Own Your Essence

***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...

Host April DeMille interviews magazine photographer and author Brandon Marshall on Own Your Essence. Brandon reflects on turning 40, earning his GED, attending two semesters of school, and publishing his third book (having written six). He discusses quitting alcohol three times and deciding on December 11th to stop for good, while still using marijuana and periodic mushrooms for spiritual groundin...

Host April DeMille interviews intuitive guide and truth teller Lara Bokovay on the Own Your Essence podcast about returning to self and living in alignment. Lara shares how leaving corporate work, health exploration, divorce during the pandemic, and becoming a mother catalyzed a deep healing journey centered on self-worth, accountability, and unlearning lifelong “performing” for external reactions...

Host April DeMille welcomes Royce Morales, founder of the Perfect Life Awakening Program, a multidimensional self-development program designed to help people dissolve subconscious programming, self-sabotage, and lack of deservingness by accessing deep awareness and cellular memory while remaining conscious. Morales describes how her method emerged intuitively during a meditation class about 40 yea...

Host April DeMille interviews former medical doctor, artist, and author Liz Casper, who retired from medicine in 2023 and now writes and paints. Casper discusses her books, Brilliant, Beautiful, Bipolar (about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 54 after decades of depression and seasonal affective symptoms) and Learning to Heal , (covering her medical training and work, plus becoming a cance...

Host April DeMille interviews PhD astrophysicist and mystic, Rosa Hope, about bridging science and spirituality. Rosa says she has been spiritually attuned since childhood and pursued physics in her late 20s after a Saturn return period where she lost major relationships and career plans, seeking answers to existential questions. She later realized physics explains how the universe works but not w...

Host April DeMille interviews Jim Marshall, author of “Septemics: Hierarchies of Human Phenomena,” about Septemics, a philosophical science he says is based on newly discovered natural phenomena showing many human experiences occur in seven-level sequences. Marshall describes Septemics as 35 unique seven-step “scales” (individual and group) spanning human issues such as basic purposes, motivation,...

Host April DeMille interviews Sarah Roccisano, a world-traveling author, motivational speaker, and founder of Emboldened Adventures, about her shift from a 20+ year New York City corporate career (investment banking through the 2008 crisis, renewable energy, government work, $30B in transactions, and three layoffs including a two-and-a-half-year unemployment period) to a transformation-driven life...

Host April DeMille interviews Lynn Mull, a former Wall Street professional turned holistic career coach, Reiki/energy healer, author, and facilitator, about redefining abundance beyond money as flow, receptivity, and energetic alignment.  Lynn describes practices like clearing clutter as “energetic money hygiene”, tracking where you are financially and emotionally, and using her money archetypes (...

Host April DeMille interviews Victoria Icenhower, who calls herself the “self-love scientist,” a public speaker on women’s sexual health, wellness, pleasure, intimacy, and relationships, as well as the host of the Love and Lattes podcast and a Pilates teacher. Victoria shares how she left a male-dominated corporate government/contracts job after burnout and an unhealthy environment, turned to yoga...

Host April DeMille is joined by co-host Lee Walczak and returning guest Stephanie Webb on the Own Your Essence podcast for an unscripted conversation about authenticity, language, and the difference between healthy compromise and “shrinking” to people-please. April shares recent reflections prompted by a friend and by her podcasting work, including whether to edit vulnerable wording from a story a...

Host April DeMille interviews Rachel Baldock, a breathwork and intuitive coach, medium, former nurse, and owner of Restorative Rach. Rachel shares how 16 years in nursing—including working in Melbourne, Australia, during intense COVID lockdowns—plus an abrupt marriage ending, led her to change her life, move states, and embrace breathwork as a grounding tool to help feel and process emotions. She...

In this episode of the 'Own Your Essence' podcast, hosted by April DeMille, guest Leticia Francis, a trauma recovery mentor and survival mode disruptor, shares her deeply personal journey of overcoming trauma and abuse. Leticia talks about her childhood experiences with domestic abuse and molestation, her tumultuous teenage years, and her abusive marriage, which culminated in a life-thre...

In this episode of the 'Own Your Essence' podcast, host April DeMille engages in a deep, transformational conversation with Jacki Fleniken, an alcohol freedom and transformation coach from Los Angeles. Jacki shares her profound journey from being a daily drinker and bartender to becoming an advocate for sobriety. She discusses the significant turning points in her life, including a major...

In this episode of the 'Own Your Essence' podcast, host April DeMille and co-host Lee Walczak engage in a deep conversation with shadow worker Melissa Kim Corter. Melissa shares her fascination with the shadow dynamics within the human psyche, driven by her experiences as a highly empathic child. She discusses her work in shadow psychology, inspired by figures such as Carl Jung, and her...

In this episode of 'Own Your Essence' podcast, host April DeMille, joined by guest co-host Lee Walczack, converses with Sheila Marie, a renowned forensic consultant and psychic medium. Sheila narrates her unique journey from being a police officer to becoming a forensic medium, detailing her process of receiving dreams and visions that help her solve cases. Sheila emphasizes the importan...

A Heart Filled With Gratitude  As I share some of my favorite moments from Season 1, my heart is so full.  To every listener who tuned in, every guest who bravely shared their truth, every friend who cheered us on, and every single soul who watched, listened, commented, or shared. THANK YOU.   I’m grateful for the love that wrapped around this project from the very beginning. I can not wait to see...