Welcome to Optometrists Building Empires! Each week, host Ankit Patel, explores the journey of practice ownership and leadership in optometry with some of the top minds in his field. This show is sponsored by My Business Care Team: We help increase revenue, reduce costs, and reduce staffing headaches. Let's build your empire together!
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Gina Wesley, OD: The Private-Pay Playbook Behind Complete Eye Care of Medina
## Episode summary Dr. Gina Wesley opened Complete Eye Care of Medina in 2008, right as the housing crash was reshaping the economy. Her approach was not to copy th...
Building 9 Rural Optometry Offices with Mike Herrera
Mike Herrera is the co-founder and managing partner of Vision Now!, a rural Colorado eye care group with nine practices. Before eye care, he served in Marine Corps int...
The Warm Start - Dr. Bethany Fishbein - Optometrists Building Empires - Episode # 098
00:00 — Welcome back, Dr. Bethany Fishbein 00:50 — Defining the warm start: between cold start and full acquisition 04:00 — The fixer-upper-vs-move-in-ready analogy 05...
Fix Your Staffing, Fix Your Practice - Compilation - Optometrists Building Empires - Episode # 097
What if the staffing challenges keeping you up at night aren't a sign that something is wrong with your practice, but a sign that you're ready to build something bette...
Built Together: How Relationships, Systems, and Grit Created Three Thriving Practices - #096
Can the relationships you built in optometry school lay the groundwork for the businesses you'd build decades later?In this special panel episode of Optometrists Build...
