Depression-Free After 40

Let's cut through the hype and stigma and learn what ketamine is, how it works, and who it may help. 

For someone who has lived with depression for a long time, hope can begin to feel very far away, especially when the usual treatments haven't helped. 

Ketamine may offer some people better results and hope.

For people living with persistent depression, ketamine has become a source of intense interest, uncertainty, and debate...

She spent years mistaking exhaustion for failure, until a bicycle accident forced her to meet the brain that had been protecting her all along.

This episode challenges a familiar internal narrative, the voice that tells a woman "I'm not enough," and reframes it not as truth. 

It could be echoes of physical trauma, exhaustion, hormonal shifts, and private stress that the brain has been absorbing all along. 

The conversation a...

Beginning A New Life. 

At 26, Dr. Peggy DeLong lost her fiancé to cancer. Six weeks later, her father died suddenly of a heart attack.

Two devastating losses. One after another.

But that grief would eventually shape her life's work as she became a leading psychologist.

In this deeply human conversation, psychologist and author Dr. Peggy DeLong, known as “The Gratitude Psychologist,” shares what happens when we stop run...

YOU KNOW THIS PERSON.

When something goes wrong, everyone calls them.

A relationship is falling apart. A colleague is overwhelmed. A child is struggling. A friend is in crisis.

They listen. They step in. They solve.

And eventually, they become the one who is exhausted.

My guest, psychotherapist and author Leah Marone, calls this person the Serial Fixer.

In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of being the person everyone depends on, ...

What if looking good has become a cover for not feeling good?

We spend so much time caring for what people can see. Our skin. Our face. Our appearance. But sometimes the real story is underneath.

In this deeply personal conversation, with Dr. Keira Barr, dual-board-certified dermatologist, bestselling author of The Skin Whisperer, and expert in skin care, stress, and emotional wellbeing, we go beneath the skin.

Keira brings her own st...

Let's talk about the “question” most of us spend our whole lives avoiding.

Not what do you do. Not how did you get here. 

But why are you here?

Today's guest built an entire career, and a movement, around that one question.

Gerry Visca started out as an architect, learning how ideas take shape in physical space. He later became a Creative Director, leading more than a thousand marketing campaigns and winning three inte...

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...

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 hosts Good Morning Cincinnati on WKRC Local. She's a member of the Ohio University Br...

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...

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 postdoctoral fel...

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 a conversatio...

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

In this episode, we hear from 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 between ambition that expands you and ambition that empties yo...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...