Own Your Essence
Welcome to Own Your Essence, the podcast where healing meets empowerment!
I'm your host, April DeMille—a psychic medium and life coach specializing in grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery. This is a space for deep conversations, powerful transformations, and raw healing.
Each week, we’ll dive into soul-centered topics like psychic mediumship, the supernatural, metaphysical wisdom, emotional grief, addiction, mental health, spiritual wellness, and self-discovery. Through inspiring interviews and personal insights, this podcast is here to spread awareness, spark connection, and support your healing journey.
If you're ready to set boundaries, reclaim your confidence, and step into your true power—you're in the right place.
Let’s Own Your Essence together!
Episodes
77 episodes
Facing Adversity Head-On With Terry Tucker
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 descri...
From Miracles To Metaphysics: Mastering Spiritual Energy With Michael Monk
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 ...
Creative Healing: The Art Of Soul Portraits with Devorah Brinckerhoff
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 conf...
Grief, Intuition, And Spiritual Awakening With Ana Valezzi-Leckenby
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 uncons...
Cosmic Conversations: Understanding Your Natal Chart With Rob Dorgan
***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 ...
Mystical Revolution: An Interview With Astrologer Rob Dorgan
***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...
Healing Through Intuition: Insights From Alisha Kapani
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 me...
Nature's Healing Power And Overcoming Cult Trauma With Isabella Young
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 “enslave...
Unveiling The Mysteries: Psychic Insights And Paranormal Talk With April DeMille
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,...
Exploring Galactic Guides: A Conversation With Summer
***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,...
Awakened Spirits: Intuition, Past Lives, And Spiritual Growth With Summer
***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 ...
Ghostly Giggles And Psychic Insights: Haunted House Hilarity With Lee And April
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 gh...
Essence Unplugged: Exploring Spiritual Synergy With Lee Walczak
Favorite Moments with Lee: Mediumship, Spirit Guides, and Rapid-Fire LaughsHost 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 ...
Reconnecting To Purpose: A Conversation With Gina Cavalier
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 wellnes...
Mediumship Myths And Realities: A Heartfelt Talk With Laura West
***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 th...
From Suffering To Serenity: Zac Russell On The Power Of Awareness
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 awarenes...
Embodied Transformation: Maria Teresa On Shamanism And Soul Frequencies
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, divor...
The Healing Power Of Toxic Relationships With Dr. Stephen Edwards
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 unresolve...
Finding Joy: Bracha Goetz On Overcoming Inner Emptiness
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...
Unveiling The Psychic Medium: April DeMille In The Hot Seat
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 unt...
Journey Through The Dreamscape: Decoding Soul Messages With Claire Falcon
***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...
Unlocking Intuition: Dreams, Astrology, And Mediumship With Claire Falcon
***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 ...
Fun, Raw, And Unpredictable: Random Questions with April And Steph
Unhinged Q&A: Toxic Traits, Discernment, Manifesting, and Embarrassing MomentsHost April DeMille and co-host Stephanie Webb do a lighter, “unhinged” episode of Own Your Essence, asking each other surprise questions. April names over-...
Breaking The Chains: Brandon Marshall's Path To Self-Discovery
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 disc...
Unmasking Performance: A Journey To True Self With Lara Bokovay
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...