Built to Sell...or built to keep
The complete system to build an "exit-ready" practice and maximize your freedom—whether you exit in 2 years or 20.
4 weeks. 100% virtual. No travel.
Course Dates: Nov 4th - 25th
Taught by Dr. David Phelps, DDS. Featured in...
The decisions you make TODAY determine your future freedom.
Stop hoping your exit "will work out" and start building a practice designed for maximum optionality.
Over 4 Weeks We Will Cover How To:
Build Your Exit-Ready Practice
Get your house in order, creating both maximum valuation if you sell and maximum freedom if you keep.
Master Deal Mechanics
Learn creative structures that align with your values and vision for the future.
Discover Your Freedom Number
Learn your exact Freedom Number for replacing practice income — and the investment frameworks that make it possible.
Design Your Transition
Become your own financial architect to confidently design your freedom both now and in the future.
Course Dates: Nov 4th - 25th
Built to Sell or Built to Keep?
Most dentists are trapped in one of two mindsets:
Option 1: Keep grinding indefinitely, hoping you'll have "enough" someday.
Option 2: Bank everything on one future transaction that may never materialize on your terms.
There's a third path most dentists never consider: Build a practice that's valuable to buyers AND even more valuable to you.
I've lived through both sides of practice ownership—including the "boomerang sale" that almost destroyed everything for me.
Since then, I've worked with hundreds of practice owners, helping them architect the future they desire for themselves and their families.
I'm distilling decades of experience into this 4-week Masterclass, to show you exactly how to make your practice "Exit-ready" and buy back your time.
24 Days of Practice Left - A Story
Jim and Mickey are counting down their final 24 days of practice.
After 36 years of general dentistry, they're officially done. Practice sold. Freedom achieved.
But here's what makes their story remarkable...
In July of 2023, they thought they'd be working for YEARS longer.
Like most dentists, they were trapped in the "work until you drop" mindset. No clear exit strategy. No replacement income plan. Just the vague hope that somehow, someday, the practice sale would be "enough."
Then they discovered the Freedom Founders blueprint.
Jim still has the photo on his phone - the whiteboard calculation from their first planning session. He admits he didn't believe it at first. Made David do the math again.
"There's no way," he thought.
But the numbers were real. And now, 2 years later, so is their freedom.
If you'd like to learn the same blueprint that gave Jim and Mickey their freedom years sooner than they thought was possible... join me for the Exit-Ready Masterclass starting November 4th.
How it will work:
1. On Demand Training
Each week I'll provide recorded training modules for you to watch on your own time.
2. Live Weekly Calls
There will be LIVE coaching calls with me each Tuesday at 7:30pm CT on Zoom.
3. Private Online Group Access 24/7
You will also have access to a private online group where you can ask questions and engage throughout the course.
Dates: Nov 4th - 25th
Here's what you'll get from this Exit-Ready Masterclass...
Build a plan for practice optionality that aligns your finances, family, and future.
Nov 4th - 25th
Fully participate in the course - 100% risk free.
As dentists, it’s easy to let hesitation and analysis-paralysis prevent us from making key decisions.
I genuinely believe this coaching group will be a key to changing your trajectory.
To make it easy for you, I will even take all the risk. You can participate in the entire 4-week program risk free, and if afterwards you did not find the content immensely valuable, just say the word and I will give you a complete refund. No questions asked.
That’s how confident I am that you’ll mark this as the day your financial future went in a new direction. I know these principles work. All you need to do is take a small first step and allow me to guide you.
Freedom Founders Success Stories
Dr. Ben and Sondra Jensen
I've recently taken an extra day off at work and I'm having more more fun than ever practicing, while having record breaking months at the practice. Being Free for Life™ means spending more time with our family, and taking more time for ourselves to travel and learn new hobbies.
Drs. Brent and Ally Rickheim
We had a CPA who said, "You guys are making it, you're on cruise control on the open highway. All you have to do is keep doing this for twenty more years."
We looked at each other after we got off the phone, and we were like, "Cruise control? This is not cruise control. We wake up and fight every single day to keep this car on the road." We had no exit strategy other than just working away for twenty more years and hoping that we had enough at the end of that to do what we want in retirement.
Being Free for Life for us means knowing that we have the option to pivot to do something different if we want to, because we aren't dependent on solely practicing dentistry to make a living.
Freedom Founders has helped us dial in more detail and just be unified in our financial plans… It’s exciting. We can both get super excited about it, because we both know what’s going on.
Dr. Cindy Rider and Scott Densmore
Scott and I would have these discussions. What are we gonna do when we stop working? I saw a Facebook feed from Freedom Founders and it was a survey about retirement. "Do you have enough to retire on?" I had a couple of calls, and David offered for us to come to a Freedom Founders meeting and see what it was about. It literally took one day of hearing different people, listening to different people to decide to join.
Coming to Freedom Founders has really opened a door to learn about the real estate world, to learn about different types of investments. To figure out what do we need as a couple going forward… It gave us a lot of opportunity, a lot of knowledge, and I don’t think we would be where we are today without Freedom Founders. No way.
Dr. Kevin and Kelli Collins
Freedom Founders has been a great asset for us. I think just the thought that, if I wanted to wake up tomorrow morning and do something different, do nothing at all, that I could do it and not be worried.
This group gives you the opportunity to carve your own path and not feel like you have to go to the very end, till you're just completely burned out and not be able to enjoy your future.
It's opened up my eyes on just a whole different world I didn't know existed. I didn't see the bigger picture. It's been a great experience and it's given me clarity on the pathway moving forward.
Drs. Brad and Jennifer Mokris
I went to a Freedom Founders event and just had this great experience of learning and seeing this eye opening world of the mindset that a lot of the members had. They were so giving… to have people tell you that story and be honest with you, you knew you were in the right spot. We've just been blown away by the community.
Success for us is not being forced to go into work every day. Our lives were slowly getting busier, and when we saw this inevitable tunnel of not being able to control our lives, we had to figure out how to separate ourselves from the practice, but also still manage it and build our wealth from that.
Freedom Founders has come in and it’s gotten us to a point where we don’t feel like we have to do our careers forever financially.
Dr. Peter Yonan and Erin Reilly
As many dentists know, you often end up dedicating too much time to your profession and not spending enough time with family. Now I want to take that opportunity to spend more time with my kids and Erin. That was one of the main attractors to me of Freedom Founders.
We learned more about what Freedom Founders was, who was involved, and what their experiences were. One of my favorite parts of the community, has been the one on one conversations, hearing what people have done, what's worked for them, what hasn't.
Previously, when I owned my practice, it was much more difficult to take time off. One of the things is now being able to plan ahead and reserve that important time for ourselves and for our family. You know, I think that's kind of been one of the more empowering things. Freedom is to truly be present with each other without distraction or guilt.
Drs. Ed and Lisa Wentz
I've asked this question since I was in my thirties. "What are you gonna do when you retire?" I've read so many things on retirement, hoping to find out what's after this. And with some recent health issues, it's been an eye opener. You think you're invincible, and you've got all these years, but you just don't know.
Before I joined Freedom Founders, I read about every single book David put out. His book, "What's Your Next," was really intriguing to me. In my business, I've always joined study groups or had consultants come in, and I always gained a lot more than I spent. And I've been thankful for the way things have worked out with Freedom Founders.
One of the things that we think is great about Freedom Founders is that it's about legacy and the next generation. So we're living our dream being able to walk alongside our kids raising their kids.
Dr. Brad and Sherri Dixon
I had some health issues and ended up needing to sell the practice before I was really ready to. It turned out to be a blessing because after COVID, we had staffing issues and everything seemed to be more difficult. It just was time.
Had I not done the Freedom Founders, life would be a lot more chaotic and a lot more stressful. It's a very real community, and one that I feel blessed to be a part of.
I think ultimately success is trying to make a difference in people's lives. And becoming Free for Life™ has opened up choices for us, whether that's being able to travel or do something with the grandkids. It has opened up a world of possibilities for us in the future.
Dr. Tina and Marshall Herington
What brought me to Freedom Founders was COVID, when the practice was shut down, it made me realize that I had all my eggs in one basket, in one practice, in one building. And if anything happened to the practice or building, nothing would ever replace it's value.
I feel much better now that we are more diversified in our investments. I'm much more confident that no matter what happens, we're going to be in a much better place than we would have been before. The biggest freedom that this community has given us is TIME. Freedom Founders has helped us find more time to be with our kids doing the hobbies that we had to put aside for so long because there simply wasn't time in the day to do it. It's been wonderful.
I wish I had started thinking earlier about how I was going to get out of my practice. I was just so busy building it and making it bigger. I had no idea how I was ever going to extract myself from it. So don't wait too long to think about your exit and your next.
Dr. Chris and Natalee Mueller
I felt good about where we're at, but I just didn't know how retirement would play out for me. I heard about Freedom Founders online, talked to Natalee about it, and we signed up. Talking to people here, we were just amazed at the quality and caliber of the other members, and they all seemed so dialed in as far as what their plan was and their goals and their investments.
What I like about Freedom Founders is how Natalee has taken the brains and run with it and become the one that's driving the Mueller bus as far as the finances go. I just provide the income now to invest at this point. That's the one thing I appreciate about Freedom Founders, is the empowerment it's given to my wife.
