Why You Can't Lose Weight After 40 — And How to Finally Fix It

Why Healing Feels Slow When You're Doing the Work

Healing doesn't always look like a breakthrough — sometimes it's crying in your car and getting out of bed anyway. Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Candi Keffeler, author of Never Far Too Gone and a domestic violence and breast cancer survivor, on what quiet, real healing looks like. 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 [candikeffeler.com] 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/candi_thegrammahustler [instagram.com/candi_thegrammahustler] 🎵 TikTok: tiktok.com/@authorcandikeffeler [tiktok.com/@authorcandikeffeler] 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/share/1AwLntXhSi [facebook.com/share/1AwLntXhSi] 📚 Book: Never Far Too Gone — https://amzn.to/3NkP3uo [https://amzn.to/3NkP3uo] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Exhausted in Midlife? Why Trying Harder Makes It Worse

You're exhausted, you're doing everything right, and nothing is working. That's not a character flaw. It's information your body is trying to give you. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Elisa Kosonen — Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Health Coach, and founder of 14 Carrots — a nutrition practice built specifically for women in midlife who are done being told their labs are fine. 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. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH ELISA KOSONEN: 🌐 Website: https://www.fourteencarrots.com/podcast [https://www.fourteencarrots.com/podcast] 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/14carrotsmethod/ [https://www.instagram.com/14carrotsmethod/] 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-kosonen/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-kosonen/] 📚 Free Guide: Perimenopause Energy Foundations → fourteencarrots.com ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Your Pain Is Real — Why Endo Takes 10 Years to Diagnose | Alexis Roderick Joel

If your pain keeps getting dismissed, this episode is for you. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women — and most wait 7 to 10 years just to learn what's wrong. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Alexis Roderick Joel, women's health advocate, Co-Chair of The Joel Foundation with Billy Joel, and Chair of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships for the Endometriosis Foundation of America. You'll learn: 🔬 Why endometriosis takes so long to diagnose 💊 Symptoms women are told are "normal" — but aren't 🏛️ How Alexis brought the endo funding fight to Capitol Hill 🧬 Why the first dedicated U.S. endo research lab matters 🩺 How to advocate for yourself in a system that isn't listening 💛 What women in their 20s need to know about their hormones now You are not imagining it. This conversation gives you the language, the facts, and the courage to ask better questions and demand real answers. ────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH ALEXIS RODERICK JOEL: 🌐 Endometriosis Foundation of America: https://www.endofound.org ────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Covert Narcissist Signs You Keep Explaining Away

Covert narcissist abuse can leave you confused, exhausted, and wondering if you’re the problem. Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Sammie DeMarco, survivor, certified life coach, and divorce recovery coach, to unpack the hidden patterns of emotional abuse that often look normal from the outside. You’ll learn: 🧠 Why covert abuse is hard to spot 💔 How love bombing creates attachment 🚩 Subtle signs of emotional manipulation 😔 Why joy can trigger control 🛑 How stress shows up physically 🌱 What rebuilding yourself can look like This episode gives language to the confusion and helps survivors begin trusting what they already feel. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH SAMMIE DEMARCO: 🌐 Website: https://www.sammierose.me [https://www.sammierose.me] 📸 Instagram: @SammieRose1010 📸 Instagram: @SammieRoseCoaching ▶️ YouTube: Sammie_Rose ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Anxiety You Inherited Before You Could Choose

The anxiety you've carried your whole life may not have started with you — and that's the key to finally ending it. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Tracy Liberatore, attorney, hypnotherapist, and founder of Walk As Her™, a lineage healing movement for women ready to break inherited survival patterns. You'll learn: 🧬 How anxiety transmits silently between generations 🧠 Why nervous system patterns outlast therapy ⚡ Managing reactions vs. interrupting them at the root 💔 Why narcissistic abuse recovery stalls — and what moves it 🌀 What hypnotherapy reaches that insight alone can't 🆓 Tracy's free Emergency Reset Kit at WalkAsHer.com After this episode, your anxiety stops feeling like a personal failure — and starts feeling like a pattern you have the tools to end. ──────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH TRACY LIBERATORE: 🌐 Website: www.WalkAsHer.com 🌐 Website: RiseAgainPhoenix.com 📸 Instagram: @walk.as.her 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/groups/walkasher ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@WalkAsHer ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@HealingFlameSacredSessions ──────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]