The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

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 movement counts, how sleep and recovery outperform hacks, and the mental tools athletes lean on under...

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 breaks down why the body stops healing when this foundation is missing, how Brown's Gas differs from sta...

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 hypothalamus controls growth hormone, circadian repair, hormone receptor activity, and cellular aging. This fin...

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. Sarah Bowmar, a certified trainer and nutrition specialist who built a hormone telehealth company after her...

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 obedience as safety rather than rules, why solitude helped her when it harms other people, and how routi...

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 honestly about the warning signs, what inpatient psychiatric care was really like, and the therapy and su...

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 panic or shame. She explains why behavior is communication, how to calm a meltdown, and how parents can...

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...