Rebranding Mental Health
The Rebranding Mental Health Podcast explores what mental health could look like if we moved beyond the outdated disease model and embraced TOTAL health—brain, body, relationships, and purpose. Through real talk, cultural critique, and forward-thinking ideas, we unpack the systems that shape our well-being and imagine bold new ways to heal, connect, and grow. It’s not about fixing what’s broken—it’s about building what we’ve been missing.
Rebranding Mental Health
Tired & Busy: When Exhaustion Became the American Way of Life
How are you?
Tired. Busy.
Lately, I’ve noticed something I can’t unhear. Nearly every conversation starts the same way, ike exhaustion is the new personality trait, and busyness is proof that we matter.
But what if this isn’t just a stressful season of life?
What if being tired and busy is the American way of life?
In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt unpack how “tired and busy” became an identity, why urgency feels normal even when nothing is wrong, and what chronic stress is quietly costing us, mentally, emotionally, relationally, and physically.
We explore:
Why busyness has become social currency
How technology dissolved boundaries and made urgency permanent
The hamster wheel effect: motion without arrival
The human cost of burnout, disconnection, and loneliness
How rest became performative and self-care became another task
What it means to resist a system that confuses exhaustion with success
This episode isn’t about blaming individuals.
It’s about naming a culture that keeps people running, and calling it a life.
Because your humanity was never meant to be optimized.
If this episode hit home, share it with someone who’s carrying too much and needs permission to pause.
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"Rebranding Mental Health: A Movement, Not a Label."
