75. Starting Dental Buyer Advocates

With Brian Hanks

Some people choose entrepreneurship. Others get pushed into it.

Brian Hanks spent 18 years knowing he wanted to run his own business and finding reasons not to. Then one Monday afternoon, everything changed in a way he never saw coming.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to bet on yourself, this one’s for you.

Meet our guest

Brian Hanks is the founder of Dental Buyer Advocates, a consulting firm that has advised on more than 1,500 dental practice transitions across 49 states, and the author of How to Buy a Dental Practice and Taxes for Dentists. But the road from that Monday to founder was anything but a straight line.
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In this episode

  • Why 18 years of comfort and a good salary kept him from taking the leap
  • What the first months of building something from nothing actually looked like
  • Why there’s no such thing as feeling ready to own a business and what to do instead
  • How starting over changed his life in ways he never expected
  • What he tells the clients who come to him saying they’re just not ready yet

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