The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

You've tried the diets. You've tried the supplements. You're still tired and inflamed, and every expert online tells you something different. The hardest part of getting healthy isn't the effort. It's knowing who to trust. This episode is about one molecule most people have never seriously looked at, and the man who bet his recovery on it. Co-Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Greg the Hydrogen Man...

You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix, and your labs keep coming back normal. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Deborah Maragopoulos MN FNP, the Hormone Queen and an Intuitive Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner with 30 years in functional neuro-immune-endocrinology. You'll learn: 🧠 Why normal labs still miss everything 🎼 How your hypothalamus conducts every hormone 🔄 Why treating symptom...

You've tried the earlier bedtimes, the trackers, the magnesium, and you still wake up tired. What if better sleep was never about doing more? What begins as a talk about rest turns into something bigger: the idea that sleep is where your best ideas and clearest answers are born. Co-host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Megan Mazzocco, founder of Wellbeing X Design and author of The Sleep System: 28 Da...

Marygrace Anderson wasn't planning a career in hypnotherapy. She was just trying to quit smoking. One session at the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis in London changed everything — not just her habit, but her understanding of where anxiety, addiction, and stubborn patterns actually live in the human mind. The answer isn't in your willpower. It isn't in your logic. It's in a layer most traditional th...

At 16 years old, Stacy Johnson emancipated herself from foster care. No family. No safety net. No one waiting. Just herself and everything she'd survived across 9 homes since the age of 2. She was one of the thousands of kids who age out of the system every year not into a family — but into a trash bag of belongings and a birthday that marks the end of any support at all. She could have become a s...

Your gut is sending distress signals — and your "healthy" diet might be making it worse. Most people are missing one specific nutrient that regulates everything from bloating and energy to blood sugar and mood. Roxanne McBride spent years being failed by every supplement on the market before she built the solution herself — and what she discovered changes how you think about fiber forever. You'll...

You hit the goal. You lost the weight. And you still didn't feel better — so what does that tell you? For millions of women, the real problem was never on the plate. It was the voice that said you weren't enough until you earned it. Christine Trimpe lived that cycle for years — and what finally broke it wasn't another diet. It was the one thing no wellness plan ever addressed. You'll learn: 🔄 Why...

You look like you have it together — and inside, you're exhausted from pretending you do. That gap between how your life looks and how it actually feels isn't a character flaw. It's what happens when you've spent years following a script you never wrote. Jennifer Donner lived exactly that — successful on the outside, quietly suffocating on the inside — and what she found on the other side will mak...

You glanced at the number, told yourself it wasn't that bad, and moved on. That moment — right there — is exactly what a 20-year ICU nurse wants to talk to you about. Joel Polley has watched what happens when people wait too long, and the warning signs he sees ignored most are ones your doctor probably never explained. This episode could genuinely change what you do at your next checkup. You'll le...

"Everything looks normal" — and yet you're exhausted by noon, foggy by 3pm, and feel like a stranger in your own body. Normal is not the same as optimal, and for women in midlife, that difference is everything. Dr. Jessica Duncan left anesthesiology because she kept watching women get dismissed with clean labs and zero answers — and what she's doing now at the intersection of hormones and metaboli...

You did the hardest thing. You left. So why does your body still flinch, still brace, still wait for something to go wrong? Getting out of an abusive relationship doesn't reset your nervous system — and nobody warns you about that part. Candi Keffeler survived domestic abuse and breast cancer, wrote the book on what comes next, and she's here to talk about the chapter no one else is covering: what...

You've been told to manage it. Adjust to it. Accept it. And somewhere along the way, managing started to feel like giving up. Albee Shanefelter had brain surgeries, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, and years of chronic pain that would have broken most people — and he didn't just survive it, he built a framework out of it. What he found on the other side of all of that isn't toxic positivity or false ho...

You show up. You provide. You'd do anything for them — and somehow your kid still seems just out of reach. That gap between loving your children and actually feeling close to them is one of the most quietly painful things fathers carry, and almost no one talks about it. Dr. Josh Davis has spent his career studying the emotional intelligence piece most dads were never taught. Perry Solomon learned...

You've done the therapy. Tried the medications. Followed every recommendation — and you still wake up feeling like something is fundamentally wrong with you. That feeling isn't a diagnosis. It's what happens when the treatment model fails the patient and no one admits it. Sam Mandel co-founded Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles because he watched people fall through every crack in traditional psychiatry...

That feeling that something is missing — even when nothing is technically wrong — is one of the most disorienting experiences a person can have. Martyn Williams knows it intimately. He's stood at Everest, crossed Antarctica, reached both Poles, and spent seven years living as a monk — and through all of it he was searching for the same thing you are. What he found isn't a strategy or a framework....

ou felt the warning. The exhaustion, the tension, the quiet voice saying something needs to change — and you scheduled another meeting instead. That's not weakness. That's what happens when pushing through gets rewarded long enough that stopping feels like failure. Dr. Carter Check has lived this from every angle — as a U.S. Army veteran, a clinical chaplain sitting with people in their hardest mo...

Your child is melting down and can't tell you why — and trying to fix it or stop it only makes it worse. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Dr. Deana Plaskon, a licensed mental health counselor with a PhD in human behavior and author of the award-winning Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers series. You'll learn: 🐴 Why kids can't name big feelings 📖 How stories teach emotions better than lecture...

You're finding it in the shower drain, on your pillow, in your brush — and nobody seems to have a real answer for why. Your doctor ran labs, said everything looks normal, and sent you home. But hair loss in women is rarely random and almost never just cosmetic. Carolyn Zaumeyer is a nurse practitioner who specializes in exactly this gap — the hormonal and metabolic signals that show up in your hai...

You just ate. You're not hungry. And your brain is already thinking about what's next. It cycles through food all day — what you ate, what you shouldn't have, what you'll allow yourself later — and no matter how much discipline you apply, it doesn't stop. That loop isn't a character flaw and it isn't about willpower. It's a signal your body has been trying to send you for years. Shirley Billigmeie...

There was no single moment. No dramatic incident you can point to. Just a slow, quiet dimming — your confidence, your opinions, your sense of what you even want — until one day you looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the woman looking back. That's what a covert narcissist marriage does. Not with explosions. With a thousand tiny moments of doubt that felt like your fault. Julie Feldman lived...

You're going to therapy. You're doing the work. And some days healing looks like a breakthrough — and some days it looks like crying in your car and calling that enough. Both are real. Both count. Candi Keffeler survived domestic violence and breast cancer and wrote the book on what recovery actually looks like when it's messy, nonlinear, and nothing like what you expected. This episode isn't abou...

You cleaned up your diet. You're sleeping more. You cut the alcohol, added the supplements, and pushed through every single day — and you are somehow more exhausted than before. In midlife, doing more of what worked before can actually make things worse, and most doctors won't tell you that because your labs look fine. Elisa Kosonen built her entire nutrition practice around the women who kept get...

You've been told it's normal. That all women deal with this. That you're being dramatic. And you've spent years — maybe a decade — knowing in your body that something is genuinely wrong while the medical system looked the other way. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women and carries an average diagnosis delay of 7 to 10 years — not because it's rare, but because women's pain has historically been dis...

You find yourself explaining his behavior to your friends. Making excuses to your family. Convincing yourself it wasn't that bad — again. Covert narcissist abuse doesn't look like abuse from the outside, and that's exactly what makes it so dangerous. There are no visible bruises. Just a slow, systematic erosion of your reality until you genuinely can't tell anymore whether the problem is him or yo...

You've managed it, medicated it, therapized it, and white-knuckled your way through it your entire life — and it's still there. What if the anxiety you've been trying to fix was never actually yours to begin with? Tracy Liberatore was a practicing attorney when she discovered that the fear and survival patterns she'd been carrying were handed down through generations of women in her lineage — not...