amanda with straight smile solutions streetsmoundsolutions.com and today we're going
to talk about the dental festival specifically the action to win subconference and i've done a
few other videos on conferences specifically the dental festival but they're probably buried way
back when so i wanted to recap on it and tell you a little bit more it is something super different
so first time i ever went to a dental festival so just to back it up um the dental festival is
run by um elijah desmond who is an awesome person i happen to have known him for goodness back when
he was working with invisalign and he lived in my state like it had to have been close to 15 years
ago maybe 16 a long time ago i met him he's always been very entrepreneurial i was very impressed
with him way back when and then i lost touch with him and i happened to find him on instagram
um he had some cool posts and he was putting on these festivals called smiles at sea you
probably have heard of those which are the cruise ships that would come out
um i'm not a big cruise ship person i get really seasick i don't really want to go
especially now with all the coveted stuff so he is basically rebranded maybe they'll be cruise
ships later but he has a land festival and that is what smiles um at sea dental festival is so it is
super different from certainly different from any ada or cda or any of those you know dental society
kind of conferences i mean in you know hindman all these things it's a million times better and
i've been to chicago midwinter i've been to pretty much everything have i been to yankee
i've been to yankee i've been to the mall at one point or another depending on where i've lived
so um this one is hands down the best one you're ever gonna go to and i know you hear that all the
time but let me explain why so first of all let's talk about the push points why you don't like
um c conferences like big ce conferences right i like little ones don't get me wrong if there's
if there's a something that i really want to learn and it's very actionable and hands-on
i'm cool with it with a little conference and i definitely go and i lecture at some of those
especially like really good ortho ones um but this is like a big conference it doesn't matter what
your specialty is it doesn't matter who you are whether you're a team member an om a dentist an
orthodontist an oral surgeon there is definitely something for you so within this gigantoid large
conference there are 17 sub conferences that are run by independent doctors and people um
and each of these subconferences could be half day they could be a day they could be two days
i don't know that any are more than two days the festival itself i think is four days this
year i believe it's july 6th through 10th six seven eight nine times oh that's five days um
so anyways i'm lecturing within the action to win subconference within the dental festival
slash smiles at c mega conference so that means there's going to be thousands of people basically
taking over an entire hotel it's pretty much just us that's going to be there because it's all going
to be rented out most likely and there's plenty other hotels around there this is in nashville
in july not my favorite place to be in july but i love nashville so you're going to be hot but
you're going to be inside so it doesn't matter and there's a nice pool um you'll definitely see
us at the pool because my daughter's a swimmer and she's coming with me so um she has to practice and
look like a nice 24 25 yard pool so i'm psyched about that um but yeah so i'm gonna be with the
subconference this is called action to win it's a very actionable business and clinical
subconference that could be for dentists and staff there's a lot going on within the subconference
this one is run by dr emily letran and she's a dentist she's and also a coach and she's amazing
so definitely my sub subconference within the subconference within the subconference happens
to be july 7th after lunch so um i'll just be doing at my high level overview gp ortho lecture
but there's um i think there's another ortho lecture that's going to be going in as well
as as well as just so much more within this subconference so anyways i highly recommend
it and the cool thing about this festival is that yes you've got conferences during the
day but at the same time you've also got your um you've got of course your vendor you know place
you know and everyone is so it's there's so much to do there's always it's fun like
one day it's gonna be like pajama day and one day it's gonna be like rose all day where like
every single room that you go to in the vendor hall has unlimited open bar for rose you know
there's always so much fun things going on um and themes each day is different and it just adds just
i don't know it almost feels like spirit week in a high school within a dental conference
and trust me even if you don't want to dress up i did not put my pajamas on at the last one
only because i was cold and my pajamas were a little skimpy um but a lot of people did
but i still had fun just seeing the team members having fun the team members are excited to go
and they also have this cool thing called the dental tank or um it's almost like ted talk
competition and i'm blinking out what it's called but um it's a quick 10 minute presentation that
you can give you can sign up and you can compete for tons of prizes as well as speaking engagements
it could be for anyone you don't have to be a dentist i don't even know if i'm going to do
that this year or not depends on how it goes but i definitely listened last year that was super cool
um like i said it's different these vendors aren't like boring vendors at ada um they're
actually like super interactive they want to get to know you um it's completely different and then
at night time just to boot uh there is every single night for the most part i think at least
at the one i went to in miami there was a ton going on every single night i don't know if we're
doing that this time but there's definitely a lot there's one night there's a black tie ball if you
want to go to that um which was super fun to see all these people that i've met online and stuff
like that all dressed up we took all kind of fun pictures there was an open bar we had a great time
um strut down the red carpet it was awesome um i think that they're renting out a really cool club
in downtown nashville like completely renting it out just for everyone that's at this conference so
super fun you're gonna literally leave with a ton of knowledge i felt like i made so much networking
contacts at this event more than i've ever made at any conference i can tell you that much so
i all these people have always wanted to meet on instagram that i follow i met them they were there
tons of influencers go to this event small big large you know mini influencers like me bigger
ones that you probably know they're there you know especially for the black tie affair you don't want
to miss that my friend i've got to go rent my dress now because i certainly don't own a black
tie dress rent the runway is great if you haven't used it it's fantastic they'll just deliver right
to the hotel you can throw it back in the bag um but anyways yes highly recommend it and i want
to let you know if you contact me before february 20th 28th the end of this month february 2022 i do
have a promo code um that you can use to get you 40 off this which is not even expensive anyways
i think it's way less than a thousand um for the two of it two day event and then on top of it i
think you also have fees for the dental festival but it still it wasn't expensive at all it's not
like some ces that are like multiple thousands i think it was just a tiny bit more than a thousand
for the whole thing um a little bit more if you want to go to the black tie otherwise everything
else is um included but highly recommend it contact me for that 40 off the promo code which
is going to save you a lot of money but it expires february 28th so if you and it's i don't own this
promo code it was set up by dr latrance so um if you miss it you miss it so definitely contact me
all right thanks so much hope to see you there and if you're coming do let me know i also have
the link to register down here it's super small on my website streetsmansolutions.com classes um
so sorry this is i think it's upcoming events but within the classes tab if you just go to
my main website um you'll see it upcoming events and just click on that all right thanks so much