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The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

Stacey Chillemi

Feel stuck in stress, anxiety, or burnout—no matter what you try? The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is the podcast for people who feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or constantly “on edge,” and want real, science-backed ways to reset their nervous system and feel like themselves again. Hosted by Stacey Chillemi, bestselling author and wellness advocate, the show features conversations with doctors, therapists, and experts who break down how your nervous system, stress, and emotional patterns

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39:28

Migraine Is Never Just One Trigger, It's Usually Four

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi ·

2026/10/05

You skipped the wine, you drank the water, and the migraine came anyway. Chasing one trigger is exhausting, and when it fails you feel like nothing works. Migraine rarely has a single cause. Most attacks come from four factors stacking together, with the neck and the weather among the most overlooked. Rob Wallis has spent over 40 years treating headache and migraine, founded Sydney's first physio practice dedicated to it, and lives with it himself. After this, you stop hunting for one thing and

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51:01

Midlife Crisis Hits Hardest When You Did Everything...

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2026/10/02

Midlife crisis is not the sports car. It is waking up inside the life you built- career, marriage, kids, house- and feeling nothing. Everyone else looks fine, so you say nothing. You did not fail, and you are not broken. That emptiness is a signal that there is more for you, not less. Writer, speaker, and coach David Phillips lived that season himself and built a practical framework for trading dread for passion. By the end, you will know what to shed, what to reclaim, and where to

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44:57

Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: How to Rebuild Self-Trust

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2026/10/01

If simple decisions leave you exhausted, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar in the best way. Guest Kamini Wood unpacks why self-trust erodes, why overthinking is often protection rather than a personality flaw, and how to stop treating other people's opinions like the final verdict on your life. Kamini shares how childhood messages, toxic relationships, and the pressure to please others quietly shrink your voice, then walks through practical tools: body scans, curiosity, small

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36:30

Eating Disorders Are Biology, Not a Failure of Willpower

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2026/09/30

Eating disorder recovery keeps failing at the same point, and every relapse feels like proof of weak character. It is not. Willpower was never the mechanism. Genetics, stress physiology, habit, and a nervous system wired by early trauma override logic long before you get to choose. Paige Gordon lived with bulimia for 22 years, found recovery, and now sits on the board of the National Eating Disorders Association, translating the science for patients and families. After this conversation,

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34:33

Surgeon Explains How to Avoid Surgery and Opioids for...

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2026/09/29

A surgeon who wants to keep you off the operating table could change how you handle pain for good.Dr. Ethan Kellum treats pro athletes and everyday patients with regenerative medicine, and he shares what he wishes everyone with chronic pain had known before saying yes to surgery or a prescription. He also covers how PRP and stem cells work, why inflammation and stress keep pain going, and how movement, sleep, and food speed healing without getting sold on

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33:12

IVF Is Not Your Only Option: The Truth About IVM

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2026/09/28

Most fertility patients go through months of stimulation cycles before anyone mentions there might be a simpler way. In vitro maturation (IVM) skips the hormones, the daily monitoring, and much of the cost — and it works. Dr. Sherman Silber, one of the world's foremost reproductive microsurgeons, explains who IVM is right for, how it grew out of ovarian tissue preservation, and why breakthroughs from Vietnam are making unstimulated egg retrieval possible for more women than ever

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47:35

Your Blood Pressure Isn't a Heart Problem

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2026/09/25

That BP reading that spiked at the doctor's office? It might not mean what you think.Registered nurse and naturopath Joel Polley breaks down what your blood pressure numbers really mean. Why stress, sleep, caffeine, salt, and even fear can push them up, and what you can do today to bring them down. If you've ever worried genetics doomed you or that medication is the only answer, this conversation will change how you see the number on the cuff. Joel blends years of ICU and emergency nursing with a

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40:30

Losing Weight Is Not Your Fault and Here Is the Proof

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2026/09/24

Another Monday, another plan, and by Thursday the takeout is ordered, and the blame lands where it always does: on you. Losing weight was never meant to be a lifelong fight, and the fact that it became one says more about the industry than about your willpower. Lean and healthy is the body's default setting; modern life just switched it off. Stavros Mastrogiannis, a Body Reset Specialist with thirty years and 1,500 clients, explains how the industry profits from your restarts and how to turn the

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38:33

Parental Burnout Is Making You Feel Like a Failure

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2026/09/23

Parental burnout is the drive home from practice with a headache, a kid in the back seat who stopped smiling, and the fear that you are still not doing enough. You did everything right, and your child is more anxious anyway. That is not your failure. Research shows the extra hour and the extra team add nothing and cause harm. Maggie Vaughan, psychotherapist and author of Beyond Perfect, helps families step out of the race. After this, you will know what to cut first and why warmth beats any

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44:31

Rebuilding a Sound Mind After Brain Injury

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2026/09/22

Doctors could not explain what was happening to her mind. Grace King came out of a brain injury, a stroke, and a steroid overdose into years of psychosis and confusion, and she started writing everything down. Eight years of notebooks later, she has a great deal to say about scripture, free will, and why she believes obedience rather than belief alone was the missing piece. She also opens up about the difference between intuition, what she once called being psychic, and the ordinary

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43:05

Stop Ignoring Your Body Before It Makes the Decision...

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2026/09/21

Your body has been warning you. Most women just get good at ignoring it. It's not failing you; it's asking for your attention. Michelle Ford, MPH, founder of Navigating Your World Academy, explains why physical wellness is the first dimension to signal something is off — and why symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, and headaches are rarely the real problem. She digs into chronic stress patterns, hormonal shifts, menopause, and the dangerous habit of putting everyone else's needs first. Michelle

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55:02

Autoimmune Disease Starts in Your Brain, Not Your...

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2026/09/21

Autoimmune disease isn't a misfiring immune system — it's a brain that lost the ability to regulate one. Years of chronic stress, poor sleep, gut imbalance, and hormonal shifts can dysregulate the hypothalamus to the point where the immune system starts attacking your own tissue. Deborah Maragopoulos, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 30 years in neuro-immune-endocrinology, explains what actually starts the attack, why suppressing the immune system alone never fixes it, and what

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58:02

Root Cause of Symptoms Your Labs Keep Calling Normal

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2026/09/18

Root cause questions rarely come up when a scan comes back clean. You are handed a prescription for the fatigue, the flares, the dizziness, and sent home with nothing explained. The check engine light gets covered, not answered.Dr. Anthony Salzarulo, a holistic health consultant and homeopath of more than thirty years, works from a different premise: cells malfunction for two reasons, and both are testable, changeable, and largely ignored. You will leave able to ask better questions about your own

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35:51

Male Infertility: What Men Are Never Told

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2026/09/17

Male infertility is a factor in half of all fertility struggles — yet men are rarely the first one tested, and almost never the first one supported. If you or your partner has been quietly carrying that weight, this episode is the conversation you needed years ago. Dr. Sherman Silber, one of the world's leading reproductive microsurgeons, explains what a proper male fertility evaluation actually looks like, why testosterone supplements may be silently causing infertility, and what is possible even

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51:44

Heart Transplant Wait Made Their Marriage Stronger

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2026/09/16

Heart transplant lists hold twelve thousand names, and for three and a half years he was one of them, losing strength while the woman he loved watched it happen. Illness usually pulls couples apart, and nobody teaches you how to stay close through it. Theirs got closer, on purpose, using something they had practiced for twelve years before he got sick. Gaylen Wilson is eight years post-transplant with a donor heart and a marriage stronger than before. After this, you will hear your own arguments

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21:56

Built From the Ground Up: Victor Bretting on Faith,...

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2026/09/15

Some lives are built to last — Victor Bretting's runs eight generations deep in Texas soil. A childhood shaped by a missing father, a tireless mother, and nearly 50 years in concrete construction gave him a masterclass in accountability, perseverance, and what legacy actually means. In this episode, Victor gets honest about failed marriages, emotional walls, and the realization that healing starts the moment you admit something is wrong. He also shares how a retirement ranch quietly became a

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44:02

Emotional Literacy Starts With You, Not Your Child

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2026/09/14

Emotional literacy is not something you teach a child with a talk. It is something they absorb by watching you, every time you name a feeling out loud, own a mistake, or sit with an uncomfortable emotion instead of burying it. Dr. Deana Plaskon, licensed clinical mental health expert and author of Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers, explains why the adult in the room is always the real lesson. Walk away knowing exactly what your child is already learning from

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48:37

Hydrogen Therapy Is Missing One Critical Piece

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2026/09/11

Hydrogen therapy is one of the fastest-growing areas in health science, and most of the products being sold are missing the single component that makes it work. Pure hydrogen is electrically neutral — it cannot neutralize free radicals or stop oxidative damage on its own. George Wiseman, founder of Eagle Research and nearly four decades into his research on Brown's Gas, explains the third gas his electrolyzers produce — Electrically Expanded Water — a negatively charged cold plasma that donates

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46:20

Childhood Trauma and the Patterns Running Your Adult...

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2026/09/10

You are not overreacting. You may just be remembering. Trauma-informed life coach and author Ernest Ellender, PhD, explains why a small moment can trigger a large emotional response, and how to catch the pattern before it takes over. He unpacks how childhood stress shows up in adult confidence, work habits, relationships, and the guilt that follows rest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH ERNEST ELLENDER, PhD 🌐

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31:31

Gut Skin Connection Is Why Your Skin Keeps Reacting

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2026/09/09

Gut skin connection explains the mirror moment so many women know: doing everything right and still seeing dull skin, redness, and hair in the drain. The problem is not the products. Ayurveda teaches that the gut whispers while the skin and scalp scream, and a dysregulated nervous system shows up on your face first. Mangala D'Sa, an Ayurvedic practitioner and founder of Chasma Skin, spent years chasing solutions before she found the root. You stop layering and start

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