Episode Details

When you walk through the door after work, are you actually present or are you still running the day’s to-do list in your head?

Is there ever a “good” time to have a baby in the middle of specialist training and how do you fund it?

How do the best dentist-parents you know protect time with their kids without their careers stalling?

And can technology actually give you hours back — or is that just another thing to feel guilty about?

This is one for the dads. In this Interference Cast episode, Jaz sits down with Dr Sunny Marwaha — a dentist completing part-time specialist training in prosthodontics at Guy’s, who became a father right in the middle of it. It’s not a clinical episode. It’s an honest conversation about doing the hardest career stretch (training, buying practices, building a name) at the exact same time you’re raising young children — the sleep, the money, the guilt, and the strategies that actually help. Two dentist dads, comparing notes.

What You’ll Take From This Episode

• Priority management, not time management — Decide what this season of life is for, and protect it; priorities shift as the kids grow.
• Leave the day at the door — both directions — The driveway is dad mode, the clinic is showtime; you can’t take work home or home to work.
• Run the family like a small business — Regular family meetings and a “mind like water” system can help carry the load without living in your head.
• Use AI to buy back time — Make use of dictated notes, auto-drafted letters, and turning papers into audio for the commute. This is leverage, not cheating.
  Specialise or self-direct? — An honest filter for whether a structured training pathway or private courses and mentorship suits you better.

Highlights of This Episode

00:00     Teaser
00:42     Daddy Dentist: Balancing Fatherhood and Dentistry
03:42     Should You Specialise or Learn Through Private Courses?
10:12      How to Time Having Kids Around Specialist Training
13:32     Paternity Leave for Dentists: What's Realistic?
16:42     Funding Specialist Training With a Young Family
20:02     Why Family Support Is a Privilege, Not a Given
22:57     Time Management vs Priority Management
23:42     The Two Moments With Your Kids That Matter Most
29:12      Protecting Sleep, Fitness and Your Mental Health
30:13     Midroll
39:03    Top Tips for Dentist Dads
41:53      Using AI to Buy Back Time for Your Family
45:53     Run Your Family Like a Small Business
53:33     How to Cut Kids' Screen Time (and Make It Stick)
59:23     Life After Specialist Training: A Shorter Week
59:57     Outro

From the Guest

Dr Sunny Marwaha is a dentist completing part-time specialist training in prosthodontics at Guy’s (King’s College London). He’s passed the MProst (Royal College of Surgeons), with his final MClinDent and GDC specialist listing still ahead. He became a dad to son Kabir midway through training; his wife Amrit is also a dentist.

👉  Follow Sunny on Instagram: @dr_marwaha

References & Further Reading

Listed for reference (mentions, not endorsements):

• NotebookLM — Google’s AI research tool; can turn a source document (e.g. a paper) into an audio, podcast-style