Own Your Essence

Host April DeMille welcomes Mandi Miller to the Own Your Essence podcast for a Halloween-timed conversation about mediumship and paranormal investigation. Mandy describes forming a paranormal group, Mystic Misfits, with friends, and explains her role reading energies at locations. She recounts sensing presences since age five, setting boundaries around spirits touching her, and notes giftedness in...

***This is part one of our conversation with Sarah Grady. Be sure to come back in two weeks, November 1st, 2026, for part two.*** Podcast host April DeMille interviews author and “environment architect” Sarah Grady about her book, The Unapologetic Mother, and her philosophy of unapologetic living rooted in authority, authenticity, unconditional love, and conscious choice. Grady describes realizing...

Host April DeMille interviews author and Motivational Check LLC founder Terry Tucker, whose varied background includes athlete, corporate and hospital work, police officer and SWAT hostage negotiator, and long-term cancer survivor. Terry describes being diagnosed in 2012 with rare melanoma, enduring years of interferon, amputation of his foot (2018) and leg above the knee, lung tumors, and finding...

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast, her private psychic medium readings and coaching, then interviews healer and spirituality teacher Michael Monk, founder of the Avatar Energy Mastery Institute (opened in 2011) and the Metaphysical Church of the Tree of Life. Michael describes a religious awakening that led to metaphysics, clairvoyance, spontaneous out-of-body expansion, a...

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast and her services, then interviews artist Devorah Brinckerhoff, who created “soul portraits” from a mixed-media process she developed while working through trauma, shame, and family conflict. Devorah explains how using journals, letters, photos, and legal documents as art materials helped her witness rather than collapse into painful memori...

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast, her psychic medium readings and grief/trauma coaching, then interviews Ana Valezzi-Leckenby, a Values and Alignment Strategist and transformation/integration Coach. Ana explains unconscious values as drivers of motivation and results, and how misalignment can disrupt wealth, relationships, and purpose. She shares her path from corporate w...

***This is part two of our conversation with Rob Dorgan. If you missed part one, be sure to check out last week’s episode.*** Podcast host April DeMille introduces part two of her conversation with professional astrologer, meditation and yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, and author Rob Dorgan (Awakening the Mystic). Rob explains his approach to identifying a chart’s “chairperson” (often the ascen...

***This is part one of our conversation with Rob Dorgan. Be sure to come back next week for part two.*** Host April DeMille introduces her Own Your Essence podcast, her psychic medium readings and coaching, and guest Rob Dorgan, a professional astrologer, meditation and yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, and author of Awakening the Mystic. Rob shares leaving an academic PhD track after an epiphany...

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast and her services (psychic medium readings and coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery), then interviews Alisha Kapani, a former chemical engineer turned mind-body mentor who helps people heal emotional root causes of illness by shifting consciousness, addressing limiting beliefs and stored emotions. Alisha shares that s...

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast and her private psychic medium readings and coaching, then interviews Kauai-based author Isabella Young. Young describes writing a memoir and her earlier books about humanity’s “enslavement,” mind control, and the importance of recognizing cult dynamics, which she says exist in families, relationships, institutions, and social movements. S...

Host April DeMille welcomes Stephanie Webb to an unscripted “true or false” Q&A on psychic abilities, mediumship, hauntings, and paranormal topics, while also noting April’s private psychic medium readings and one-on-one coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery. They discuss how full moons can heighten experiences, whether spirit contact can be opened unintentionally, and Ap...

***This is part two of our conversation with Summer. If you missed part one, be sure to check out last week’s episode.*** Host April DeMille introduces Own Your Essence podcast, her private psychic medium readings and one-on-one coaching, then welcomes guest Summer, an intuitive teacher, channeler, and author of “Embracing Your Shadow,” a workbook with prompts and mindfulness practices for shadow...

***This is part one of our conversation with Summer. Be sure to come back next week for part two.*** Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast and her services (psychic medium readings and coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery), then welcomes guest Summer, an intuitive teacher, channeler, and author who runs Just Be True in Tyrone, Georgia. Summer describes h...

Hosts April DeMille and Lee Walczak host a lighter episode this week using AI-generated “would you survive a haunted house?” prompts, taking turns answering spooky scenarios: hearing a friend’s voice, a warning child spirit, a phantom cat, a ghost giving 10 seconds to leave, locked or hidden rooms, a possessed realtor, footsteps with no upstairs, friends proposing a seance, predictive texts, and c...

Favorite Moments with Lee: Mediumship, Spirit Guides, and Rapid-Fire Laughs Host April DeMille opens the Own Your Essence podcast with a compilation of favorite moments with co-host Lee, then promotes her private psychic medium readings and one-on-one coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery. In featured clips, former police officer Sheila describes being introduced to hypnotic...

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast, her private psychic medium readings and coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery, then interviews author and mental health advocate Gina Cavalier, formerly a wellness program director at Sedona Mago Retreat Center and now working independently as The Liberated Healer. Gina shares decades of suicidal ideation, how she he...

***We’re bringing back one of our favourite Own Your Essence episodes. If you’re new here, welcome—and if you’ve heard it before, we hope it meets you in a new way this time.*** Hosts Lee Walczak and April DeMille welcome Laura West to the Own Your Essence Podcast for a roundtable Q&A on mediumship and psychic work. They discuss how future predictions reflect the most probable trajectory and c...

Host April DeMille interviews Zac Russell about achieving freedom, peace, and contentment through present-moment living. Zac says his shift came through decades of suffering rooted in living in past/future narratives, and he emphasizes awareness, acceptance, and surrender, suggesting people record and review their conversations to notice limiting stories. He frames ego and “self” as language-based...

Host April DeMille interviews Maria Teresa, a celestial shaman and “master of soul light frequencies” who hosts in-person light language events called Pathways to Peace. Maria shares a history of severe trauma, addiction, eating disorder, divorce, and estrangement from her children, and explains how she turned pain into personal power to help others. She describes being an open channel with hundre...

Host April DeMille interviews author and speaker, Dr Stephen Edwards, about his book The Venus Flytrap. Edwards explains the book emerged from a tumultuous, toxic relationship that became a “dark night of the soul,” reflecting his own unresolved trauma, shame, and patterns. He discusses learning vulnerability and authenticity, the dangers of ignoring intuition and red flags, and the idea that peop...

Host April DeMille interviews children’s author Bracha Goetz, who has written 45 books and a memoir, Nourish the Soul: Filling the Emptiness Within. Goetz describes her ages-12-to-32 journey with inner emptiness expressed through food addiction, bingeing, and extreme dieting while appearing successful at Harvard and medical school. A turning point came during a break in Israel, where learning spir...

On the Own Your Essence podcast, guest host Stephanie Ann Webb interviews April DeMille, a psychic medium, grief coach, and trauma and toxic-relationship recovery specialist. April describes realizing her abilities in childhood, hiding them until age 38 due to fear, family reactions, and religious shaming, and later gaining confidence in owning her role. She says her intuition expanded most after...

***This is part two of our conversation with Claire Falcon. If you missed part one, be sure to check out last week’s episode.*** Host April DeMille welcomes psychic medium and intuition teacher Claire Falcon to Own Your Essence and shares her services for psychic readings and coaching. Claire demonstrates her dream-interpretation framework using April’s recorded dreams, emphasizing identifying the...

***This is part one of our conversation with Claire Falcon. Be sure to come back next week for part two.*** Host April DeMille welcomes guest Claire Falcon, a psychic medium and intuition teacher who uses dream interpretation and Western astrology. Claire shares her origin story: vivid dreams since childhood, frequent dream visitations, and a pivotal Berlin experience hearing and seeing a spirit w...

Unhinged Q&A: Toxic Traits, Discernment, Manifesting, and Embarrassing Moments Host April DeMille and co-host Stephanie Webb do a lighter, “unhinged” episode of Own Your Essence, asking each other surprise questions. April names over-explaining as a defended toxic trait tied to people-pleasing and needing to justify herself, and both discuss autonomy, discernment vs. judgment, and trusting int...