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Join Laura Horton and Leanna Best for a light-hearted catch-up where dentistry talk meets real-life banter. No guests, no scripts — just honest conversations, laughs, and a few surprises. Tune in for our popular features, such as Banned Words and Confessions, where dental professionals share their funniest, most shocking, and downright gross stories for us to read aloud. Fresh, fun, and a little bit cheeky — welcome to the new Horton Hangout podcast 2.0 for the dental team and industry.
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Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Welcome to the debut episode of The Horton Hangout!
🎉 Laura and Leanna kick things off by sharing personal stories from their careers in dentistry, hilarious workplace nicknames, words they believe should be banned from dental practices, and insights into managing part-time roles post-maternity leave.
In this episode:
- 💬 Catching up on recent travels and time spent together in Scotland
- 🦷 Leanna’s journey into dental nursing and beyond
- 🚫 The words they recommend are banned from dental practices
- 😂 Laugh-out-loud nicknames for co-workers
- 😳 Confessions of a.. Practice Manager and TCO
- 🤱 Advice for handling flexible working requests after maternity leave
- 🧠 Why high-responsibility roles may not suit minimal part-time hours
- 🌟 Final thoughts: professional boundaries, proactive leadership, and setting the right tone in practice culture
Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome to The Horton Hangout
00:18 - Catching up & recap
01:19 - Reflections on recent team event
03:39 – Leanna’s path into dental nursing
10:12 - Banned words’
20:25 - Funny coworker nicknames
22:13 - Confession: Interviewee refused to leave – police were nearly called!
29:06 - Confession: TCO diary mix-up leads to mistaken identity
35:29 - Listener question: Managing part-time staff after maternity leave
42:13 – Leanna’s story: Stepping away after baby number two
43:15 - Closing thoughts & outro
Our links:
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Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Join Laura Horton and Leanna Best for a light-hearted catch-up where dentistry talk meets real-life banter. No guests, no scripts — just honest conversations, laughs, and a few surprises. Tune in for our popular features, such as Banned Words and Confessions, where dental professionals share their funniest, most shocking, and downright gross stories for us to read aloud. Fresh, fun, and a little bit cheeky — welcome to the new Horton Hangout podcast 2.0 for the dental team and industry.
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
- Understanding the dental trade
- Publishing in modern times
- How to win awards
- How to best market
- The importance of networking
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
In this podcast Laura had the honour to hangout with Rachel Jackson.
Rachel is the founder of Superior Smiles in Knutsford, Cheshire. Her last 17 years have been a journey of discovery, learning, upskilling, and refining in the field of dentistry. She has over 12 years’ experience as a practice manager and treatment coordinator and 3 years ago she accomplished her goal of opening a practice where the patient is at the centre of every thought process. Having worked alongside many highly skilled clinicians in high-end private practices has given her the insight, knowledge and experience to work with her team in delivering a professional, positive, and comfortable end-to-end experience for every patient. Rachel is extremely passionate about dentistry and feels privileged to work within a profession where she can make a true difference to people’s lives.
Our listeners sent in some great questions around:
- Top tips for setting up your own practice?
- If you had to do it all again….would you still set up a squat practice?
- Rachels instagram, posts and her creative ideas
- Sacrifices over the last 3 years in business
- Top tips for finding a dentist to work alongside you as a non-dentist owner
- Time management
- Dental photography
Laura and Rachel also discussed how important it has been to have clinical knowledge (of advanced procedures such as smile makeovers and rehab) in Rachel's role as a TCO, and practice owner.
Laura’s details:
https://www.facebook.com/hortonconsulting
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurahorton/
https://www.instagram.com/laurahorton1
Rachel’s details:
https://www.instagram.com/superiorsmilesknutsford/
https://www.instagram.com/missrachelj/
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Welcome to season four of the Horton Hangout podcast!
Holly and her business partner Chelsea have both been successfully helping dentists build their brand and follower lists for many years. Holly's agency ‘Drive' operates in a really unique way, utilising video content in a way I have not known before for social media. This year Chelsea and Holly teamed up and are now Social Drive. Their clients are the UK's leading dental clinics and clinicians.
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Esther is the owner of two dental practices, is a mother of 3 and has a business in reflexology.
Esther is the owner and founder of Visage Dental Spa and had a vision whilst training at Dental Collage of opening her own dental practice. Esther was training as a dental hygienist and wanted to create a practice that was different, more than just a dentist. She was passionate about dental hygiene and education and wanted her practice to be hygiene led, focused on prevention.
Now the vision has become a reality. Visage Dental Spa Harpenden was brought to reality in June 2016.
The team ensure every hygiene appointment not only cleans, brightens and whitens teeth but also focuses on educating clients to maintain a healthy mouth.
All of the dentists are carefully selected to deliver a professional, caring service. They offer patients not only examinations but cosmetic procedures to help people feel confident about their smile.
Esther is determined to create a space where people want to come with their families to keep their teeth and gums in prime condition.
Esther's attention to detail and passion to encourage people to "love their smile" is reflected in the spa style of practice she has created. From the moment you walk in the door it feels different, the smell, the welcome and the environment is relaxing. Hence the ‘spa’ like environment
In May 2019, Esther took over a Periodontal and Implant referral practice in St Albans. The staff are continuing to work alongside her and she has brought new specialists to the team, dentists, hygienist, nurses and treatment co-ordinators to ensure the 5 star service is continued.
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Nadim is a dedicated and enthusiastic dental surgeon with a proven track record in delivering the highest standards of care. Skilled in the use of sedation and hypnotherapy and aesthetic and implant orientated treatments.
Roles: Practice owner, manager and dentist
Location: Preston, Lancashire
Key facts:
Dad to twins boy and girl, opened a squat private practice in sept 2008 and the twins were born November 2008.
Read an estimated 500-600 books in the last 8 years on personal development, psychology, business and marketing.
Nadim qualified from Liverpool University in 2001, completed a diploma in Implant dentistry and has a Masters in Implantology.
Nadim has invested over £100,000 in his post grad training and over £30,000 on personal development and training (non dental related).
Is a trained NLP practitioner with Paul Mckenna training.
Learned to Code and programme in spare time and built first practice website in 2001 before many dental practices were online.
He is working hard with the local community promoting oral health.
Outside dentistry, he enjoys spending time with his family, computing/internet, keeping fit and personal development.
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
In our 4th edition of the Horton Hangout Guest we are pleased to hangout with Dr Andy Denny.
Roles: Practice owner with Dentist wife Becky who is co-owner and business manager / Dentist
Location: Somerset, England
Key facts about Dr Denny:
- Served as a Royal Navy Dental Officer for 7 years
- Set up their private practice from nothing but a ‘squat’ 15 years ago and have grown it into a regionally renown centre for multi-disciplinary cosmetic and implant dentistry
- Andy has been an examiner for the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners at the Royal College of Surgeons in London
- Has spoken nationally and internationally on orthodontics, implants, composites, multi-disciplinary dentistry and treatment planning
- Has won 3 Aesthetic dentistry awards for ‘Full Mouth Restorative Case’ and ‘Orthodontic Case – Fixed Braces (Adult)’ as well as being highly commended as Best Aesthetic practice
- Andy works 3 1/2 days a week clinically with other time spent on the business or teaching/mentoring. He avoids dentistry in the evenings and weekends and has always spent as much time as he can supporting his children with their sports/clubs/hobbies.
https://www.horton-consulting.com/courses/dentistry-academy/