From Refugee to Protruserati – My Story with Soft Bites – IC028

My story of coming to the UK as a refugee from Afghanistan aged 6 and my journey in to Dentistry. I share some tough times and what drives me today. I explained why I think Dentistry was mis-sold to many of us as a 9-5 job (HA!) and my top books and influences. I'm delighted to be a guest on the Soft Bites Podcast. The hosts, Manuela and Jorge, have both been guests on the Protrusive Dental Podcast in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznVMyEDwTE Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: * 4:48 My Story: Refugee 1996* 7:17 Life adversities* 17:13 Importance of going through difficult moments* 22:31 Podcasting Journey* 27:38 Practicing a positive mindset* 31:51 Importance of education and information* 35:36 Good communication skills* 45:38 Balance between the professional and personal life* 55:25 Core values in life* 59:30 Future goals for The Protrusive Dental Podcast and clinical dentistry Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim and I are launching an occlusion course called OBAB (Occlusion Basics And Beyond). This course is o help you design and execute restorations from a single tooth to anterior aesthetic cases to full mouth rehab. Also, sign up for our monthly occlusion tip for you to get the kind of clinical content that we are preparing with OBAB If you loved this, be sure to watch Dentistry is STRESSFUL – this Podcast will help you Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Hello, friend hope you're well it's a super busy time for Team Protrusive. Let me tell you, we've got the iOS and Android app almost ready so it's like so, so, so tantalizingly close. We're super super excited to launch it. Jaz's Introduction:It's gonna complement the web app on protrusive.app really well. And if you are Protruserati through and through, you will love the additional content on there. So, keep a close eye out in the next couple of weeks for the massive launch of the Protrusive app on iOS and Android. The other big news I want to share with you before we joined the main episode today is that Mahmoud Ibrahim and I are launching an occlusion course called OBAB. Now, OBAB stands for Occlusion Basics And Beyond. Mahmoud, once joke with me, they come for the OBAB but stay for the kebab, so we don't know where which direction is gonna go in terms of food in the future. But this is predominantly an online course actually. So, it's called Occlusion Basics And Beyond. And we think we'll be ready in a few months now, we're really trying super hard. But in our busy lives, it is a tough thing to do to actually plan and create the content recorded, get it edited. We've got beta testers lined up already. So, we're really excited to get it out them to make sure that we get the correct feedback to enhance it as much as we can. Because ultimately, our goal is to help you design and execute restorations from single tooth to anterior aesthetic cases. And then later actually, in module five,