Dr. Ardeshir Mehran's Podcast

What if the body remembers what the mind tries to forget? 

What if touch is medicine, not just contact? Let’s explore the path back to wholeness.

Somatic Trauma Therapist Barbara Collier on Why the Path to Wholeness Runs Through the Body, Not Around It.

For more than 30 years, Barbara Collier has studied what touch can heal that words cannot. 

A Licensed Professional Counselor, certified Somatic Experiencing® Practition...

She's interviewed thousands. Now she's the one being asked.

What does it take to be the voice a whole city wakes up to?

What does it take to be warm and steady before the sun comes up, every single day, for forty years?

We hear from the anchorwoman who has spent four decades telling Cincinnati's stories, and who is finally telling her own.

Sheila Gray is the host of Good Morning Cincinnati on WKRC Local. She's a member of the Ohio Univ...

What if being normal is a myth?

What if there is a quiet cost of always being normal?

Let’s look behind the composure.

We hear from the psychiatrist who studies why the strong ones often struggle quietly.

For nearly 30 years, Dr. Peter Zafirides, MD has sat across from people who seem to have it all together, hearing the things they never say out loud. 

Dr. Zafirides is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Ohio State's College o...

Let's Learn to Listen to Depression.

Depression is never the enemy. It’s often the most honest voice in the room, asking to be heard.

 ABOUT DR. LARA HONOS-WEBB

• PhD clinical psychologist and author of seven books, including Listening to Depression and The Gift of ADHD

• Listening to Depression was named one of the best therapy books of 2006 by Health Magazine

• Longtime Psychology Today contributor; completed her postdoctor...

Calm Leaders Build Stronger Teams.

Why you cannot build a healthy culture from a reactive emotional state, and how leaders trade reaction for regulation.

Every leader knows the moment.

The meeting turns tense. The email lands wrong. The pressure spikes, and before you’ve chosen anything, your body has already chosen for you: flooded, controlling, defensive, or shut down.

Julia LeFevre calls it what it is: you cannot build a healt...

From Heartbreak to Living a Fuller Life

What heartbreak, caregiving, grief, and hope teach us about becoming fully alive again.

Every life has a before and an after. 

For Jenny Brandemuehl, the after began with a devastating plane crash that left her husband, Mark, with life-threatening burns over most of his body,

and placed Jenny in the unchosen role of caregiver, advocate, witness, and eventually widow.

Jenny is a seasoned techn...

Every leader reaches a moment when looking successful and feeling successful are two very different things. 

In this episode, Dr. Ardeshir Mehran speaks with Tara LaFon Gooch, Forbes-featured CEO, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, brand strategist, and host of the globally ranked GRASP Confidence Podcast. Tara has built her work around one bold idea: confidence is not just a feeling. It is currency. It shapes how we enter rooms...

There is a moment many high achievers quietly know: the life they built works, on paper, but something essential no longer fits. 

Not a crisis. Not failure. Something more unsettling: success without a sense of self. 

I'm speaking with Adria Firestone, The Reinvention Architect™, about what it means to rebuild from the inside out, reclaim your voice, and design a life that reflects who you are becoming, not who you used to ...

What happens when the life you worked so hard to build no longer feels like you?

In this episode of “Not Depressed. UnFinished.” Dr. Ardeshir Mehran speaks with Loredana Regep, MD, a physician, former global biotech leader, integrative health coach, Positive Intelligence coach, and creator of The Elevation Method™, about the quiet moment when achievement no longer nourishes the soul.

Together, they explore the difference ...

What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You!

Dr. Susan Payrovi is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an anesthesiologist, until multiple sclerosis ended her surgical career and sent her on a very different kind of medical education.

Now, triple board-certified and trained in functional and integrative medicine, she's traded symptom management for something more interesting: finding out why you got s...

High-achieving women are some of the most disciplined people on the planet — at work, for their families, in every area except one: themselves.

I’m speaking with Ariel Hoffman, a Los Angeles-based Master Trainer and holistic wellness coach who has spent nearly two decades asking a different question — not “why can’t you stick to it?” but “why is the system not working for you?” This is...

Let's Meet Renee Excelbert, PhD

So many people are trained to dismiss fear, outrun pain, dismiss illness, and “stay strong” when life is asking them to listen. But the body keeps the score. It also holds the wisdom. 

I’m speaking with Dr. Renee Exelbert about what happens when adversity interrupts our identity, and how movement, mindset, and the mind-body connection can help us rise again, not as the old self, ...

I want to start by asking you something.

And I want you to really sit with it.

Have you ever woken up in the morning and felt... heavy? 

Not tired. Not sick. Just heavy. 

Like something invisible is pressing down on your chest. Like you're moving through life, but you're not really there. 

Like everyone else seems to know why they're here, and you're the only one who missed the memo.

You go through the motions. You show up...