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Depression-Free After 40
by Dr. Ardeshir Mehran
Depression-Free After 40 The Opposite of Depression is Not Happiness. It’s Fulfillment. You did everything right. You built the career, raised the family, earned the title. Then, somewhere after 40, the color drained out. You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. You may feel like sleepwalking through life. On paper, you're successful, yet you feel strangely empty. Most people call that depression. My decades-long research has shown it’s something else: an unfulfilled life, the feeling of being unfinished. Research on the "happiness curve" shows that life satisfaction tends to hit its lowest point in our 40s and early 50s, often right when we've "made it." But why? That timing is no accident. It's when needs we have postponed for decades finally demand to be heard. Depression Free After 40 is the podcast for professionals, parents, and th
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Born to Move, Told to Sit: Wellbeing for Everday Life
Why Workplace Wellness Fails and What Actually Works You are not failing at wellness. You may be swimming in water that makes it hard to breathe. Another step challenge. Another lunch-and-learn. Still exhausted. Why isn’t your wellness program working? Fix the Water, Not the Fish. In this…
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Lead Like an Elite Warrior: A Navy SEAL Commander on Winning the War Inside Your Mind
Fear will always speak. You decide which voice you feed. Many of us are tough on the outside and tired on the inside. What if your hardest battle is the one inside your own mind? In this episode, retired Navy SEAL top Commander Mark Divine shows us how to train the mind the way we train the body....
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Why Are You Here: Are You Successful at a Life You Don’t Want?
Let's talk about the “question” most of us spend our whole lives avoiding. Not what do you do. Not how did you get here. But why are you here? Today's guest built an entire career, and a movement, around that one question. Gerry Visca started out as an architect, learning how ideas take shape in...
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Beautiful Skin, Hidden Scars: What Your Mirror Can’t Show You.
What if looking good has become a cover for not feeling good? We spend so much time caring for what people can see. Our skin. Our face. Our appearance. But sometimes the real story is underneath. In this deeply personal conversation, with Dr. Keira Barr, dual-board-certified dermatologist,...
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Are You a Serial Fixer: How to Care Deeply Without Losing Yourself?
YOU KNOW THIS PERSON. When something goes wrong, everyone calls them. A relationship is falling apart. A colleague is overwhelmed. A child is struggling. A friend is in crisis. They listen. They step in. They solve. And eventually, they become the one who is exhausted. My guest, psychotherapist…
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Feel It to Heal It IT: From Grief to Gratitude and a Joyful Living.
Beginning A New Life. At 26, Dr. Peggy DeLong lost her fiancé to cancer. Six weeks later, her father died suddenly of a heart attack. Two devastating losses. One after another. But that grief would eventually shape her life's work as she became a leading psychologist. In this deeply human...
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Boost Your Brain: The Crash That Finally Made Her Listen.
She spent years mistaking exhaustion for failure, until a bicycle accident forced her to meet the brain that had been protecting her all along. This episode challenges a familiar internal narrative, the voice that tells a woman "I'm not enough," and reframes it not as truth. It could be echoes of...
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Rethinking Ketamine: Evidence, Hope, and 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 treatments haven't helped. Ketamine may offer some people better results...
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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 Wholeness Runs Through the Body, Not Around It. For more than 30 years, Barbara Collier has...
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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? We hear from the anchorwoman who has spent four decades telling Cincinnati's...
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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. For nearly 30 years, Dr. Peter Zafirides, MD has sat across from people who seem to have it...
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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 seven books, including Listening to Depression and The Gift of ADHD Listening to Depression was...
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How to Become a Calm and 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. The email lands wrong. The pressure spikes, and before you’ve chosen anything, your…
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Fly Free Forever: After the Fire, Love Still Remains.
From Heartbreak to Living a Fuller Life What 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 began with a devastating plane crash that left her husband, Mark, with life-threatening burns over...
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Confidence Is Your Currency: Learn How to 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, bestselling author, brand strategist, and host of the globally ranked GRASP Confidence...
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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. I'm speaking with Adria Firestone, The Reinvention Architect™, about what it…
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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, we hear from Loredana Regep, MD, a physician, former global biotech leader, integrative health coach, Positive Intelligence coach, and creator of The Elevation Method™, about the quiet moment when...
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Healthy Not Guilty. 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 wellness coach who has spent nearly two decades asking a different...
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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 different kind of medical education. Now, triple board-certified…
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Illness to Strength: You Are More Powerful Than You Realize.
Let's Meet Renee Excelbert, PhD So 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 speaking with Dr. Renee Exelbert about what happens when adversity interrupts...
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Stop Fighting Your Depression: What Depression Tells 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 pressing down on your chest. Like you're moving through life, but you're not really there. Like...
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Decoding Depression: Is Your Brain Lying to You?
What Depression Really Is, and What It Isn't Let's talk about the voice in your head that says it's your fault. That you should be stronger. That something is wrong with you. That you just need to try harder. What if that voice is the depression talking? Today's guest, a leading expert, has spent...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Depression-Free After 40
The Opposite of Depression is Not Happiness. It’s Fulfillment.
You did everything right. You built the career, raised the family, earned the title.
Then, somewhere after 40, the color drained out.
You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. You may feel like sleepwalking through life.
On paper, you're successful, yet you feel strangely empty.
Most people call that depression. My decades-long research has shown it’s something else: an unfulfilled life, the feeling of being unfinished.
Research on the "happiness curve" shows that life satisfaction tends to hit its lowest point in our 40s and early 50s, often right when we've "made it." But why?
That timing is no accident. It's when needs we have postponed for decades finally demand to be heard.
Depression Free After 40 is the podcast for professionals, parents, and th
HOSTED BY
Dr. Ardeshir Mehran
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