Podcast Episode #434: Stress Testing Your Practice for the Pending Recession – Jake Conway
Episode #434: Dentist Freedom Blueprint Podcast
Stress Testing Your Practice for the Pending Recession – Jake Conway
The topic of recession is a big one and deals with something pretty far out of our control, but there are things we can do to ensure our businesses can deal with the stress they may be under when things get tight. Jake Conway is someone I have come to greatly appreciate for his insights and experience in business financial metrics. He started Custom Practice Analytics, where he really focuses on providing guidance and support to private practice owners, helping them thrive in their personal relationships with their team, seize opportunities in their practice, find solutions, and become more profitable.
Listen in as Jake shares the most important areas that you as a business owner should be focusing on in the next few months—and years—to build a recession-proof practice. You’ll learn the specific ways he is working with other practices to build their profitability and ensure that they have the structural and cultural stability to stand the test of time (and recession).
Minute Markers:
4:50 – Why awareness of your business is key.
5:57 – What it takes to be prepared for anything and what we can learn from the past few years.
8:23 – The first metrics to look at when you want to figure out where you’re at as a practice.
10:51 – The question of expansion and when (or if) you should do it.
21:02 – Why your business is the best investment you can make and how real estate investment is different.
23:27 – The issues with human capital and how to manage that better in a recession.
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In this episode, we finish up the second part of my interview with Rob Swanson and his eight rules of investing. (If you haven’t listened to part 1, be sure to go back and give that a listen before jumping into this one.) Today, we pick up where we left off, covering rules four through eight and talking about everything from decision-making to cash flow and risk reduction.
Listen in as Rob shares his incredible insight and experience in real estate and investing to give us a few rules that help make our decisions and investments more solid. You will hear about the importance of looking at margins before buying and what boxes need to be checked when it comes to predicting a solid income stream. Rob also discusses how to define and mitigate the different risks involved so that you can come out on top.
Alastair MacDonald is a private advisor to established entrepreneurs, investors, and business owners, as well as a TEDx speaker who lectures on economic, social, and financial forecasts. Join me today to hear part two of our conversation at the Freedom Founders Mastermind, where we dive into the concept of certainty, how to hedge against a volatile economy, and why the abdication model is no longer one that works.
Listen in to learn the reasons why Alastair is not worried about consumer price inflation (and what he’s really worried about instead) and why the 401(k) is not always the investment that it is made out to be. You’ll learn why he is most concerned about the issue of division and polarity in the Western world, why your business is your best asset in a volatile economy, and how you can maintain its viability to weather the most intense economic storm.
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