In this episode of It's Not That Deep, we dismantle one of the most overcomplicated and misunderstood ideas in modern leadership: success. Not the Instagram version. Not the résumé version. But the kind of success your body, nervous system, and life can actually sustain. We explore why so many high-achieving women are doing everything "right" on paper yet feel exhausted, disconnected, and burned out in real life.
We introduce the concept of biologic leadership, a framework that redefines success based on what your physiology can maintain without sacrificing sleep, hormones, identity, or joy. Success is no longer just about output. It's about energy, capacity, recovery, and effectiveness working together. We break down the four critical buckets that determine the true cost of success and explain why focusing on productivity alone leads to depletion, not fulfillment.
Finally, we offer a practical reset. You'll learn how to assess your current success using a simple scorecard, identify where your system is breaking down, and redesign the next 90 days in a way that supports both performance and well-being. This episode is a reminder that success should grow you, not drain you and that alignment, not hustle, is the real strategy.
What You Will Learn:
Why traditional definitions of success fail high-achieving women
What biologic leadership is and how it changes the way you lead and live
The four buckets that determine whether your success is sustainable
How to measure success by both output and physiological cost
Why women burn out faster under performance models not built for their biology
Practical ways to redesign success without burning down your life
About Dr. Meghna Dassani
Dr. Meghna Dassani is a high-performance strategist, biologically-driven leadership expert, and award-winning dentist who helps women stop living overwhelmed and start leading with clarity, strategy, and science.
For over two decades, she built and scaled a thriving dental practice, became a nationally recognized airway sleep expert, and trained thousands of clinicians across the world. But her deeper calling emerged in the conversations happening behind closed doors — with women doctors who were exhausted, overextended, and silently questioning whether this version of success was worth the cost.
Meghna saw a pattern:
Burnout wasn't a mindset issue.
It was a biology issue.
And leadership wasn't a personality trait — it was a learnable system.
That's when The Making of Her was born.
Today, Meghna blends neuroscience, physiology, business strategy, and real-world leadership to help women doctors and leaders operate at their highest level — without grinding themselves into the ground. Her frameworks support women in making better decisions, executing at a higher level, and reclaiming ownership of their time, energy, and results.
Through her mastermind, The Expansion Collective, her newsletter The Audacity Edit, and now The Making of Her Podcast, Meghna is on a mission to give women the tools, language, and systems to rise without burnout — and build the kind of lives they don't need a vacation from.
This isn't self-help.
This is science-backed leadership for women who are done settling.
Meghna lives in Houston with her husband and their two daughters who are her greatest reminders of legacy, courage, and possibility.
The Making of Her is where strategy meets real talk.
Where biology meets leadership.
Where women stop shrinking and start becoming the version of themselves they always knew existed.
Welcome home.
Connect with Dr. Meghna Dassani
Website: https://www.meghnadassani.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthysleeprevolution
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meghna_dassani/
