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, mos

Dr. Ardeshir Mehran's Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Dr. Ardeshir Mehran, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Rethinking Ketamine: Evidence, Hope, Hype

  Aug 17, 202650 min

  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 treatments haven't helped. Ketamine may offer some people better results and hope. For people living with persistent depression, ketamine has become a source of intense interest, uncertainty, and debate. Is it a meaningful clinical option, an overhyped promise, or something more complicated in between? My podcast guest is Nico Grundmann, MD, a board-certified emergency medicine physician who left the ER to focus on a different kind of crisis: the emotional pain that seems hard to treat. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ember Health, a physician-led IV ketamine practice that, according to his guide, has delivered more than 40,000 infusions across five New York City locations since 2018. In this episode, we move beyond the headlines. What is ketamine? How is it being used in mental health care? Who might be considered for treatment, and who might not? What can patients expect, what risks and unanswered questions matter, and how can someone identify responsible medical care? This is not an endorsement or a miracle-cure story. It is a fact-based conversation about evidence, safety, uncertainty, and what hope can look like when familiar options have fallen short. **Disclaimer. This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not medical or mental health advice and should not replace care from a qualified professional. If you have concerns about your health or well-being, please speak with your doctor or mental health provider.** TIMELINE: 3:22 — What is ketamine? 3:42 — Ketamine as a battlefield anesthetic 5:30 — From ER doctor to depression treatment 7:50 — Clinic’s early outcomes 9:05 — Depression's hidden prevalence and healthcare gaps 12:41 — Measurement-based care and collaborative model 17:06 — How ketamine works: three distinct effects 23:00 — Who benefits from ketamine treatment 28:27 — What patients experience during a ketamine infusion 38:00 — Ketamine safety, misuse, and Matthew Perry’s public case Watch the Podcast on YouTube . CONTACT NICO GRUNDMANN: Ember Health: https://emberhealth.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicogrundmann/ CONTACT DR. ARDESHIR MEHRAN Dr. Mehran Studio LinkedIn Podcasts Blogs YouTube Bestselling Book

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  TOUCH: The Body’s Forgotten Language of Healing

  Aug 14, 202643 min

  Somatic Trauma Therapist Barbara Collier on Why the Path to Wholeness Runs Through the Body, Not Around It. 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. For more than 30 years, Barbara Collier has studied what touch can heal that words cannot. A Licensed Professional Counselor, certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and Embodied Psychosexual Practitioner™, she was among the first therapists in Arizona to bring touch into psychotherapy, introducing a massage table into her office. She is the co-founder of Equinimity Tucson, a longtime collaborator of Dr. Peter Levine, and a trauma survivor whose own trauma recovery shapes her clinical work. In this podcast, we talk about what happens in the nervous system the moment safe touch occurs, and why so many of us are severed from our own bodies in the first place. We examine why talk therapy alone often can’t heal a traumatized body, where grief actually lives in the body, and how she knows the difference between touch that heals and touch that re-traumatizes. Barbara also shares what a horse can teach a nervous system that a human often can’t. What we learned is that healing isn’t only something we talk our way into. It’s something we feel our way back to. TIMELINE: 0:30 – Touch as a primary human need 3:20 – Non-verbal communication: the body's language 6:00 – Barbara's path into touch-based therapy 8:50 – Presence as touch & ethics of touch in psychotherapy 11:10 – Somatic experiencing & the business executive case study 17:00 – The original wound: separation from nature 19:30 – CEO loneliness and the autonomy-connection paradox 24:10 – Touch, trauma, and sexual abuse healing 26:30 –The massage table practice & the anesthesiologist case 31:30 – Grief in the body and touch in daily relationships Watch the Podcast on YouTube . CONTACT BARBARA COLLIER, LPC: Website: https://www.barbaracollier.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headhearthandsjourneyinc/ CONTACT DR. ARDESHIR MEHRAN: Dr. Mehran Studio LinkedIn Podcasts Blogs YouTube Bestselling Book

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  Good Morning, Cincinnati: How She Helps the City Wake Up.

  Jul 30, 202645 min

  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? We hear from the anchorwoman who has spent four decades telling Cincinnati's stories, and who is finally telling her own. Sheila Gray is the host of Good Morning Cincinnati on WKRC Local. She's a member of the Ohio University Broadcasting Hall of Fame, a magna cum laude Scripps journalism grad, and a fixture in the community through Pink Ribbon Girls, the YWCA Career Women of Achievement, and a Key to the City. In this conversation, we talk about what it actually takes to be publicly cheerful on privately hard days. Sheila reflects on what her mentor saw in her before she saw it in herself, and what thousands of interviews with accomplished people have taught her about who they really are once the camera stops rolling. We get into what her reporting reveals about the quiet challenges families aren't talking about enough, what separates a story that truly connects people from one that simply informs, and what she's noticed people rarely say out loud even when their lives are public. We also talk about what Cincinnati still understands about belonging that bigger, faster cities have forgotten, why the people who hold everything together for everyone else are so often the ones nobody checks on, and what local television still knows about trust that national news and social media have lost. After four decades of telling everyone else's stories, it turns out the best one Sheila had was her own. Watch the podcast on YouTube . TIMELINE: 1:21 — Career origins: from West Virginia reporter to Cincinnati morning anchor 2:25 — "Sheila energy": bringing warmth and consistency to work every day 4:04 — Building trust and storytelling with genuine care 7:45 — Losing her father young and how grief shaped her values 10:06 — Choosing kindness over bitterness through hard times 11:06 — How celebrities and public figures behave on camera vs. off camera 15:15 — Balancing facts with human connection in interviews 24:39 — My mentor on finding the human story 30:02 — How news consumption and media trust are evolving 37:34 — Cincinnati culture and identity (Skyline Chili, goetta, community spirit) CONTACT SHEILA GRAY: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn CONTACT DR. ARDESHIR MEHRAN: Dr. Mehran Studio LinkedIn Podcasts Blogs YouTube Bestselling Book

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  Holding it Together: Always Composed, Quietly Breaking.

  Jul 29, 202644 min

  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. For nearly 30 years, Dr. Peter Zafirides, MD has sat across from people who seem to have it all together, hearing the things they never say out loud. Dr. Zafirides is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Ohio State's College of Medicine and co-founder of Central Ohio Behavioral Medicine in Columbus, Ohio, where he has spent nearly three decades treating depression, anxiety, and trauma. A seven-time Best Doctors in America honoree and recipient of the Compassionate Doctor Award, he built his career around one uncomfortable question: what if being normal is a myth, and there's a quiet cost to always holding it together? In this conversation, we talk about why the people everyone else depends on are often the least likely to admit they're struggling. Someone can be lonely while surrounded by others every day, and why closure is something we create rather than something we receive. Dr. Zafirides breaks down the two layers of suffering, the loss itself and the fight against it, and explains how anxiety and depression can quietly become someone's lifestyle without them ever noticing. We also get into what the body knows before the mind admits it, and what nearly 1,000 lectures and thousands of patient hours have taught him about when people finally reach out for help. What we learned is that strength was never about carrying it alone. It's about knowing when to put it down. If you're the one everyone else leans on, consider this your sign to lean on someone too. Watch the podcast on YouTube . TIMELINE: 3:54 — Living "normal" while secretly battling anxiety and depression 6:03 — The tipping point: when suppressed struggles start to "break down" relationships, work, or health 7:58 — "Death by resiliency," the cost of always pushing through 8:14 — When it's time to see a clinician 9:42 — How medication helps (and its limits) 11:30 — Healing as a complex interplay of biology, psychology, and human connection 15:59 — The power of simply asking "Are you happy?" 24:59 — Loneliness as an epidemic, even in a room full of people 28:22 — Understanding closure: pain vs. the suffering we add through interpretation 37:06 — The two layers of suffering explained CONTACT DR. PETER ZAFIRIDES, MD: LinkedIn Website CONTACT DR. ARDESHIR MEHRAN: Dr. Mehran Studio LinkedIn Podcasts Blogs YouTube Bestselling Book

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  How to Listen to Depression. Often It's The Most Honest Voice in the Room.

  Jul 12, 202646 min

  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 seven books, including Listening to Depression and The Gift of ADHD • Listening to Depression was named one of the best therapy books of 2006 by Health Magazine • Longtime Psychology Today contributor; completed her postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Francisco • Known for finding the gift inside the diagnosis; depression as a wake-up call, ADHD as a strength Dr. Lara Honos-Webb is a clinical psychologist licensed in California. Honos-Webb completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at University of California, San Francisco, and has been an assistant professor for graduate students. She has published 26 scholarly articles her website is www.addisagift.com She is the author of six books: Tools to Help Teens Improve Focus, Stay Organized, and Reach Their Goals (2020), Brain Hacks, The Gift of ADHD, The Gift of ADHD Activity Book, The Gift of Adult ADD, The ADHD Workbook for Teens, and Listening to Depression. Dr. Honos-Webb shared that “Depression is a signal that something new has to come into your life.” There are 4 Ps that accelerate depression healing: The Permission Principle, the Pleasure Principle, the Presence Principle, and the Power Principle. Watch the podcast on YouTube. TIMELINE 0:06 — Welcome & Introduction 0:35 — Depression Has Wisdom, Not Just Symptoms 2:53 — Disclaimers & Session Purpose 7:21 — The Hero's Journey of Healing 10:32 — Depression as Self-Communication 15:45 — The Four Ps: Presence, Pleasure, Permission, Power 26:32 — Discovering Your Strengths 34:01 — Purpose and Enthusiasm Over Prestige 43:36 — Momentum: M&M for the Soul CONTACT DR. LARA HONOS-WEBB Website LinkedIn Instagram CONTACT DR. ARDESHIR MEHRAN Website LinkedIn Podcasts Blogs YouTube Bestselling Book: You Are Not Depressed. You Are Un-Finished.

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