Starting Over When You No Longer Know Who You Are

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · May 1, 2026 · 31m

Starting over began for her in a Las Vegas apartment with one suitcase and a question she couldn't answer: Who am I? After a car accident that made front-page news and an abusive marriage she fled on Mother's Day, she didn't know what she liked, what she wore, or what she wanted. If that blankness sounds familiar, it isn't brokenness — it's the space where you get to choose.

Martha Hoy, nurse, author of Becoming Mother Martha, and founder of the Mother Martha Family Foundation, shares how play, small steps, and facing old places rebuilt her. You'll leave with a first move for your own blank…