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The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi
by Stacey Chillemi
Your body has been in survival mode long enough. The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is where you learn how to turn it off. If you're running on stress, lying awake with anxiety, or so burned out that rest doesn't touch it, this daily show was built for you. Every day, 20-time bestselling author Stacey Chillemi sits down with doctors, therapists, and leading experts who explain what's really happening in your nervous system and give you science-backed tools to calm it, release the emotional patterns holding you back, and get your energy and focus back. These are honest conversations about how stress and trauma live in the body and what helps you heal. You'll hear something you can use in every episode, whether you have five minutes or an hour. A new episode every day. Wherever you're starting from, start here.
Episodes
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The Science of Performance: Athlete Habits for Everyday Health
You do not need perfect genetics, a perfect plan, or perfect conditions to get stronger. Sports scientist and biomechanist Dr. Amber Murphy reveals what separates people who keep improving from those who stall. She explains why mindset derails performance faster than physique, why five minutes of...
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What's Really Draining Your Body's Ability to Heal
Your body runs on hydrogen — and most people are chronically short on it. George Wiseman, founder of Eagle Research and one of the world's foremost researchers on Brown's Gas, explains how antibiotics, glyphosate, and modern diets disrupt the natural hydrogen your gut is supposed to produce. He...
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Biological Age Isn't Your Birthday — Your Brain Controls It
Biological age isn't locked in by genetics — it's regulated by the hypothalamus, and when that system is supported, people routinely measure 8 to 18 years younger than their chronological age. Deborah Maragopoulos, board-certified FNP with 30 years in neuroendocrinology, explains how the...
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Hormone Imbalance Is Real Even When Your Labs Are Normal
You slept eight hours, woke up exhausted, snapped at your kids, and your doctor still says your labs are normal. Hormone imbalance in women is common, and common is not normal. The standard lab range is wide enough that the bottom of it can leave you feeling like a stranger in your own body.…
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When Positive Thinking Is Not Enough
She was hallucinating and had to walk home alone in the middle of the night. Grace King talks about the parts of recovery that looked impossible from the outside, including panic, being dismissed by medical professionals, and the isolation of not being believed. She explains why she came to see...
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Starting Over After Divorce When You're Falling Apart
You finally left, so why does freedom feel like falling apart? This is the part of starting over after divorce that no one posts about. Still living with her ex after filing for divorce, Sammie DeMarco was losing sleep, barely eating, and growing more unwell under relentless stress. She speaks...
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Is It Just a Phase? The Early Autism Signs Parents Miss
What if the signs you keep brushing off are your child's way of asking for help? Alisha Simpson-Watt, LCSW, BCBA, founder of Collaborative ABA Services and author of It's Okay, Mattie, talks about early autism signs, why they look different in girls and verbal kids, and what to do first without...
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When Love Isn't Enough: Calming Your Child's Big Emotions
Is your child's meltdown defiance, or a nervous system asking for help? Jane Hoffman, founder of MOOD Tools, turned her daughter's mental health crisis into a mission to give families science-backed emotional regulation tools. Jane reveals the early warning signs parents miss, why "bad behavior"…
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What Your Labs Aren't Telling You
Exhausted, foggy, and told your labs are fine? That's not aging; That's a glitch in your healthcare. Dr. Angela Petersen, founder of AMPD Health and author of The Wellness Glitch, cuts through the noise on hormones, gut repair, inflammation, and peptide therapy. Learn why standard lab ranges tell...
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Exhausted After 45? Why Midlife Is Your Second Spring, Not Your Decline
Feeling exhausted or like you are losing yourself in your 40s or 50s? Dr. Sonal Bhatia, founder of Ojas Vida and author of The Bridge, dismantles the midlife crisis myth. She explains why depletion after 45 comes from years of self-neglect, not aging; how gut health, mood, and stress feed each...
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Stop Trying to Get Your Old Life Back After Illness
You can't heal while measuring yourself against who you used to be. After more than 30 years as a registered nurse, Jenny White became the patient. She survived brain surgery, woke from a coma, and had to relearn how to speak, walk, and recognize her own husband. Jenny shares what she remembers...
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NFL Star Shawne Merriman on Mental Toughness Nobody Teaches
Mental toughness gets built when you have no idea if an eviction notice is waiting at home. If you feel like your starting line is holding you back, that is not a verdict on you. Hardship, used on purpose, becomes the extra layer of skin most people never develop. Former NFL player Shawne…
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The Grief That Started Before He Was Born
What if the wound shaping your whole life was one you never knew you had? Robert Haden lost his twin sister in the womb and carried the guilt for decades. A 2013 near-death experience cracked his world open. He walked through the childhood tears that were really grief, the dream that named his...
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PCOS Starts in Your Brain, Not Your Ovaries
PCOS has been misnamed for decades — it's not an ovarian condition, it's a brain regulation problem. Irregular cycles, infertility, weight gain, and hair loss all trace back to hypothalamic dysfunction that disrupts insulin signaling, ovulation, and hormone balance. Deborah Maragopoulos,...
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Midlife Crisis Is You Finally Refusing to Abandon Yourself
Midlife crisis is what people call it when you keep handling everything and still feel drained by a life that looks good from the outside. Self care that only soothes you sends you right back into the conditions that exhausted you, and that is not a personal failing. Real change starts in the…
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Alcohol Addiction Hides Behind a Good Job and a Nice House
Alcohol addiction looks like standing in a grocery store line on a Wednesday afternoon, realizing you cannot remember the last day you did not drink. That quiet recognition is not weakness, and it is more common than it looks from the outside. The hardest part of recovery is not staying sober; it...
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Rebuilding Your Mind After Psychosis and Brain Injury
She saw Jesus during her recovery, and almost nobody around her believed it. Grace King returns to unpack the verse that started her eight-year search and what she found in it about the mind, fear, and spiritual opposition. She talks about the isolation of being misunderstood, the journaling...
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Migraine Is Never Just One Trigger, It's Usually Four
You skipped the wine, you drank the water, and the migraine came anyway. Chasing one trigger is exhausting, and when it fails you feel like nothing works. Migraine rarely has a single cause. Most attacks come from four factors stacking together, with the neck and the weather among the most...
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Midlife Crisis Hits Hardest When You Did Everything Right
Midlife crisis is not the sports car. It is waking up inside the life you built- career, marriage, kids, house- and feeling nothing. Everyone else looks fine, so you say nothing. You did not fail, and you are not broken. That emptiness is a signal that there is more for you, not less. Writer,...
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Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: How to Rebuild Self-Trust
If simple decisions leave you exhausted, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar in the best way. Guest Kamini Wood unpacks why self-trust erodes, why overthinking is often protection rather than a personality flaw, and how to stop treating other people's opinions like the final verdict on...
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Eating Disorders Are Biology, Not a Failure of Willpower
Eating disorder recovery keeps failing at the same point, and every relapse feels like proof of weak character. It is not. Willpower was never the mechanism. Genetics, stress physiology, habit, and a nervous system wired by early trauma override logic long before you get to choose. Paige Gordon...
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Surgeon Explains How to Avoid Surgery and Opioids for Chronic Pain
A surgeon who wants to keep you off the operating table could change how you handle pain for good. Dr. Ethan Kellum treats pro athletes and everyday patients with regenerative medicine, and he shares what he wishes everyone with chronic pain had known before saying yes to surgery or a…
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IVF Is Not Your Only Option: The Truth About IVM
Most fertility patients go through months of stimulation cycles before anyone mentions there might be a simpler way. In vitro maturation (IVM) skips the hormones, the daily monitoring, and much of the cost — and it works. Dr. Sherman Silber, one of the world's foremost reproductive microsurgeons,...
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Your Blood Pressure Isn't a Heart Problem
That BP reading that spiked at the doctor's office? It might not mean what you think. Registered nurse and naturopath Joel Polley breaks down what your blood pressure numbers really mean. Why stress, sleep, caffeine, salt, and even fear can push them up, and what you can do today to bring them...
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Losing Weight Is Not Your Fault and Here Is the Proof
Another Monday, another plan, and by Thursday the takeout is ordered, and the blame lands where it always does: on you. Losing weight was never meant to be a lifelong fight, and the fact that it became one says more about the industry than about your willpower. Lean and healthy is the body's...
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Parental Burnout Is Making You Feel Like a Failure
Parental burnout is the drive home from practice with a headache, a kid in the back seat who stopped smiling, and the fear that you are still not doing enough. You did everything right, and your child is more anxious anyway. That is not your failure. Research shows the extra hour and the extra…
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Rebuilding a Sound Mind After Brain Injury
Doctors could not explain what was happening to her mind. Grace King came out of a brain injury, a stroke, and a steroid overdose into years of psychosis and confusion, and she started writing everything down. Eight years of notebooks later, she has a great deal to say about scripture, free will,...
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Stop Ignoring Your Body Before It Makes the Decision for You
Your body has been warning you. Most women just get good at ignoring it. It's not failing you; it's asking for your attention. Michelle Ford, MPH, founder of Navigating Your World Academy, explains why physical wellness is the first dimension to signal something is off — and why symptoms like...
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Autoimmune Disease Starts in Your Brain, Not Your Immune System
Autoimmune disease isn't a misfiring immune system — it's a brain that lost the ability to regulate one. Years of chronic stress, poor sleep, gut imbalance, and hormonal shifts can dysregulate the hypothalamus to the point where the immune system starts attacking your own tissue. Deborah...
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Root Cause of Symptoms Your Labs Keep Calling Normal
Root cause questions rarely come up when a scan comes back clean. You are handed a prescription for the fatigue, the flares, the dizziness, and sent home with nothing explained. The check engine light gets covered, not answered. Dr. Anthony Salzarulo, a holistic health consultant and homeopath of...
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Male Infertility: What Men Are Never Told
Male infertility is a factor in half of all fertility struggles — yet men are rarely the first one tested, and almost never the first one supported. If you or your partner has been quietly carrying that weight, this episode is the conversation you needed years ago. Dr. Sherman Silber, one of the...
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Heart Transplant Wait Made Their Marriage Stronger
Heart transplant lists hold twelve thousand names, and for three and a half years he was one of them, losing strength while the woman he loved watched it happen. Illness usually pulls couples apart, and nobody teaches you how to stay close through it. Theirs got closer, on purpose, using…
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Built From the Ground Up: Victor Bretting on Faith, Family & Breaking Generational Patterns
Some lives are built to last — Victor Bretting's runs eight generations deep in Texas soil. A childhood shaped by a missing father, a tireless mother, and nearly 50 years in concrete construction gave him a masterclass in accountability, perseverance, and what legacy actually means. In this...
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Emotional Literacy Starts With You, Not Your Child
Emotional literacy is not something you teach a child with a talk. It is something they absorb by watching you, every time you name a feeling out loud, own a mistake, or sit with an uncomfortable emotion instead of burying it. Dr. Deana Plaskon, licensed clinical mental health expert and author…
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Hydrogen Therapy Is Missing One Critical Piece
Hydrogen therapy is one of the fastest-growing areas in health science, and most of the products being sold are missing the single component that makes it work. Pure hydrogen is electrically neutral — it cannot neutralize free radicals or stop oxidative damage on its own. George Wiseman, founder…
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Childhood Trauma and the Patterns Running Your Adult Life
You are not overreacting. You may just be remembering. Trauma-informed life coach and author Ernest Ellender, PhD, explains why a small moment can trigger a large emotional response, and how to catch the pattern before it takes over. He unpacks how childhood stress shows up in adult confidence,...
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Gut Skin Connection Is Why Your Skin Keeps Reacting
Gut skin connection explains the mirror moment so many women know: doing everything right and still seeing dull skin, redness, and hair in the drain. The problem is not the products. Ayurveda teaches that the gut whispers while the skin and scalp scream, and a dysregulated nervous system shows up...
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Emotional Healing Starts When You Stop Holding It In
Forty dark, urgent paintings, finished in a rush. Days later, the diagnosis. Emotional healing is usually sold as talking it through, and that leaves out everyone who cannot find the words. There is another route, and it runs through the body. Brett Ashby, an Australian performance artist and...
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Can't Lose Weight? It's Your Set Point, Not Willpower
Weight loss that won't budge isn't a willpower problem — your hypothalamus is defending a weight your body thinks is safe, and every diet you've tried may have made that defense stronger. Deborah Maragopoulos, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 30 years in neuroendocrinology, breaks...
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Eco-Anxiety Is Not Weakness, It Is Proof You Care
You are not overwhelmed because you are weak. You are overwhelmed because you care. Sustainability leader Paula Rose Castronova joins The Advisor to reframe eco-anxiety as a signal rather than a flaw. She walks through a practical path from fear to agency built on awareness, acceptance, and…
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Losing Everything to Bipolar and Laughing His Way Back
He spent fourteen years pretending he was fine. Dave Mowry lost his business, his stability, and nearly his family to bipolar disorder and severe anxiety before a stand-up comedy class turned everything around. Today he performs, teaches comedy to others living with mental illness, and writes the...
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Why Leaving a Toxic Relationship Feels Impossible
You feel most like yourself everywhere except home, and that contrast is getting impossible to ignore. Leaving a toxic relationship rarely starts with one big moment. For Sammie DeMarco, it started when concerts, conventions, and friends reminded her what peace actually felt like, while the...
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Why Your Diet Rules Are Making Things Worse
The stricter the rules, the louder the cravings — and Dr. Theresa DeLorenzo has spent 25 years proving it. A registered dietitian, doctor of clinical nutrition, and yoga therapist, she unpacks why restriction backfires, how the binge cycle forms, and what your cravings are actually asking for....
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Medicare Mistakes That Cost Seniors Thousands in 2026
Medicare changed in 2026, and the pharmacy counter is where most people find out. Two thousand dollars before the medication is handed over, or a doctor who quietly left the network. None of that is your fault. The premium is the least useful number on the page, and the line items underneath it…
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Hydrogen Water Benefits and the 6 Protocols That Heal
Hydrogen water benefits extend far beyond what most people are using them for — and most people are only using one of the six ways this technology works. If you have been following the science of Brown's Gas and wondering what to actually do with it, this episode is for you. George Wiseman…
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Hearing Loss and the Quiet Cost of Disconnection
Hearing loss does not just take away sound. It takes away conversation, confidence, and connection.Michael Leung, founder of The FLO Group, returns to share the real stories behind affordable assistive hearing technology. He talks about a 100-year-old man who heard clearly again, a 75-year-old...
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Menopause Symptoms Start in Your Brain, Not Your Ovaries
Menopause symptoms aren't caused by failing ovaries — they start in a tiny brain region called the hypothalamus, and that's why most treatments only partially work. Deborah Maragopoulos, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 30 years in neuroendocrinology, explains why hot flashes…
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How to Stop Being a Passive Patient
Most patients say yes to a prescription without ever hearing one statistic. Dr. Joe Jacko has spent 36 years in internal medicine and sports medicine, and he believes patients deserve the whole picture. He shows how relative risk can make a small benefit seem large, what the number needed to…
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Bone Health: The Longevity Secret Hiding in Plain Sight
Learn how five minutes a week can reverse years of decline and protect your mobility, independence, and vitality. Kyle Zagrodzky, founder and CEO of OsteoStrong, reveals why your skeleton is an endocrine organ that influences brain function, hormones, and metabolic health. He explains the...
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Binge Drinking Was Never the Real Problem
She was hiding at sea and calling it work. Colleen Clifford fished commercially for years, drinking to outrun something she had buried. Here she talks about binge drinking, breaks down the 95/5 denial cycle, and describes how shame convinced her she was unlovable. She shares the loss of her…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Your body has been in survival mode long enough. The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is where you learn how to turn it off.
If you're running on stress, lying awake with anxiety, or so burned out that rest doesn't touch it, this daily show was built for you. Every day, 20-time bestselling author Stacey Chillemi sits down with doctors, therapists, and leading experts who explain what's really happening in your nervous system and give you science-backed tools to calm it, release the emotional patterns holding you back, and get your energy and focus back.
These are honest conversations about how stress and trauma live in the body and what helps you heal. You'll hear something you can use in every episode, whether you have five minutes or an hour.
A new episode every day. Wherever you're starting from, start here.
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