Publisher’s Note
Celebrating and Reflecting on One Year of Dental Lifestyles Magazine
Dr. Glenn Vo
Dental Lifestyles Magazine
In 2022, I came up with the
idea to launch Dental Lifestyles magazine. At the time, nobody thought it was a good idea, especially launching it as a physical magazine and not exclusively a digital one. I can’t tell you how many people asked me why on earth we needed another dental magazine. In fact, I even wrote my inaugural Publisher’s Note article about exactly that, titling it, “I Know What You’re Thinking. Why on Earth Would I Need Another Dental Magazine?” It was no secret that there were many other dental magazines out there before I launched Dental Lifestyles. And while the existing magazines were very good, they were mostly focused on business or clinician improvement and highlighted people in the dental space who were already somewhat well known. Having already grown Nifty Thrifty Dentists into a thriving community of tens of thousands of dental professionals, I knew there was a deep desire to help improve the entirety of who we are as people in dentistry. And I also knew many people in the dental world weren’t already well known who could help and inspire people in the dental world. So, after searching without luck for an existing platform that served these two important
goals, I decided to create it. And level up both your personal life that’s how Dental Lifestyles and your professional life. magazine was born. I’m going to continue to bring I committed to publishing four you a broad array of content to quarterly editions and assessing help you improve your results whether the magazine fulfilled and generate more income and my vision of helping everytime for you to enjoy however one in the dental community you want. I’ll invite even more achieve greater success and top contributors to share ways fulfillment in their business and for you to make more money personal lives. And here we are, while doing less work, not one year later. more. And I’ll introduce you to even more opportunities for From a vision to a reality. enjoying that extra time and Although I knew there were money today, tomorrow, and so many inspiring and helpful well into the future. people in dentistry, even I underestimated exactly how many You’ll continue to see the people had stories that needed common theme of leverage to be told. I’ve shared recipes at the core of many business to help you build memories strategies, as leverage is the around the dining room table, common precursor to increasintroduced you to a dental rap- ing production while reducing per to encourage you to keep your hours worked to free you your dreams and passions alive, up to add even more fulfilling and shared advice from some of activities in your life. the most successful people in dentistry to help you increase Most importantly, thank you! your profits and make your No matter how committed I was practice easier to run. to Dental Lifestyles magazine, none of this would have been After flipping through the pag- possible without countless es of the first four editions and others. hearing feedback from just a small percentage of the people To our contributors: It’s not who have read the magazines, easy sharing openly with thouI’m humbled and honored to sands and thousands of your see my initial vision for Dental colleagues. But you generousLifestyles magazine come to ly stepped up and delivered fruition. top-quality content for every edition. By doing so, you’re What’s next for Dental Life- changing more lives than you styles Magazine? know and helping make denAfter seeing just a small portistry even better in the future tion of the impact the magazine than it has been to date. has had on people in the dental community, I am now more To my team at Dental Lifestyles passionate than ever about magazine: Thank you for your this magazine. I don’t see this tireless work in helping pull magazine as just a magazine I everything together. I don’t get to publish but one I need to have to tell you how hard it is publish. to produce a magazine like this, but you were just as committed So, in the coming year, I’m dou- to helping dentistry as I am. For bling down on the magazine, that, I’m tremendously grateful. working even harder to bring you the most helpful and inLast but not least, to you, the spirational content in dentistry readers: Whether you’re a firstwith the goal of helping you time reader, occasional
observer, or a dedicated subscriber who has read every word in every edition, thank you. It doesn’t matter how helpful the words on the page are if nobody reads them. I hope you’ve been inspired by what you’ve read and have used some of it to make a meaningful improvement in your life. Today, I’m even more excited about Dental Lifestyles magazine than I was just one short year ago. I’ll leave you with the same message I left you with in the inaugural Publisher’s Note: To take both our business and clinical ability to the next level, we need to level up ourselves. We need to focus on who we are, our goals, and what pulls us out of bed in the morning. Because all of this plays into the success of our dental careers, and we cannot take steps forward if we lag behind in our personal development. So, let’s continue to get inspired together!
Glenn Vo
DENTAL LIFESTYLES • ISSUE NO. 5 2023
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