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AUTUMN 2017 My Life Was Saved & I Got Unstuck! Kimberly Culp Embracing Life’s Hardest Lessons Cris Duval When Life Paralyzes You, Literally! Deana Zost PLUS: Leadership’s Secret Sauce Create an Asset to Sell with Your Dental Consulting Business Own or Associate: Which is Best for a Balanced Lifestyle? dew.life Dental Entrepreneur Woman 1 Start your own private practice. Be your own boss. D5 is here to help you: • Start and manage your own private practice • Receive tips and guidance from practicing dentists • Find freedom and flexibility in creating your schedule • Control your dental career — and your future Subscribe today at D5byPatterson.com Follow us on Start your own private practice. 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Offer expires 12/31/2017 As we move into the Thanksgiving season, my heart is full of gratitude for all of you that came to the table for DeW Life mag. We now have over 140 amazing bloggers on our site sharing their stories and inspiration for all of you. I am so humbled by the courage and vulnerability our contributors show as Autumn 2017 Social Media they continue to share their message on inspiration, Editor and Publisher Rita Zamora information and dedication. Our gracious sponsors Anne M. Duffy, RDH Connections are handpicked and truly came to bond with us, showing their support and desire to lift all women in dentistry to new heights. As Johnette Green states in Assistant Editor Charter Sponsors her article, “In the U.S., 60 percent of all practicing dentists under the age of 44 Michael Duffy A-dec are women, and some researchers estimate that by the year 2020, dentistry will Crest be a female-dominated profession.” Managing Director Mary Fisher-Day Think about the teams and the women out there supporting this phenomena! Patti D’Agata Inspired Hygiene Yes, the pipeline is filling with strong female leaders, and you are invited to Patterson D5 get in the pool. All of you are important. All of you have a great story. We must Creative Consultant Patterson Fuse collaborate with each other, for what you do, I cannot do and what I do, you Beth Linesch Shofu cannot do. Together we DeW! You will love this issue. I feel you will appreciate others’ struggles and how Design and Layout Advisors to the Board they persevered and triumphed. I just read the first proof and I like it. Our cover Brian Rummel Katherine Eitel-Belt DeW, Kimberly Culp, is quite the dental entrepreneur woman. No joke. Kimberly Linda Miles has overcome much adversity to get to where she is today, a truly successful Production woman with a multitude of business ventures and an eye for raising others up [CURAtive] Board along with her. James B. Kennedy Lois Banta Reilly Williams Kristine A Berry Cris Duval is another inspiration, and she writes about embracing life’s hard Shannon Pace Brinker decisions and thinking positively to enrich yourself and others personally Autumn Contributors Dr. Tanya Brown and professionally. The way you approach adversity can go a long way in Kimberly Culp Bonnie Hixson your overall well-being, as she learned many times over after dealing with the Cris Duval Janice Hurley untimely and unrelated deaths of two siblings, her father and her husband. She Deana Zost Suzanne Kump also offers a guide to using the lessons she’s learned to improve your dental Linda Drevenstedt Tonya Lanthier practice. Julie Weir Dr. Carmen Leary Johnette Green Anastasia Turchetta Rice I was also quite interested in Julie Weir’s contribution about how to optimize Kimberly Donavan Rachel Wall a dental-consulting business and make it more sellable. There are so many Deborah Carrier Rita Zamora points she makes that even I hadn’t thought of before. Yes, it might be daunting Dr. Betty Orr to sell a business that you’ve spent lots of sweat equity building, but as Julie Junior Board learned, it can be rewarding – both financially and spiritually – when you find Cover Photography: Jennifer Chevalier the right buyer and offer. Suzette Hibble Dr. Neha Garge She Photography Dr. Erinne Kennedy There are several other authors in this edition that I’m sure will inspire you and Rachel Mele cause you to consider an aspect of the industry that you might have overlooked. Web Design Dr. Amisha Singh This issue – and DeW from online to print – is for you, about you and by you. Jameson Management Editorial Office I am more motivated than ever to continue this mission. It is all in front of us, 12233 Pine Valley Club Dr because DeWs never stop pushing forward. Charlotte NC 28277 704-953-0261 Love you for DeW-ing it with us! Fax 704-847-3315 [email protected] FB, Instagram, LinkedIn Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat Anne Send materials to: DeW Life Magazine 8334 Pineville Matthews Rd Ste. 103-201 Charlotte NC 28226 4 Dental Entrepreneur Woman AUTUMN 2017 Contents 6 12 20 My Life was saved and Embracing Life’s when Life paraLyzes You, i Got unstuck! hardest LessOns LiteraLLy! KimberLy CuLp Cris duvaL deana Zost 22 26 30 create an asset tO Own Or assOciate: which seLL with Your dentaL is Best fOr a BaLanced cOnsuLting Business You have One chance LifestyLe? JuLie Weir deborah Carrier Johnette Green 32 34 36 Leadership’s secret reinventing Me sauce a peacefuL prOtOcol KimberLy donovan Linda drevenstedt dr. betty orr dew.life Dental Entrepreneur Woman 5 MY LIFE WAS SAVED AND I GOT UNSTUCK! By Kimberly Culp The JOB Life Coach * KimberlyCulp.com DeW-ersSTYLE Romans 8:18: “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Not knowing that this scripture would be the testimony of my life, it easily became one of my favorites. Raised in Compton, California, I was the youngest girl of five siblings. Even though our family was large, we lived a great life. My mothered worked as a registered nurse, while my father was an aluminum worker. Living in California, I knew that Hollywood was the place for me. I set high hopes on becoming a movie star or finding an occupation dealing with teeth. While it seemed I had life all planned out, something I didn’t plan was losing my father when I was 13. My father was shot and killed as an innocent bystander – a life changing event that surely wouldn’t be the last in my life. I would get through it because God would never put more After my father’s death, my family and I relocated to on me than I could bear. They were right. Being pregnant, another city in California that required me to change my relationship with God grew tremendously, and through schools. In high school, I was a competitive gymnast it all, I completed the Long Beach State Dental Assistant and was also pretty good at softball. My dream of being program. Soon after, I moved to Georgia with my husband. a TV superstar never took off, but my interest in dentistry At only 25, I started my very own dental staff assistant skyrocketed. At a young age, I was accepted into an program. Looking from the outside in, one would say assistant dental program, which was a once-in-a-lifetime that I had the perfect life, but it was far from that. What chance that very few people my age got. The tools I people didn’t see was I was a victim of abuse. Out of a gained from this program helped me excel in the field of 20-year relationship, 13 of those years I was physically dentistry. In addition, it allowed me to excel in a dentistry and verbally abused by my husband. This was something company that I would soon own. All these great things I had no idea how to escape, and I didn’t understand why were happening to me, and I had just graduated from God would put me through this. But these trials I went high school, but you know how life goes … too many great through would soon become my purpose and testimony. things can’t happen without something bad also occurring. Right before college, I got pregnant and was terrified. At It wasn’t until one day when a student I trained found me the time, I thought being pregnant at such a young age beat unconscious on my basement floor that I gained the was a bad thing; but my grandmother reassured me that strength to leave my husband. My husband threatened to having a child was a blessing. She and my mother told me kill me, and he took everything, including all of my money.