The Let's Go Show with Doug Reed featuring Dr Amir Rashidian " Turning Stress Into Transformation Into Your Health and Life ""

Amir A. Rashidian was born in Iran in 1974. He was 5-years old when the rioting began, and the government was overthrown. Iran became the Islamic Republic of Iran and the world as he knew it changed. He still remembers the gruesome violence of that time and although several decades have passed, he can recall the scenes like they occurred yesterday.

He was 6-years old when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran and thus began the air-raids and bombings. Amir lived in a quiet and peaceful area of northern Iran near the Caspian Sea. Prior to the revolution this area was a trendy and luxurious vacation area with lots of recreational facilities and picturesque beaches. However, a couple of years after the war began, the beautiful scenic park across from his house was converted into a POW camp to contain the many Iraqi prisoners. Every couple of months an Iraqi soldier would escape and attempt to hide in Amir’s neighborhood. Shooting would ensue in the streets and Amir’s family would hide in their home.

Amir’s father wanted to bring the family to America. Every summer Amir’s father would take their family to a different European country with the hopes of obtaining a visa to the United States. Each time they met with rejection and had to return home.

Finally, at age 11, Amir’s family was given permission to enter the United States of America. In August of 1985, Amir and his mother landed in Los Angeles with nothing but two suitcases. They were homeless for a few months until they moved into a small 2-bedroom apartment which they shared with another woman and her two young children. His experiences during this time led to his passion for helping the homeless and those in need of proper housing. This is also why he serves as a member of the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity in his hometown.
Amir’s father was a highly respected and successful businessman in Iran. He owned a large construction company and had built hospitals, government buildings, and apartment buildings in Iran. However, after the revolution, their money was practically worthless in America. Amir’s mother worked as a nanny during the week and Amir and his mother cleaned houses on weekends to earn extra money. One day, a wealthy man approached Amir’s father who was still in Iran and offered him the opportunity of a lifetime. The wealthy man offered to purchase a house on the east coast and sell it to him at no interest and low monthly payments. Thus, Amir with his mother and father moved to Maryland in 1987.
Before leaving Iran, Amir’s dad wanted to teach him about poverty and life in the underprivileged regions of Iran, the villages in the foothills of the Elburz mountain range. In one of those villages, Amir was witness to a young woman who had gone into labor. The midwife told her and her husband that the baby was not alive, and the young woman would likely not survive. That woman died in her husband’s arms because there were no doctors in that village. Amir decided at that moment to commit his life to become a doctor, to saving lives and preventing unnecessary death.

In America, driven by his dream to become a doctor, Amir was a good student and a very hard worker. Unfortunately, Amir had a type of dyslexia that affected his ability to read. His eyes would jumble the words on the page and he had to rearrange them in his mind to try and make sense of the text. At the time, he didn’t know he had dyslexia and believed he was slow and dumb. It didn’t mean he couldn’t do well in school; it just meant that he would have to work harder and longer than anyone else. That’s how he managed to get the grades, finish near to the top of his high school class and get accepted into the George Washington University’s premedical program.

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