The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

Everything checks out on paper. The job, the relationships, the routine. And underneath all of it a low hum of something being wrong that you cannot locate or explain. Herman Petrick has spent his career working at exactly that level — the energetic and emotional imbalance that shows up as overthinking, brain fog, anxiety, and a vague sense of internal chaos long before it becomes a crisis anyone...

You are getting things done. Showing up. Meeting every obligation. And inside there is almost nothing left — not sadness exactly, not crisis exactly, just a quiet flatness where your energy and feeling used to be. That is not laziness. That is a nervous system that has been running on override for so long it has stopped sending signals altogether. Chad Taylor works specifically with high-performin...

Same effort. Same discipline. Completely different results. After 40 the fitness plan that built your body can suddenly start working against it — and no amount of trying harder explains why. The answer may be written in your biology. Peggy Moore is a functional medicine practitioner who uses DNA-based personalization to stop the guessing and build a plan that actually matches how your specific bo...

You slept. You rested. You took the weekend off. And you are still depleted in a way that makes no sense given how much you have tried to recover. That kind of exhaustion that does not respond to rest is often not about rest at all. Sondra Bailey works as a shamanic practitioner specifically with the energetic and emotional drains that conventional recovery never addresses — the unprocessed stress...

You have been sold the idea that aging is something to resist. Correct. Conceal. Roll back. And somewhere in all of that fighting you stopped feeling at home in your own face. Margot Grant Witz of Elizabeth Grant Skin Care has spent her career at the intersection of skincare science and confidence — and what she shares about reframing aging, building a simple routine that actually works for your s...

You wake up tired. You crash by two in the afternoon. You are on your third coffee just to feel functional. And you have quietly started blaming it on getting older. Ron Beckenfeld says that is almost certainly the wrong diagnosis. Chronic fatigue is far more often a fuel and recovery problem than an age problem — and the specific gaps in protein, hydration, stress management, and movement that ar...

You lost it again. Not dramatically — just that tone, that snap, that moment where you heard your father come out of your mouth and hated it. Most dads assume the answer is more patience or stricter rules. Dr. Josh Davis is a psychologist and neuroscience expert who says the answer is neither. What is actually happening in your brain in those triggered moments — and the 30-second reset that interr...

You were told the golden years would feel like a reward. Instead your energy is lower, your body feels harder to maintain, and the health advice you have been following does not seem to be working the way it used to. Timothy Ward is the author of The GOAT Within and he has spent his career dismantling the myths that keep people over 50 accepting decline as inevitable. What he shares about the real...

144 times someone said no. Publishers, agents, industry professionals — all of them passed on a manuscript that would go on to sell 550 million copies worldwide. Mark Victor Hansen did not quit after rejection number one or number fifty or number one hundred and forty three. What kept him going — and what he has learned about resilience, bold asking, and the mindset that separates people who event...

You treated it. Rested it. Stretched it. Medicated it. And it came back. Chronic pain that returns no matter what you do is often not a structural problem. It is a nervous system pattern — a body stuck in a loop of threat and protection that physical treatment alone was never designed to reach. Jen Uschold is a pain recovery expert who works specifically at that level — the place where stress, sto...

You know you are stressed. Knowing has not made it better. That is because most stress management advice targets the mind — breathe, reframe, think differently — while the nervous system underneath keeps running the same threat response regardless. Hassan Moaminah works with the body first. The physical tools, movements, and daily practices that regulate your nervous system from the bottom up rath...

The exhaustion makes no sense on paper. You have achieved things. Built things. Checked the boxes that were supposed to feel like enough. And your body has been sending a different signal for a while now — fatigue that is not about sleep, a restlessness that is not about excitement, a quiet resentment that has no single target. That is not burnout. That is misalignment. Aeon Archer is an integrate...

You know what happened. You have gone over it a hundred times. And the weight of it has not lifted because understanding moral injury is not the same as healing from it. The wound to your conscience and identity that comes from acting against your values — or watching others act against theirs — does not respond to conventional processing the way ordinary trauma does. Dr. Carter Check works specif...

You believe. You go through the motions. And something still feels like it is not connecting — like faith is something you have around your life rather than something running through it. Branden Lanette left New Age spirituality for a relationship with Jesus that is anything but comfortable — and what he shares about Scripture discipline, breaking self-sabotage cycles rooted in trauma and rejectio...

Everyone has an opinion about your fertility timeline. Your doctor. The internet. The friend who got pregnant at 42 without trying. And somewhere in all of that noise you are trying to make one of the most important and time-sensitive decisions of your life. Dr. Sherman Silber is one of the world's leading fertility specialists — and what he explains about what actually changes after 35, why so ma...

The song came on at exactly the wrong moment. Or the right one. A dream that felt too real to dismiss. A coincidence so specific it stopped you cold. And you are standing there alone wondering whether you are having a genuine experience of connection or whether grief is doing something to your perception that you do not fully understand. Diane Haworth works specifically in that tender and confusin...

Something is making you pause. Maybe it is something you read about breast implant illness. Maybe it is the permanence of it. Maybe it is just a quiet feeling that you want more information before you commit to something you cannot easily undo. Dr. Jonathan Kanevsky is a board-certified plastic surgeon who built his practice around giving women exactly what most surgical consultations skip — the c...

Your mind has been running on a loop since you found out. Replaying. Questioning. Searching for answers that keep leading to more questions. The betrayal does not just hurt — it hijacks your thinking in a way that makes it almost impossible to know what to do next. Jesseca Maria works specifically with what happens in the immediate aftermath — the spiral, the confusion about what even counts as ch...

It started with one thing. Fatigue maybe. Or weight that would not move. Or anxiety that came out of nowhere. And now there are three more things that were not there before. That is not bad luck. That is a domino effect — one hormone imbalance quietly destabilizing systems throughout your entire body while your labs come back looking normal. Dr. Cory Rice specializes in exactly that cascade — the...

You feel it before you even get out of bed. The stiffness. The ache that takes an hour to loosen up. The sense that your body is aging faster than you are. Daniel Esposito played in the NFL — a career that put his body through more physical stress than most people will ever experience — and what he learned about chronic pain, inflammation, and recovery on the other side of that is not what convent...

Every conversation you have involves influence. Someone is shaping how you think, what you believe, and what you decide next — and most of the time you have no idea it is happening. Dr. William Horton is a psychologist of influence who has spent his career studying how persuasion actually works in real life versus the way Hollywood and pop psychology say it does. What he shares about why body lang...

The idea has been sitting there for a while. You know what you want to build. And the reason it has not started yet is not money or resources or the right moment. It is the fear of being seen before you feel ready. Carolyn Wilman built something from nothing — no funding, no perfect plan, no waiting until conditions were ideal — and what she shares about the gumption mindset, beating perfectionism...

The achievements are real. The recognition is real. And the exhaustion underneath all of it is also real — a hollow feeling that was supposed to go away once you hit the next goal and somehow never does. High-functioning burnout does not look like falling apart. It looks like you — capable, productive, holding everything together while quietly running on fumes. Kamini Wood works specifically with...

You are not lazy. You are not depressed. You are not imagining it. You are wired but tired — a specific and exhausting state where your body cannot rest even when you stop, and cannot recover even when you try. Miguel Bautista founded CFS Recovery after discovering that chronic fatigue and Long COVID are far more often nervous system dysregulation problems than they are energy problems — and that...

You have worked on it. Processed it. Decided you were done reacting that way. And the next time something triggers you — there it is again. The same pattern. The same intensity. The same aftermath. Repeating emotional reactions are not a sign that you are broken or not trying hard enough. They are a sign that something deeper than conscious intention is running the show. Inna Segal works with arch...