The Trillium Show with Dr. Jason Hall

Dr. Jason Hall
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Hello and welcome to The Trillium Show with Dr. Jason Hall! This podcast is all about navigating the changes in our lives, whether they be through plastic surgery, adopting new habits, or making positive life improvements. Dr. Jason Hall, a renowned plastic surgeon and lifestyle expert, is here to guide us through the ups and downs of transformation.Throughout this series, we'll explore topics such as body positivity, self-confidence, healthy living, and much more. Dr. Hall will share his expertise, as well as invite special guests to join us in the discussion.So, whether you're considering plastic surgery or simply looking to make positive changes in your life, this podcast is for you. Get ready to be inspired, informed, and empowered on The Trillium Show with Dr. Jason Hall.

  1. 5d ago

    Are You Actually Charging Enough? How We Price Procedures for Profit (Ep. 123)

    Send us Fan Mail Pricing in plastic surgery is harder than it looks. When Amanda and I first opened our practice, we did what I think a lot of people do: looked at what other surgeons were charging, picked a number that seemed competitive, and went from there. The problem is that you have no idea what’s behind somebody else’s number. Their overhead may be completely different. Their OR and anesthesia costs may be different. Their implants may cost more or less. And most importantly, the hour you spend operating is only a fraction of the time you actually spend taking care of that patient. In this episode, Amanda and I break down how we think about pricing at Trillium today—from surgeon time, consults, pre-op visits, and follow-ups to implants, supplies, anesthesia, staffing, and the other expenses that are easy to overlook. We also talk about why we reevaluate our pricing every year, how inflation and rising overhead quietly eat into profit, why being the cheapest practice in town is rarely the goal, and why the patient experience itself has value. If you own a medical or aesthetic practice, the question isn’t just, “How much revenue am I bringing in?” It’s: After everything that goes into delivering that service, am I actually making money? This is the framework Amanda and I have used to answer that question for the last 12 years—and one I wish we had understood when we first started.

  2. Sep 24

    Are You Busy or Actually Profitable? The Business Side of Building a Medical Practice (Ep. 122)

    Send us Fan Mail Being busy and being profitable are not the same thing. In this episode of The Trillium Show, Amanda joins me again to talk about one of the biggest lessons we’ve learned building Trillium Plastic Surgery from the ground up: revenue coming in means very little if just as much money is going right back out. We break practice overhead down into three areas I call the “three S’s” — space, staff, and stuff — and talk about where new practice owners can get themselves into trouble. From leasing an office that’s too big, to hiring before there’s a real need, to financing a $300,000 device because a sales rep promises it will “pay for itself,” expenses can get out of control quickly. Amanda also shares how she watches the numbers behind the scenes, why a packed schedule isn’t necessarily a successful schedule, and why five great patients can sometimes be more valuable to a practice than a day that simply looks busy. If you’re starting a private practice, considering leaving an employed position, or trying to figure out why your practice is generating revenue without generating the profit you expected, this episode is about learning to control what you can control before chasing growth. Because at the end of the day, the money coming in isn’t what you make. It’s what’s left after everything goes out.

  3. Sep 10

    The Non-Negotiables That Keep Our Marriage, Family & Business Together (Ep. 121)

    Send us Fan Mail Amanda is back with me on The Trillium Show, and you’re going to be hearing a lot more from the two of us together. After almost 20 years of marriage and 12 years of owning a practice together, we get asked all the time how we manage working together, raising a family, and still making time for each other. The answer is that, over the years, we’ve developed a handful of things that simply aren’t negotiable. In this episode, Amanda and I talk about the routines that have helped keep our family connected: our weekly date night, Friday family nights, sitting down for dinner together, making fitness part of the schedule, creating one-on-one time with our daughters, and even the rules we’ve put around phones and social media. None of this is meant to be a blueprint for somebody else’s family. It’s simply what has worked for ours. As Amanda joins me more often on the podcast, we’re going to share more of what we’ve learned building a business and a life together—the things that have worked, the things we’ve gotten wrong, and what it actually looks like behind the scenes at work and at home. If you enjoy these conversations, subscribe to The Trillium Show so you don’t miss the next one!

  4. Aug 27

    Smart Kids, Don’t Go to Medical School. Two Years Later (Ep. 120)

    Send us Fan Mail In 2024, Dr. Jason Hall recorded one of his most provocative episodes of The Trillium Show: “Smart Kids—Don’t Go to Medical School.” Two years later, he’s revisiting it—and some of the predictions feel even more relevant. The episode looks at three major changes reshaping medicine: the loss of physician autonomy, the growing influence of hospital systems and insurance companies, and the rapidly expanding role of AI in diagnosis and patient care. If medicine increasingly becomes a profession built around protocols, algorithms, and pattern recognition, what happens when AI can do more of that work faster and cheaper? And what does that mean for a student committing the next decade of their life to becoming a physician? Jason still loves medicine and surgery. But the profession has changed dramatically since he entered it, and the path that made sense for one generation may not make the same sense for the next. Whether you’re considering medical school, raising a child who is, or simply wondering where American medicine is headed, this episode asks a question that has only become harder to ignore: Is becoming a doctor still worth it?

  5. Aug 13

    Is Your Practice Actually Making Money? Financial Lessons We Learned the Hard Way (Ep. 119)

    Send us Fan Mail In the fourth and final episode of our business lessons series, Amanda and I take an honest look at the financial side of owning and growing a plastic surgery practice. Having money in the bank does not necessarily mean your business is profitable. We discuss how we use profit-and-loss statements, detailed spreadsheets, overhead calculations, and procedure costs to understand what the practice is actually earning—and why simply copying a competitor’s pricing can quickly put you in a position where you are losing money on a treatment. We also explain why staying small has been one of the smartest decisions we have made, how unnecessary staff and oversized office spaces can quietly drain a business, and why controlling expenses is just as important as generating revenue. Finally, we share our biggest financial regrets, including expensive devices that failed to deliver, financing contracts we should have read more carefully, and the hidden costs of running a business that many new owners never anticipate. From employee benefits and payroll taxes to insurance, marketing, and vendor expenses, this conversation covers the financial lessons we had to learn through experience. Whether you are opening a medical practice, growing a med spa, or running another type of small business, this episode offers practical advice for protecting your cash flow, making smarter investments, and building a profitable business without getting distracted by what everyone else is doing.

  6. Jul 30

    Building a Business With Your Spouse: Marriage, Family, and Boundaries (Ep. 118)

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when your spouse is also your business partner? In Part 3 of our business series, Amanda and I talk honestly about what it has been like to build Trillium together while raising a family and navigating nearly 20 years of marriage. We get into the years when work followed us home every night, the boundaries we’ve had to learn to set, and why our very different personalities have ultimately made us better business partners. I’m the big-picture person who is always thinking about what’s next. Amanda is the detail-oriented one asking how we’re actually going to make it happen. That combination has helped us grow, but it has also created some hard lessons along the way. We also talk about how building the practice affected our daughters, the sacrifices we made early on, working through disagreements when you still have to show up together the next morning, and whether we expect our kids to someday carry on the family business. Running a business with your spouse isn’t always easy, but after more than a decade of doing it together, we’ve learned a lot about partnership, boundaries, family, and knowing when the next big idea needs to wait.

  7. Jul 16

    What We Wish We Knew Before Starting a Medical Practice (Ep. 117)

    Send us Fan Mail Neither Amanda nor I had any formal business training when we decided to open a medical practice. We had backgrounds in medicine, a young family, and plenty of lessons we would have to learn the hard way. So in this second episode of our business series, Amanda and I are sharing how the decisions we made years before opening Trillium helped make it possible. We talk about living below our means, our early Dave Ramsey envelope system, the $4,000 furniture purchase that became an unexpected lesson in taxes, and why we chose to start small and open the practice without debt. We also discuss leaving Houston, moving closer to family in Knoxville, the mistakes we made while building the business, and why we both wish we had asked more questions and sought out experienced mentors sooner. Finally, we answer one of the questions we hear most often: Is working together harder on the business—or on the marriage?

  8. Jul 2

    Building the Team Behind Trillium: Lessons From 11 Years in Practice (Ep. 116)

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Trillium Show, I’m joined by my wife and business partner, Amanda Hall, for the first episode in a four-part series about what it really takes to run a plastic surgery practice together. Over the next few episodes, we’re pulling back the curtain on the business side of medicine: how we started, what we got wrong, what we’ve learned the hard way, and how our roles have evolved over the last 11 years. This episode starts with what may be the hardest part of owning a practice: hiring and managing people. Amanda and I talk through our first hires, what we were looking for in the beginning, why we learned to be slow to hire and quick to fire, and how much a bad fit can affect the entire team. We also get into the role of an office manager, why policies and procedures have to be built from the inside, how hard delegation can be for two type A people, and what we look for now when someone applies to work in our office. This is a candid conversation about employee management, team culture, leadership mistakes, and the reality that people can make or break a business. If you’re a physician, surgeon, business owner, or someone thinking about starting your own practice, this episode is a look at the lessons we wish we had understood sooner.

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Hello and welcome to The Trillium Show with Dr. Jason Hall! This podcast is all about navigating the changes in our lives, whether they be through plastic surgery, adopting new habits, or making positive life improvements. Dr. Jason Hall, a renowned plastic surgeon and lifestyle expert, is here to guide us through the ups and downs of transformation.Throughout this series, we'll explore topics such as body positivity, self-confidence, healthy living, and much more. Dr. Hall will share his expertise, as well as invite special guests to join us in the discussion.So, whether you're considering plastic surgery or simply looking to make positive changes in your life, this podcast is for you. Get ready to be inspired, informed, and empowered on The Trillium Show with Dr. Jason Hall.

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