Death Before Decay is a long-form podcast hosted by Dr. Elliot Humiston — a dentist, business owner, creative, and recovering band kid from Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
This show is about confidence, craft, entrepreneurship, and building something meaningful — in dentistry, business, and life.
Some episodes dive into modern dentistry, aesthetics, leadership, technology, and patient transformation. Others explore community, creativity, identity, mental health, music, business ownership, and the people building interesting things around us.
Guests range from dentists and medical professionals to entrepreneurs, artists, business owners, and longtime friends with great stories to tell.
The conversations are honest, relaxed, occasionally chaotic, and built around one core idea:
Confidence changes people’s lives.
Whether that confidence comes from rebuilding a smile, starting a business, creating art, overcoming failure, or simply figuring out who you are — this podcast is about the process of becoming something better without losing yourself along the way.
New episodes feature:
- long-form conversations
- local and out-of-town guests
- solo episodes
- dentistry and aesthetics
- entrepreneurship and branding
- stories about failure, growth, and ambition
- the occasional dark joke or tangent
Hosted by Dr. Elliot Humiston and featuring recurring appearances from photographer and marketing creative Jon Erlien.