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A Personal Update from Ashley (opens the original)
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Ashley shares a personal update recorded on a quiet Sunday evening, no clinical talk, just life. What's In This Episode: Brian finished radiation and is back at work. His follow-up PET scan came back with a possible cancer recurrence scare that lasted over a week of waiting. Ashley shares the toll that wait took on her, a girls' weekend in Napa, a hard conversation with Brian mid-run, and the relief when his results came back normal. She talks openly about anxiety, faith, and leaning on communit
Back Where It Started: Ashley Reunites with Michael Arias of The Dental Marketer (opens the original)
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Back Where It Started: Ashley Reunites with Michael Arias of The Dental Marketer Before Smile & Co. existed, before The Making Of existed, there was Michael Arias. He was the first person to ever interview Ashley about her plans to open a dental practice, recorded when Folsom was still just an idea and a construction timeline. That conversation, and Ashley's decision to keep documenting the build in public, is what became The Making Of.Ashley sits back down with Michael on his show, The Dental M
The Making Of Smile & Co. #2 - Episode SEVEN: Supply Ordering, Storage, and Building the Buzz (opens the original)
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The Making Of Smile & Co. #2 — Episode SEVEN: Supply Ordering, Storage, and Building the Buzz Dr. Ashley Joves and co-host Collin Al-Samarrie sit down in person to break down how supply ordering, storage, and pre-opening marketing looked different the second time around, from Folsom's early over-ordering mistakes to the systems built into Roseville from day one. What You'll Hear in This Episode: Folsom vs. Roseville: Ordering Then and Now Why Ashley's first round of ordering in Folsom followed a
The Making Of Evelina Smiles - SEVEN: First Month Open (opens the original)
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The Making Of Evelina Smiles - SEVEN One Month In: What Actually Happens When the Doors Open Ashley catches up with Dr. Rich Constantine for his first update since Evelina Smiles saw its first patient. Real numbers from opening week, the 90-minute new patient experience, a few good MacGyver moments, and the one thing Rich would do differently with his loan allowance. What You'll Hear in This Episode: Opening Week, By the Numbers First patient seen July 22nd. One patient on day one, five or six b
Michelin Star Moves: The Smile Design Process (opens the original)
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Michelin Star Moves: The Smile Design Process Dr. Ashley Joves sits down with co-host Collin Al-Samarrie to walk through how Smile & Co. approaches cosmetic cases, from the first consult to the sneak peek reveal, and why she built this into her practice in the first place. Where It Started Ashley's interest in aesthetics began in dental school as part of NYU's honors aesthetics program, taught in part by a then up-and-coming Dr. Michael Apa. She later completed a highly competitive three-residen
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