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The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi
Your body has been in survival mode long enough. The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is where you learn how to turn it off. If you're running on stress, lying awake with anxiety, or so burned out that rest doesn't touch it, this daily show was built for you. Every day, 20-time bestselling author Stacey Chillemi sits down with doctors, therapists, and leading experts who explain what's really happening in your nervous system and give you science-backed tools to calm it, release the emotional…
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The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYou're Not Just Living Longer — You Should Be Living Better Right Now
Most people think about longevity as something that happens later. A number on a birthday cake. Years added to the end. But what if the real question is not…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiHow to Set Boundaries Without Feeling Guilty
You say yes and immediately feel the resentment rising. You say no and spend the next hour over-explaining, apologizing, and second-guessing yourself. That…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy You Feel Lonely in a Connected World—and How to Feel Close Again
You have more ways to reach people than any generation in history. And you have never felt more alone. That is not a personal failure. It is a nervous system…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiHe Lost His Leg, Returned to Combat, Earned a PhD — Here's What He Learned About Rising
Scott Arias lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident. Most people would have called that the end of a military career. He called it a detour. He fought his…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy You Can’t Stop Craving Sugar
The craving is not really about the sugar. It never was. It is about shame that needs soothing. An identity that has been defined by failure and starting over…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYour Life Is Running on Autopilot — Here's How to Take Back the Controls
You made the same choice again. Said the thing you swore you would not say. Reached for the thing you decided you were done with. And afterward you genuinely…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhat Would Happen If You Stopped Waiting and Actually Built the Life You Want?
You know what you want. You have known for a while. And you keep finding reasons why now is not quite the right time. Alison Gieschen stopped waiting. She left…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy You Still Feel Anxious Even When Life Looks Fine
Everything looks fine from the outside. Good job. Good relationships. No obvious crisis. And underneath all of it — a hum of anxiety that never fully quiets…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy Smart, Capable Women Still Feel Stuck — And It Has Nothing to Do With Willpower
You know what to do. You have known for a long time. And knowing has not been enough. That gap between understanding the problem and actually breaking free…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiRaising Emotionally Healthy Boys
From the time they are small, most boys receive a clear and consistent message — feelings are weakness, crying is embarrassing, and strength means staying…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhen Life Changes Overnight — How to Find Yourself Again on the Other Side
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWho Are You Without Your Achievement — And Why AI Is Making That Question Urgent
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiBurnout Doesn't Just Exhaust You — It Steals the Way You Used to Think
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiTired, Heavy, and Emotionally Off — What If Your Energy Is the Missing Piece?
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiThe Story Your Body Tells When You're in Survival Mode
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiStiffness After 40 Isn't Aging and Stretching Won't Fix It
Stiffness that greets you every morning despite daily yoga, stretching, and doing everything right — that's not aging, and it's not your fault. Muscles don't…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiThe Emotional Eating Trap That Keeps You Stuck in the Sugar Cycle
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYour Nervous System Is Sabotaging Your Manifestation Goals
You have done the visualization. Set the intentions. Believed in the possibility. And something keeps blocking the receiving. That block is not a mindset…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYou're Surrounded by People and Still Feel Disconnected — Here's Why
You are not alone. You have people around you — family, friends, colleagues. And somehow the feeling of real connection keeps slipping. Not because the…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWomen and Money | The Security Question Nobody's Answering
Most financial advice was not built for women. Not for the reality of career gaps, longer lifespans, caregiving years, or the specific financial…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYour Child Was Just Diagnosed With Autism — Here's What to Do First
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy the Truth Isn’t Enough: How to Think Clearly Under Pressure
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiThe News Is Exhausting You — And It's Affecting How You Think
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiFeeling Tired All the Time Is Not Normal — Here's What Your Body Is Actually Telling You
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy You Can’t Stop Eating Sugar—and How to Take Back Control
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy You Keep Falling for the Wrong Person — Your Nervous System Has the Answer
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy Trauma Stays Stuck — and How PTSD Healing Can Begin
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiThe Most Painful Thing Nobody Talks About — Feeling Invisible to the People Around You
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy Stress Keeps Coming Back — And How to Finally Break the Loop
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy Forcing It Never Works — And What to Do When You Feel Stuck Instead
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiBone Loss Starts Earlier Than You Think: Hormones, Bone Density, and Prevention
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiIs It Burnout or Your Hormones? Here's How to Tell the Difference
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYou're Working Out Hard — So Why Do You Still Feel So Tired?
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 Advisor with Stacey ChillemiStruggling to Hear Clearly? There's a Simpler Solution Than You've Been Told About
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…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiJoint Pain Took Your Freedom. Here's How to Get It Back
Joint pain shrinks your life one small surrender at a time. First it's the stairs, then the floor with your grandkids, then the trips you stop planning. None…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy Making Friends as an Adult Feels So Hard
As a child friendship happened naturally — shared space, shared time, proximity. As an adult those conditions disappeared and nobody replaced them with…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYour Overeating Isn't a Discipline Problem — It's a Disconnection Problem
You are not eating because you are hungry. You are eating because something else is happening — stress, boredom, loneliness, a feeling you cannot quite name —…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiHow Men’s Emotional Silence Affects Families for Generations
He never talked about it. Neither did his father. And chances are his son will learn the same lesson without a single word being spoken. Emotional silence in…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiMaternal Burnout: How to Recover When Motherhood Feels Overwhelming
You love your children completely. And you are running on empty in a way that frightens you. Not tired — depleted. The kind of exhaustion that does not lift…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhy Neurodivergent Adults Struggle With Friendship—and What Actually Helps
High school ends and the built-in social structure disappears. For neurodivergent adults that transition does not just feel hard — it can feel like falling off…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhat Emotionally Resilient Kids Have That Struggling Kids Don't — It's Not What You Think
It is not the absence of stress. Not perfect parenting. Not the right school or the right schedule. The children who navigate hard things most successfully…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWe Don't Have a Learning Crisis — We Have a Thinking Crisis. Here's the Difference.
More information is available to us right now than any generation in human history. And we are thinking less clearly, less deeply, and less curiously than ever…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYour Phone Is Stealing Your Reading Life — Here's How to Take It Back
You used to read. You remember what it felt like to get lost in a book for hours. And now you pick up your phone instead — not because you want to, but because…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhen You No Longer Know Who You Are — What Moral Injury Does to Your Identity
Something happened that violated what you believed about yourself or the world. Maybe it was a decision you made. Something done to you. A role you played in…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiStaying Calm in Chaos Is Built Before the Storm Hits
Staying calm while the tornado siren sounds or the apartment floods looks like luck from the outside. It isn't. Ten years ago, the same warning meant screaming…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiThe American West Nobody Taught You — Railroad Empires, Cultural Conflict, and What Was Lost
The version of the American West most people know is the simplified one — pioneers, progress, manifest destiny. The real story is messier, more human, and far…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYour Back Pain Isn't Coming From Your Back — Here's Where It's Actually Starting
You have stretched it. Iced it. Rested it. Strengthened it. And it keeps coming back. The reason most back pain becomes chronic is not because the back itself…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiTrauma Recovery Begins With One Small Step Forward
Trauma recovery started for her in a hospital bed, staring at a white tile ceiling, setting one goal: walk to the mailbox. Years later, it meant running from…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiPeople Pleasing Isn't a Personality Trait — It's a Survival Pattern Your Nervous System Learned
You did not choose to become a people pleaser. At some point — probably long before you could name it — saying yes and making others comfortable became the…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiA Brain Cancer Diagnosis Changed How He Lived — Here's What He Wants You to Know Now
Barry Maher did not plan to have a brain cancer diagnosis reorder everything he thought he knew about time, priority, and what actually matters. Nobody plans…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYou've Tried Everything for Your Mental Health — So Why Don't You Feel Better Yet?
Therapy. Medication. Exercise. Better sleep. Clean eating. You have done the work — and there is still something underneath it all that will not shift. That…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiAnxiety Is Destroying Your Sleep — And Your Sleep Is Making Your Anxiety Worse
You lie awake because you are anxious. Then you are more anxious the next day because you did not sleep. That loop is not a coincidence and it is not a…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiIf She Can Come Back From This, So Can You
Trauma tried everything on Adriene Caldwell — and it failed. She survived what most people can't imagine, numbed the pain for years, and built a wall where…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYou Check Your Phone Before You Even Decide To — Here's How to Stop
It happens before you are fully awake. Before a meeting starts. In the middle of a conversation with someone you love. You reach for your phone not because you…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiFeeling Off but Your Lab Tests Look Fine? What Could Really Be Going On
Normal does not mean optimal. And for women navigating perimenopause, chronic stress, and the slow accumulation of environmental toxins, the gap between those…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiThe Emotional Weight of Infertility Nobody Talks About — And What Actually Helps
You smile at the baby shower. You say you are fine when people ask. And privately you are carrying one of the heaviest emotional experiences a person can go…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiYou're Not Failing — You've Just Set Your Standards Too Low Without Realizing It
Most people do not dramatically fail. They quietly settle. A little less ambition here. A slightly lower expectation there. Until the life they are living…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiMental Fog and Scattered Focus — What If a Wearable Could Actually Help?
You sit down to focus and your mind goes in five directions at once. You finish the day feeling like you worked hard but got nowhere. The mental sharpness you…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiInfidelity Doesn't Have to Destroy You—Here's Why
The betrayal does not just hurt the relationship. It hurts your sense of reality. What you thought was true. What you thought you deserved. Who you thought you…
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiDecades of Addiction and Incarceration — Here's How Cameron Lundstrom Rebuilt Everything
There is rock bottom and then there is what Cameron Lundstrom lived — decades of addiction, years of incarceration, and a life that by every external measure…