The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

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" is often dysregulation, and how validation and Name It to Tame It calm emotional storms. She shares cal...

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 only part of the story, what real health optimization actually looks like, and how to stop settling fo...

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 other; and how to set boundaries, honor your body, and restore vitality. A hopeful conversation for any w...

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 from waking up in the ICU, how she rebuilt speech and mobility one tiny step at a time, and why grief ca...

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 Merriman went from homeless kid to Defensive Rookie of the Year and three-time Pro Bowler. You will leave know...

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 loss, that feeling of nothingness, and the birth song he experienced on the other side. You'll hear how u...

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, board-certified FNP with 30 years in neuroendocrinology, explains what labs to ask for, why dieting harder back...

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 body, not in understanding your patterns. Dr. Jo, PsyD, a former clinical psychologist and founder of Tula...

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 is the decision to begin. Tim Lyons, founder of the nonprofit SoberAwakening, drank around the clock u...

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 practice she used to get honest with herself, and the slow work of rebuilding how she thinks after three tr...

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 overlooked. Rob Wallis has spent over 40 years treating headache and migraine, founded Sydney's first physio...

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, speaker, and coach David Phillips lived that season himself and built a practical framework for trading dr...

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 your life. Kamini shares how childhood messages, toxic relationships, and the pressure to please others...

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 lived with bulimia for 22 years, found recovery, and now sits on the board of the National Eating Disord...

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 prescription. He also covers how PRP and stem cells work, why inflammation and stress keep pain going, and how mov...

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, explains who IVM is right for, how it grew out of ovarian tissue preservation, and why breakthro...

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 down. If you've ever worried genetics doomed you or that medication is the only answer, this conversation...

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 default setting; modern life just switched it off. Stavros Mastrogiannis, a Body Reset Specialist with thir...

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 team add nothing and cause harm. Maggie Vaughan, psychotherapist and author of Beyond Perfect, helps fami...

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, and why she believes obedience rather than belief alone was the missing piece. She also opens up about...

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 fatigue, brain fog, and headaches are rarely the real problem. She digs into chronic stress patterns, horm...

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 Maragopoulos, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 30 years in neuro-immune-endocrinology, explains...

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 more than thirty years, works from a different premise: cells malfunction for two reasons, and both ar...

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 world's leading reproductive microsurgeons, explains what a proper male fertility evaluation actually l...

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 something they had practiced for twelve years before he got sick. Gaylen Wilson is eight years post-transplant...