The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

High-achieving women are running on empty — and the standard advice isn't fixing it. Michelle Ford, MPH, founder of Navigating YOUR World Academy, exposes the hidden wellness crisis underneath success and offers a real way out. She breaks down the 6 Dimensions of Wellness — physical, emotional, social, occupational, spiritual, and intellectual — and introduces the "one-anchor ritual," a practical...

Intuition signs show up more than most people realize — the hunch that turned out right, the pull toward something you talked yourself out of, the quiet knowing you dismissed as coincidence. That inner voice is not random. Susan Renaud has spent 25 years helping people hear it more clearly, and her own gifts opened in a profound way at 42. In this episode she shares what got in the way, what final...

Dyslexic thinking gets called a flaw for most people's entire childhoods — but what if that's exactly backwards? Millions of adults carry years of believing their minds were broken, when the truth is their brains were simply wired to see what others miss. Adriana Kaegi co-founded the iconic Kid Creole and the Coconuts, pioneered live streaming media in 1998, built a sustainable fashion line, and k...

The wellness world is shifting — and ancient plants are leading the way. Angie Stevenson, founder of Alohi, joins us to explore why adaptogens and botanicals like Passion Flower are now mainstream tools for stress relief, showing up in major retailers and replacing alcohol in social settings. She breaks down how adaptogens help your body handle stress, what to look for in clean botanical products,...

Regenerative medicine is rewriting the rules of recovery — and most people have no idea it is already here. If you have spent years masking pain instead of solving it, the science behind why your body loses its healing signal is the answer no one explained to you. Dr. Tommy Rhee, founder of RheeGen and former chiropractor for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and UCLA Athletics, breaks down what cell-free...

Most of us have it backward: hunger isn't the enemy, it's actually your body's greatest gift.  In this episode, intuitive eating pioneer Shirley Billingmeyer reveals how childhood conditioning and modern diet culture distort your body's natural signals, trapping you in cycles of guilt, fear, and emotional eating. Learn her hunger scale framework, how to distinguish true hunger from emotional cravi...

Mike Smith survived homelessness, addiction, incarceration, and a near-fatal fall before faith and community gave him a reason to live. In this episode, he shares the story behind his memoir The Gutter Gospel and the parable of the muddy penny — a symbol of unconditional love for people society has written off. Mike opens up about mental health struggles in veterans, the spiritual side of healing,...

Weight loss plateaus aren't about willpower; they're about biology. In this episode, board-certified family nurse practitioner Farrah Christian exposes the hidden factors sabotaging your progress: hormonal imbalances, thyroid dysfunction, cortisol spikes, gut health issues, and genetic predispositions that most standard tests completely overlook. Thara explains how leaky gut, chronic stress, and u...

Sugar cravings tend to hit in the quietest moments, after a hard day, alone in the kitchen, reaching for something sweet without even being hungry. That pull is not weakness. It is the brain searching for comfort it never learned to find anywhere else. Christine Trimpe, author of SugarFreed and a certified Christian health and wellness coach, spent thirty years fighting that craving before discove...

Faith fatigue doesn't announce itself. It shows up quietly — when you're still doing everything right but nothing feels real anymore. That spiritual hollowness isn't a character flaw; it's what happens when faith becomes something you know instead of someone you experience. Dr. Carter Check, U.S. Army veteran, board-certified chaplain, and bestselling author of Plagiarizing the Gospel, reveals why...

Intuition vs anxiety — most people can't tell them apart in the moment, and the cost of getting it wrong is real. If you've ever overridden a quiet knowing and paid for it, your nervous system wasn't failing you. It was overwhelmed. Martina Tišljar is an EFT Master Trainer and creator of the MediTap Method who survived a devastating health crisis by finally learning to listen to her own inner voic...

People pleasing isn't a personality flaw — it's a fear response rooted in childhood, perfectionism, and the deep need to stay loved and safe. You keep saying yes, over-explaining, managing everyone's comfort, and somewhere in the process, you've lost track of what you actually want. Susan Podbielski is a licensed psychotherapist and NYU Langone Fellow who spent a decade in clinical practice — afte...

Childhood wounds rarely announce themselves. They show up the morning you snap at your partner over dishes, or the day a missed promotion turns into a fight at home. The trigger feels like now. It almost always traces back further. Psychologist Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst has spent nearly 50 years helping people find the early injury underneath the pattern, then pull it up by the root. You will walk aw...

That morning cup you can't function without may not be a preference — it could be a pull your body won't let you refuse. Caffeine triggers the same adrenaline surge as a survival emergency, and most people never connect that crash-and-crave cycle to dependence. Life and health coach Norbert Heuser spent 45 years helping clients see the habits hiding in plain sight. He shares what caffeine actually...

It is the end of a long day, and you are lying awake doing the math on summer camps, school clothes, and a checking account you have not looked at in weeks. The tiredness is not just physical. So much of working mother burnout is financial stress and invisible labor no one sees. The real shift is learning what you can control and what you cannot. Neonatologist Dr. Susan Landers and financial strat...

The homework comes out, the reading starts, and within minutes everyone at the table is frustrated. If that scene plays out in your house, it is not because your child is lazy or behind on intelligence. Their brain makes reading connections a different way, and most classrooms are too crowded to teach to it. Reading specialist Kim Parra has spent more than 25 years building a ten-minute flashcard...

You can be in a full room, loved by your family, and still feel a quiet loneliness you cannot explain. That ache is not proof that something is wrong with you. The belonging we were all taught to chase, being accepted by a group, is only one of twelve, which is why so many people who fit in still feel unseen. Belonging researcher Dr. Mona Nour maps the eleven kinds nobody named. You leave knowing...

You keep hitting the same wall. The same pattern in love, the same ceiling at work, the same self-sabotage you swore you had beaten. You have tried willpower, affirmations, and years of talking it through, and still nothing holds. The reason is not weakness. It is an invisible belief installed long before you had a say, quietly steering your life. Andrew Parr has spent 33 years and more than 20,00...

You pray, you show up, you say all the right words, and from the outside everything looks fine. But underneath, the connection you once felt has gone quiet, and you cannot say when it slipped. This is not lost faith. It is drift, the slow distance that builds in the space between decisions. Dr. Carter Check, a chaplain and healthcare ethicist, names this experience and explains why borrowed faith...

It's the middle of the afternoon, and you are dragging again, even though you walked this morning and did everything right. Here is what almost no one tells you: how you walk matters far more than how much. Move on autopilot, and you miss nearly all of its power. Dr. Jacques MoraMarco, who took California's very first acupuncture licensing exam and holds a fourth-generation Sun Tai Chi lineage, sh...

You already know what to do. You've read the books, taken the courses, and you can recite the advice in your sleep. And still, you don't do it. You start, you stop, you self-sabotage. The problem was never willpower or knowledge. It's the hidden patterns running your decisions, the ones almost no one taught you to see. Monica Ion spent fifteen thousand hours uncovering them, and once you see them,...

She looked up from her computer and realized, for the first time in her life, that her mind had gone quiet. For decades, Sammie DeMarco thought she was simply anxious. Therapy helped. Medication helped. But the anxiety always came back. Then, five years ago, one diagnosis changed everything: ADHD, the kind that hides in girls as worry. But quieting her mind let her finally see what she had talked...

You were told you have PCOS, handed metformin, and told to lose weight, and yet you still feel stuck and confused. According to Dr. Sherman Silber, world-renowned fertility pioneer and director of The Silber Infertility Center of St. Louis, a PCOS diagnosis is the start of a plan, not the end of one. You'll learn: 🥚 The one root cause of PCOS 🩺 Why metformin doesn't fix it 🤰 How PCOS patients g...

You walk into a room and everyone's airing their stress, and you realize you can't remember the last time you felt rested. You're eating well, taking supplements, trying to sleep, and you're still exhausted, anxious, and inflamed. What if the real problem isn't your hormones at all? The belly fat, the 3 a.m. wake-ups, the blood pressure creeping up, the energy that just vanished. None of it is ran...

You outwork everyone, you keep everyone happy, and you still feel like you have to earn your place. That exhaustion is not a character flaw. It is a wound that was created before you had words for it. It is not ambition. It is what happens when a child quietly decides love must be earned, then spends decades trying to earn it. The drive that built your life and the pain you keep running from are t...