The Alan Mead Experience
An entertaining and informative look at dentists and their stories.
About the show
Alan Mead is a dentist with too much time on his hands and too much recording equipment in his basement! Each week he brings you entertaining and informative content featuring interesting dental people and the stories behind them. You'll hear "Dental School Horror stories," take a ride in the "Single Use Time Machine" and hear his co-hosts give you the "90 Second Perfect Pitch." It's all good fun for dentists and the people that love them!
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Episodes
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The Lawn Mower Parable
August 10th, 2023 | 29 mins
Al tells a story of lawn mower tragedy, shame and redemption and what he learned from it.
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19 Years Since Detox (AME79)
January 9th, 2021 | 46 mins 1 sec
19 years ago Alan spent his first weekend as a recovering person in a detox center in Grand Rapids, MI.
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The Reputation of Dentists (AME078)
October 16th, 2019 | 15 mins 2 secs
Do dentists have a bad reputation? If yes, is there anything we can do about it?
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A May Well Spent (AME077)
May 31st, 2019 | 22 mins 9 secs
How do you beat podcast burnout? Well, you take May off from podcast production. That's how.
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Richard Heend Created the Internet...kind of (AME076)
February 16th, 2019 | 52 mins 4 secs
Alan introduces Richard Heend, a friend from back in junior high that introduced him to what would become his obsession with the internet!
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AME AMA (AME075)
December 22nd, 2018 | 57 mins 38 secs
Al asks the Alan Mead Experience FB group to "ask me anything." And they did!
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What I Did Last Summer (AME074)
October 27th, 2018 | 33 mins 25 secs
The AME is back from hiatus! Alan starts with a death defying horse story and then explains what he's been up to all summer.
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Episode 073: Dr. Sarah Meyer on necrotic hippo teeth
June 22nd, 2018 | 43 mins 49 secs
Alan talks to Dr. Sarah Meyer who has convinced him working on sleeping patients is awesome, and working on sleeping gorillas, tigers and bears is even more awesome!
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Episode 072: Things rolling around in the back of my mind
June 8th, 2018 | 20 mins 4 secs
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Al discusses a couple things that continue to bubble up when he's least expecting it.
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Episode 071: The AME AMA (ask me anything)
May 30th, 2018 | 39 mins 28 secs
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Al goes solo to answer a bunch of listener questions!
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Episode 070: Dr. Chris Bowman on how to talk with patients
May 16th, 2018 | 49 mins 58 secs
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Dr. Chris Bowman joins Alan to talk about some great ways to communicate with patients.
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Episode 069: Dr. Steven Vorholt is in the sweet spot
May 9th, 2018 | 48 mins 54 secs
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Dr. Steven Vorholt is a dentist in the sweet spot. He heard episode 068 of the AME and realized that the "sweet spot" I was talking about was HIM!
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Episode 068: Al takes a ride in the "Single Use Time Machine"
April 25th, 2018 | 36 mins 21 secs
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Inspired by people he met at the AACD, Al waxes philosophical about the sweet spot of being 5 years out of dental school.
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Episode 067: Dr. Frank Clayton on pig farming and single tooth dentistry
April 18th, 2018 | 47 mins 59 secs
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Alan is joined by one of the funniest people on Earth, Dr. Frank Clayton.
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Episode 066: Spring Break Hangover
April 11th, 2018 | 26 mins 14 secs
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Al is trying to decide if not wanting to come back to work after spring break says good things about him or not.
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Episode 065: Dr. Alex Sharp says, "podcasts made me buy a practice!"
March 28th, 2018 | 45 mins 44 secs
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Alan talks with Dr. Alex Sharp who tells him that listening to podcasts pushed him into ownership!