A rejection letter, a visa clock, and a mind racing at a million miles a second—then a five-minute audio that flips everything. We sit down with Dr. Kiran Dintila, known as Dr. Calm, to trace how a brutal setback became the catalyst for a new way to practice medicine and live. The story starts with stress at its peak and lands on a repeatable process for instant calm, better health, and smarter decisions, even when nothing outside has changed.
We explore the moment his thoughts quieted, why joy can surface before circumstances improve, and how that shift unlocked opportunities he had been missing. Dr. Calm breaks down the mechanics: calm reduces ego friction, widens perception, and restores access to insight. That inner state becomes practical power—spotting the right mentor, saying yes to the right path, and treating adversity as useful data instead of a verdict. Along the way, we dig into gratitude as daily medicine and how it reframes health, money, and ambition as energy that flows.
You’ll also hear how he rebuilt his clinical model. After years in traditional systems, he launched a concierge practice in La Jolla that blends internal medicine, functional medicine, and stress management. Ninety-minute visits, root-cause work, and simple techniques that help patients regulate stress so protocols stick. His mission—through the Stress-Free Revolution and his book “Calm in the Mist of Chaos”—is bold: alleviate suffering and raise the global happiness index, starting one nervous system at a time.
If you’re chasing performance, healing from burnout, or just tired of reacting, this conversation offers tools you can use today. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more people find calm when they need it most.
