Conversations with Chris

#8 Steve Turnock's Story

May 24, 2024 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MB

Many of you both followed and supported my recent “Everest Cycling Challenge”, supporting Asto Clinics, who provide treatment for those debilitated by OCD. As Steve Turnock and I climbed 29,030 feet over 6 days around the Préalpes d'Azur Regional Nature Park, we shared our adventure with you each day via my blog - and also added a patient testimonial to each blog post. Thank you to all those who helped us to raise funding for 5 patients. In this conversation, recorded around Steve’s home ...

#7 High Performance Dentistry with Marcos White

May 08, 2024 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MB

Only dental cave-dwellers over the last three years would have missed Marcos’s “Digital Growth Program" and his pioneering work on the successful integration of: The Dental Therapist; The Digital TCO; The Intra-Oral Scanner; The onsite digital lab. Now, we explore the next evolution in his thinking - The High Performance Dentist. In this conversation we explore how Marcos will: become Better, not Bigger; achieve Mastery not Growth. He is now deep in thought and analysis of how The C...

#7 Leadership in Lockdown 3.0 - a conversation with Mark Topley

January 14, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB

I make no apology for saying that, if you don’t listen to this podcast in the next 12 weeks, then don’t bother at all. That’s because I wanted to talk to one of my best mates (and an expert on leadership) about how to deal with the situation we find ourselves in TODAY. In December, there was a short-lived sense of hope generated by the delivery of the first vaccines and the anticipation of some Christmas cheer. Soon enough we were slapped down by restrictions on our holiday activities and...

#6 Stress, Survival, Success - with Dr. Simon Thackeray

December 13, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MB

I simply cannot believe that the last “Conversations with Chris” podcast was broadcast in February 2020 - but then again, we have all been a bit distracted and busy haven’t we? It would also be fair to say that the podcasting world has grown exponentially during 2020 and became a much favoured way of communicating in the year of Covid-19. However, my ever-watchful support team (a.k.a. Phillippa and Rachel) decided it was about time I got back in gear with this and so booked an interview ti...

#5 From the tuck shop to Business Angel (wearing four hats all the time) - an interview with Tim Thackrah

February 26, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

It’s an absolute pleasure to engage in conversation with a best friend about his life. Most people in the profession would recognise Tim as the owner of Elmsleigh House Dental Clinic (EHDC) - a specialist referral practice in Farnham, Surrey - one of a decreasing number that are still owner-managed and not gobbled up by a dental corporate. Tim has built from next to nothing one of the best in it’s breed - but there is more to him than that. I haven’t met many people who I could confidentl...

Conversations with Chris #4 - Living The E-Myth for real and putting wells on wheels - an interview with Shaz Memon

January 21, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB

This month’s fascinating conversation began at a 2019 dental trade show, when I made the time to sit down with Shaz and find out more about his company. I quickly discovered that Shaz isn’t a showman or a salesman, in fact 7/8ths of the person I met spends most of the time below the surface. The more I listened to Shaz’s story, the more I liked him. Here we join him on his journey from 17-year old graphic designer in the bedroom of his parent’s home to an “office” in the garage where he sp...

#4 - Living The E-Myth for real and putting wells on wheels - an interview with Shaz Memon

January 21, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB

This month’s fascinating conversation began at a 2019 dental trade show, when I made the time to sit down with Shaz and find out more about his company. I quickly discovered that Shaz isn’t a showman or a salesman, in fact 7/8ths of the person I met spends most of the time below the surface. The more I listened to Shaz’s story, the more I liked him. Here we join him on his journey from 17-year old graphic designer in the bedroom of his parent’s home to an “office” in the garage where he sp...

#3 - Back from the brink - how a young introverted dental entrepreneur turned his business and his life around - an interview with Dr Chris Burton

December 10, 2019 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MB

Chris Burton is, by his own admission, a good dentist but reluctant businessman. We travel with Chris from school in Bolton to university in Newcastle (an experience he did not enjoy) and on to the practice he owns now as a newly qualified Vocational Trainee. The journey from VT to associate to owner should have been an upward climb but events conspired to reverse the direction. Yet at age 37 he is the owner of a beautiful private practice in rural North East England, with an enviable pos...

#2 Sunbathe by the pool or attend another course? The decisions that can change your life - with Ashley Latter

November 03, 2019 20:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

There are some people in the dental landscape who really need no introduction. Even more reason, in my opinion, to get behind the scenes with Ash and find out where he comes from and how his extraordinary career developed as THE go to guy for communication skills training in dentistry. I’m going to let you into a secret - back in the summer, Ash cycled the 26 miles each way from his house to mine, so that we could record the first version of this interview. Can you imagine my horror when...

#1 The Design Student who became an Owner/Practice Manager (and the lessons learned along the way) - with Louise Spry

September 30, 2019 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB

Louise Spry is one half of the man and wife team who opened a private squat in Maidstone back in 2008 (exactly one month after the global banking collapse). Louise as Practice Manager and Marcus as Principal Dentist have built Fresh Implant + Dental Care to over £1m per annum of sales in a beautifully branded and presented location that occupies a secluded (but very pretty) office complex on the outskirts of the town. There is little or no drive by or walk by - only neighbouring small bus...