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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Latest Episodes
What Your Practice Is Actually Worth: EBITDA, the 50% Rule, and the 25% Benchmark
EBITDA explained: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, and why it isn't the same as cash flow Cash vs. accrual P&Ls and how each changes th...
Getting Out of Your Own Way: How Dr. Nick Lillie Doubled His Practice
Dr. Nick Lillie cold-started Family Vision Optical in Allendale, Michigan straight out of school in 2011. For years everything ran through him. Then came the realizati...
Scaling True Eye Experts as a Non-OD CEO with Kevin Whaley Stefany
Kevin Whaley Stefany is the founder of Autograph Eye and a master optician who became one of the few non-OD CEOs in optometry. He co-founded The Eye Doctors, which sca...
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...
