Join the discussion on Facebook!TranscriptJonathan VanHorn:Welcome to the tooth and coin podcast, where we talk about your adventure of being a dental practice owner. In these episodes, we're going to be talking about problems that you will likely face as a practice owner, as well as give an idea about actionable solutions that you can take so that you can get past this problem in your practice. Some of these concepts are really big ones. Some of them are very specific, but we hope that these episodes help you along with your journey. Now, a very important piece for you to understand is that this is not paid financial advice. This is not paid tax or legal advice. We are not your financial advisors. We are not your CPAs. This is two CPAs talking about informational and educational content to help you along with your journey. It's a very important piece for you to understand.Jonathan VanHorn:Another thing that you need to know is if you enjoy today's content, join us on the Facebook group. So we've got a Facebook group that is active with dentists that is going to have content talking about what we're talking about today, to continue the discussion. Agree with us. Don't agree with us, have a story to tell, have something to share. Join us in the Facebook group. If you go to Facebook and you search for tooth in coin podcast, click on it to join it and be able to join us there. Finally, if you need some more help, we're developing a list of resources that are going to be centering it around our topics of discussion, to be able to help you a little bit more than what the content is doing. So if you'd like access to that, whenever it becomes ready, all you have to do is text the word tooth and coin T O O T H a N D C O I N 2 3 3 4 4 4. Again, that's tooth and coin all one word, no spaces, 2 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, reply with your email address. And we'll email you instructions on how to get into the Facebook group, as well as agita list, to be able to send you those resources when they're available. And if they're available, we'll go ahead and send them to you as well. So onto today's episode, hope you enjoy it. Hello,Joseph Rugger:Ambitious Dennis. And welcome to another exciting episode of the tooth and coin podcast. I'm Joseph rugger joined always by my awesome co-host Jonathan van horn. Jonathan say hello to the folks at home.Jonathan VanHorn:Howdi Doodie, everybody,Joseph Rugger:Or in your car or wherever it is that you might be joining us. We appreciate you tuning in and listening to our show today, today, we thought we'd take a different route and talk a little bit about entrepreneurship and kind of the spirit of entrepreneurship. So if you're listening to this podcast, you likely are a dentist that is out and you've owned your practice. You may have owned it for six months or six years or 25 years. You may be thinking about starting a practice, but that tends to be one of those things. It's just such a daunting thought and a daunting task to, to, to kind of strike out here on your own and, and launch into this world entrepreneurship. So what we're going to do today, I'm going to talk to Jonathan who's, who's done this and get kind of some, some thoughts on his journey as an entrepreneur and everything that's in between. So Jonathan man, always a pleasure. I'm looking forward to hearing more of your story every time I feel like I know your story, something comes up and I'm like, I had no idea that was part of Jonathan's story.Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah. So, I mean, it's, it's interesting. It, it's fun to, to be in, to be an entrepreneur. It's going to be sometimes a little scary at times too. And yeah, I'm excited. This is a little bit of a turn of a different, different type of a conversation for me to have, because usually everything I talk about is just like dentistry, dentistry, dentistry, taxes, accounting taxes, accounting, business, business business. So, yeah, we're excited to talk about the,Joseph Rugger:Yeah, so Jonathan and I, Jonathan, you and I met each other randomly sit next to each other at a continuing education in little rock Arkansas, about 15 years ago. And you know, at that time I was working for a company as the CFO and you were in public accounting and we ended up knowing a whole bunch of the same people from Northeast Arkansas. You had gone to school in, in the, in Jonesborough where I lived at the time and we just hit it off and knew a whole bunch of the same people. And you were, you were in public accounting, you were working for another firm and, you know, we kinda hit it off and had fun and, you know, exchanged contact information and kind of kept up with each other for a while. I remember, I remember specifically sitting and having lunch with you a couple of different times in little rock. Cause we were talking about all of these entrepreneurial ideas that you had, and we were kind of talking through different books that you had read. And I think, I think one of them was, was it the ...
