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The Rebranding Mental Health Podcast explores what mental health could look like if we moved beyond the outdated disease model and embraced TOTAL health—brain, body, relationships, and purpose.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.
Episodes
46 episodes
The Price of Survival: How the Cost of Living Is Rewriting Our Health
In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt name a quiet emergency: the way rising costs, rent, groceries, insurance, debt, are taxing our nervous systems before we even start the day.If your body has been bracing, neck te...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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35:39
The Wellness Fog – Why Fragmented Healing Doesn’t Work
You’re eating the kale, meditating, moving your body, checking all the boxes… and yet, you still feel off. Welcome to the Wellness Fog.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore why doing “all th...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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38:29
Choosing Responsiveness over Discipline
We’ve all heard it: discipline is everything. Get up at 5AM, stick to the routine, grind harder, push through. But what if discipline isn’t the holy grail we’ve been sold? What if there’s a healthier, more sustainable alternative?In this...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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32:57
Kindness vs. Niceness – Why People-Pleasing Isn’t the Same as Compassion
At first glance, kindness and niceness look the same but they’re not.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, we unpack why niceness often comes at the cost of silence, resentment, and self-abandonment, while kindness is rooted...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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35:07
Losing My Religion, Finding Myself – How Spiritual Conditioning Shapes Our Total Health
Spirituality should never cost you your voice. And sacredness should never require self-erasure.In this tender and deeply honest episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore how our religious upbringing can shape o...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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37:09
Joyful Defiance – Reclaiming Your Power in Uncertain Times
Joy isn’t a luxury. It’s a strategy.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore Joyful Defiance. Kurt coined this approach as the radical act of choosing play, pleasure, and presence even when the w...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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47:35
Navigating Uncertainty – Tools to Ground, Center, and Move Forward
Uncertainty isn't just uncomfortable, it’s biologically destabilizing. In this premiere episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore why the unknown feels so threatening, how your brain and nervous system respo...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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31:19
Fractured Systems: Why So Many of Us Are Mentally & Physically Unwell
If you’re feeling exhausted, anxious, or like your body is constantly bracing for impact—it might not be you. It might be the system you’re living in.In this episode of Rebranding Mental, Iman and Kurt break the myth that mental and phys...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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39:29
The Practical Power of Checking In with Yourself
Hello friends—welcome back to Rebranding Mental Health.In our previous episodes, Iman and Kurt have been exploring happiness and quality of life from a needs-based perspective: the idea that when our human needs are fulfilled, l...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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28:51
Pills, Power, and Possibility: Rethinking Pharmaceuticals in Mental Health
In this provocative conversation on Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt peel back the layers of modern psychiatry’s love affair with medication. How did pills become the first—and sometimes only—response to human distress?
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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37:29
AI Therapist - Friend or Foe
In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt are diving into one of the biggest questions in modern mental health: Can AI really help us heal?From ChatGPT to therapy apps, AI-powered tools are everywhere, of...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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30:55
“Can We Talk? Why Communication Should Be a Core Subject”
We teach reading. We teach math. We even teach driver’s ed.But when it comes to communication—arguably one of the most essential life skills—we leave people to figure it out through trial, error, and emotional bruises.In this episode...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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26:57
Wellness Industry Green Flags (Good Vibes with Substance)
Tired of toxic positivity and one-size-fits-all wellness advice?In this refreshingly honest episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt flip the script—focusing not on what’s wrong with the wellness industry, but wh...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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23:31
Dear Nervous System, I’m Paying Attention
Most of us weren’t taught to listen to our nervous system — we were taught to silence it. In this gentle but eye-opening episode of Rebranding Mental Health, we explore how your body communicates distress and safety, and why ignoring t...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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30:05
Mental Health Is More Than a Mood.
It’s about how you focus.How you connect.How you sleep.How you function — even when you're smiling.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt are breaking down the myth that mental heal...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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37:07
Rebranding Mental Health: Unscripted!
In this Episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt hit record on this episode feeling worn down by the everything of life in America right now — rising prices, nonstop noise, political chaos, and the emotional fatigue that cree...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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30:33
Happiness, Resources & the Myth of the One Right Way
Part of the Rebranding Mental Health: Happiness SeriesWelcome back to Rebranding Mental Health! In this episode, Iman and Kurt continuing the series on happiness — this time exploring the idea that happiness isn’t about...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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36:12
Unprotected: Who’s Really Advocating for Our Children?
We say we want to protect children — but what does that actually look like?In this powerful episode, Iman and Kurt examine how our institutions often fail the very people they claim to protect. From school systems to family cour...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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27:33
Locked Away: What Psychiatric Hospitals Reveal About Our Mental Health System
What happens when crisis care becomes crisis creation? In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt are pulling back the curtain on psychiatric hospitals: the good, the bad, and the deeply broken. This ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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36:49
Our Needs and Why We Need Them
Needs aren’t just "nice to have" — they’re the foundation of how we experience life. This week, Iman and Kurt dive deeper into why recognizing and meeting our core needs isn’t just important — it’s essential for real well-being. Buildi...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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36:01
What Does It Mean to Be Happy, Anyway? (And Why It’s Such an Important Question to Ask)
We all want to be happy — but have you ever stopped to ask what happiness really means? In this episode, Iman and Kurt unpack why happiness isn’t just about success or feeling good — it’s a deeper, more personal practice shaped by need...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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32:47
The Great Unraveling – How America’s Failing Institutions Are Breaking Our Mental Health (And How We Rebuild)
🎙️ New Episode: The Great Unraveling – How America’s Failing Institutions Are Breaking Our Mental Health (And How We Rebuild)Something deeper than burnout is happening. In this episode, we dive into The Great U...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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33:35
Emotional Inflation: Why Are Our Feelings More Expensive Than Ever?
Ever feel like it takes more energy to care, connect, or just feel these days? You’re not imagining it. In this episode, we explore the idea of emotional inflation—how our feelings are being stretched thin in a world of consta...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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37:01
Who’s Really in Control? The American Illusion of Power Over Everything
🎙️ New Episode: Who’s Really in Control? The American Illusion of Power Over EverythingIn a culture that tells us we can manifest, optimize, and hustle our way into total control, Iman and Kurt explore the emotiona...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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36:22
The Great American Attention Crisis: How Cultural Instability Has Hijacked Our Focus
🧠🔎 The Great American Attention Crisis 🔎🧠Ever feel like your focus is slipping away? Meaning, matter how hard you try, your brain is constantly pulled in a million directions? 📱📺📢You’re not imagining it—our attention is und...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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30:33