The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

By Stacey ChillemiHealth & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi episodes

May 25 Your Mindset Isn't Separate From Cancer Treatment — It's Part of It
A cancer diagnosis changes everything in an instant — the appointments, the decisions, the fear, the waiting. And in the middle of all of it, nobody stops to tell you that what's happening in your mind is directly affecting what's happening in your body. Not as a motivational concept. As a clinical reality. Avinoam Lerner has spent his career at exactly that intersection — as a cancer recovery specialist and clinical hypnotherapist who has watched patients transform their experience of treatment by understanding one thing most oncologists never address: your mental and emotional state is not a side effect of cancer. It is part of the treatment. This episode is for every patient, every caregiver, and everyone who has ever felt like fear was the one thing nobody gave them permission to talk about.

You'll learn:
🧠 Why your mind is a measurable clinical variable in treatment
🔬 What science shows about stress and immune function — in plain language
💔 Why helplessness physically changes what your body can do
⚡ Mental tools you can start using today, even in active treatment
🌱 Why hope isn't wishful thinking — and how to build it
You don't have to wait to start healing your mind. Start here.
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Connect with Avinoam Lerner:
🌐 Website: https://www.avinoamlerner.com
📅 Book a Free Consultation: https://www.avinoamlerner.com/apply
📗 The New Cancer Paradigm: https://www.avinoamlerner.com/shop/p/the-new-cancer-paradigm
📘 Mindful Remission (May 2026): https://www.avinoamlerner.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avinoamlerner
👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mycancerrecovery
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinoamlerner
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AvinoamLerner
🐦 Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/avinoamlerner
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38 min
May 25 Parenting Is Harder Than It's Ever Been — Here's What Nobody Warned You About
Your child is anxious in ways you weren't at their age. Overwhelmed by a schedule you built to give them every advantage. Retreating into screens in ways that feel beyond your control. And you're doing your absolute best with tools that were never designed for the world your child is actually growing up in. Most parents aren't failing their kids. They're just missing information nobody ever taught them — about how AI and screens are reshaping childhood emotional development, about what over-scheduled kids are actually telling you when they shut down, about the hidden emotional architecture that either protects children or leaves them exposed. Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst brings clinical expertise to exactly those questions — and what she and Lisa unpack in this conversation covers the full landscape of what modern parenting actually requires right now. If you've felt like the rulebook changed and nobody told you, this episode is the conversation you've been waiting for.

🔗 Connect with Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst:
🌐 https://www.drvanderhorst.com
📝 https://gloriavanderhorstphd.substack.com
🏢 https://www.facebook.com/drvanderhorst
👤 https://www.facebook.com/gloria.vanderhorst.7

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53 min
May 22 Stuck After Years of Therapy? This Is What's Missing
You've sat in the therapy chair for years. You've named it, traced it back, understood where it came from — and it's still there. That gap between knowing your trauma and actually being free of it isn't a failure of insight. It's a failure of location. Trauma doesn't live in your memory. It lives in your body — in patterns of tension, shutdown, and survival that talking alone was never designed to reach. Nicolas Mérand sits at a rare intersection — psychoanalytic practitioner and energy healer — because he discovered that the mind and the body have to be addressed together or neither one fully heals. If you've done years of work and still feel the same weight, this episode is the missing piece you didn't know you were looking for.

In this episode:
🧠 Why trauma is a body experience, not just a mental one
🔍 How it shows up as burnout, numbness, and emotional flatness
💬 What talk therapy misses — and what fills the gap
⚡ How energy healing works in plain, grounded language
🛠️ Simple steps to start releasing what is stuck right now
"Clean your past to recover your intuition." — Nicolas Mérand
This one will stay with you.
Connect with Nicolas Mérand
🌐 www.telephane.org
💼 linkedin.com/in/nicolas-merand
👥 facebook.com/telephane
▶️ youtube.com/@NMerand

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36 min
May 21 She Healed Rheumatoid Arthritis When Doctors Said She Couldn't — Here's Exactly How
Angela Ardolino was told her rheumatoid arthritis was something she'd manage for the rest of her life. She didn't accept that. What she discovered instead — through years of research into cannabis and functional mushrooms — didn't just put her own condition into remission. It led to peer-reviewed research proving that functional mushrooms can reverse dementia in senior dogs. That's not a wellness trend. That's science catching up to what nature already knew. If you've been handed a diagnosis and told to simply manage it, Angela's story is the most important conversation you'll hear this year about what your body is actually capable of — with the right support.

You'll learn:
🌿 Why the endocannabinoid system is the key to healing chronic inflammation
🍄 How to use functional mushrooms and plant medicine safely and effectively
💊 How to spot high-quality hemp products — and avoid the ones that waste your money
⚠️ The toxic fillers in mainstream supplements that may be making you worse
✅ Practical steps to reduce inflammation and support your immune system today
📌 CONNECT WITH ANGELA:
🌐 angelaardolino.com
📸 @angelaardolino
🎙️ @yournaturaldogpodcast

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1 hr 7 min
May 21 Your Body Is Addicted to Stress — Here's How to Reset
Have you ever genuinely decided to change — and then watched yourself slide right back into the same pattern? That's not a willpower problem. That's your nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do.

Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with nervous system and behavior coach Brian Osborne to walk you through the science of why change is so hard — and give you practical tools to finally make it stick.

In this episode, you'll learn:
🧠 Why 95% of your day runs on autopilot — and how to use the other 5%
🔁 How your body gets emotionally addicted to familiar states (even painful ones)
😤 The real reason willpower fades in 3 days — every single time
🌙 Why your night routine matters more than your morning routine
🏠 A simple environment reset that starts interrupting old habits immediately
📝 The one goal-writing mistake that keeps attracting what you don't want
🔓 What self-sabotage actually is — and the awareness shift that changes everything

This conversation is for anyone who keeps hitting the same wall and wonders why. The answer is inside — and so is the way out.
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Learn more about Brian Osborne and get access to his 30-Day Reset program here:
https://interiordesignyourmind.com/reprogram
Follow Brian:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.osborne.75
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leadwithbrian/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InteriorDesignYourMind
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@interiordesignyourmind

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37 min
May 20 Why Your Antidepressant Isn't Working — The Biology Your Doctor Is Missing
Most people who are struggling with depression or anxiety have already tried the medication. They've already done the therapy. And they're still not better — not because they're not trying, but because something biological is being missed.
This episode could be the turning point you've been waiting for.
Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Dr. Doreen Zarfati, board-certified psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer of Fountain Health, to have the conversation most doctors never make time for.
You'll learn:
🧬 Why mental health is a biological condition your body is signaling right now
🩸 What a deeper blood panel reveals that standard labs completely miss
🔥 How inflammation, cortisol & hormones are secretly driving your symptoms
💊 What ketamine therapy actually does in the brain — and whether it's right for you
📊 Why the standard 15-minute psychiatric appointment is setting you up to fail
🔁 How biology-first, continuous care produces outcomes that episodic treatment never will
If you've ever felt like nothing is working — this episode gives you a new place to start.
🌐 fountainnyc.com
📸 @fountainnyc
📞 917-886-7376 — Free 15-min consultation available

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57 min
May 19 COVID Nurses Lived What You Only Watched on the News
COVID nurses remember what the rest of us never saw: hallways lined with beds, names written on paper bags holding reused masks, a colleague cutting a trash bag into a gown, goodbyes said to spouses over Zoom. They went from hero cookies to being feared at gas stations in six months, and nobody ever asked if they were okay.
Martha Hoy, ER nurse on the Las Vegas frontlines and author of 2020: Year of the Nurse, tells the story behind today's strikes, staffing crises, and violence against healthcare workers. You'll never sit in a waiting room the same way again.
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CONNECT WITH MARTHA HOY
🌐 Website: https://mothermartha.com/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/17d7FPQ3BH/?mibextid=wwXIfr
📚 Books: 2020: Year of the Nurse, on Amazon and Barnes & Noble | Becoming Mother Martha: From Adversity to Greatness, https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Mother-Martha-Adversity-Greatness/dp/1736267027
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39 min
May 19 Hearing Loss Is Destroying Your Memory & Relationships — Here's the Fix
Hearing loss doesn't just affect how you hear — it affects how you think, connect, and feel about yourself.
In this episode, host Lisa Urbanski talks with Michael Leung, founder of The Flow Group, about the real emotional and cognitive costs of untreated hearing loss — and why an affordable, stigma-free bone conduction device is quietly changing lives.
🧠 The connection between hearing loss, memory loss, and cognitive decline
💬 Why people avoid hearing aids — and what a better option looks like
👂 How bone conduction bypasses ear damage to restore clear sound
😌 Real stories of seniors and adults reclaiming confidence and connection
✅ How to find out right now if bone conduction is right for you
Connect with Michael Leung l Founder & CEO, FLO (The Inner FLO)
🌐 Website: https://www.theinnerflo.com/
📸 Instagram (Michael): https://www.instagram.com/luckycrow8/
📸 Instagram (FLO): https://www.instagram.com/theflogroup/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/17mrqBSDoS/?mibextid=wwXIfr
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFloGroup

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29 min
May 18 Infertility Hope? New Options After Failed IVF
Been told your fertility chances are almost zero? This episode helps you understand why “no more options” may not always be the full story.
Host Lisa Urbanski talks with world-renowned fertility specialist Dr. Sherman Silber about difficult infertility cases, failed IVF, donor eggs, gestational surrogacy, ICSI, ovarian tissue transplantation, menopause, hormone health, and emerging stem cell research that could reshape fertility care.
You’ll learn:
✨ Why failed IVF may still leave room for hope
🥚 What donor eggs and surrogacy can make possible
🧬 How ICSI helped change male infertility treatment
⏳ What fertility after 35 and 40 really means
🌱 What stem cell research could mean for the future
💛 What to ask your doctor before giving up
Learn more about Dr. Sherman Silber:
Website: https://www.infertile.com/dr-silber/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InfertilityCenterSt.Louis/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silberinfertility/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmqNkEnhy098JF-nW9SAZQ
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@silberinfertility

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40 min
May 15 8 Hours of Sleep But Still Tired? Here's What's Actually Happening
You're getting the hours — so why are you still running on empty?
Stacey Chillemi sits down with Colin Lawlor, CEO of Sleep.ai and globally recognized sleep science authority, to uncover what your sleep is really telling you about your health — and what you can do about it starting tonight.
You'll learn:
🧠 Why quality sleep matters far more than the number of hours you log
⚠️ The startling connection between deep sleep loss and dementia risk
🛡️ How your immune system depends on sleep to protect you every single night
📊 What one billion hours of sleep data reveals about chronic disease and recovery
✅ Honest, practical steps to finally wake up feeling restored and energized
Sleep isn't just rest. It's the foundation of every system in your body — and this conversation will show you exactly how to protect it.
🔗 Connect with Colin Lawlor & Sleep.ai
🌐 Website: https://www.sleep.ai
📱 Download the SleepScore App — search SleepScore on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store
💼 LinkedIn: Colin J. Lawlor

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57 min