Own Your Essence

The Unapologetic Path: The Journey To Authentic Self-Love With Sarah Grady

***This is part two of our conversation with Sarah Grady. If you missed part one, be sure to check out the episode from two weeks ago, which was released on October 18th, 2026*** Host April DeMille interviews Sarah Grady, author of The Unapologetic Mother and an “environment architect,” about reclaiming authority and authorship of one’s life without making others villains. They discuss believing everything has meaning, choosing to participate consciously rather than through judgment, and how hero/protector identities can reflect PTSD and misplaced responsibility without authority. Sarah shares healing and identity shifts, including quitting nicotine by becoming a “non-vaper,” and reframing “have to” into “get to” to bring aliveness to daily rituals and relationships. They differentiate toxic positivity from holding space for pain while still choosing growth, emphasize individuality over copy‑paste blueprints, and describe Sarah’s work helping people release weight, take back power, and celebrate wins. Sarah Grady is an author, Environment Architect, and the woman behind The Unapologetic Mother. Through her lived philosophy of Unapologetic Living, she explores the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and life itself. Her work centers on authority, authenticity, unconditional love, and conscious participation—inviting people to author their lives without abandoning themselves to belong. Sarah believes our differences do not have to divide us; when we learn to understand without requiring agreement, relationship can become a bridge back to intimacy, connection, and the beauty of being alive. Website: https://sarahmfgrady.com Instagram: @sarahmfgrady YouTube: www.youtube.com/@sarahmfgrady ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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October Haunts: Paranormal Encounters With Psychic Medium Mandi Miller

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 her family and children. Mandi shares experiences from working with developmentally disabled individuals, including calming an “evil spirit” affecting a client, and an EMS call where she sensed a deceased man unsure how to cross over. She discusses “Enchanted Relics by Mandi” her ability to read objects’ stories, and a museum Civil War doctor’s coat. Mandi outlines client intake, debunking a “haunting” caused by a fan frequency, and describes a highly active country club investigation. Rapid-fire topics include seances vs. Ouija boards, protections like salt, spirits observing nudity, and accurate portrayals such as the TV series Ghost. Mandi Miller has always been gifted, but her gifts didn't open wider until she moved down to the coast in 2024. She is married with five children, but only has one left at home. She has chronic RBF (resting bitch face) but is working through it. She hasn't done anything noteworthy other than trying to be a good person. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Etki9au6c/ Email: Enchantedrelicsbymandi@gmail.com ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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The Unapologetic Path: Sarah Grady On Motherhood And Love

***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 in 2024–2025 that she needed to write, receiving the word “unapologetic” and a mirror-image vision in meditation from her late father, and later using ChatGPT to create cover art matching that vision. She shares how over-identifying as a self-sacrificing mother led to depletion, how her kids and partner mirrored her unhappiness, and how an “almost divorce” during COVID evolved into a more conscious marriage chosen daily. Grady recounts a sexual assault at 15, learning to trust intuition, rejecting responsibility for others’ triggers, and reframing “mistakes” without shame or constant apologies, while setting boundaries with judgmental relationships and modeling self-ownership for her children. Sarah Grady is an author, Environment Architect, and the woman behind The Unapologetic Mother. Through her lived philosophy of Unapologetic Living, she explores the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and life itself. Her work centers on authority, authenticity, unconditional love, and conscious participation—inviting people to author their lives without abandoning themselves to belong. Sarah believes our differences do not have to divide us; when we learn to understand without requiring agreement, relationship can become a bridge back to intimacy, connection, and the beauty of being alive. Website: https://sarahmfgrady.com Instagram: @sarahmfgrady YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sarahmfgrady ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 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 hope in a newer TIL therapy that appears to be holding the cancer at bay. They discuss advocating for yourself in medicine, living through despair, and seeking deeper human connection. Terry outlines his book “Four Truths and a Lie”: control your mind, embrace pain to build resilience, leave a legacy in others’ hearts, and never quit; the “lie” is defining worth by status, wealth, and image. He shares stories about purpose, service, and influencing others, including a nurse who stayed in nursing after witnessing his perseverance. Terry Tucker is an author, speaker, and podcast guest. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the Citadel (where he played NCAA Division I college basketball) and a Masters degree from Boston University. Terry has been a marketing executive with Wendy’s International, a hospital administrator with Riverside Methodist Hospital, a Cincinnati, Ohio police officer, where he was an undercover narcotics investigator, and SWAT Team Hostage Negotiator, a high school basketball coach, a business owner, and for the past thirteen years, a cancer warrior. He and his wife have lived all over the United States and currently reside in the Rocky Mountains with their Wheaten Terrier, Maggie. In 2019, Terry started Motivational Check LLC to help others find and lead their uncommon and extraordinary lives. His first book, Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life, was published in 2020. His most recent book, Four Truths and a Lie was published in September. Website: motivationalcheck.com ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 Metaphysical Church of the Tree of Life. Michael describes a religious awakening that led to metaphysics, clairvoyance, spontaneous out-of-body expansion, and telekinesis as proof of spiritual connection. He recounts prayer-based healings, including a client’s cancerous leg tumor disappearing and his own punctured eye instantly healing. He details hearing God’s booming voice in 1999, perceiving a vast connected host of light beings, and conversing for two hours. He explains OBEs/lucid dreams as common and trainable via meditation and “sleep paralysis,” says he has had 1,000+ OBEs, visited heavenly and hell realms, helped spirits (including suicides) transition, and now focuses less on power and more on devotional presence, “soul dancing,” and transforming physical perception. He explains his church meets online and “in spirit,” while the institute teaches self-empowerment without philosophy. Michael Monk is a world-renowned healer and teacher of spirituality, metaphysics and energy mastery with a focused devotion to God. His journey began in 1999 when he spontaneously received a powerful communication from the voice of God followed by many experiences of reality bending miracles through prayer. Seeking to understand the mechanisms behind the miracles he experienced led him to the arts of spiritual energy mastery. Guided by the Holy Spirit, Michael quickly obtained a very high level of conscious understanding and demonstrable abilities including a telekinetic influence over the elements. He created the Avatar Energy Mastery Institute in 2011, an online school where thousands of people from all over the world have been able to successfully study and train in the arts of healing, clairvoyance, out-of-body travel, telekinesis and mastery of mind and body. Website: www Michaelmonk.bio ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 conflict. Devorah explains how using journals, letters, photos, and legal documents as art materials helped her witness rather than collapse into painful memories, shifting her energy and identity and enabling healing without having to speak details aloud. She discusses honoring the past without being defined by it, leaning into shadow work with compassionate witnessing, and how experiences shape but do not define one’s essence. Devorah shares her history of pre-verbal sexual abuse, suicidality, and later family estrangement and legal battles, plus her work offering courses, one-on-one sessions, TikTok lives with neurographic line drawings, and commissioned portraits using clients’ materials (including ashes) at varied price points, and her vision for traveling themed community art shows. Devorah Brinckerhoff is an artist with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and over 30 years of professional experience. Her creative process has always served as a release valve for experiences too big to process conventionally. Soul Portraits were born from necessity when Devorah found herself holding letters and legal papers from a family lawsuit. Her world no longer made sense, and she needed to understand her own truth. She began examining her personal materials: old letters, photos, notes from seventh grade — all the artifacts of her life. Ripping things up became her permission slip to let go of limiting beliefs and discover who she was beneath collective and cultural conditioning, familial messages, and lived experiences. This personal excavation became Soul Portraits — a three-layer art process designed to help people reclaim authenticity through their own materials. Instagram - @devorahbrinckerhoff Facebook - Deborah Hake Brinckerhoff Website: https://soulportrait.art ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 unconscious values as drivers of motivation and results, and how misalignment can disrupt wealth, relationships, and purpose. She shares her path from corporate work into spiritual training after volunteering for an American psychic in Mexico, then returning to corporate due to shame and disappointment. Multiple losses: her mother’s death after diabetes complications, her husband’s terminal cancer and ongoing signs from him, and later her father’s rapid cancer diagnosis and death alongside an aunt, deepened her spirituality, intuition, and boundaries, including workplace betrayal after bereavement. Ana discusses grounding practices, discerning divine guidance from ego or wishful thinking, honoring different intuitive styles, and serving clients by helping them integrate healing and personal development through customized clarity calls. Ana Valezzi-Leckenby grew up in an ordinary environment but felt drawn early to personal growth and spirituality, influenced by her intuitive mother. Through teachings such as A Course in Miracles, Reiki, and hypnotherapy, she began developing her connection to healing and psychic awareness. She left corporate life to train under an American psychic, later returning while navigating two separate worlds. After experiencing profound loss, including the deaths of her mother and husband, she underwent a deep transformation and fully embraced her gifts. Today, as a Values and Alignment Strategist and transformation coach, Ana guides others through inner change, helping them integrate who they are becoming with clarity and confidence. anavalezzi.coaching@outlook.com @yourgenxcoach https://www.facebook.com/ana.valezzileckenby https://yourgenxcoach.substack.com https://linktr.ee/anavalezzi ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, and author Rob Dorgan (Awakening the Mystic). Rob explains his approach to identifying a chart’s “chairperson” (often the ascendant ruler) and reads April’s Western natal chart: Pisces sun, Cancer moon, Sagittarius rising, with Jupiter as chart ruler and the Moon in Cancer as a strong co-chair. He notes a “splash” chart pattern, strong water houses, and both rulers in the eighth house, linking her to deep transformation, mediumship, and helping others through grief and “dark night of the soul” experiences; April shares her daughter died by drowning and discusses homelessness and resilience. Rob highlights Chiron in her fifth house and discusses transits, including a recent Jupiter return and career/publishing expansion themes around 2027–2028. They close with ways to contact Rob and his weekly “Two Minute Tuesday” practice. Rob Dorgan is a certified yoga educator, international retreat facilitator, meditation teacher/devotee, and a practicing astrologer. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Modern European History. While working on his doctorate, the trajectory of Dorgan’s life path was drastically altered when he was introduced to the mystical arts of astrology and yoga. He left academia and, along with his partner, Steve Bolia, moved to Colorado to study and work with Linda Goodman, the author of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, Love Signs, Star Signs, and Gooberz. He then mentored many years with master astrologer and teacher of the Ancient Wisdom, Alan Oken. Dorgan began studying yoga in the 1980s. He studied with many teachers including Sianna Sherman, John Friend, and the preeminent Sally Kempton in meditation. Yoga, along with astrology, changed his life. Dorgan’s debut novel, Awakening the Mystic: A Novel of Cosmic Love and Healing, is part memoir and part fiction, it is full of real possibilities for the future of our human species and Mother Earth. He welcomes the opportunity to speak about the major themes of his book, including the ‘Astrological Chairperson of a person’s chart’ and becoming a Mystical Revolutionary. Email: theboyz@fuse.net Book Website: https://awakeningthemystic.net/ Personal Website: https://robandsteve.co/ FB: Rob Dorgan https://www.facebook.com/share/1NtquSdjzx/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: @itsrobandsteve YouTube: Rob & Steve Meditation Yoga - Awakening the Mystic ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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, 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 and an astrology reading in the 1980s that led him into yoga and astrology, noting his grounded approach helps skeptics take esoteric practices seriously. He explains his memoir-fiction method and why it enables honesty and creative freedom, including audience engagement about what is real. Rob describes the “chairperson” of a chart as typically the ruler of the ascendant (with possible co-chair/committee), influenced by his Saturn-return dreams of a chart “council.” He outlines the mystical revolution as rising compassion and oneness, discusses Patanjali’s five kleshas (ignorance, ego, attachment, aversion, fear of death), and cites outgrowing organized religion after being rejected as a gay man. They close by previewing part two, where Rob reads April’s natal chart. Rob Dorgan is a certified yoga educator, international retreat facilitator, meditation teacher/devotee, and a practicing astrologer. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Modern European History. While working on his doctorate, the trajectory of Dorgan’s life path was drastically altered when he was introduced to the mystical arts of astrology and yoga. He left academia and, along with his partner, Steve Bolia, moved to Colorado to study and work with Linda Goodman, the author of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, Love Signs, Star Signs, and Gooberz. He then mentored many years with master astrologer and teacher of the Ancient Wisdom, Alan Oken. Dorgan began studying yoga in the 1980s. He studied with many teachers including Sianna Sherman, John Friend, and the preeminent Sally Kempton in meditation. Yoga, along with astrology, changed his life. Dorgan’s debut novel, Awakening the Mystic: A Novel of Cosmic Love and Healing, is part memoir and part fiction, it is full of real possibilities for the future of our human species and Mother Earth. He welcomes the opportunity to speak about the major themes of his book, including the ‘Astrological Chairperson of a person’s chart’ and becoming a Mystical Revolutionary. Email: theboyz@fuse.net Book Website: https://awakeningthemystic.net/ Personal Website: https://robandsteve.co/ FB: Rob Dorgan https://www.facebook.com/share/1NtquSdjzx/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: @itsrobandsteve YouTube: Rob & Steve Meditation Yoga - Awakening the Mystic ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 mentor who helps people heal emotional root causes of illness by shifting consciousness, addressing limiting beliefs and stored emotions. Alisha shares that severe depression, rooted largely in self-abandonment and suppressed emotions from an abandonment-triggering relationship, led her to mind-body medicine and rapid healing, after which clients organically sought her help and corporate work felt misaligned. They discuss listening to body signals (light/heavy “yes/no”), not forcing, and why conventional approaches fell short when driven by rejection and bypassing. April shares her chronic illness and hair loss as a lesson in surrender and root causes. Alisha connects abundance blocks to worthiness, shame, and resistance to feminine receiving, emphasizing intention, self-care, and trust. Alisha recommends The Awakened Woman’s Guide to Everlasting Love and The Queen’s Code and shares joy in dance and play. Alisha Kapani is a former Chemical Engineer turned Mindbody Mentor after struggling with severe depression for 5 years. She assists clients all over the world to tap into their body’s wisdom to resolve illness and access their highest possibilities for vitality and abundance. Website https://alishakapani.com/ Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/ajkapani YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/c/alishakapani?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alisha_kapani/?hl=en Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alishakapani 3 Ways to Raise Your Vibration Fast Free Bundle: https://alisha-kapani.mykajabi.com/3-ways-to-raise-your-vibration-fast ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 “enslavement,” mind control, and the importance of recognizing cult dynamics, which she says exist in families, relationships, institutions, and social movements. She shares practices she teaches for wellbeing: grounding by physically connecting to the earth, bringing nature indoors, consuming fresh “living” foods, and seeking natural light, including sun exposure and sun gazing, which she links to personal healing and consciousness shifts. Young recounts major traumas: an alcoholic narcissistic mother, the death of partner Barry, entering a California ashram-like group led by a narcissistic “second coming” figure, the death of her 15-year-old son, escaping the group after learning cult characteristics, and later losing contact with her children through parental estrangement. She discusses grief, trauma, and staying present, promotes her 1,800-page book The New Human of New Earth and self-publishing, and directs listeners to her Feeling Better Naturally YouTube/Substack and email. Isabella Young is a pioneering educator, spiritual aspirant, and truth-seeker whose life journey is nothing short of extraordinary. From founding one of Australia’s first therapeutic Outdoor Education programs to surviving personal tragedy, cult entrapment, and profound loss, Isabella’s path has been one of deep transformation and radical awakening. Now thriving on Kauai, she shares her hard-earned wisdom through books, art, and natural medicines to help others reclaim their humanity, Dinivity, and sovereignty. Isabella offers raw and illuminating insights and effective practices for healing and empowerment through Nature, Truth, and unwavering spiritual resilience. Email:Isabellayoung19@gmail.com Website: www.feelingbetternaturally.love YouTube: Feeling Better Naturally https://youtube.com/@feelingbetternaturally.nature Substack: https://feelingbetternaturally.substack.com/ ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery. They discuss how full moons can heighten experiences, whether spirit contact can be opened unintentionally, and April’s view that fear-based beliefs attract negative experiences but personal authority can end unwanted spirit interactions. April shares claims of Bigfoot as interdimensional “peoples” with experiences and communication about “Maldek,” explains cleansing tools like sage/salt as optional rituals, and says hauntings can attach to objects. They cover universal psychic ability, government UFO secrecy and alleged DNA experiments, differences among guides and angels, energetic imprints versus ghosts, how skepticism can affect readings, and spirits or human energy influencing electronics. 00:00 Podcast Welcome and Guest 01:04 Surprise Paranormal Q&A Setup 01:36 X Files Nostalgia 03:14 Rapid Fire Rules 04:04 Full Moon Psychic Boost 06:00 Accidental Spirit Doors 07:14 Fear Beliefs and Possession 10:38 Bigfoot Interdimensional Tales 16:28 Cleansing Rituals and Tools 19:19 Haunted Objects and Authority 21:26 Claim Your Authority 22:32 Firm Boundaries Work 24:13 Hollywood Fear Myths 25:15 Hypnosis Consent Explained 25:57 Everyone Has Psychic Sense 27:24 UFOs Government Secrets 28:27 DNA Experiments Allegations 31:04 Guides vs Angels 33:54 Ghosts and Energy Imprints 35:53 Skepticism and Readings 39:52 Electronics and Kinetic Energy 43:38 Closing and Booking ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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, then welcomes guest Summer, an intuitive teacher, channeler, and author of “Embracing Your Shadow,” a workbook with prompts and mindfulness practices for shadow work. Summer shares daily practices of talking to her guides and a revised grounding method of pulling intuition/energy through the whole essence and into the earth; April relates with her own anchoring approach. Summer names “The Untethered Soul” as a life-changing book and says spirit’s key lesson is trust. Summer explains channeling a collective called Armana through trance or conscious channeling, then channels Armana’s message about Earth’s turbulent planetary awakening creating a blueprint for other civilizations, urging people to stay grounded, calm, and observant rather than reactive. They discuss Pleiadian energy and Summer’s connection to Armana. Summer is an intuitive teacher, energy healer, author, and spiritual life coach dedicated to helping people reconnect with their inner wisdom and authentic selves. Her journey into this work was born from personal transformation and a deep commitment to spiritual growth. Through sound healing, trans channeling, and intuitive guidance, Summer helps others align with their highest potential and restore balance to mind, body, and spirit. Drawing on her gifts of clairaudience, clairvoyance, clairsentience, and claircognizance, she shares compassionate insights and messages from spirit guides, departed loved ones, and the soul to support healing, clarity, and personal empowerment. Email: 4justbetrue.com Website: www.just-be-true.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@just-be-true Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087234353355 Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/summer_magic22/ ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 toxic relationship recovery), then welcomes guest Summer, an intuitive teacher, channeler, and author who runs Just Be True in Tyrone, Georgia. Summer describes her mission to support people through spiritual awakening and explains common signs such as hearing voices, sudden “knowing,” and seeing colors around people, sharing her own frightening awakening experiences and how a medium reassured her she wasn’t crazy. They discuss distinguishing intuition from fear or wishful thinking, noting intuition is often subtle but can become urgent in danger, illustrated by both women’s real-life experiences involving police reports. They explore beliefs about predestination and co-creation, and discuss past-life regression/hypnotherapy as a tool for identifying and healing trauma and beliefs across lifetimes, including a client’s intense purging experience and mind-body symptom connections, emphasizing trust, community, and integration. Summer is an intuitive teacher, energy healer, author, and spiritual life coach dedicated to helping people reconnect with their inner wisdom and authentic selves. Her journey into this work was born from personal transformation and a deep commitment to spiritual growth. Through sound healing, trans channeling, and intuitive guidance, Summer helps others align with their highest potential and restore balance to mind, body, and spirit. Drawing on her gifts of clairaudience, clairvoyance, clairsentience, and claircognizance, she shares compassionate insights and messages from spirit guides, departed loved ones, and the soul to support healing, clarity, and personal empowerment. Email: 4justbetrue.com Website: www.just-be-true.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@just-be-true Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087234353355 Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/summer_magic22/ ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 ghost giving 10 seconds to leave, locked or hidden rooms, a possessed realtor, footsteps with no upstairs, friends proposing a seance, predictive texts, and choices about portals, hotels, proof of reincarnation, and spirits offering future answers. They discuss boundaries, curiosity, urgency cues, and ethics, then end with rapid-fire questions (cryptids, cemeteries vs hospitals, spirit box vs Ouija, mediums in TV, unwanted abilities), and close by inviting listeners to book readings with either host. ✨ Connect & work with Lee Facebook: facebook.com/leethemedium Tiktok: leewalczak Instagram: leewalczak Email: leewalczakvitality@gmail.com ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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Essence Unplugged: Exploring Spiritual Synergy With Lee Walczak

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 meditation by her police chief father, a strange ball-of-light experience, and a later “meet your spirit guide” class that convinced her mediumship was real and became her calling to teach others to connect, eventually leading into forensic mediumship. Sheila and Lee discuss early doubt, asking Spirit for confirmation “in two different ways,” and channeling spirits they wouldn’t have liked in life. April and Lee also debate mediumship vs telepathy and share an example where Lee received messages from April’s deceased stepbrother without prior knowledge. The compilation includes humorous rapid-fire questions, including Mercury retrograde as a breakup, spirit-guide dating profiles, and holiday-themed tarot and decorating prompts. 00:00 Welcome and Episode Setup 01:25 Readings and Coaching Promo 02:12 From Police to Mediumship 03:30 The Ball of Light Encounter 04:39 Spirit Guide Class Awakening 06:36 Calling to Teach Connection 07:28 Doubt and Validation Methods 11:31 Channeling Difficult Spirits 12:50 Mercury Retrograde Breakup 13:49 Spirit Guide Dating Profiles 21:52 Laughing Goodbye 22:50 Telepathy vs Mediumship 25:23 When Spirits Prove It 28:09 Stepbrother Afroman Story 34:09 Holiday Tarot Card 35:45 Tree Topper From Guides 40:12 Gifting Your Guides 42:19 Final Wrap Up ✨ Connect & work with Lee Facebook: facebook.com/leethemedium Tiktok: leewalczak Instagram: leewalczak Email: leewalczakvitality@gmail.com ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 wellness program director at Sedona Mago Retreat Center and now working independently as The Liberated Healer. Gina shares decades of suicidal ideation, how she healed it, and emphasizes that suicidal ideation differs from other mental health issues and is worsened by shame, judgment, and criticism, including from toxic relationships. She describes tools such as daily grounding, meditation, running energy, visualizing soul “fingerprints,” and working with the spine and nervous system, plus proactively practicing tools before crises. They discuss burnout versus tiredness, taking mental health time, harmful “shitty advice” like manipulative spiritual upsells and victim-shaming manifesting talk, and the value of speaking suicidal thoughts aloud and building support pacts. Gina highlights her books, Planet Walking and Surviving Suicidal Ideation, and shares how to find purpose and gifts through one’s blueprint. Gina Cavalier is an author, speaker, mental health advocate, and Wellness Program Director at Sedona Mago Retreat Center. Her work bridges lived experience, nervous system awareness, and practical tools for reconnecting to purpose—especially for people navigating grief, burnout, or major life transitions. She is the author of Planet Walking: A Handbook for the Living and is known for bringing honesty, compassion, and grounded hope to conversations about healing. Instagram: Gina_Cavalier YouTube: Gina Cavalier ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 🔗 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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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 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 can change due to free will, reader strengths, and other factors, with feedback helping readers refine accuracy. Common mediumship questions include whether departed loved ones are okay, around, and able to hear us; they emphasize spirits are “okay,” communication can be subtle, and grief or readiness can affect perception. The group covers setting firm boundaries with “chatty” spirits, personal power over one’s energy, and their view that curses only have impact if believed. They critique fear-based spiritual messaging, stress processing emotions, and explain they work only with loving entities and intention for the sitter’s highest good. Lee is a psychic medium as well as an intuitive mentor with over 10 years of experience. He has connected in mediumship readings with people of all different backgrounds from all over the world and has served as a guide for others, supporting them in navigating their own intuitive and mediumship abilities. Lee’s goal in all of his work is to help bridge the gap between this earthly plane and the other side and to also empower those he works with to receive and embrace true healing within their journeys. Facebook: facebook.com/leethemedium Tiktok: leewalczak Instagram: leewalczak Email: leewalczakvitality@gmail.com Laura West is a Registered Nurse, energy healer, psychic medium, author, podcast host, and TV host dedicated to both the sciences and spirituality. She has taken part in multiple international spiritual summits, has taught about intuition on several virtual platforms to students from all over the world, contributed to both national and international journals and magazines, and has been invited as a guest on several podcasts, again, both nationally and internationally. She was the TV host of Life From the Other Side on the Everyday Woman TV Network. Currently, she hosts her own podcast called A Guided Life. She has also authored her book titled Guided. She is dedicated to spreading the word of love and teaching others how to communicate with their spirit guides through intuition. Find out more on https://linktr.ee/guidedwest. ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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 awareness, acceptance, and surrender, suggesting people record and review their conversations to notice limiting stories. He frames ego and “self” as language-based narratives formed in early childhood, links fight-or-flight (amygdala) to reduced creativity and increased illness via stress hormones, and argues goals, self-improvement, and belief systems reinforce scarcity and rumination. Discussing grief and trauma, he stresses acceptance and releasing frameworks about how life “should” be. He critiques advice-seeking and some psychic claims, shares hobbies and interests, and invites listeners to his Linktree for resources, an audio course, and contact. Zac Russell helps people experience peace, presence, and contentment in their lives. He believes that true freedom comes from letting go of limiting beliefs, stories, and narratives through awareness, and living fully in the only place that objectively exists: the present moment. https://linktr.ee/zacrussell ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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, 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 hundreds of guides, channeling poetry (nearly 900 pieces) and spontaneous light language, which she calls a healing “soul technology” and galactic download that is meant to be felt, not understood. They discuss authenticity in healing communities, boundaries, sobriety, energy sensitivity, parenting adult children, and trusting a divinely guided mission. Maria Teresa, is a heart-centered and highly conscious healer who embraces her sensitivities as superpowers. Living her motto, "Triumphing over Trauma", by conquering her own traumatic experiences, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, an addiction to drugs and alcohol, and an eating disorder, Maria has emerged as an empowered psychic medium and channel with a unique ability to see souls. Gifted in all the "clairs," Maria serves as a conduit for Spirit, offering transformative healing services as a Celestial Shaman | Master of Soul Light Frequencies specializing in Vibrational Frequency Transformation via the Light language she channels. Her life, centered in peace, love, and joy, allows her to channel the power of Divine light and love energy to uplift and balance her clients' mind, body, and spirit connection. As a soul healer guided by Spirit, Maria focuses on the intricacies of her clients' holistic healing needs. A published poet with six books of channeled poetry, she inspires spiritual awakening, development, self-love, and empowerment. Maria's trust and empathy put clients at ease as they face profound, life-changing moments. Maria Teresa is the creator of the brands Emotional Musings and The Musing Shaman, conducting healing sessions in person and long distance all over the world. She is a three time triathlete placing first in her age group. Maria is a master in movement medicine having studied all forms of dance since the age of two. Maria has held her daily yoga practice sacred for over 25 years. She speaks to audiences of all ages and backgrounds as a spoken word artist and a motivational speaker. As an interdimensional channel for many star guides and spirits, Maria hosts in person healing events featuring the Light language she channels called "Pathways to Peace". Her work in personal development and self-help can serve anyone on the spiritual path to a higher consciousness and enlightenment of the heart and soul. Maria is well versed in holistic health and understands the importance of obtaining and maintaining the mind, body and spirit connection. To connect with Maria Teresa, her blog and services visit Emotional Musings at https://Emotionalmusings.com and her sister site The Musing Shaman at https://themusingshaman.com maria@emotionalmusings.com https://www.instagram.com/emotionalmusings?igsh=bDdncXE3NDBsc213 https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalmusings?_t=8q2fGCEpjo6&_r=1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-teresa-emotional-musings-46212335?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app https://youtube.com/@mariateresaemotionalmusings?si=2SymHZVVhWry_q3E https://x.com/pratico_teresa?s=09 ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail