Powerful Women Interview Series: Stacey Chillemi, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author, Coach, and Podcaster, with Lessons She’s Learned as an Ambitious Woman with Epilepsy

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As part of my Powerful Women series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Stacey Chillemi. Stacey is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, coach, and podcaster of the show, The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi. She was chosen as one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs in 2023 at Apple News, displayed in a feature in Grit Daily! Read on for some of the lessons she has learned in her career journey!

Stacey Chillemi has had over 20 Best-selling books published. She recently launched her new book, Empower Yourself!

She wrote for the Huffington Post, Huff Post, and writes for Thrive Global, and Buzzfeed.

Stacey Chillemi has been a guest on the Dr. Oz Show 5 times, worked personally with Ariana Huffington on the Dr. Oz Show, and has been on local news and numerous radio shows and podcasts.

Chillemi worked for NBC on Dateline, News 4, and the Morning Show.

Thank you so much for connecting with me and sharing your story. I’m so excited to get started!

I am very thankful for the opportunity to be here and share my story. Thank you.

Tell me about yourself and what you do professionally:

I am a professional speaker, coach, and author. My mission is to help men and women empower themselves to overcome their obstacles to move forward in life, rediscover their passion to redefine their purpose and gain the courage to act.

How did you get into this?

At the age of five, I contracted a sore throat and an ear infection. My mother brought me to the doctor’s that evening, and the pediatrician put me on penicillin and told my mother to have me rest. No one thought much of it at the time.

I rested in bed, and I was on penicillin for about ten days. On the tenth night, when she put me to bed, my lips were more red than usual. The next morning at about 8:00 A.M., my mother woke up because she heard unusual noises coming from my room that sounded like I was choking…