The Mindset Behind Better Practices (E.165)

 

“Your level of success in life really comes back to your belief systems and what you feed your mind through your senses.”– Dr. Kevin Kremer

Brief Overview of the Episode

How you think affects how you lead. How you lead affects how you grow.

In this conversation, Victoria Peterson and Dr. Kevin Kremer explore the connection between mindset, personal accountability, and practice leadership. They talk about the beliefs that shape behavior, the danger of staying stuck in victim thinking, and why abundance is not just a financial outcome. It is a way of showing up.

This episode also dives into the real work behind growth: questioning your thoughts, giving yourself grace, surrounding yourself with the right people, and taking aligned action that moves your life and practice forward.

What This Episode Reveals

• Leadership is built from the inside out
• Belief systems drive decisions, actions, and outcomes
• Victim thinking quietly limits growth and momentum
• Accountability starts with the story you tell yourself
• Self-forgiveness and mentorship are both essential to sustainable success
• A better practice is often the result of a better internal framework

What You’ll Learn

• What Dr. Kevin Kremer means by quantum accountability
• How mindset influences leadership inside a dental practice
• The difference between scarcity, victim, growth, and abundance thinking
• Why you are not your thoughts and do not have to believe every one of them
• How to use daily intention, reflection, and action to move toward the life you want
• Why mentorship and community help doctors stop being so hard on themselves
• How internal growth often becomes the foundation for external growth

If This Sounds Familiar

• You have achieved a lot, but still feel mentally stuck
• You are carrying pressure that no system alone can solve
• You know mindset matters, but no one has shown you how to build it
• You are hard on yourself when things do not go perfectly
• You are leading others while quietly questioning yourself
• You want growth, but you know the next level starts with how you think

Next Steps

If you want help seeing your practice accurately, book a 30 minute clarity call with Victoria.

Get honest about where leadership, communication, and systems are creating drag in the practice. Stop trying to solve internal problems with external tactics.

If this conversation resonated with you, take the next step with Dr. Kevin Kremer.

Visit abundantdentist.com to learn more and book a 30-minute complimentary call with Kevin to talk through where you are and what growth could look like next.

You can also pick up Quantum Accountability on Amazon.

 

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TRANSCRIPT

[00:00:09] Victoria Peterson: How many times have you gone to a lecture and from the podium they say it’s all about your mindset. The abundant mindset. Don’t be scarcity mindset, but what is mindset and how do you develop it, and how does it impact your leadership? Welcome to another episode of Investment Great Practices. I’m Victoria Peterson, your host, and today I am with a very special guest.

[00:00:34] Victoria Peterson: His name is Dr. Kevin Kremer, the author of Quantum Accountability and what he wrote. Was a proven playbook to master your mindset. And, uh, Kevin, I am so happy to have you here. 

[00:00:49] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Thanks for having me, Mickey. It’s a pleasure. Um, it’s, it’s really nice to spend the time with you. 

[00:00:55] Victoria Peterson: Now you’re coming in from Chico, uh, Chico, California.

[00:00:58] Victoria Peterson: I’m coming in from the big island of [00:01:00] Hawaii. Um, on the surface we don’t have a lot in common except both of you. Both of us. About 20 years ago, met a really interesting character named Tony Robbins and, and really, uh, went deep into his, uh. Tech, uh, techniques and mindsets and things like that. So let’s just start from ground zero because I think Tony is just a world icon for mindset shifts and neurolinguistics.

[00:01:28] Victoria Peterson: So maybe that’s a good place to open up this conversation about quantum accountability and the mindset work you do. 

[00:01:37] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Absolutely. You know, it was actually a dental, um, coach that told me about the movie The Secret, and I watched that and it was about how, you know, they talked about the law of attraction and then how you, how you can kind of create your reality in life.

[00:01:54] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and, and it starts from. Who you are and from within. And it takes, takes that belief system that, wait a second, [00:02:00] maybe I do have control over my destiny. So I started, you know, you go through your career and if you’re, if you’re a student of knowledge, you’re always wanting to learn and grow, and so you.

[00:02:11] Dr. Kevin Kremer: You get exceptional at dentistry. And then it’s like, well wait a second, what about everything else? And so I was looking for that mentor and even though Tony Robbins wasn’t in the Secret, I chose him and then kind of went all in on going to his courses and conferences and master university and um, and that amongst, you know, like all of us just learning from a lot of different areas and reading and growing, you kind of build this foundation and understand that wow.

[00:02:38] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Your level of success in life really comes back to. Your belief systems and, and what you feed your mind through your senses. What you’re, what you’re constantly looking at, what you’re hearing. You know, what are we doing with our time? What are we watching? Are we scrolling social media or are we engaged in a really [00:03:00] good book or learning?

[00:03:01] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and are we spending time with, um, random. People, or are we putting ourselves in really powerful peer groups and masterminds so that, that, those have been powerful things over, over the course of my career. 

[00:03:15] Victoria Peterson: That’s amazing. That’s amazing. What, so you were a dentist at the time. What impact did you start noticing, as you say, started feeding your mind different ways and, and focusing on.

[00:03:30] Victoria Peterson: Manifesting your life rather than, uh, like you write in your book, life happens for you, not to you. So what were some of the things that you noticed within your own practice once you adopted this? 

[00:03:43] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Yeah. The more you get clear. On exactly where you want to go and what your vision is, the more it starts to come through fruition.

[00:03:52] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So I really spent a lot of time on, you know, what that optimal practice looked like with a, a comprehensive [00:04:00] concierge model. So we built this flagship practice with, that looks like a. An Italian villa when you walk in and, you know, we’re in a blue collar town and then, and then we offer people a cappuccino or a drink of the month and, and, and just, we’d have these herbal toy Ls in a martini shaker with a martini glass.

[00:04:20] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and so creating these experiences for people and, and it just makes it fun. And then when, when things grow like that, or when you do that, growth happens by. Design or accident or, or it occurs and so then the question becomes, okay. What am I gonna do? And it’s like, am I gonna just kind of flat line and be my own general dentist in this office forever or am I gonna go help others?

[00:04:48] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And so I started, um, having other doctors interested in asking questions, and reps would come in and say, Hey, uh, this doctor really liked what you’re doing. He wants to talk to you. Then they’re like, Hey, will you just buy my [00:05:00] practice and I’ll work for you? And so we ended up. Having multiple locations and then I’d bring in associates and, and, um, so we, we’ve built a, um, a group of practices here in Northern California, and then it became, gosh, could you mentor and help doctors outside of, um, your own company?

[00:05:17] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So that’s where I’ve started public speaking and sharing the knowledge and then writing books about it. And we have a, a second book coming out this fall that’s a, the second in the trilogy. And so it’s, it’s fun to. It’s fun to share knowledge and and to help people at this stage in your career. 

[00:05:37] Victoria Peterson: I love it so much.

[00:05:38] Victoria Peterson: All right. Before we move on and diving into the book, I’ve gotta ask, how many fire walks did you do? 

[00:05:43] Dr. Kevin Kremer: I think five. 

[00:05:45] Victoria Peterson: Wow. You’ve got me deep.

[00:05:50] Victoria Peterson: Hmm, I remember the first one almost seemed easy, you know? ’cause you’re, you’re naive and you’re pumped up and you’re there and you’re just like, yes. And then the second one, I [00:06:00] thought, oh, I’m an O pro. And you know, you have to say a full bodied yes before your foot hits the coal. And I didn’t say yes out loud, I just gave him like a water skier’s thumbs up.

[00:06:12] Victoria Peterson: And my foot hit the coal and I felt the heat and I went. Hell yeah. It’s like it was a real big yes at that point. And uh, sure enough, the, the whole walk I got off and that first foot had burns, but the other foot did not. Now tell me. I just use that as evidence of mind over matter and, and these intangible pieces have more power than we know, you know?

[00:06:43] Victoria Peterson: So at first I was committed, but not full body commitment. Had the consequence. Then instantly when I had that full body commitment, everything changed. And there’s three things that I took away from your book. One was quantum accountability. The one was quantum action [00:07:00] and the third was quantum abundance.

[00:07:02] Victoria Peterson: So talk to me a little bit about qu quantum accountability and some of these nonphysical influences your thoughts and things like that. Um, that impact. 

[00:07:15] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Okay, I wanna mention the fire walk since you brought it up and then I’ll get into that. So I thought I had the same experience. So, you know, you do this fire walk and it’s like, and then it, you do it and it’s like, oh.

[00:07:25] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And then people start talking, ow. It’s just the coals weren’t that hot, or, oh, it’s all in, oh, they’re hot. It’s really not that big of a deal. Da da da. And then one time I did it and I, we went out to eat somewhere after, even, even though it’s like one in the morning or whatever, found a place to have a bite to eat.

[00:07:40] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And my feet, a couple were. Areas were tingling. Like, Ooh, wow. And I, and I checked them. I had some burn spots, like, Ooh, you gotta be careful. You really gotta be in state for this. So my wife, uh, we, we really loved the, the message. So we took our kids and our youngest son at the time, I think he was, uh, he was like [00:08:00] 11 years old.

[00:08:01] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and it’s a big thing, you know, it’s, there’s, there’s a lot of. Fear to overcome. Yeah. And at the time at that, that one, I think it was down in Miami and, and Tony had pit bull come on stage and he is singing the whole fire song and, and all of that. And he’s, and he’s singing on stage right before, and he gave a talk about how his aunt would drive him to, to school.

[00:08:23] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And she’s listened to these silly Tony Robbins tapes and he said, what is this guy? And then he, and then he talked about how it was so influential in his life. So my young, we all get up to the firewalk that night. We’re going in order, and my youngest son’s going first, and he pulls off to the side and doesn’t go.

[00:08:38] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And then we go, I go and my wife goes, other kids go, and he’s not going. Then all of a sudden he steps in and he does it. You know, after you come through, you’re cheering and celebrating and, and you know, I, we said, Hey, Luke, what, what was it? What got into you? He goes, you know what I. I wasn’t gonna do it, but then I was listened to pit [00:09:00] Bull and his message was on stage that sometime you just gotta get up there and say F it, you know?

[00:09:06] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And he was, he’s a little kid, so we didn’t say the real f worry, but that’s good. It was really cute for a little 11-year-old to go, like, you know, have this moment of overcoming fear. And, and, and I think that’s important in mindset is, is a lot of times, um. We second guess ourself. We overthink ourselves and then we, we, we let self derived fear get in the way of really taking action towards some really powerful, meaningful goals in life.

[00:09:33] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So what you mentioned with quantum accountability, quantum action and quantum, uh, abundance is what I, I call the quantum awareness model. And the, the reason I call it quantum is, is essentially it’s. It’s things out there that we don’t comprehend with our normal senses. We don’t smell it. We don’t see it.

[00:09:56] Dr. Kevin Kremer: We don’t hear it, but it’s, it’s this energy, this [00:10:00] vibration, this frequency. And then if we go too deep into the, the physics of it, people get kind of, Ooh, this guy’s kind of woo woo. New agey or something. So, so the gist of it is. That there’s something out there, okay. In the ether, if you will, that that exists, that, that helps dictate our life.

[00:10:20] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And the accountability is in really taking, we can’t see our thoughts, you know, we can’t see our beliefs or what we’re thinking. Um, but if we take, if we own those or take accountability for those, and then we start to really, um, derive what is important in those belief systems. Those virtues, um, then we will drive that will determine what action steps we take in life.

[00:10:48] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So the action is really where the rubber hits the road in life. And that’s what our second book is called, quantum Action. And I have a whole playbook in that on how you build [00:11:00] your life and how you daily move towards. The life you want to go, starting with determining, um, your living obituary, your core values, and, um, your, what’s, what’s really foundationally important to you is a sense of purpose and then breaking it into specific categories and then drilling down from there and putting a, a monthly, weekly, daily cadence into it.

[00:11:26] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So you do that if you, if you do the mindset work. Then you take the right action steps. The outcome and result of that is the abundance. It’s that you, that you receive in life. And that’s what I call a quantum awareness model. And it’s this revolving never ending, um, flow of, of energy and thoughts and choices and, and actions in our life.

[00:11:55] Victoria Peterson: I love that. And I know you mentor so many doctors and teens. [00:12:00] How, when you first meet people and they’re going through this work, um, how many of, how many do you have to say? Have you ever questioned your thoughts? Like, do you have I have a feeling that people go through life. I have a thought it must be true.

[00:12:16] Victoria Peterson: I. Rather than learning to that it’s okay to question your thoughts. Do 

[00:12:21] Dr. Kevin Kremer: you? Yeah. You know, coach a plastic surgeon who, what was it in the fifties, Maxwell Maltz wrote this great book on and he called, it was called Psycho-Cybernetics. So here’s this plastic surgeon that’s doing like nose, have you, have you read it?

[00:12:35] Victoria Peterson: No, but I want, 

[00:12:36] Dr. Kevin Kremer: so he steals nose jobs and all of this and these different things. And what he found is like some people would come in and they would hate themselves. He’d do plastic surgery and make ’em beautiful. They still hated themselves. Other people maybe had a bigger nose than normal, but it was acceptable and they loved who they were.

[00:12:57] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So he talked about this concept of this [00:13:00] self-image. And one thing that I think was really important for me to learn and and is important for people is to understand that we are not our thoughts and we don’t have to subscribe to all of them. If kinda let ’em fly through and we can choose what we’re gonna grasp and focus on.

[00:13:21] Victoria Peterson: Yeah. I love, thank you for bringing that out. I don’t think that we can repeat that often enough, you know, and, uh, I, I think that was probably one of the biggest things I learned from Tony was to be bold with pattern interrupts. You know, when someone is just in this negative, I can’t, I won’t, they won’t, we won’t.

[00:13:41] Victoria Peterson: Da da. I’m hanging at the end of my rope, you know? I’m like, well, what color is your rope? 

[00:13:47] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Right? 

[00:13:47] Victoria Peterson: And is it. 

[00:13:49] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Yeah. 

[00:13:49] Victoria Peterson: Is it tied around your foot? Are you swinging? Are, are you, are you going out across a river? And they’re like, well, it’s not that kind of rope. And I was like, all right, well now, now let’s have a better conversation.

[00:13:58] Victoria Peterson: What is it really [00:14:00] like? You realize you’re not hanging from a rope. 

[00:14:04] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and I think that’s why when, when I, um, you know, look at potential dentists for our abundant Dentist Academy is, is I wanna do a. Consultation with them first to see if they qualify because certain people, they’re stuck in this victim mindset, you know, where it’s the poor me.

[00:14:22] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So, so Carol Dweck, um, you know, wrote the book and, and she talked about growth versus fixed mindset. Well, we took that in our book and, and created this mindset continuum where fixed is in the middle and above that is optimism. And then growth. And then abundance. And below that is. Pessimism than scarcity than victim.

[00:14:42] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And some people just like to sit around and wallow in their poor me and oh my gosh. And you know what? You are not going to get anywhere in life if you’re stuck there and it’s just, oh, and you’re, you’re full of excuses or reasons why didn’t th things didn’t happen. And I gotta tell you, you know. [00:15:00] Some of the most wealthy and most successful people I know something really bad happened to them in their childhood and they overcame it and said, took it as fuel for huge success.

[00:15:16] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So that, that, that mindset is, is where it all starts. 

[00:15:22] Victoria Peterson: It’s, it’s like you’re looking at my list of questions. I was gonna ask you about the, the, this mindset continuum from victim to abundance. You explained that so well. And is that in the quantum accountability book, or is that coming out in your next 

[00:15:37] Dr. Kevin Kremer: No, it is in that, that first book.

[00:15:39] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Okay. 

[00:15:41] Victoria Peterson: I love it. Well take this, take this home to me more like in practice. So accountability is a really big buzz word. What what makes. What makes your book Quantum? What is quantum accountability? How is that different? 

[00:15:57] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So the, the quantum in [00:16:00] for, for a an average person and I, you know, whatever that the definition is, is, but to simplify it and make it understandable, it’s just, it’s taking the time to think about and manu and construct I.

[00:16:15] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Okay. Um. I’ll say in another relation to that, um. Angus Fletcher, Ohio State just wrote Primal Intelligence and, and you know, there’s all this about AI right now, and AI is gonna take over the world and robots and all that and, and maybe it’s gonna happen. His argument is that there are certain intelligences.

[00:16:38] Dr. Kevin Kremer: I, I, I jokingly, when people are talking about ai, I’ll talk about, well. Hi is gonna do this, you know, human intelligence, right? So, so there are certain things humans are, are better at, and if you can’t convert it to a zero or a one, so, so human intelligence is, um, his argument is, it’s, it’s common sense, it’s imagination and, and it’s [00:17:00] the, it’s creativity.

[00:17:01] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So, so what I, the, the point I’m trying to make is if you start there and you think about. Where your creativity, your imagination and, and put down on paper ideas or you know, that, that, that, like sometimes in the morning when your mind’s maybe still in theta, do some journaling and, and, and start to compile these things and then use that into, um, where you wanna go in your life and how you direct it.

[00:17:29] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So that’s, that’s how I would define is, is taking. Whether you’re, uh, you know, you’ve got sensory antennas or, or your thoughts or whatever and what’s coming to you as, as a receiver of information and then what of that is like, really resonates with you and then okay, I want that to be a part of my life.

[00:17:52] Victoria Peterson: Yeah, I love that. I’ve experienced that in my own life where. You know, you’re, you’re [00:18:00] ruminating on something and, and you set the intention before you go to bed. I, I always go to bed and I call on my angels of health. Thank you for which all of this is internal really, but thank you for the miracles that are happening in my body.

[00:18:14] Victoria Peterson: I know that I’m re when I rest and I sleep, my cells are being restored. My body is being restored. So thank you for the sleep. I know I will have. So that you can do your work. I like, I give my angels, I give, I give spirit, I give the quantum field, I give it instructions. Like, thank you. That’s my mindset is, um, you’re here for my benefit.

[00:18:34] Victoria Peterson: I’m here for your benefit. Let’s work together on that. And then I also, if I’m working on a big problem or I’m stuck or I’m really afraid of things, uh, you know, I’ll, I’ll put that mindset. Seed of, you know, as I, as I’m in dream time tonight, uh, reorganize my thought patterns so that I wake up refreshed with, with different ways, uh, of looking at this.

[00:18:57] Victoria Peterson: And I think that’s a quantum activity of [00:19:00] believing in, in the power of. Like AI will never, you mentioned it is, it is not creative, it’s not imaginative. It is. It has learned what we have taught it, but it doesn’t know everything we know, and it hasn’t yet captured our souls. So as long as I’m analog, I’m breathing, I’m biological, I may lose my job, I may lose my house, I may lose everything materially, but source is my source.

[00:19:28] Victoria Peterson: I created it once. You could create it again. So that creativity piece was what really drew me to your work, and one of the things that I gathered from it is to, to have that level of accountability and, and freedom and your thinking. There’s a word in Hawaii called ho, which I’m sure you’re familiar. How are 

[00:19:50] Dr. Kevin Kremer: you?

[00:19:50] Dr. Kevin Kremer: You’re just gonna bring that up. Beat me to it. 

[00:19:53] Victoria Peterson: I told you we were twin spirits. So you, you call that out in your book and say, you [00:20:00] know, this level of accountability, this conversation with. Self. ’cause this isn’t a, this isn’t about holding others accountable, or you as a coach holding anybody accountable.

[00:20:11] Victoria Peterson: This is a conversation with yourself. And so take us into that, that concept of ho ano. 

[00:20:18] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So, um, I have this on my desk right here. All right. And, uh, this says, I’m sorry. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. All right. And yeah, Dr. Hulen, um, in, in, in, when he worked with the, uh, mentally psych ward and, and used that technol technique was beautiful.

[00:20:35] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So, well that one I look at like, um, my three most important virtues. Um. Thank you is gratitude. Okay, so if we, you know, attitude of gratitude or if we’re in a state of gratitude, we’re, we’re focusing on what’s right with something rather than what’s wrong. I love you as love, which is arguably the most [00:21:00] powerful virtue in the world.

[00:21:02] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Some might say, you know, if you look at David Hawkins work and, uh, he might say Joy is higher than love, but, um, uh, we don’t need to argue about that. They’re both amazing. So, and then, uh. Please forgive me, and I’m sorry, is forgiveness. Right? And, and, and, you know, forgiveness is, is huge and, and you know, whether you’re, regardless of your religion or you know, whether you’re Christian or whatnot, I, I, I, I tell my wife, you know, it’s my, it’s not my job to judge people, you know?

[00:21:29] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and it, it, it’s like if we can forgive other people and, and forgive ourselves for things, it, it, it’s so funny, like every. Political, religious war is this or that. It’s all over. People battling over what they think is right rather than being in a state of love, gratitude, and forgiveness and, and, um, [00:22:00] I don’t know.

[00:22:00] Dr. Kevin Kremer: It’s, it’s, uh, the whole concept of just. Having some sort of a mantra of what you’re gonna say to yourself and what you’re gonna focus on is, is powerful and I gotta tell you. Leadership is all about balancing, like, okay, well what if your team member does something that’s really inappropriate and you’ve trained them and they should know better, how do you forgive ’em versus writing them up?

[00:22:25] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And, and sometimes, you know, the concept of tough, tough love or people keeping, holding people accountable is you, you have to understand the difference and, you know. I feel my belief system is we are all on this quest. Our life is a quest and, and the opportunity is to learn and grow and improve and help others and, and I’m at this stage in my life and my career, where my primary question now is.

[00:22:51] Dr. Kevin Kremer: How can I help you? And, and so I wanna be able to help other people. And I, I’m still growing, I still struggle [00:23:00] with it. I, I can have, you know, days where I’m not the best boss to my team or, or whatnot, and I’m, you know, CEO have to like, go in and make some difficult decisions, you know, but yeah. Uh, that, that phrase I carry with me in my wallet and I pull it out and I read it to myself.

[00:23:20] Dr. Kevin Kremer: I was. Texting it earlier today and, um, it’s part of my life. 

[00:23:28] Victoria Peterson: Yeah, and I think, I think that that is. Forgiveness, self-forgiveness. Compassion is, uh, a really difficult thing for people. Um, particularly if you’ve gone through the gauntlet of, of scientific education and precision and you fail ’cause you didn’t put floss around a rubber dam, you know, like.

[00:23:53] Victoria Peterson: Everything. The outcome was beautiful, but you’re wrong. You know, like dental school, [00:24:00] just to me. Hi. I was, I’m not a dentist, I was a hygienist. But it seemed like, um, it, it, it really taught you how to highlight what’s not working, what’s wrong, and, and develop that critical eye, which is so needed. I mean, you’re, you’re.

[00:24:16] Victoria Peterson: You’re doing replacement body parts in a really sensitive area of the body. I want you, I want you as my surgeon to be really precise. 

[00:24:25] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Yeah. 

[00:24:25] Victoria Peterson: But, but it’s hard to turn that off when things don’t go well in our lives. And, and we blame our, I, I hear it all the time. Doctors say, well, I’m just not a really good leader and this and that.

[00:24:38] Victoria Peterson: I think, I think dentists are great leaders and they don’t give themselves enough. Credit. It is incredibly hard. I know you owned multiple practices, as you said. I, I actually thought it was fun. I, I used the word fun after all the years of being a, a coach and a consultant and starting an ad agency. I thought, this is great.

[00:24:59] Victoria Peterson: I’ll, [00:25:00] I’m now gonna conquer the one thing I have, which was owning dental practices. So I don’t do anything little. I bought three in the same month. Then I had two more in the wings that I closed on within six months. And you’ll love this. I lived in Seattle and they were located in Wisconsin. So I am a long distance new owner of practices and to make it even more interesting, we were replacing legacy doctors like yourself with first year dental school graduates.

[00:25:31] Victoria Peterson: So service makes change, ownership changed all of that. You know, and I, what an interest. I, I had so many opportunities to forgive myself

[00:25:45] Victoria Peterson: because I was making mistakes left and right because it, it was a totally different environment. And at, at 1.1 of my regional manager, who was just a really amazing person, and she’s still with the company I [00:26:00] exited in 2018 with five locations and they’ve now grown it to 16, and I think that’s, that’s a really good mark for the structure that was put in place.

[00:26:09] Victoria Peterson: But at some point she said, you really do have to stop being so hard on yourself. You know, you’re doing the best you can with what you have. So if anybody is out there right now and they’re being a little too hard on themselves, um, and you know, in dentistry we get, we get hard, like we don’t do anything little.

[00:26:29] Victoria Peterson: We’re gonna go all in on it. And, and some people, you know, choose to make permanent decisions, you know, to things that are almost always temporary. So if someone’s out there struggling. All of this and leadership and forgiveness and this, this all sounds like really pretty words. Victoria and Kevin living in Chico, California and Hawaii, easy for you.

[00:26:54] Victoria Peterson: What would you say to those that are, that might be on that scarcity, victim [00:27:00] hurting kind of phase right now? 

[00:27:03] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Well, you know, I actually just spoke at a dental school a couple weeks ago in the area to the, uh, upcoming graduating class, and I. I like working with young doctors because, um, they haven’t developed bad habits.

[00:27:19] Dr. Kevin Kremer: You know, I, I see. I’ll work with some doctors that are 5, 10, 20 years out and I’m like, oh my gosh. Wow. You’ve been practicing this week a couple of years, and, and it’s like. So I like the young doctors and, and this, I told them, I, you know, and, and I’ll talk to other docs who’ve been out while, oh, these new grads, they’ve like watched one root canal and that’s it.

[00:27:39] Dr. Kevin Kremer: You know, they’ve done more than that. But, but the thing is, is. If it’s the right type of person, I can teach them more of the skill. But what’s great about the young doctors is if, if they are open to learn and they are, and they’re looking for mentorship, and they, they soak it up like a sponge. And it’s like, you talk about being hard on yourself.

[00:27:58] Dr. Kevin Kremer: We have a, um, a [00:28:00] monthly study club here in town and all of our doctors attend and, and they’ll go, oh gosh, this happened. And, you know, it happens to all of us where, oh, um. You know, the, an implant failed or, or this crown fractured. A person’s having sensitivity after, after a composite. And, and I just, I walk ’em through ’em and reassure ’em.

[00:28:22] Dr. Kevin Kremer: It’s, it’s really good for them to hear that, you know, oh yeah, I’ve had that happen tons of times, and here’s how we approach it. This is the way we look at it. This is how we communicate it. And then you can see ’em kind of like. Ah, so it’s just surrounding yourself around people that you can share knowledge with and people that can give you good advice and help you see that, oh, okay, that’s not so bad.

[00:28:50] Dr. Kevin Kremer: That happens to everybody. So it’s, it’s the whole thing about don’t be too hard on yourself, you know, love yourself, um, and be humble about [00:29:00] it. But know that, that, uh, you know, they call it, uh, a dental practice for a reason. Right. That’s what they would always there for. You know, we’re, we’re, we’re constantly improving and getting better, so.

[00:29:12] Victoria Peterson: Well, thanks for bringing us the mental practice to go along with it. That’s amazing. Oh, it has been such a pleasure having you here. I, I’ve saved the most interesting question for last. Um, you co-wrote this book with your wife Kelly. Mm-hmm. So what was it like building the framework together? How did your, tell us about her background.

[00:29:34] Victoria Peterson: How did that fit together to shape this book? 

[00:29:37] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Oh my gosh. So, um. Kelly’s a master’s in, in education with a a, um, a bachelor’s in psychology and, and, um, development. So she’s got a lot of background in this kind of stuff and the, the mental side of things. And, um, if you know the Kolby et all, I’m a quick starting, she’s a follow through.

[00:29:57] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So we’re like yin and [00:30:00] yang sometimes. It’s perfect. When it works, but also sometimes it’s like you’re butting heads and going back and forth. So it, it’s a real, uh, it, it’s been fun. And, um, it’s, uh, 

[00:30:13] Victoria Peterson: do you like, let’s go, let’s go. And she’s like, slow your little band. Slow it down. 

[00:30:17] Dr. Kevin Kremer: All right. I’m like, I wanna, I want to just get going.

[00:30:19] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And she’s like, so, so 

[00:30:20] Victoria Peterson: that, too many priorities, 

[00:30:22] Dr. Kevin Kremer: dude mesh there. But it, it’s been really cool. And, and we just, we actually just got the second book to the editor a couple of weeks ago. Um. To get to publisher for the fall. But, uh, yeah, I think, I think we’re a good duo with those things. And, and I wrote that book, or we wrote it for the masses because it’s not, it’s not just for doctors or dentists, but, um, I, I do my mentoring and, and coaching in dentistry specific because I know both, uh.

[00:30:53] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Those foundations of success and how to run successful dental practices in the business side [00:31:00] and all of that too. So as you do Victoria, 

[00:31:04] Victoria Peterson: well, I can’t thank you enough for being here. Um, the, the concept of investment grade came about because. It was more than the financial, you know, investment is, you know, like priest and when you go into sacred ceremony, you put your investment on.

[00:31:23] Victoria Peterson: And so it really is a holistic way of looking at life. It’s a holistic way of who you are and how you show up is going to influence everything around you, particularly your dental practice, more than the systems that we might build. You know, um, so the systems give you the framework, but how you show up and you’ve just given us so much to, to think about here today and, and dawning investing ourselves, investing in our mindsets, investing in compassion for ourselves, investing in people you [00:32:00] know, that you surround yourself with.

[00:32:01] Victoria Peterson: So. That’s right. Copay. My dog likes that too. So, Kevin, why don’t you tell people, uh, you know, what you’re up to and how they could reach out and connect with you? Uh, if they wanna get started, Wayne? 

[00:32:16] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Sure. Yeah. So, um, our new, uh, all OnX Dental Implant Surgery center that we built, um, also as a training institute.

[00:32:24] Dr. Kevin Kremer: So we have digital workflow for all OnX and do some implant training, but I’m not really a. I’m not, my niche isn’t to train people on how to be a great clinical implantologist or dentist with, with, um, um, we, we, we create what we call super GPS in our, in our company and in our, in our academy. So mine is more about discovering that person where they are, really help them discover where they want to go in life and help them to get there.

[00:32:55] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And that often includes. Being a more productive [00:33:00] dentist and having more efficient systems and all of those things. So part of our Kramer Leadership Institute is the Abundant Dentist Academy and, and, um, I think we’re kindred spirits on that Victoria. And we, we both know, you know, through collaboration there’s plenty of people to help in the world.

[00:33:17] Dr. Kevin Kremer: And so people can go to abundant dentist.com to learn about more about that and they can. Choose a, uh, book Calendly for a 30 minute complimentary call where we can just chat and see if I can help ’em in any, any way. Um, and then, you know, the, uh, the second book will be coming out in the fall. Um, and the first one, um, was featured in, uh, USA today and became an Amazon bestseller, so that was really cool.

[00:33:43] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Um, so I will continue to, um, mentor and lead and help, uh, in any way I can on this, on this, uh, quest that we call life. And I can tell Victoria that you’re a very [00:34:00] kind, compassionate soul and it radiates out of who you are. So it’s, it’s been a pleasure spending this time with you. 

[00:34:08] Victoria Peterson: Well, thank you so much, uh, quantum Accountability.

[00:34:11] Victoria Peterson: If you don’t already have that on your bookshelf, please go to Amazon right now and purchase that. It is, it is going to change your life. Uh, I, I loved, uh, uh, I have skimmed it and I’ve summarized it. Now I’m ready to do my deep dive on it. 

[00:34:30] Dr. Kevin Kremer: Thank you. 

[00:34:31] Victoria Peterson: Thank you once again for this episode of investment great practices.

[00:34:35] Victoria Peterson: Uh, Kevin, it was such a pleasure having you here today. 

[00:34:38] Dr. Kevin Kremer: My pleasure. It was wonderful to talk to you.