On the podcast this week I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Emily Letran. Dr. Letran is a general dentist who owns two multi-specialty group practices in Southern California. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from UC Riverside in three years. She is a graduate of UCLA School of Dentistry (Dean’s Apollonian Scholarship) and received her Master of Science in Oral Biology from UCLA at the same time in four years. After graduation, she participated in the General Practice Residency at Loma Linda VA Medical Center and a mini-residency at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center (both in CA.).
As a mother of three, Dr. Letran creatively balances work, family life, after-school life and her personal life as a growing entrepreneur. She continuously takes courses in clinical dentistry, practice management and marketing, attending multiple business forums to improve her skills to better serve patients. Her favorite activities include reading, creative writing, and “hanging out” with her three children - whether playing tennis, watching Netflix or enjoying Starbucks together.
Dr Letran is an author of several books. “From Refugee to Renaissance Woman” shares her story coming to the US as a refugee at 13 years old, and her newest book, “Commit to Embracing Your Big Life” offers insights and strategies to building a strong business.
Dr. Letran is also a Certified High Performance Coach, helping business professionals achieve highest performance in personal and business life, streamline business and increase profits, winning back time from work so they can enjoy that time with their family, children and pursue their passion.
Dr. Letran is actively involved in community services, sponsoring multiple local school and charity events. She created the Emily Letran Foundation dedicated to providing basic dental care to veterans and families of disadvantaged background, including the monthly Free Dentistry Day, where she and her dental team work to provide free dentistry for the less fortunate in area communities. Her Foundation is raising funds to attain a mobile dental unit where she can carry her services to outreached communities. The Foundation will also provide scholarships for high performance coaching to help business owners from disadvantaged background get a jump start in growing and accelerating their businesses.
With such an interesting background and life there is little wonder I was so pleased to talk to Emily on my show.
On the podcast we discussed:
Dr Letran’s background and how she born in Vietnam and left during the civil war as a refugee - eventually starting her life in the USA Her desire to help business professionals maximize their potential, streamline their business, increase profits and win back time for family and pursuing their passion How hiring her first Associate taught her the value of leverage and how it’s possible to scale businesses through leveraging resources An important aspect of leverage is training and metrics – make sure everyone is trained well and make sure they know the metrics that they / the team are being measured by for success Why she likes her staff take personality tests to find out more about their personality-type. This helps to ensure that people work to their strengths and not their weaknesses What team members can do specifically to improve profitability of the practice How getting the most out of the people who work for you really starts with understanding what they want and what drives them Having the courage to deal with difficult situations like letting people go How Emily found her calling to share her knowledge in order to help others How important it is to find coaches/mentors and to be very specific on what you want to be coached inEmily has a free ebook that you can download where she shares her story and her business strategies - click here to download.
You can reach Emily via her website- www.DrEmilyLetran.com
