by Travis Slade | Oct 23, 2026 | Podcast
Travis sits down with client Dr. Melanie Vandenberg of Harbor Dental in Santa Cruz. She bought a small, shrinking practice that had sat on the market for years, one Travis’s own numbers said to pass on. She nearly doubled it in her first year. Here’s what we get...
by Travis Slade | Oct 16, 2026 | Podcast
Travis brings back Jared Bergquist, a Las Vegas-based dental broker with two decades of transitions under his belt, for a blunt breakdown of why a DSO sale isn’t always the win it’s made out to be. What’s covered: Reason one, transparency. How EBITDA...
by Travis Slade | Oct 9, 2026 | Podcast
Travis sits down with longtime friend Phill Hoover of Western Practice Sales to map out what buying a practice in Northern California actually looks like, from the Bay Area’s sky-high demand to the hidden gems everyone overlooks. What’s covered:...
by Travis Slade | Oct 2, 2026 | Podcast
Travis sits down with David Haynes of the Menlo Group, a dental-specific M&A firm, to dig into one of the most polarizing topics in dentistry: is selling to a DSO actually a good idea? What’s covered: David’s winding path from accounting dropout to...
by Travis Slade | Sep 25, 2026 | Podcast
Travis catches up with Dr. Bustos and Dr. Thacker, a husband and wife team who bought a thriving fee for service practice in Las Vegas and just wrapped their first year as owners. What is covered. They met in college, went through UNLV dental school together, and...
by Travis Slade | Sep 18, 2026 | Podcast
Travis sits down with Conor DePalma of CFS Dental Division to cut through the noise on dental insurance — because “insurance” is one of those words with a hundred meanings, and picking the wrong policy can cost you way more than a premium. What’s...
