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/
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Episodes
6 episodes
Insights from an International Opera Singer for 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 Stops Feeding You: 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...
From 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...
You’re Not Lazy. Your Health Routine Is 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 ...
Stop Fighting Your Depression: What Depression Is Trying to Tell You.
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 p...