The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi
The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is a podcast for people struggling with stress, anxiety, and burnout. Hosted by bestselling author and wellness advocate Stacey Chillemi, it features conversations with doctors, therapists, and experts who explain how the nervous system and emotional patterns keep people stuck. Each episode offers practical, science-backed tools to calm anxiety, break unhelpful emotional cycles, restore energy and focus, and recover from burnout. The show avoids fluff and toxic positivity, focusing instead on real strategies for mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
Episodes
OCD, Intrusive Thoughts, and the Loop That Feeds Them
Most people with OCD aren't afraid of germs; they're afraid of their own mind.
Eliana Bonaguro, LMHC, treats OCD, panic, and agoraphobia, and she illustrates them. She separates OCD from perfectionism, explains the difference between physical and mental compulsions, and shows why reassurance, rumination, and avoidance feed the loop instead of closing it.
She walks through exposure and response p
Why You Keep Having the Same Fight With Your Partner
The fight you keep having isn't about the dishes or the money. It's your nervous system trying to protect you from feeling unsafe.
Registered psychotherapist Arkadiy Volkov breaks down why couples fall into the pursue and withdraw cycle, why logic fails once your body senses threat, and how naming the pattern restores a sense of safety.
Using attachment theory, neurobiology, and emotionally foc
From a Shack to Fortune 500: Tom LeNoble's Unshakable Spirit
Six months to live. That was the prognosis. It was not the ending.
Tom LeNoble grew up in a shack, built a career that reached Fortune 500 boardrooms, and then faced a diagnosis that should have closed the book.
Instead, he found gratitude, presence, and a way to keep living fully.
In this conversation, Tom talks about resilience as the currency that matters most, his "healing wheel," releasin
The Anxiety You Inherited and How to Finally Release It
What if the anxiety you have been managing for years was never yours to begin with?
Tracy Liberatore, attorney turned hypnotherapist and spiritual healer, explores silent inheritance, the patterns quietly passed down through families that shape your nervous system long before you can name them.
Tracy shares her own path toward healing and explains why lasting change happens below the surface, i
Always Tired and Coffee Is Quietly Making It Worse
Always tired by the middle of the afternoon, no matter how early you went to bed or how much coffee you drank. That kind of exhaustion is not a willpower problem. Caffeine does not create energy at all. It blocks the signal telling your body it is tired, so the crash always returns.
Tim James, founder of Chemical Free Body, rebuilt his health after years of digestive illness and shares what real
Why You Wake at 3AM and What Your Sleep Is Trying to Tell You
What if the hours you sleep through are the most intelligent hours of your day? Sleep expert Megan Mazzocco joins Stacey Chillemi to dismantle almost everything you were taught about rest.
Author of Sleep System: 28 Days to a Better Sleep, Megan explains how sleep rewires the brain, flushes neurotoxins, and opens a receptive state where creativity and intuition live.She shares why middle-of-the-
When the Life You Built No Longer Fits You
Grief has a way of rewriting what matters.
Erica Brinker rose into global brand leadership at companies including Honeywell, then lost her infant son Luca, changing her life trajectory entirely.
In this conversation, she talks about carrying grief while still being the one who holds everything together, why she stopped chasing the next title, and how she left executive life to build her podcast
Bible Truth the Modern Church Forgot
Bible truth that transformed the ancient world is still available — most people just have no idea what it originally looked like. The first Christians had no buildings, no clergy, no prescribed rituals, and they ignited a movement that spread across an empire. If faith feels hollow or routine today, there is a reason.
Retired engineer and biblical scholar Mark Stouffer traces exactly how the ear
After Failed IVF: Real Solutions from One of the World's Top Fertility Specialists
If you've been told your chances are zero, this episode is for you.
Dr. Sherman Silber, pioneer of ICSI and ovarian tissue transplantation, explains why giving up is rarely the logical choice — and what real hope, backed by science, actually looks like.
He shares remarkable patient stories, dismantles the most common fertility myths, and reveals practical options most people never hear about,
From Stuck to Shifting: Rewiring Your Subconscious for Real Change
Knowing isn't the same as doing — and that gap is costing you more than you realize.
Executive coach and clinical hypnotherapist Janylene Turcotte, RTT, joins Stacey to unpack why willpower alone never creates lasting change.
Drawing on 25 years in HR and nearly 1,500 coaching sessions, Janylene shares how subconscious patterns block even the most driven achievers — and the three strategies t
The Art of Stillness: Practical Tools for Peace
Drowning in mental noise? You're not alone — and the solution might surprise you.
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin, a psychotherapist blending decades of Western and Eastern wisdom, joins Stacey to reveal how true inner peace begins not with more effort, but with knowing when to stop.
You'll discover how to detach your emotional reactions from external triggers, rebuild self-compassion, and integrate mindful
Burnout Is Why You Wake Up Tired After a Full Night
Burnout rarely arrives as collapse. It arrives as a full night of sleep that changes nothing, coffee you need just to function, and small decisions that suddenly feel impossible. That is not a discipline problem. It is a body that never got the signal the threat had passed.
Neonatologist Dr. Susan Landers and functional medicine physician Dr. Alicia Newsome walk through the early signs, the brea
The Hidden Control Center Behind Your Fatigue, Hormones & Sleep
Still tired no matter what you try? The problem may not be your adrenals — it's your hypothalamus. Functional medicine expert Deborah Maragopoulos, author of The Hypothalamus Handbook and founder of Genesis Health Products, joins us to explain how this master brain region controls hormones, sleep, immunity, and aging.After 30+ years of clinical work, she's cracked the code on why standard approach
Always Tired and Inflamed? It's the Soil
Sick for his entire childhood, with no answers from medicine, Pat Miletich built his own protocol from old books and homeopathic mentors — and healed his respiratory system in ten days. That same investigation made him a UFC world champion and the coach behind twelve world champions.
Now he's focused on what he believes most families are missing: the minerals stripped from our soil, our food, an
Why You're Still Exhausted — And What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You
Tired, foggy, and told you're fine? That's not aging. That's a glitch.Dr. Angela Petersen — board-certified nurse practitioner, former Navy nurse, and author of The Wellness Glitch — exposes how the healthcare system is built to manage disease, not build health.She breaks down hormonal imbalance, inflammation, blood sugar dysregulation, and the real potential of peptides and GLP-1s for listeners w
Stress Lives in Your Body — Here's How to Heal It
Stress doesn't stay in your head — it travels through your heart, your organs, and every cell in your body, quietly driving symptoms most people never connect to how they're feeling inside. That exhaustion, that tension, that body that won't settle: it's not weakness. It's your nervous system keeping score.
Daniel Zavrel, founder of Consciouz and creator of the ConsciouzScan method, has spent 30
Grief, Purpose, and the Healing That Followed
Grief doesn't always break you down. Sometimes it breaks you open — and sends you looking for answers you never would have found otherwise. George Wiseman spent nearly a decade caregiving for his wife as lupus slowly took her, running $300,000 into debt, and losing almost everything. What came after her passing, including one piece of information that arrived too late, became the turning point tha
The Truth About GLP-1 Drugs, Insulin Resistance & the Future of Weight Loss
Think weight loss is just willpower?
Dr. Brandon Howard, hospitalist and regenerative metabolism expert, breaks down why GLP-1 drugs lose effectiveness, how insulin resistance quietly destroys vascular and organ health, and what next-generation therapies are evolving.
He covers the real pillars behind lasting metabolic health — diet, hydration, movement, and inflammation control — and why physi
Losing a Parent Splits Your Life Into Before and After
Losing a parent can split your life into a before and an after, and no one warns you how physical that grief becomes. You hold it together for everyone else until the day a pan of food slips from your hands, and you collapse with it. If someone at home is rushing you to move on, that is not a weakness. It is a signal.
Sammie DeMarco, a certified life coach, walked through devastating loss inside
The Hidden Dangers Inside Hospitals — And How to Protect Yourself
What hospitals won't tell you could cost you your life.
Former ICU nurse Jenny White survived a brain tumor and came out the other side with a mission: to tell you what the healthcare system keeps hidden. She is also a medical thriller author and upcoming TV host.
In this episode, Jenny exposes the real impact of staffing shortages, provider burnout, and protocol delays — and gives you a practi
Aging Starts at 5 — and You Can Slow It Down
Aging begins decades before most people realize it — not at middle age, but in childhood, as the body's energy systems slowly start to decline. If you feel tired, foggy, or just not like yourself and your doctor says everything looks normal, you are not imagining it.
Dr. Hany Demian, a board-certified spine surgeon and longevity specialist, explains what is actually happening inside your body an
Fueling Through Menopause: What Your Body Actually Needs
Everything you've been told about menopause is only half the story. Registered dietitian Juliana Vocca — with over 20 years of clinical experience — reveals what's really happening in your body during this transition and why the most common advice makes it harder, not easier.
From hormonal shifts and muscle loss to protein intake, hydration, and resistance training, Juliana lays out a practical,
Scattered Yet Whole: One Woman's Journey Through War, Loss & Belonging
When war, exile, and loss scattered her across six countries, Miranda Hirezi-Mugnier discovered that the one thing no one could take from her was the home she carried within.
In her award-winning memoir Scattered Yet Whole, she explores how love, loss, faith, and cultural displacement shaped her understanding of identity and belonging.
Miranda shares what it truly means to remain whole when li
The Science of Conscious Caring: How to Be Giving Without Burning Out
Are you exhausted from giving too much?
Harvard and MIT-trained neuroscientist Dr. Tony Nader joins us to unpack why caring from anxiety or obligation leads to burnout — and how shifting to conscious, grounded caring releases feel-good hormones that actually boost your well-being.
Through neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and practical tools like meditation and boundaries, Dr. Nader shows you how t
Stop Dieting. Start Listening: The Method That's Changing Everything
Dr. Theresa DeLorenzo — a registered dietitian, yoga therapist, and marathon runner — joins the show to dismantle the diet-culture rules that keep you exhausted, guilty, and disconnected from your own body.
With 25 years of experience, she reveals her Coalescence Method: a revolutionary blend of nutrition counseling and yoga therapy designed to help you honor cravings, manage emotional triggers,
Spiritual Awakening or Breakdown? What's Really Happening
Spiritual awakening doesn't always arrive quietly — sometimes it arrives as the slow collapse of everything that used to make sense. Your relationships shift, your career loses its pull, your identity starts to feel like a costume. That feeling is not a personal failure.
Internationally acclaimed intuitive healer and bestselling author Inna Segal has spent more than two decades helping people un
What the Outdoors Heals That Nothing Else Can
The men's mental health crisis is real — and mostly silent.
Victor Bretting, 8th-generation Texan, construction executive, and author of The Man That I Would Become, built B-Tex Ranch into more than a hunting destination. It became a sanctuary — with 60+ donated hunts for veterans with PTSD, at-risk youth, and families in hard seasons.
In this episode, Victor shares what five decades of leader
God's Hidden Blueprint: The Bible's One Big Story Finally Explained
The Bible isn't a collection of disconnected stories — it's one unfolding plan.
In this episode, retired engineer turned biblical scholar Mark Stouffer traces the hidden thread connecting Israel, ancient prophecy, and Jesus in ways that will challenge and deepen your faith.
Mark unpacks why Israel was chosen, how Jesus fulfills centuries of promises, and why God's patience and mercy define His
Techno-Spiritual Billionaire: Staring Fear in the Eye
Fear is rarely loud—it is often subtle, shaping our decisions, limiting our potential, and quietly defining the boundaries of our lives.
In this conversation, Deepak explores fear through three very different lenses: high-stakes negotiations, organizational culture, and mountaineering. Together, they reveal practical lessons on leadership, resilience, and the path toward fearlessness.
Deepak Pa
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Award-winning podcast honored by the NYC Podcast Awards.
You are doing everything right. You are strong, you are capable, you show up for everyone. And still, something feels off. This is the podcast for you.
The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is the show where every week Stacey sits down with the doctors, healers, experts, and founders who help you take your life back. We talk about the things no
The Art of Healing: Why Kindness Is the Most Powerful Medicine
Pediatric brain surgeon Dr. Alan R. Cohen has performed thousands of procedures over 40 years — and says the most powerful tool he's ever used isn't in the OR.
In this episode, Dr. Cohen makes the case that kindness, empathy, and genuine human presence are irreplaceable in medicine.
Through moving stories of young patients and their families, he explores how compassion bridges the gap technolo
Running on Empty: How High-Achieving Women Can Reclaim Their Wellness
High-achieving women are running on empty — and the standard advice isn't fixing it.
Michelle Ford, MPH, founder of Navigating YOUR World Academy, exposes the hidden wellness crisis underneath success and offers a real way out.
She breaks down the 6 Dimensions of Wellness — physical, emotional, social, occupational, spiritual, and intellectual — and introduces the "one-anchor ritual," a practi
Intuition Signs You Keep Ignoring and How to Trust Them
Intuition signs show up more than most people realize — the hunch that turned out right, the pull toward something you talked yourself out of, the quiet knowing you dismissed as coincidence. That inner voice is not random.
Susan Renaud has spent 25 years helping people hear it more clearly, and her own gifts opened in a profound way at 42. In this episode she shares what got in the way, what fin
Dyslexic Thinking Is Your Superpower — Reinvention
Dyslexic thinking gets called a flaw for most people's entire childhoods — but what if that's exactly backwards? Millions of adults carry years of believing their minds were broken, when the truth is their brains were simply wired to see what others miss.
Adriana Kaegi co-founded the iconic Kid Creole and the Coconuts, pioneered live streaming media in 1998, built a sustainable fashion line, and
Why Millions Are Ditching Alcohol for Botanical Drinks — And Never Looking Back
The wellness world is shifting — and ancient plants are leading the way.
Angie Stevenson, founder of Alohi, joins us to explore why adaptogens and botanicals like Passion Flower are now mainstream tools for stress relief, showing up in major retailers and replacing alcohol in social settings.
She breaks down how adaptogens help your body handle stress, what to look for in clean botanical produ
Regenerative Medicine: How Your Body Can Heal Itself
Regenerative medicine is rewriting the rules of recovery — and most people have no idea it is already here. If you have spent years masking pain instead of solving it, the science behind why your body loses its healing signal is the answer no one explained to you.
Dr. Tommy Rhee, founder of RheeGen and former chiropractor for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and UCLA Athletics, breaks down what cell-fre
The Hidden Gift of Hunger: Why Fear of Food Keeps You Trapped
Most of us have it backward: hunger isn't the enemy, it's actually your body's greatest gift.
In this episode, intuitive eating pioneer Shirley Billingmeyer reveals how childhood conditioning and modern diet culture distort your body's natural signals, trapping you in cycles of guilt, fear, and emotional eating.
Learn her hunger scale framework, how to distinguish true hunger from emotional cra
The Gutter Gospel: One Veteran's Journey From Rock Bottom to Redemption
Mike Smith survived homelessness, addiction, incarceration, and a near-fatal fall before faith and community gave him a reason to live.
In this episode, he shares the story behind his memoir The Gutter Gospel and the parable of the muddy penny — a symbol of unconditional love for people society has written off.
Mike opens up about mental health struggles in veterans, the spiritual side of heal
The Real Reasons Your Weight Loss Plateaus Despite Doing Everything Right
Weight loss plateaus aren't about willpower; they're about biology.
In this episode, board-certified family nurse practitioner Farrah Christian exposes the hidden factors sabotaging your progress: hormonal imbalances, thyroid dysfunction, cortisol spikes, gut health issues, and genetic predispositions that most standard tests completely overlook.
Thara explains how leaky gut, chronic stress, an
The Real Reason Sugar Cravings Won't Go Away
Sugar cravings tend to hit in the quietest moments, after a hard day, alone in the kitchen, reaching for something sweet without even being hungry. That pull is not weakness. It is the brain searching for comfort it never learned to find anywhere else.
Christine Trimpe, author of SugarFreed and a certified Christian health and wellness coach, spent thirty years fighting that craving before discov
Faith Fatigue: Why You Feel Far From God
Faith fatigue doesn't announce itself. It shows up quietly — when you're still doing everything right but nothing feels real anymore. That spiritual hollowness isn't a character flaw; it's what happens when faith becomes something you know instead of someone you experience.
Dr. Carter Check, U.S. Army veteran, board-certified chaplain, and bestselling author of Plagiarizing the Gospel, reveals w
Intuition vs Anxiety: How to Finally Trust Yourself
Intuition vs anxiety — most people can't tell them apart in the moment, and the cost of getting it wrong is real. If you've ever overridden a quiet knowing and paid for it, your nervous system wasn't failing you. It was overwhelmed.
Martina Tišljar is an EFT Master Trainer and creator of the MediTap Method who survived a devastating health crisis by finally learning to listen to her own inner vo
People Pleasing Is Wearing You Out — Here's Why
People pleasing isn't a personality flaw — it's a fear response rooted in childhood, perfectionism, and the deep need to stay loved and safe. You keep saying yes, over-explaining, managing everyone's comfort, and somewhere in the process, you've lost track of what you actually want.
Susan Podbielski is a licensed psychotherapist and NYU Langone Fellow who spent a decade in clinical practice — af
Childhood Wounds Are Still Running Your Adult Life
Childhood wounds rarely announce themselves. They show up the morning you snap at your partner over dishes, or the day a missed promotion turns into a fight at home. The trigger feels like now. It almost always traces back further.Psychologist Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst has spent nearly 50 years helping people find the early injury underneath the pattern, then pull it up by the root.You will walk away
Your Morning Coffee Might Be an Addiction
That morning cup you can't function without may not be a preference — it could be a pull your body won't let you refuse. Caffeine triggers the same adrenaline surge as a survival emergency, and most people never connect that crash-and-crave cycle to dependence.
Life and health coach Norbert Heuser spent 45 years helping clients see the habits hiding in plain sight. He shares what caffeine actual
Working Mom Burnout Is Not Really About Doing Too Much
It is the end of a long day, and you are lying awake doing the math on summer camps, school clothes, and a checking account you have not looked at in weeks.
The tiredness is not just physical. So much of working mother burnout is financial stress and invisible labor no one sees.
The real shift is learning what you can control and what you cannot.
Neonatologist Dr. Susan Landers and financial
Your Child Struggles to Read for a Surprising Reason
The homework comes out, the reading starts, and within minutes everyone at the table is frustrated. If that scene plays out in your house, it is not because your child is lazy or behind on intelligence. Their brain makes reading connections a different way, and most classrooms are too crowded to teach to it.
Reading specialist Kim Parra has spent more than 25 years building a ten-minute flashcar
Feeling Lonely Even When You Are Surrounded by People
You can be in a full room, loved by your family, and still feel a quiet loneliness you cannot explain. That ache is not proof that something is wrong with you. The belonging we were all taught to chase, being accepted by a group, is only one of twelve, which is why so many people who fit in still feel unseen. Belonging researcher Dr. Mona Nour maps the eleven kinds nobody named. You leave knowing
Why You Self Sabotage and How to Finally Break Free
You keep hitting the same wall. The same pattern in love, the same ceiling at work, the same self-sabotage you swore you had beaten. You have tried willpower, affirmations, and years of talking it through, and still nothing holds. The reason is not weakness. It is an invisible belief installed long before you had a say, quietly steering your life.
Andrew Parr has spent 33 years and more than 20,
Why You Feel Empty Even When You Do Everything Right
You pray, you show up, you say all the right words, and from the outside everything looks fine. But underneath, the connection you once felt has gone quiet, and you cannot say when it slipped. This is not lost faith. It is drift, the slow distance that builds in the space between decisions.
Dr. Carter Check, a chaplain and healthcare ethicist, names this experience and explains why borrowed fait
Walking Daily but Still Tired and Stressed? Try This
It's the middle of the afternoon, and you are dragging again, even though you walked this morning and did everything right.
Here is what almost no one tells you: how you walk matters far more than how much. Move on autopilot, and you miss nearly all of its power.
Dr. Jacques MoraMarco, who took California's very first acupuncture licensing exam and holds a fourth-generation Sun Tai Chi lineage
Why You Self-Sabotage Even When You Know What to Do
You already know what to do. You've read the books, taken the courses, and you can recite the advice in your sleep. And still, you don't do it. You start, you stop, you self-sabotage. The problem was never willpower or knowledge. It's the hidden patterns running your decisions, the ones almost no one taught you to see. Monica Ion spent fifteen thousand hours uncovering them, and once you see them,
Your Anxiety Might Actually Be ADHD
She looked up from her computer and realized, for the first time in her life, that her mind had gone quiet.For decades, Sammie DeMarco thought she was simply anxious.Therapy helped. Medication helped. But the anxiety always came back.Then, five years ago, one diagnosis changed everything: ADHD, the kind that hides in girls as worry.But quieting her mind let her finally see what she had talked hers
Why Your PCOS Won't Just Go Away
You were told you have PCOS, handed metformin, and told to lose weight, and yet you still feel stuck and confused.
According to Dr. Sherman Silber, world-renowned fertility pioneer and director of The Silber Infertility Center of St. Louis, a PCOS diagnosis is the start of a plan, not the end of one.
You'll learn:
🥚 The one root cause of PCOS
🩺 Why metformin doesn't fix it
🤰 How PCOS patients ge
Why You're Still Exhausted After 40
You walk into a room and everyone's airing their stress, and you realize you can't remember the last time you felt rested. You're eating well, taking supplements, trying to sleep, and you're still exhausted, anxious, and inflamed.
What if the real problem isn't your hormones at all? The belly fat, the 3 a.m. wake-ups, the blood pressure creeping up, the energy that just vanished. None of it is ra
You're Not a Workaholic. Here's What's Going On
You outwork everyone, you keep everyone happy, and you still feel like you have to earn your place. That exhaustion is not a character flaw. It is a wound that was created before you had words for it.
It is not ambition. It is what happens when a child quietly decides love must be earned, then spends decades trying to earn it. The drive that built your life and the pain you keep running from are
Hydrogen Water for Inflammation: All Hype or Really Helps?
You've tried the diets. You've tried the supplements. You're still tired and inflamed, and every expert online tells you something different.
The hardest part of getting healthy isn't the effort. It's knowing who to trust.
This episode is about one molecule most people have never seriously looked at, and the man who bet his recovery on it.
Co-Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Greg the Hydrogen
Why You're Exhausted When Your Labs Are Normal
You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix, and your labs keep coming back normal.
Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Deborah Maragopoulos MN FNP, the Hormone Queen and an Intuitive Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner with 30 years in functional neuro-immune-endocrinology.
You'll learn:
🧠 Why normal labs still miss everything
🎼 How your hypothalamus conducts every hormone
🔄 Why treating symptoms
Better Sleep Starts With The One Thing You're Skipping
You've tried the earlier bedtimes, the trackers, the magnesium, and you still wake up tired. What if better sleep was never about doing more?
What begins as a talk about rest turns into something bigger: the idea that sleep is where your best ideas and clearest answers are born.
Co-host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Megan Mazzocco, founder of Wellbeing X Design and author of The Sleep System: 28
One Session Ended Her Smoking Habit Forever — Now She Does It for Others
Marygrace Anderson wasn't planning a career in hypnotherapy. She was just trying to quit smoking. One session at the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis in London changed everything — not just her habit, but her understanding of where anxiety, addiction, and stubborn patterns actually live in the human mind. The answer isn't in your willpower. It isn't in your logic. It's in a layer most traditional th
Foster Kids Age Out Into Nothing: How to Change That
At 16 years old, Stacy Johnson emancipated herself from foster care. No family. No safety net. No one waiting. Just herself and everything she'd survived across 9 homes since the age of 2. She was one of the thousands of kids who age out of the system every year not into a family — but into a trash bag of belongings and a birthday that marks the end of any support at all. She could have become a s
Why You're Still Bloated Even If You're Eating Right
Your gut is sending distress signals — and your "healthy" diet might be making it worse. Most people are missing one specific nutrient that regulates everything from bloating and energy to blood sugar and mood. Roxanne McBride spent years being failed by every supplement on the market before she built the solution herself — and what she discovered changes how you think about fiber forever.
You'll
Why Weight Loss Never Made You Feel Better
You hit the goal. You lost the weight. And you still didn't feel better — so what does that tell you? For millions of women, the real problem was never on the plate. It was the voice that said you weren't enough until you earned it. Christine Trimpe lived that cycle for years — and what finally broke it wasn't another diet. It was the one thing no wellness plan ever addressed.
You'll learn:
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Feeling Stuck? You're Not Failing — You're Living the Wrong Rules
You look like you have it together — and inside, you're exhausted from pretending you do. That gap between how your life looks and how it actually feels isn't a character flaw. It's what happens when you've spent years following a script you never wrote. Jennifer Donner lived exactly that — successful on the outside, quietly suffocating on the inside — and what she found on the other side will mak
Your Blood Pressure Numbers Are Warning You — Are You Listening?
You glanced at the number, told yourself it wasn't that bad, and moved on. That moment — right there — is exactly what a 20-year ICU nurse wants to talk to you about. Joel Polley has watched what happens when people wait too long, and the warning signs he sees ignored most are ones your doctor probably never explained. This episode could genuinely change what you do at your next checkup.
You'll
Your Doctor Said You're Fine — So Why Do You Feel So Bad?
"Everything looks normal" — and yet you're exhausted by noon, foggy by 3pm, and feel like a stranger in your own body. Normal is not the same as optimal, and for women in midlife, that difference is everything. Dr. Jessica Duncan left anesthesiology because she kept watching women get dismissed with clean labs and zero answers — and what she's doing now at the intersection of hormones and metaboli
Survival Mode After Abuse: Why Leaving Doesn't Set You Free
You did the hardest thing. You left. So why does your body still flinch, still brace, still wait for something to go wrong? Getting out of an abusive relationship doesn't reset your nervous system — and nobody warns you about that part. Candi Keffeler survived domestic abuse and breast cancer, wrote the book on what comes next, and she's here to talk about the chapter no one else is covering: what
Chronic Illness Doesn't Have to Be a Life Sentence — Here's Proof
You've been told to manage it. Adjust to it. Accept it. And somewhere along the way, managing started to feel like giving up. Albee Shanefelter had brain surgeries, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, and years of chronic pain that would have broken most people — and he didn't just survive it, he built a framework out of it. What he found on the other side of all of that isn't toxic positivity or false ho
You Love Your Kids — So Why Does Connecting With Them Feel So Hard?
You show up. You provide. You'd do anything for them — and somehow your kid still seems just out of reach. That gap between loving your children and actually feeling close to them is one of the most quietly painful things fathers carry, and almost no one talks about it. Dr. Josh Davis has spent his career studying the emotional intelligence piece most dads were never taught. Perry Solomon learned
When Nothing Has Worked: The Mental Health Treatment Most Doctors Never Mention
You've done the therapy. Tried the medications. Followed every recommendation — and you still wake up feeling like something is fundamentally wrong with you. That feeling isn't a diagnosis. It's what happens when the treatment model fails the patient and no one admits it. Sam Mandel co-founded Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles because he watched people fall through every crack in traditional psychiatry
He Crossed Antarctica and Lived as a Monk — Here's What He Learned About Being Stuck
That feeling that something is missing — even when nothing is technically wrong — is one of the most disorienting experiences a person can have. Martyn Williams knows it intimately. He's stood at Everest, crossed Antarctica, reached both Poles, and spent seven years living as a monk — and through all of it he was searching for the same thing you are. What he found isn't a strategy or a framework.
Why You Push Through Pain When Something's Wrong
ou felt the warning. The exhaustion, the tension, the quiet voice saying something needs to change — and you scheduled another meeting instead. That's not weakness. That's what happens when pushing through gets rewarded long enough that stopping feels like failure. Dr. Carter Check has lived this from every angle — as a U.S. Army veteran, a clinical chaplain sitting with people in their hardest mo
Why Your Child Melts Down — And Can't Tell You Why
Your child is melting down and can't tell you why — and trying to fix it or stop it only makes it worse.
Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Dr. Deana Plaskon, a licensed mental health counselor with a PhD in human behavior and author of the award-winning Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers series.
You'll learn:
🐴 Why kids can't name big feelings
📖 How stories teach emotions better than lecture
Your Hair Is Thinning — And Your Hormones Are Trying to Tell You Something
You're finding it in the shower drain, on your pillow, in your brush — and nobody seems to have a real answer for why. Your doctor ran labs, said everything looks normal, and sent you home. But hair loss in women is rarely random and almost never just cosmetic. Carolyn Zaumeyer is a nurse practitioner who specializes in exactly this gap — the hormonal and metabolic signals that show up in your hai
Food Noise Won't Stop? What's Really Going On
You just ate. You're not hungry. And your brain is already thinking about what's next. It cycles through food all day — what you ate, what you shouldn't have, what you'll allow yourself later — and no matter how much discipline you apply, it doesn't stop. That loop isn't a character flaw and it isn't about willpower. It's a signal your body has been trying to send you for years. Shirley Billigmeie
Covert Narcissist Marriage: Why You Lose Yourself
There was no single moment. No dramatic incident you can point to. Just a slow, quiet dimming — your confidence, your opinions, your sense of what you even want — until one day you looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the woman looking back. That's what a covert narcissist marriage does. Not with explosions. With a thousand tiny moments of doubt that felt like your fault. Julie Feldman lived
Why Healing Feels Slow Even When You're Doing Everything Right
You're going to therapy. You're doing the work. And some days healing looks like a breakthrough — and some days it looks like crying in your car and calling that enough. Both are real. Both count. Candi Keffeler survived domestic violence and breast cancer and wrote the book on what recovery actually looks like when it's messy, nonlinear, and nothing like what you expected. This episode isn't abou
Midlife Exhaustion: The Harder You Try, The Worse It Gets — Here's Why
You cleaned up your diet. You're sleeping more. You cut the alcohol, added the supplements, and pushed through every single day — and you are somehow more exhausted than before. In midlife, doing more of what worked before can actually make things worse, and most doctors won't tell you that because your labs look fine. Elisa Kosonen built her entire nutrition practice around the women who kept get
Your Pain Is Real: Why Endometriosis Takes 10 Years to Diagnose
You've been told it's normal. That all women deal with this. That you're being dramatic. And you've spent years — maybe a decade — knowing in your body that something is genuinely wrong while the medical system looked the other way. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women and carries an average diagnosis delay of 7 to 10 years — not because it's rare, but because women's pain has historically been dis
Covert Narcissist Abuse: Why You Keep Defending Someone Who's Hurting You
You find yourself explaining his behavior to your friends. Making excuses to your family. Convincing yourself it wasn't that bad — again. Covert narcissist abuse doesn't look like abuse from the outside, and that's exactly what makes it so dangerous. There are no visible bruises. Just a slow, systematic erosion of your reality until you genuinely can't tell anymore whether the problem is him or yo
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