The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

You did not see it coming. One moment life looked one way and the next it looked completely different — and nobody handed you a map for what comes after. Jenny White knows that moment. A brain tumor diagnosis changed everything she thought she knew about herself, her identity, and her future in an instant. What she rebuilt on the other side — through writing, faith, and a willingness to start befo...

You have built your identity around what you produce. What you accomplish. How much you get done. And now AI is quietly doing more of that — faster, cheaper, without needing sleep. For high achievers that is not just a productivity shift. It is an identity crisis. Megan Mazzocco works at the intersection of burnout, sleep, and the deeper question of who we are when the doing stops. What she has fo...

You used to have ideas. Energy for problems. A mind that made connections and found solutions naturally. And somewhere in the constant stress and relentless output that version of you went quiet. Burnout does not just drain your energy — it fundamentally changes how your brain works, suppressing the creative thinking, clear decision-making, and emotional resilience that used to feel effortless. Dr...

The lab work came back fine. You are getting enough sleep. Nothing is technically wrong — and yet you feel drained in certain rooms, depleted around certain people, and carrying a heaviness you cannot explain or locate. That is not imagination. It may be your energy system signaling an imbalance that conventional medicine was never designed to detect. Sondra Bailey has spent her career working at...

Your body has been trying to tell you something. The tension that never fully releases. The exhaustion that sleep does not fix. The hypervigilance that fires even when nothing is actually wrong. Survival mode does not announce itself — it just quietly becomes the way you live until you cannot remember what it felt like before. Dr. Randolph Schiffer has spent his career studying the intersection of...

You wrote it off as getting older. The stiff hips in the morning. The shoulders that ache after sitting. The ankles and wrists that never quite feel right. But stiffness after 40 is not an inevitability — it is a signal. And stretching harder is almost never the answer. Jeff Bailey has spent years working with people whose bodies are doing exactly what yours is doing — and what he has found about...

You have started over more times than you can count. Monday motivation. January resolutions. After the holiday. After the vacation. And every cycle ends the same way — not because you lack discipline but because the trap is deeper than discipline can reach. Christine Trimpe lived that cycle for years before she understood what was actually driving it — not just emotionally but metabolically. The w...

You have done the visualization. Set the intentions. Believed in the possibility. And something keeps blocking the receiving. That block is not a mindset failure. It is a nervous system that learned early that abundance was unsafe, unpredictable, or not meant for you — and has been quietly enforcing that belief ever since. Inna Segal works at exactly that intersection — where manifestation meets t...

You are not alone. You have people around you — family, friends, colleagues. And somehow the feeling of real connection keeps slipping. Not because the relationships are broken but because the moments that actually create closeness are getting crowded out by distraction, busyness, and the low-grade presence that technology has normalized. Michael Clark wrote Our Moment around one simple and quietl...

Most financial advice was not built for women. Not for the reality of career gaps, longer lifespans, caregiving years, or the specific financial vulnerabilities that come with midlife transitions. The security question most women are quietly carrying — will I be okay — is one the mainstream financial world rarely answers directly. Carole Hodges rebuilt her entire financial life after bankruptcy, d...

The word lands and everything shifts. The questions start immediately — what does this mean, what do we do, where do we even begin. In those first overwhelming days most parents are searching for someone who actually knows — not just clinically but personally. Lorri Shealy Unumb is both. As CEO of the Council of Autism Service Providers and a nationally recognized autism attorney she has shaped po...

You know you are right. You have the facts. And somehow you are still not getting through. That gap between having the truth and actually being believed is one of the most frustrating experiences a person can have — and former prosecutor Gregg Owen has spent his career studying exactly why it happens. Inside the courtroom and out, the truth alone almost never wins on its own. What wins is how clea...

You are not imagining it. The constant headlines, the breaking alerts, the opinion dressed as fact — it is not just tiring. It is quietly degrading your ability to think clearly, make decisions, and trust your own judgment. Information overload is not a personality weakness. It is a design feature of a media ecosystem built to keep you consuming, not informed. Steven Abramowicz has spent his caree...

You have accepted it as your baseline. The foggy mornings. The afternoon crashes. The exhaustion that is there before the day even starts. You call it life. Dr. Maz Roginski calls it a signal your body has been sending for a long time that nobody has taught you to read. As a doctor of Chinese medicine she approaches fatigue from a completely different angle than conventional medicine — not as a sy...

Sugar is not just a habit. It is a neurological event. Every time you eat it your brain releases dopamine in a pattern that mirrors addiction — and every time you try to stop without understanding that cycle you are fighting biology with willpower alone. That is a battle most people lose not because they are weak but because the odds were never fair. Christine Trimpe goes straight to the science i...

The connection feels electric. Intense. Like nothing you have ever experienced. And it is also somehow familiar in a way that feels almost like coming home. That feeling is not love recognizing itself. It is your nervous system recognizing a pattern. The most toxic relationships often feel the most magnetic — not because they are right but because they match something unresolved inside you. Jessec...

You have talked about it. Processed it. Understood it intellectually. And your body still responds as if it never got the memo. That is not a failure of therapy or willpower. That is PTSD — a nervous system stuck in a state of threat that talking alone was never designed to fully reach. Dr. Eugene Lipov is one of the leading experts in trauma treatment and the author of The God Shot — and what he...

You are in the room. You show up. You contribute. And somehow you still leave feeling like nobody really saw you. That feeling of being invisible — in your workplace, your relationships, your daily life — is one of the most quietly devastating experiences a person can have and one of the least talked about. Julie Tylman co-founded GroupTogether around a simple but profound discovery — that small d...

You handled it. You calmed down. You moved on. And then it came back — the same worry, the same tension, the same mental spiral running on repeat. Stress is not supposed to work that way. But for most people it does because nobody ever taught them how to actually interrupt the loop rather than just wait for it to pass. Dr. Gary Sprouse — known as The Less Stress Doc — has spent his career breaking...

You have pushed harder. Tried again. Stayed disciplined. And the thing you are trying to create still will not move. That is not a motivation problem. It is an alignment problem — a gap between where your energy actually is and where you are trying to force it to go. Alison J. Kay has spent her career working at exactly that level — the inner misalignment that keeps capable people stuck no matter...

Most women do not think about their bones until something breaks. But bone loss does not wait for old age — it can begin quietly in your 30s and 40s, driven largely by hormonal shifts that nobody warned you about and that no obvious symptom announces. By the time a scan shows significant loss the window for easy prevention has already been closing for years. Carolyn Zaumeyer specializes in exactly...

You call it burnout. But what if your hormones have been driving the exhaustion all along — and no amount of rest, boundaries, or self-care is going to fix a cortisol pattern that nobody has ever looked at? Most women spend years managing the symptoms of hormonal depletion while the root cause keeps running quietly underneath. Dr. Sonal Bhatia works at the intersection of integrative medicine and...

You are putting in the work. Showing up consistently. Eating better. And your body is still slow, heavy, and under-recovered in ways that make no sense given the effort you are putting in. The problem is almost never the workout. It is everything happening between workouts — the sugar spikes disrupting your recovery window, the sleep that is not as restorative as it looks, the central nervous syst...

You ask people to repeat themselves more than you used to. You turn the TV up a little louder. You start avoiding noisy restaurants and crowded rooms because following the conversation has become exhausting. And traditional hearing aids feel like a bigger step than you are ready for — expensive, visible, and not quite right for where you are. Michael Leung founded The Flow Group around a technolog...

The ache in your knees going downstairs. The hips that take ten minutes to loosen up in the morning. The shoulders that remind you they are there every time you reach overhead. Most people accept this as the inevitable price of getting older. Jeff Bailey has spent his career proving it does not have to be. As the founder of Avita Yoga and author of Mobility for Life he has developed a targeted app...