# prav (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover prav. Page: Feed: --- ## [#356 Win The Day — Afzal Haque](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/356-Win-The-Day--Afzal-Haque-e3nab54) _2026-08-19 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Afzal Haque joins Payman as a specialist endodontist and owner of Stretford Road Dental Practice, along with its referral clinic M41 Indo, in South Manchester, having spent ten years as a general dentist before making the switch. He talks candidly about hating endodontics as a young dentist, the wife who talked him into rotary instrumentation and then, years later, into selling their house to fund… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/124119652/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-12%2F429709650-44100-2-a6462458a3549.mp3) ## [#355 The Caesar Method — Patrycja Galonzka](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/355-The-Caesar-Method--Patrycja-Galonzka-e3mutvg) _2026-08-12 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Patrycja Galonzka joins Payman as business manager at Aspire Smiles in Warwick, having worked her way up from trainee dental nurse to the top of the practice after moving to the UK from Poland at nineteen. She talks candidly about the loss that pushed her to stay in the UK rather than go home, and how years spent as a barista and waitress taught her more about handling people than any… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/123745712/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-4%2F429193991-44100-2-a161a4e2cef1a.mp3) ## [#354 Connect The Dots — Agne Malisauskiene](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/354-Connect-The-Dots--Agne-Malisauskiene-e3ml4lg) _2026-08-05 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Agne Malisauskiene joins Payman as the clinical lead at the Baltic Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry and one of the world's best-known minimally invasive composite teachers, having trained thousands of dentists from her purpose-built facility in Vilnius. She talks candidly about swapping punishing NHS-style hours in Lithuania for a much gentler introduction to UK private dentistry, and how a year at… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/123424880/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-28%2F428767121-44100-2-6ccbd650f5e53.mp3) ## [#353 The Conference Kid — Shyun Patel](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/353-The-Conference-Kid--Shyun-Patel-e3mc08k) _2026-07-29 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Shyun Patel joins Payman as a final-year dental student at Liverpool, best known for founding BDSA, the biggest undergraduate dental conference the UK has seen, and for buying his own practice before he's even qualified. He talks candidly about losing the Dental Society presidency election, the autoimmune diagnosis that reshaped how he thinks about time, and the fridge-flipping side hustle that… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/123125460/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-21%2F428358507-44100-2-88c92cd8f2b96.mp3) ## [#352 Lift the Shield — Adrian Dray & Kautham Haran](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/352-Lift-the-Shield--Adrian-Dray--Kautham-Haran-e3m3b8d) _2026-07-22 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Two CareStack men, one origin story that starts in a Covid ward. Adrian Dray talks Payman through the lead-management deal that nearly bankrupted him, and how that near-miss set him up to bring an American cloud practice management system into a UK market that, by his own admission, "really dislikes change." Kautham Haran, the ops brain to Adrian's front-of-house energy, explains how a fintech… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/122841805/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-14%2F427970592-44100-2-edfa94c464734.mp3) ## [#351 The Legacy Builder — Neil Sikka](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/351-The-Legacy-Builder--Neil-Sikka-e3lpnl1) _2026-07-15 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Neil Sikka joins Payman to reflect on a career that has moved from single-surgery NHS dentistry in Bethnal Green to building a ten-practice London group, selling to Bupa, and now helping shape clinical strategy across one of the UK’s biggest dental organisations. He talks candidly about the Barbican Dental Care years, why he chose cultural fit over the highest offer when selling, and why he still… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/122526817/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-7%2F427547728-44100-2-76e52db9927bc.mp3) ## [#350 Dentistry 2040 — Andrew Bower](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/350-Dentistry-2040--Andrew-Bower-e3lpm2m) _2026-07-08 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Recorded live at Bupa Dental Health Is Live, this Dental Leaders episode sees Payman joined by Andrew Bower from Philips Oral Healthcare for a sharp look at dentistry in 2040. The conversation moves from AI, robotics and connected toothbrushes to the bigger question of how oral health can become part of everyday whole-body care. Andrew explores Philips’ long-term view on prevention, consumer… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/122525206/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-7%2F427544627-44100-2-2b2185e7777a3.mp3) ## [#349 Doing the Right Thing — Ian Dunn](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/349-Doing-the-Right-Thing--Ian-Dunn-e3l800e) _2026-07-01 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Ian Dunn didn't set out to become a periodontist. A chance encounter with a stranger in a hospital corridor, a course he took on a whim, and the absence of anyone else doing the job in Liverpool — that's how a specialism was born. In this episode, Payman sits down with Ian to trace a career shaped as much by happy accidents as by hard graft; from a comprehensive school kid who retook his A-levels,… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/121945550/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-24%2F426765312-44100-2-f99eb6a1b6b6c.mp3) ## [#348 Agony Uncle — Sina Gilannejad](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/348-Agony-Uncle--Sina-Gilannejad-e3l6bjn) _2026-06-24 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ From pizza shop to Maxfax theatre — Sina Gilannejad's route into dentistry is anything but straightforward. Born in Northern Ireland to Iranian parents, Sina brings a rare blend of warmth, self-awareness, and hard-won clinical confidence to this conversation. He opens up about the anxiety that drove him towards DCT, the perfectionism that almost derailed him, and how a stint in maxillofacial… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/121891895/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-23%2F426695440-44100-2-e8fb314b20fe2.mp3) ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/j6sj5SPsBfFW) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [#347 Bring the Energy — Meghan Chard](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dental-leaders-podcast/episodes/347-Bring-the-Energy--Meghan-Chard-e3ktfeo) _2026-06-17 · Prav Solanki & Payman Langroudi · Dental Leaders Podcast_ Meghan Chard is many things at once — principal dentist, practice owner, mum of three, and quietly passionate evangelist for childhood airway health. In this episode, she sits down with Payman for a wide-ranging conversation that takes in meeting her husband Simon at dental school, buying his family's Leicestershire practice a month before their first child arrived, and the very particular chaos… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/f47b45cc/podcast/play/121600920/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-17%2F35b8c4f2-6f3a-2c52-c0d5-af5cbd2c9a51.mp3)