After the Africa trip - this morning begins a 6-day week of delivery. Podcast recordings, blogs, articles, filming training videos and delivering presentations. Face to face meetings, Zoom calls and workshops. As they would say in cycling - full gas. I count my blessings.

I'm back from Africa, and you would have to have been living in a box not to see all the content that has been posted. The next time someone comments that social media is a modern day curse, I'll remind myself that, so far, it has helped us to raise over £80,000 to provide urgently needed training for dental therapists in Tanzania. On Monday some of the cyclists from Peak to Plains were able to visit day one of the volunteer programmes (they are still out there today and some

Culture inspires. Leadership sets direction. Consistency is what delivers results. Dentistry is having a long-overdue conversation about leadership. Across the profession, practice owners and managers are investing in culture days, leadership workshops, and training on difficult conversations. Teams are being encouraged to speak up. Principals are learning to delegate. Everyone agrees that communication matters. This is progress. Real progress. For years, the assumption was t

This is where something as simple as transport becomes transformative Some charities change lives through big, visible projects. Others do it through steady, frontline work that rarely makes the headlines, but matters every single day. Asha Nepal is firmly in the second camp. Based in Kathmandu, Asha Nepal is devoted to preventing trafficking and abuse of girls and supporting survivors of violence to rebuild their lives with safety, independence and dignity. Their work centre

What surprises people most about my daily life isn’t what I do – it’s that I actually do it People are surprised to discover that I write a journal every morning of my life. People are surprised to discover that I manage to compose a blog post every working day and have been delivering inbound marketing for over 25 years in my own business. People are surprised to discover that I read an absolute minimum of 30 books every year and often exceed that target. People are surprise

Better treatment plans with AI. Clearer communication in less time. The last decade in dentistry has seen a quiet revolution in the way we “sell” treatment. In truth, we’re not selling anything. We’re helping patients understand. But for years we’ve expected patients to commit to complex dentistry on the basis of confusing printouts and clinical shorthand, and then we’ve blamed them when they don’t proceed. That is changing, quickly. In a recent lunchtime session with a group

What dental practice owners really worry about on a Monday. And the four levers that change everything Monday morning, 26 January 2026, starts the same way most Monday mornings do for me. Coffee, laptop, and a queue of Weekly Trackers from owners and managers inside The Extreme Business 100. The tracker is simple. Every weekend, clients answer a few prompts about wins, challenges, priorities, and behavioural changes. My job, before Monday lunchtime, is to read them and respon

Not choosing is what causes problems There’s a particular type of dental business I see again and again. It’s clinically exceptional, financially strong, and admired locally. The diary is full. The reputation is superb. The owner is busy, valued, and (on the surface) winning. And yet the business has a structural problem. It is dependent. Not on a supplier, a lender, or even a marketing channel. It is dependent on one person: the principal fee earner. I had a strategy session

In today's episode of our podcast, hosts Ashley and Chris had the distinct honour of interviewing the esteemed Dr. Howard Farran.  Dr. Farran, DDS, MBA, is the visionary founder and owner of Dentaltown.com  and Dentaltown magazine. With over three decades of experience practicing dentistry at Today’s Dental in the Phoenix metropolitan area, he is a luminary in the field. Notably, in 2017, Incisal Edge magazine recognized him as one of the 32 most influential figures in dentis

this isn’t a day about dentistry. It’s about leadership. Today, Friday 23 January 2026, I’ll be delivering a full-day workshop in Dublin that I’ve never presented before. That sentence alone is enough to make me slightly nervous and very excited in equal measure. Because this isn’t a day about dentistry. It’s about leadership. Not leadership in theory, or the version you’d like to believe you’re practising, but the leadership your team experiences on a wet Tuesday when two nu