830 Optimize Your Mental Health with Dr. Paul Conti
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This conversation with the incredible Dr. Paul Conti changed how I look at mental health. We've all been taught that we're driven by aggression or pleasure—but Paul reveals there is a third "Generative Drive" that is the actual key to our wellness.
In this episode, we dive deep into his new book, What's Going Right. We talk about why we are so "lost" in negativity, how to move past the stigma of mental health, and the practical "self-inquiry" tools you can use to pull your unconscious patterns out of the "basement" and into the light.
Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/830
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. Welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. I just had the most fascinating |
| 0:08.0 | conversation with Dr. Paul Conti. That was so, I don't know, I'm so lit up. He's someone whose work I |
| 0:16.6 | have been quite familiar with before this. He has a beautiful new book out called What's Going on, |
| 0:21.6 | a powerful new method for optimizing your mental health, which I love so very much. So he's an MD. |
| 0:29.5 | He's a celebrity endorsed psychiatrist. He's the renowned author and president of Pacific |
| 0:36.8 | Premier Group PC, a comprehensive |
| 0:40.1 | mental health clinic that provides therapy, coaching, and consulting services to individuals, |
| 0:44.6 | families and businesses in the United States and abroad. So he basically has a group of working |
| 0:51.2 | together. But he's been featured on tons of top podcasts. You've probably seen him. |
| 0:55.5 | Tim Ferriss, to the Huberman Labs, Lex Friedman, Whitney Cummings, Tom Villew, |
| 1:00.7 | Rich Roll, and more and more and more. We talked so much about what can regular people do |
| 1:07.8 | to focus on what is right in their lives right now? And I really, |
| 1:17.3 | I learned so much in this interview, but all about the structure of self and the function |
| 1:24.0 | of self and ways that we can find the information that we need to make our lives |
| 1:33.7 | better, to make our trauma better. |
| 1:36.6 | And that I love the idea of this being something that we can do ourselves as opposed to, I mean, obviously you can go get into therapy too, |
| 1:47.3 | and I'm not against that, but there's something really powerful about this book, |
| 1:51.8 | a powerful new method for optimizing your mental health, what's going right. |
| 1:56.2 | And it's funny, I would always say to my clients, and not as a way of bypassing painful stuff, |
| 2:03.4 | but that there is something valuable about focusing on what is right in your life right now. |
| 2:11.0 | So there was so much about this book and his methodology that super resonated with me as |
| 2:16.7 | incredibly powerful. So I hope that you |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 5 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Terri Cole, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Terri Cole and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

