When You've Lost Everything: What Starting Over Actually Looks Like

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · May 26, 2026 · 32m

Not a setback. Not a detour. Everything — gone. The relationship, the identity, the version of yourself you'd built your whole life around. Most people have no roadmap for that level of loss because nobody talks about what real rebuilding looks like from the ground up. Candi Keffeler does. She's lived it, written about it, and come out the other side with something most people who haven't been there can't manufacture — the specific, hard-won knowledge of what it actually takes to build a life you love out of nothing. This episode is for anyone who's standing in the rubble right now wondering…