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
63 episodes
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...
From Triggered To Empowered: Unlocking Self-Worth With Royce Morales
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 accessi...
Beyond The Diagnosis: Awakening Through Adversity With Liz Casper
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 bipo...
Science, Mysticism, And The Human Experience: Insights From Rosa Hope
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 s...
Beyond Intuition: Jim Marshall's Mathematical Approach To Human Development
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-lev...
Navigating Change: Ayahuasca, Ego, And Adventure With Sara Roccisano
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, ren...
Embracing Flow: Money And Energy Insights With Lynn Mull
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. ...
Breaking Taboos: A Deep Dive Into Women's Sexuality And Self-Discovery
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 ...
Real Talk: Navigating Triggers And Staying True To Yourself
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 “sh...
The Art Of Coming Home To Yourself With Rachel Baldock
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...
Survival Mode Disrupted: Leticia Francis On Healing And Transformation
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 ...
From The Bar To Breakthrough: Jacki Fleniken's Story Of Sobriety
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 bei...
Intuitive Depths: Melissa Corter On Shadow, Psychology, And Compassion
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, ...
Forensic Mediumship Unveiled: The Insights Of Sheila Marie
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 offi...