Dr. Ardeshir Mehran's Podcast
Not Depressed. Just UnFinished. Hosted by Dr. Ardeshir Mehran, Ph.D.
What if your depression isn't a diagnosis; it's a dare, it's a signal?
Not Depressed. Just UnFinished. is the podcast for leaders, high achievers, and entrepreneurs who have built impressive lives on the outside and sense something is dying on the inside. If you've ever stared at everything you've accomplished and felt strangely empty, this is the show you didn't know you needed.
Dr. Ardeshir Mehran is a Columbia University-trained psychologist, depression and anxiety expert, and bestselling author of You Are Not Depressed. You Are Un-Finished.
This work is personal. Over 30 years of research and clinical work, and his own personal battle with depression at the peak of his leadership career, Dr. Mehran arrived at a truth that upends everything you've been told: depression and anxiety are not broken-brain problems. They are your body's loudest, most insistent signal that you are living an unfulfilling life.
The science is clear: executives and high achievers experience depression, anxiety, and addiction at two to three times the rate of the general population. Status, wealth, and relentless productivity mask the fight, but they don't end it.
Dr. Mehran's pioneering framework, the Bill of Emotional Rights, identifies the seven universal human rights that we are wired to fulfill from birth. When these rights go unmet, we don't fall apart quietly. We achieve loudly, and ache privately.
Each episode brings Dr. Mehran's signature warmth, clinical depth, and zero-nonsense directness to the questions that actually matter: Why do high achievers suffer in silence? What does your anxiety know that you don't? How do you go from managing symptoms to building a life that makes you feel fully alive?
This is not a podcast about coping or reducing symptoms.
It's a podcast about naming and claiming what was always yours.
Website: https://ardeshirmehran.com/
The Bill of Emotional Rights: https://ardeshirmehran.com/copy-of-bio/
See Amazon for Bestselling Book: You Are Not Depressed. You Are Un-Finished. https://ardeshirmehran.com/general-clean/
Episodes
14 episodes
Rethinking Ketamine: Evidence, Hope, Hype
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 t...
TOUCH: The Body’s Forgotten Language of Healing
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 Wholene...
Always Camera Ready: How She Helps the City Wake Up.
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?
Holding it Together: A Psychiatrist on Why You Could Always Be Composed and Quietly Breaking.
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.F...
How to Listen to Depression. Often It's The Most Honest Voice in the Room.
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 seve...
How to Become a Calm & Trusted Leader
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. Th...
Fly Free Forever: After the Fire, Love Still Remains
From Heartbreak to Living a Fuller LifeWhat 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 ...
Confidence Is Your Currency: Own the Room.
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, b...
An Opera Singer Shares How to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Style, and Presence
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. ...
When Success Starves: And What You Can Do About It.
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...
Illness to Strength: You Are More Powerful Than You Realize
Let's Meet Renee Excelbert, PhDSo 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...
Stop Blaming Yourself. It's Your Health Routine Not Working for You.
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 wellne...
Gut-Honest: Your Gut Knows Before Your Mind Does.
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 ...