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Dr. Shannon Johnson: Expert Advice

S1 E12 · Dental Fuel
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Dr. Shannon Johnson wraps up our last episode providing some expert advice If you haven't met her already, she is a clinical rockstar and an amazing person.


We all can learn so much from her and I hope you will get the opportunity to meet her in your clinical journey!

Shannon Johnson grew up in a small coal mining town in eastern Kentucky. She graduated from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry in 2002 and completed her Advanced Education in General Dentistry Certificate at the University of Florida in St. Petersburg in 2003. Ever passionate about providing the very best care for her patients, Dr. Johnson is an avid continuous learner attending countless hours of continuing education each year from the professions best and brightest.  

An educator at heart, Dr. Johnson has taught at both the University of Florida and the University of Louisville. She is an associate faculty member at the Dawson Academy where Dr. Johnson dedicates time to help dentists around the world master the skills necessary to predictably restore simple to complex cases with outcomes that are both beautiful and functional. She is the current President of the Dawson Association for Complete Dentistry and leads two Dawson Academy Study Clubs.  In her free time, Dr. Johnson enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter playing board games, visiting theme parks, attending various comic conventions, crafting, and scuba diving.

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Transcript

Introduction to Dental Fuel Podcast

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Dental Fuel, the podcast that focuses on what no one else is talking about. Mistakes. The dental world is full of before and afters, and no one is talking about the middle. Dental Fuel brings you the unspoken in-between. Dental Fuel is brought to you by Doctors Disability Specialists, a team dedicated to helping dentists and physicians with disability insurance, life insurance, and comprehensive business planning.

Expanding Practice and Balancing Life

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In this episode, Dr. Johnson closes out our conversation where she talks about her future and advice that she has for dentists. What does the next five years look like for the Dr. Shannon Johnson? To be determined? No. You know, really, I love dentistry, so I really do see my practice evolving into a larger practice. Be that purchasing the office where I'm at, which I think that could be a really good thing, honestly.
00:00:54
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So we'll see. But having more chairs and doing complete dentistry in a way that I feel like it could be done, right? And the way it should be done. So I think that's going to be big. I think I will try to share more, share more of what I've done well and what I've not done well. Because I'm pretty much an open book from that standpoint. With others hoping to inspire them.
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My daughter is now, like, finished up her sophomore year in college, so in two more years, you know, and she's either doing a master's program or she's out and about, so yeah, I want to spend a lot of time with my hobby, traveling, because you know, we just celebrated our anniversary, so yeah, I want to be able to find that right work balance life, so I want to give back a lot to dentistry because it's my hobby.
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Yeah, I can definitely see you and your husband out golfing.

Advice on Self-Trust and Growth

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If you could provide some advice for our listeners, what would be some key advice you'd like them to take home with them? Key advice for your listeners.
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Trust yourself. Trust your heart. Listen to your heart. So in that period whenever I had left my practice in Florida, I kind of like mentally stayed there for a while and I got into like a woe is me because I loved what I had and what I had established there.
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And there was no reason that I couldn't have reestablished that, but I didn't listen to myself, and I kept just putting my own vision and goal for myself behind. And I would do other things, and I just felt like I was losing myself. So that would be one thing. And then always just push yourself to learn to be better tomorrow than you were today.
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And I think that's the biggest thing. And personal life, and financial life, and life in general. Just, you know, listen to yourself, trust yourself, invest in yourself, and yeah, tomorrow will be better than today. Very good. Any last thoughts before we log off

Challenging the Dental Status Quo

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here? Y'all are just so lucky to have you here, like, oh my gosh, I love it. We feel very blessed to have you here and, you know, myself to have connected with you, so. Now, my final parting words.
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Maybe not of wisdom, but I love to challenge the idea of the status quo in dentistry, and I love that you can really, truly practice any way that you want. So if you're someone where you're not happy, really step back and figure out what you want to be, and then go be it, because you can.
00:03:25
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Shannon, thank you so much

Connect with Dr. Johnson

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for your time today. If our listeners would like to connect with you, what's the best way? Email. I love it. Shannon P. Johnson at gmail.com. I'm sure you can probably give that to them somehow, some way. Yeah, we'll write it out. And then just tell me that you saw me here. OK. Otherwise, you know, I might like a word. What up, Shannon? Yeah. Otherwise, I'll be like, do I know you? But yeah, reach out to me. We can chat more. That'd be good. Well, thanks again, and thank you all for listening. Thank you.
00:03:52
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We hope that you enjoyed our conversation with Dr. Johnson. Be sure to connect with her on Instagram, at SuperSmileyCheck, and with IgniteDDS, at IgniteDDS. You can find me as well at TSMiSS.DDS. And thank you to our wonderful sponsor, Doctor's Disability Specialists. Be sure to subscribe and tune in to our future episodes.