Dr. Ardeshir Mehran's Podcast

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 wha...

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 eventual...

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 curre...

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 ar...

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, t...

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 someth...

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 conversa...

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, no...

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...