How One Conversation Changed My Business Forever

There’s a saying in business: you never get anywhere without someone vouching for you. And I can tell you from personal experience—it’s absolutely true.

Years ago, one man not only vouched for me, but completely changed the trajectory of my career. Many of you have heard me talk about Scott Law from Smile Doctors and how he encouraged me to get into the orthodontic industry. But what you might not know is that conversation with Scott only happened because of someone else: Garrett Gunderson.

Garrett is a wealth strategist, financial coach, and someone I originally worked with back in my marriage coaching days. What started as a professional relationship evolved into a genuine friendship. Garrett believed in me and opened doors I didn’t even know existed—connecting me to chiropractors, dentists, and ultimately orthodontists like Scott.

What I’ve always appreciated most about Garrett is that his view of wealth goes far beyond dollars and cents. He teaches about relationship capital, knowledge capital, and how to create a mindset of abundance—not just for yourself, but for those around you.

So this month, I’m focusing my blog on financial abundance and wealth—and not just for you as a leader, but also for your team. Because one of the most common challenges I see in practices today is team members who are stressed financially, living paycheck to paycheck, and struggling with basic money management.

Imagine the shift that could happen in your culture if your team understood how to use money more wisely, how to save, how to think long-term about wealth. If you become the source of that kind of empowerment? That’s leadership.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing insights from Garrett’s work and highlighting some key lessons from his upcoming book—ideas designed to help you live more like the Rockefellers did: with strategy, legacy, and true abundance.

Let’s make April the month we stop surviving financially and start thriving—at every level of our lives and businesses.

Proactive, Productive and Profitable,

Dino