Delusional: Winning the Weekly War of Dentistry
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Are you currently frustrated in your dental business, just wanting things to be better?
Does it feel delusional to want to be rid of the overwhelming stress and financial strain you didn't see coming in your practice?
Are you looking for answers on creating more money, more time freedom and more consistency in the culture of your work?
If you answered yes, this is your show.
Delusional: Winning the Weekly War of Dentistry is hosted Dr. Todd Snyder,
Dr. Snyder founded Legion, an organization of like minded dentists seeking and achieving wealth and time freedom via their dental practice. He is also the 77th fellow of the American Academy of cosmetic dentistry and has developed a stellar reputation helping his colleagues win the weekly war of dentistry.
Gain more freedom and money. Stop the delusion and get ready to shift your business and your personal life.
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United States
Description:
Are you currently frustrated in your dental business, just wanting things to be better? Does it feel delusional to want to be rid of the overwhelming stress and financial strain you didn't see coming in your practice? Are you looking for answers on creating more money, more time freedom and more consistency in the culture of your work? If you answered yes, this is your show. Delusional: Winning the Weekly War of Dentistry is hosted Dr. Todd Snyder, Dr. Snyder founded Legion, an organization of like minded dentists seeking and achieving wealth and time freedom via their dental practice. He is also the 77th fellow of the American Academy of cosmetic dentistry and has developed a stellar reputation helping his colleagues win the weekly war of dentistry. Gain more freedom and money. Stop the delusion and get ready to shift your business and your personal life.
Language:
English
Episodes
The Transformation
8/1/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the transformation of the dental industry through his organization, Legion, and introduces upcoming tranformative pivots. Over 180 episodes, the podcast has impacted thousands of dentists, encouraging them to break free from traditional, inefficient business models. He emphasizes the need for dentists to systematize their practices, build strong brands, and focus on long-term strategies. He introduces the "Elite Exit Framework" and "Evolve," a live virtual event on September 18, aimed at providing real-time transformation and interactive training. The goal is to help dentists create profitable, scalable businesses that offer freedom and financial security.
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Duration:00:24:58
Invisible Prison
7/18/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the challenges faced by dentists, emphasizing the "invisible prison" of a broken business model. He criticizes the dependency on insurance companies, which dictate fees and coverage, leading to financial strain and ethical issues. He highlights the need for better systems, a strong brand identity, and effective leadership to escape this prison. He also advocates for dominating the market, systematizing processes, and becoming a true leader to attract high-value patients and build a profitable, self-sustaining practice.
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Duration:00:22:27
Berserker
7/11/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the overreaction to small irritationss such as unsolicited emails as a symptom of deeper issues in your professional and personal life. He argues that such reactions reveal frustration, lack of control, and inefficiency. He emphasizes the importance of building systems, investing in marketing, and surrounding yourself with positive influences. He criticizes dentists who complain on social media and encourages them to join elite groups for better strategies and mindset shifts. The goal is to stop reacting to trivial matters and start dominating in business and life.
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Duration:00:13:33
Independence Day
7/4/2025
Dr. Snyder criticizes dentists for feeling controlled by insurance companies, DSOs, and their own staff, likening their situation to colonial oppression. He emphasizes the importance of breaking free from these constraints to achieve true independence and success. He outlines a 90-day plan for dentists to improve their practices, including identifying and removing tyrants, focusing on attracting, converting, and delivering, and potentially dropping PPO plans to increase profitability. He also encourages dentists to embrace hard work and systems to build a better business and provide superior patient care.
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Duration:00:12:40
Flushed Wealth
6/27/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses common financial leaks in dental practices, emphasizing the need for dentists to track and address these issues. He highlights significant losses from PPO write-offs, missed appointments, and unscheduled treatments, estimating annual losses in the six figures. He advises dentists to focus on profit retention, train staff to improve communication and follow-up, and consider dropping PPOs if they're detrimental. He also stresses the importance of weekly audits and tracking to identify and fix these leaks.
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Duration:00:14:30
Freedom Of Choice
6/20/2025
Dr. Snyder emphasizes the importance of dentists making informed business decisions to build a successful practice. He argues that dentists often operate out of fear, leading to low-value services and financial strain. He advocates for investing in elite tools, marketing, and training to offer high-value care and attract premium patients. He criticizes outdated dental practices and technologies, urging dentists to upgrade their services and marketing to stand out and achieve profitability. He also encourages dentists to make bold investments and choose excellence over scarcity to achieve their dream practice.
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Duration:00:13:39
Conflict Creates Change
6/13/2025
Dr. Snyder emphasizes the importance of conflict in achieving success in dental practices. He argues that dentists often avoid confrontation, leading to underperformance, reliance on insurance, and stagnation. He advocates for direct communication with employees, patients, and vendors to address issues and improve performance. He stresses the need for dentists to challenge themselves, adopt better habits, and hold themselves and their teams accountable. He also asserts that conflict is essential for growth and transformation, urging dentists to embrace it to build a better practice and life.
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Duration:00:17:18
The Delusion Of Arrival
6/6/2025
Dr. Snyder emphasizes that success in dentistry is a daily pursuit, not a destination. He criticizes the notion of "arrival," arguing that it breeds complacency and stagnation. True success involves continuous growth, impact, mastery, and legacy. He warns against the illusion of success based on material possessions or social media metrics, highlighting the importance of consistent effort, aligned goals, and effective systems. He also encourages dentists to set SMART goals, maintain a high-performance mindset, and avoid the trap of believing they have "arrived."
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Duration:00:09:40
Declaration Of War
5/30/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the need for dentists to shift from survival to victory by adopting strategic, disciplined approaches. He criticizes the industry's reliance on outdated practices and insurance companies, advocating for better systems, marketing, and psychological warfare skills. He highlights the importance of execution over explanation and encourages dentists to drop insurance reliance, focusing instead on creating value and attracting high-quality patients. He promotes his organization, Legion, as a community for dentists seeking wealth and time freedom through strategic business practices.
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Duration:00:15:47
How To Win
5/23/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses how dentists are often their own biggest obstacle to winning, relying on excuses and social media for validation rather than improving their practices. He emphasizes the importance of attracting the right patients, converting them effectively, and delivering exceptional service. He advocates for a systematic approach, including tracking leads, measuring conversions, and focusing on business systems.
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Duration:00:16:41
Escape Plan
5/16/2025
Dr. Snyder criticizes the reliance on social media, insurance companies, and traditional education for solutions, advocating instead for a complete overhaul of mindset, marketing, and systems. He emphasizes the need for dentists to focus on attracting and converting the right patients, rather than just delivering services. He highlights his own success with a new Fee-for-Service office and invites dentists to join his organization, Legion, for 90 days of intensive support to achieve business freedom and success.
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Duration:00:15:26
Silent Suffering
5/10/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the frustrations of dentists who feel overwhelmed, underpaid, and unfulfilled despite following traditional educational paths. He criticizes the dental education system for failing to teach business, leadership, and marketing skills, leaving dentists to manage chaotic practices. He emphasizes the need for a systemic overhaul, advocating for strategic systems, communication, and influence to build profitable, efficient practices. He also promotes his "Disrupt" program as a transformative experience for dentists seeking to break free from insurance dependency and achieve true freedom and profitability.
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Duration:00:12:34
Mindset Shift
4/25/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the mindset shift needed for dentists to achieve wealth and freedom. He emphasizes that most dentists fail due to a mindset issue, not lack of skill or external factors. Dentists often think like technicians, focusing on tasks and saving money, which keeps them stuck. In contrast, million-dollar dentists think like leaders, focusing on systems, training, and investment. They prioritize vision, clear goals, and leveraging money, time, and people. He also advises dentists to stop being the bottleneck, build systems, train employees, and raise standards to transform their practices and personal lives.
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Duration:00:15:37
Go All In
4/18/2025
Dr. Snyder emphasizes that failure is often due to internal mindset issues rather than external factors. He urges dentists to take responsibility, develop real business systems, effective marketing, and a strong mindset. He criticizes the tendency to blame external factors and encourages dentists to stop making excuses, work on their businesses, and surround themselves with elite peers.
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Duration:00:09:28
Your Momma
4/11/2025
Dr. Snyder criticizes dentists for not effectively marketing their high-end services and relying too heavily on insurance. He emphasizes the importance of treating every patient like family, providing comprehensive care, and building a strong brand. He argues that dentists should focus on attracting the right patients, converting them through effective communication, and practicing repetitively to gain confidence in complex procedures. He advocates for a shift away from insurance-driven practices to fee-for-service models, suggesting that dentists should specialize and refer out when necessary to maintain high standards of care.
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Duration:00:19:45
The Hygiene Check
3/28/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses critiques the traditional dental practice model, highlighting issues like inadequate patient care, low case acceptance, and burnout. He argues that dentists often treat patients like ATMs, prioritizing production over comprehensive care. He advocates for a comprehensive exam before hygiene appointments to build trust and provide quality care. He emphasizes the need for dentists to lead differently, create better systems, and value their time and patients' needs. He also encourages dentists to disrupt outdated practices, take responsibility, and strive for elite-level dentistry to achieve better business and personal success.
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Duration:00:11:00
Stop Sounding Like A Dentist
3/21/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses common challenges in dental practices, emphasizing the need for better communication to improve case acceptance. He highlights that dentists often confuse patients with technical jargon, leading to low case acceptance rates. He suggests that dentists should focus on understanding patients' problems and goals rather than just educating them. He introduces, "Inception," a training program at Legion Dentist, which teaches dentists to ask the right questions to uncover patients' needs and lead them to the desired conclusions. Effective communication, he argues, can significantly increase revenue and reduce stress by making patients feel understood and invested in their treatment.
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Duration:00:15:37
Cut The Cord
3/14/2025
Dr. Snyder discusses the detrimental impact of keeping toxic employees in dental practices. He emphasizes that tolerating mediocrity leads to resentment among top performers, conflicts, and a deteriorating office culture. Toxic employees not only drain profits through mistakes and reduced productivity but also drive away loyal patients and new referrals. He advises dentists to be brutally honest, set clear performance standards, and act immediately to remove underperforming staff. He shares personal anecdotes and a colleague's experience of completely overhauling their staff for improved practice success.
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Duration:00:10:37
No Power Without Purpose
3/7/2025
In this episode, Dr. Snyder discusses the need for a clear purpose and effective systems to achieve success. He reiterates the "Legion Trifecta" of attract, convert, and deliver, highlighting that many dentists focus too much on delivery and neglect attracting and converting patients. He advocates for leveraging technology, such as AI systems like Stratus, to automate tasks and improve productivity. He challenges you to adopt a disciplined approach, prioritizing important but non-urgent tasks, and to commit to a mission for true business and life success.
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Duration:00:11:58
HWD
2/28/2025
In this episode, Dr. Snyder discusses the concept of "hopes, wishes, and dreams" (HWD) syndrome, which he argues prevents people from achieving real goals. He criticizes the dental industry's reliance on courses and technology without practical application, citing a lack of confidence and repetition in performing procedures like veneers. He emphasizes the importance of setting specific, measurable, and urgent goals, and committing to daily execution. He also highlights the negative impact of HWD on personal health, business success, and relationships, urging you to disrupt your mindset and systems to achieve true success.
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Duration:00:17:42