendous unfinished work of global gender-equality throughout the world. But the most...
My Journey to a 2,500 Patient Dental Career
My Dental Career Story Started at Age 13
Who would have thought that, in 1973, when I was 13 years old, having my mother drop me off at my father’s dental practice after school would...
How Dental Entrepreneur Women Build Healthy Office Cultures
Build a healthy practice through cultural balance
Let me start by saying, I believe in cleaning out your closet. I know this sounds like an editing mistake but think about it. When you clean everything...
Top 4 Ways to Market Your Dental Practice
As a female dental entrepreneur, you have many titles. You are a doer, a creator, a builder, and a leader. You’re an artist, an architect, a visionary, and an educator. You’re also a clinician...
My Daughter Made Me DeW It – Becoming the Remote Dental Support Specialist
First, I Worked Front Desk
When I was pregnant with my fourth daughter, Alison, I worked front desk at a dental practice. My husband, Joey, was a high school biology teacher and football coach, who...
Growing Your Practice Through Digital Marketing
Have you found your practice life “groove”? That’s the comfortable place where you arrive after climbing the rocky hillside, in the rain, sometimes high winds and thunder, to get to the sunny meadow. The...
How Did I Get Here? Journey Beyond My Dental Hygienist Role
High School Dreams
When I was in high school, I already had my entire life planned out. I was going to be married by 25 years old. Have 2 kids. Own a grey house on...
SpouseTales Snippets 2 – Doctor Held Hostage, It’s a Real Thing!
A short SpouseTale, because you can’t make this stuff up!
Doctor held hostage, is a real thing. It can manifest as a feeling, an event, or the circumstance one might find themselves in after a...
FEATURE ARTICLE: Dental Careers Are Not a Straight Line
I was in the third row sitting in a room full of friends and close colleagues. I was excited to be there, to be with these people. And at the same time, I was...
