The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

By Stacey ChillemiHealth & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi episodes

June 08 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 it the long way — through grandfatherhood. Together they're naming what's really happening between fathers and their kids, and what it actually takes to close that distance.

You'll learn:
🧠 Why connection feels harder than ever
💛 How to get inside your child's mind
👴 What grandfathers uniquely give kids
🎯 Boundaries without losing your cool
✨ Why presence beats perfection
🌱 The mealtime ritual that builds confidence
Connect with Josh Davis, PhD!
🌐 Website: https://www.joshdavisphd.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshdavisphd
🐦 X : https://x.com/joshdavisphd
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoshDavisPhD
📚 Books:
The Difference That Makes the Difference and Two Awesome Hours

Check out Perry Solomon's book, Grandpa Day

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56 min
June 06 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 — and the results his patients are seeing with ketamine therapy are making the medical community pay attention. If you've been told you're treatment-resistant, this episode reframes everything.

You'll learn:
🧠 Why the brain gets stuck in depression and anxiety
💊 How ketamine therapy differs from antidepressants
⚡ Which conditions respond best to treatment
🔎 Who is — and isn't — a good candidate
🛡️ How to choose a clinic safely
💛 What real relief looks like for patients

You are not out of options.

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CONNECT WITH SAM MANDEL:
🌐 Website: https://ketamineclinics.com
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37 min
June 05 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. It's a fundamental shift in how you see everything — and this conversation will make you feel it before the episode is over.

You'll learn:
🧠 Why high achievers still feel empty inside
🔍 What being "stuck" really means at its root
💛 How bliss is regulation and awareness — not euphoria
⚡ One question that changes your perception instantly
🌅 Morning, transition, and evening habits that rewire your default state
📖 How five deep breaths can dissolve a locked perception
You don't need another achievement to feel whole. You need a new relationship with how you see your life.
Connect with Martyn Williams:
🌐 https://www.enlighteningadventures.com
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/martyn-williams-5990697
📘 https://www.facebook.com/EnlighteningAdventures
🐦 https://twitter.com/Dheeran
📧 [email protected]
📚 Sure, Let's Go — https://www.enlighteningadventures.com/sure-let-s-go

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31 min
June 05 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 moments, and a healthcare ethicist who studies what it costs us to ignore what our bodies and souls are telling us. What he found in the wild changed how he understands healing entirely — and this conversation will change how you understand the word "fine.
You'll learn:
🧭 Why do you push through when something feels off
🔇 How shame keeps you silent
🩹 Moral injury vs PTSD, explained
🌱 Why healing means remembering differently
💬 The one question that restores hope
🌳 How nature begins real healing
The signal you've been ignoring isn't weakness — it's where healing begins.
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CONNECT WITH DR. CARTER CHECK:
🌐 Website: https://drcartercheck.com
🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/cartercheck
📚 Book: Healing in the Wild — https://healinginthewild.com/

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57 min
June 04 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 lectures
🌀 What most SEL programs get wrong
🧰 A tool to use with your child today
💬 Why adults need this work too
Walk away knowing how to give your child the words — and yourself some relief.
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CONNECT WITH DR. DEANA PLASKON:
🌐 Website: https://bellabirdbooks.com/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bellabirdbooks/
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bellabirdbooks
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-deana-plaskon-819288363
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Bella-and-Bird-the-Emotion-Explorers-61573044044129/
📧 Contact: [email protected]
📚 Book/Resource: Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers — https://bellabirdbooks.com/bella-bird-books/
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33 min
June 04 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 hair long before they show up anywhere else. If you've been dismissed, confused, or just quietly scared about what you're seeing, this episode is the conversation you've been waiting for.

Work with Carolyn: LowTEFlorida.com
Free book: Are You Hormone Curious? → Get your copy
Facebook: facebook.com/LowTEFlorida
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/carolynzaumeyer

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45 min
June 03 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 Billigmeier has spent over 40 years helping people silence that noise for good — not through dieting, not through medication, not through white-knuckling it — and what she's found at the root of food obsession will completely change how you understand your relationship with food.

You'll learn:
🍽️ What food noise actually is
🧠 Why "healthy choices" can backfire
🔇 Food noise vs. food obsession
👶 When you lost your eating wisdom
💛 Why "love your body" rings hollow
⚖️ Her honest take on weight-loss drugs

By the end, food becomes what it was always meant to be — fuel for your life, not the center of it.

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CONNECT WITH SHIRLEY BILLIGMEIER:
🌐 Website: https://www.innergetics.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innergeticsmethod
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirleybilligmeier
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/learn.innergetics
📚 Free Book: https://landing.innergetics.com/book
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45 min
June 03 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 inside that reality for 18 years before she found her way back to herself — and what she rebuilt on the other side of that marriage is proof that the woman you used to be isn't gone. She's been waiting.
You'll learn:
🩶 How a covert narcissist dims your light
💛 Why self-worth is the real foundation
🌬️ Breathwork to reach your soul self
✨ Reclaiming joy without asking permission
🔥 Using Reiki to heal after betrayal
🧭 First small steps back to yourself
Your light was never gone — just buried, and ready to return.
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CONNECT WITH JULIE FELDMAN:
🌐 Website: aurenda.us
📸 Instagram: @aurenda & @julie.f.feldman
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41 min
June 02 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 about surviving. It's about what comes after — the quiet, unglamorous, deeply courageous work of actually healing.
You'll learn:
🌱 Why healing feels messy, not beautiful
🧠 How the nervous system leaves survival mode
🤫 Why quiet and alone time matter
💛 The small wins that signal real progress
✨ Why starting over takes courage

CONNECT WITH CANDI KEFFELER:
🌐 Website: candikeffeler.com
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/candi_thegrammahustler
🎵 TikTok: tiktok.com/@authorcandikeffeler
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/share/1AwLntXhSi
📚 Book: Never Far Too Gone — https://amzn.to/3NkP3uo

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35 min
June 02 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 getting sent home with clean bloodwork and zero answers — and what she's uncovered about how the female body shifts in midlife will make you stop blaming yourself and start asking completely different questions.

You'll learn:
🔥 Why burnout disguises itself as ambition
🌀 What perimenopause does to your energy, sleep & blood sugar
😴 Why the strategies that worked in your 30s have stopped working
🧠 The invisible load women carry — and how it shows up physically
🥕 What the 14 Carrots Method looks like in a real woman's real week
✨ The single most important shift to make right now
Midlife is a recalibration — not a decline. And when you give your body what it actually needs, something remarkable happens: you come back to yourself.
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CONNECT WITH ELISA KOSONEN:
🌐 Website:
https://www.fourteencarrots.com/podcast
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/14carrotsmethod/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-kosonen/
📚 Free Guide: Perimenopause Energy Foundations → fourteencarrots.com
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53 min