change Archives - Lolabees Career Coaching https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/tag/change/ Getting Real About Your Dental Career Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-BumbleBee.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 change Archives - Lolabees Career Coaching https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/tag/change/ 32 32 141275061 The Dentist Who Tried Everything https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/dentist-who-tried-everything/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/dentist-who-tried-everything/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:42:00 +0000 https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=10570 “I’ve tried everything, and I’m still stuck,” said a dentist the other day. There is a silent epidemic going on in dentistry. The daily work vibe has changed in recent years. Now dentists have to worry about more than just doing their best clinical work. They have to worry about Google reviews, maintaining a reliable team, and how to navigate changed social norms. I believe it’s a result of social media. Many have told me that patients have changed since Covid– that they’re harder to work with because they have higher entitlements and, frankly, aren’t as nice. With all these […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/dentist-who-tried-everything/feed/ 4 10570 The Wake-up Call for Change https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/wake-up-call-for-change/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/wake-up-call-for-change/#comments Wed, 25 May 2022 14:27:00 +0000 https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=9201 What is your wake-up call for change? I originally wrote this blog post, The Wake-up Call for Change, on March 30, 2021. It has since allowed me to form a beautiful friendship with Parul Dua Makkar, the sister of Manu Dua. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because we all knew Manu. Manu had started blogging and had dreams and plans to turn his writings into a book. He never had the chance to see it to fruition, so in big-sisterly fashion, Parul jumped in to keep her brother’s legacy alive. She worked hard to create and publish Manu’s book, […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/wake-up-call-for-change/feed/ 5 9201 Celebrating New Beginnings: One Dentist’s Career Change into Real Estate https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-change-dentist-real-estate/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-change-dentist-real-estate/#comments Tue, 03 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7376 In 2018 I began connecting with other dental professionals who made career changes after becoming unhappy in their dental careers. I began an interview series I called Celebrating New Beginnings and wanted to showcase real people like you and me who were able to shift. Mark was one of the first dentists I interviewed. As an unhappy dentist, career change became the only option for him. I hope you enjoy Mark’s story and find inspiration in it. This week we showcase a wonderful dentist who went for it! He knew it was time to change when he found himself wishing […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-change-dentist-real-estate/feed/ 26 7376 8 Steps to Creating Change https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/10-helpful-steps-to-creating-change/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/10-helpful-steps-to-creating-change/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:53:00 +0000 http://lolabees.me/?p=4423 I wrote this blog post on March 14, 2013. At the time, I reflected on what worked for myself in creating change. Despite having no experience coaching at the time, these are some of the principles I use today to help others create their own path and design their career on their terms. If you’ve followed my blog over the past 11 years, you’ve had a front row seat to witness my huge and daunting career change. “Huge and daunting…” Hmm. Today I read that and am intrigued by that description from 11 years ago. Indeed, that was exactly how […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/10-helpful-steps-to-creating-change/feed/ 16 4423 Why It’s Hard to Quit Dentistry https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/escaping-the-cult-of-dentistry-part-2-2/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/escaping-the-cult-of-dentistry-part-2-2/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000 http://lolabees.me/?p=4322 In December of 2012, one year after having quit dentistry, I wrote this follow-up post to clarify why I compared leaving dentistry to leaving a cult. I’ve added a few updates to the post. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this! If you’ve ever wanted to quit dentistry, you probably felt like leaving your career was like leaving a cult. I recently broached this oh-so-controversial topic of whether dentistry is like a cult or not, and luckily for my ego, there wasn’t a huge backlash. Not everyone loved my analogy, but that’s okay. It sparked some interesting discussions in […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/escaping-the-cult-of-dentistry-part-2-2/feed/ 62 4322 Escaping the Cult of Dentistry https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/escaping-the-cult-of-dentistry-part-2/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/escaping-the-cult-of-dentistry-part-2/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:11:00 +0000 http://lolabees.me/?p=4257 Hard to believe I originally wrote this post about leaving dentistry on November 29, 2012. A lot has changed, and not a lot has changed in dentistry. With another leaving-dentistry anniversary behind me, I remember how grateful I am to break free from feeling trapped for so long. Years ago I received this email from a fellow dentist that inspired this blog post. It was a breath of fresh air to read “10 Reasons Your Dentist Probably Hates You Too”! As a dentist of 12 years, I could relate to your article. As a fellow colleague, I commend you for […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-downside-of-judgment/feed/ 0 8670 Career Happiness and Well-Being https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-happiness-well-being/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-happiness-well-being/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:39:26 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=8698 You know I write about career happiness a lot. Finding it and sharing it has become my mission in life. Because I know how awful it is to feel anxiety and depression from your work, I want to help you avoid that. We spend most of our waking hours there. If it creates such turmoil in your life, then you spend most of your waking hours feeling cruddy. That just doesn’t seem worth it. My message to you has always been that life is too precious to waste it feeling miserable. I’ve been writing about this and sharing my dental […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-happiness-well-being/feed/ 0 8698 Being Productive When There’s Nothing to Do https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/how-to-feel-productive/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/how-to-feel-productive/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:39:08 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=8668 How are you passing the time? If you’re at home with no “work” to do, you might be feeling kind of lost. You don’t want to sit and watch Netflix all day. You’ll go nuts if you spend any more time on Facebook. There seems to be nothing productive you can do, and yet, maybe there is. We all wish for more time at home, but under these circumstances, enjoying a forced staycation is not so easy. It would be easy if we didn’t have to close our businesses, worry about ours and our employees’ lost incomes, or become our […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/how-to-feel-productive/feed/ 2 8668 Reflections After a Year of Cancer Treatment https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/reflections-after-a-year-of-cancer-treatment/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/reflections-after-a-year-of-cancer-treatment/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:49:38 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=8591 Today was my last cancer treatment. Actually, by the time you’re reading this, it was yesterday. It’s been a strange day, one that holds a mix of emotions that leaves me unsure of how to feel. It’s good though. On the one hand, I’m beyond excited to be done. After 14 months of treatment, I never imagined arriving at this day. The idea of finishing what felt like a list of never-ending treatments, seemed impossible. I await the moments of anxiety and fear of recurrence that will pop up, and I wonder if my life will ever stay feeling normal […]

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