Own Your Essence

April DeMille
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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!

  1. 2D AGO

    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 discusses quitting alcohol three times and deciding on December 11th to stop for good, while still using marijuana and periodic mushrooms for spiritual grounding. Brandon recounts childhood abuse, being malnourished by his stepmother, and drinking to numb hunger and gain courage, leading to violence, juvenile hall, jail, and two prison terms. A later incarceration in Arizona became a catalyst for change and future goals. He describes two years of celibacy, simplifying life, disconnecting from TV, spirituality, and his book “My Life as Soul Foods,” which shares real stories of trauma, growth, and awareness, alongside his photography as an identity anchor after prison. Born in Los Angeles, Brandon Marshall experienced significant instability early in life. After his parents separated when he was five years old, he moved back and forth between Los Angeles and the rural area of Valley Springs. During his childhood, he witnessed domestic violence and suffered abuse. Brandon began drinking at the age of 11 and was in juvenile hall by 17. Over the years, he spent time in six county jails and, by age 25, served his first prison term. He completed his last prison sentence at 30. Since then, Brandon has worked hard to rebuild his life and create a new path forward. Today, he shares his story of resilience, healing, and transformation. https://artbp13.com/professional-portfolio https://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/products/my-life-as-soul-food artbyphotography13@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 Working with April 1:1

    46 min

  2. APR 26

    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, and becoming a mother catalyzed a deep healing journey centered on self-worth, accountability, and unlearning lifelong “performing” for external reactions. She defines performing as acting to avoid abandonment or gain approval, which fuels resentment, guilt, shame, and imposter feelings, and emphasizes self-awareness and listening to bodily signals to move through discomfort faster. They discuss healing from truth versus survival conditioning, distinguishing compromise from self-abandonment in relationships through shared understanding and communication. Lara describes sacred sexuality as reconnecting safely with her body after trauma, reducing external validation needs, and honoring primal life-force energy, including six years of celibacy and later dating guided by intuition. Lara Bokovay is a mother, intuitive, guide, and truth-teller dedicated to helping women come back to themselves. After navigating the end of her marriage, the challenges of new motherhood, and a deep personal healing journey, she now helps women uncover their authentic selves, reclaim their self-worth, and live aligned, empowered lives. Her work is rooted in intuition, presence, and radical authenticity—showing that true leadership and feminine power aren’t about performing or pleasing others, but about living from your own truth, embracing wholeness, and leading by example.   www.larabokovay.com info@larabokovay.com @larabokovay ✨ 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 Working with April 1:1

    58 min

  3. APR 19

    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 accessing deep awareness and cellular memory while remaining conscious. Morales describes how her method emerged intuitively during a meditation class about 40 years ago and expanded from living-room sessions to rented spaces, retreats, and now remote teaching. The conversation focuses on “mirroring,” which Morales explains as suppressed energy surfacing through others’ behavior or withholding, making triggers a message about denial, guilt, or worthiness, and noting mirrors can magnify until addressed; she shares examples involving weight comments and being denied water at a restaurant. They discuss intuition as essential, built through repeated trust and experience, the importance of releasing outcome expectations, and how lack of worth blocks manifesting. Morales shows her book “A Spiritual Wake Up Call” and her middle-grade novel “My Grandfather Died and Turned Into a Hummingbird,” and notes she offers remote group and private work. Royce Morales has been a spiritual seeker her entire life, driven by a deep curiosity and frustration that nothing she explored could fully answer her profound questions about life and death. More than four decades ago, she began receiving intuitive insights that provided the clarity she had long been searching for—answers that resonated deeply and expanded far beyond her original questions. As others were drawn to her understanding and asked to learn from her, Royce spontaneously and intuitively developed the Perfect Life Awakening program. Through this work, she has helped thousands of individuals from all walks of life turn inward, discover their authentic selves, identify and resolve subconscious patterns that may be holding them back, and awaken to their own intuitive knowing. Royce is also an accomplished author, having written several books based on her teachings. She is currently working on a series of middle-grade fiction books as well as books for children and parents. In addition, she hosts a weekly podcast, The Perfect Life Awakening Show, on OM Times Media. www.RoyceMorales.com www.PerfectLifeAwakening.com (310) 710-9741 Royce@RoyceMorales.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 Working with April 1:1

    47 min

  4. APR 12

    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 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 cancer patient). She describes how seasonal depression, major losses and a breakup preceded an 18-month manic episode, the allure and dangers of mania, and how antidepressants can worsen bipolar symptoms. Casper recounts traumatic experiences in jail and psychiatric wards, criticizing mental health care and lack of discharge support. She emphasizes identifying triggers—especially weather and family dynamics—moving from the Pacific Northwest to the sunny Southeast, and finding relief from seasonal patterns. The conversation also covers spiritual/psychic experiences, a near-death experience, family fears about relapse, and focusing life on love and advocacy. Liz Casper began her academic journey at an Ivy League institution before building a successful career in New York City’s beauty industry. After moving west, she completed her undergraduate degree at a liberal arts college, where she discovered her passion for medicine. She went on to attend medical school on the West Coast, becoming a fourth-generation physician. In 2017, Liz retired from medicine and embarked on a new chapter, founding a skincare business in Los Angeles. During this time, she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and began her healing journey at UCLA. Since 2023, following the sale of her medical practice, Liz has been working full-time as a writer and artist. Her second book, Learning to Heal, chronicles her experiences as a medical student, resident, solo practitioner, and cancer patient. The book is scheduled for publication in February 2026. lizcasper.com info@lizcasper.com 833-428-9223 X: @liz_casper123 ✨ 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 Working with April 1:1

    1h 3m

  5. APR 5

    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 she lost major relationships and career plans, seeking answers to existential questions. She later realized physics explains how the universe works but not why, and during early PhD years she developed PTSD after a close death; a Santa Cruz practitioner used transpersonal hypnosis and an angelic invocation that resolved symptoms in one session, leading Rosa to train, get certified, and open a hypnosis practice alongside her PhD. They discuss service, humility, spirit helpers, ego as a partner rather than a driver, and integration as self-acceptance, grounding and anchoring spiritual expansion. Rosa shares projects including a book reframing science and mysticism as one pursuit and group hypnosis work, including past-life regression stories. Rosa Hope is an award-winning researcher and lecturer who has been invited to share her insights across the US by leading scientific conferences and spiritual communities alike. As a PhD astrophysicist, certified transpersonal hypnotist, and former performing artist and global nomad, the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and lived experience has been the guiding principle of her life. Her work focuses on a simple yet profound question: How do we human better? Rosa has been providing spiritual guidance and integration support grounded in safety, integrity, and joy since 2017. https://rosa-hope.com http://instagram.com/itsrosahope/ contact@rosa-hope.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 Working with April 1:1

    56 min

  6. MAR 29

    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-level sequences. Marshall describes Septemics as 35 unique seven-step “scales” (individual and group) spanning human issues such as basic purposes, motivation, thought, relationships, communication, sexuality, and politics, and argues any dilemma involving people can be analyzed with them. He explains the system is precise, learnable without intuition, and studied like a textbook with extensive glossaries. Using the scale of motivation, he illustrates how identifying someone’s level can clarify relationships and decisions. Marshall recounts developing the scales through decades as a “human development engineer,” a key 1995 insight revealing a seventh level, and directs viewers to septe.com, videos online, and book formats. Jim Marshall is a polymathic intellectual who has devoted over 50,000 hours to the study and practice of multiple dimensions of human development. He received a classical education at a Jesuit Military School, was accepted into engineering school while still a junior in prep school, and attended college on academic scholarship. He graduated from college with a Bachelor of Science cum laude. While still an undergraduate, he began the study of “alternative” Arts and Sciences, which today would be described as Transformational and Holistic. His areas of expertise include psychology, philosophy, theology, parapsychology, science, engineering, mathematics, law, literature, history, music, organization, metaphysics, military science, political science, physical culture, human potential, and education. Septemics.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 Working with April 1:1

    56 min

  7. MAR 22

    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, renewable energy, government work, $30B in transactions, and three layoffs including a two-and-a-half-year unemployment period) to a transformation-driven life after hitting a “brick wall” in 2022. Sarah previews her three-part true-story book series covering 2019–2026, beginning with “Stone Temple Passport: Awake and Radiate with Mama Ayahuasca,” and explains ayahuasca, its indigenous ceremonial context, and the role of shamans and integration. They discuss intuition vs anxiety, ego’s role and reciprocity, sovereignty amid societal shifts, daily nature-based rituals, outgrowing “not enough,” and shedding her former identity. Sara Roccisano is a world-traveling author, international speaker, a wayshower, and the founder of Embolden AdventuresTM LLC. From the depths of the oceans to the heights of the mountains, to the ancient megalithic and everywhere else in between, Sara’s adventures are as expansive and colorful as the cultures she has encountered throughout the world. Even though Sara has explored over 43 countries and more than half of the states of the United States, what makes her story truly remarkable is her deep, two-decade spiritual awakening and quest for self-discovery achieved by working with wisdom keepers, connecting with the natural world, and answering the call to adventure. Sara’s purpose is to inspire personal, professional, and spiritual development through these extraordinary times of change and transformation. Driven by adventure and curiosity, she brings a unique mix of optimism, effective communication, and a strong sense of connectedness, enabling Sara to wonderfully motivate individuals and groups. www.EmboldenAdventures.com/book www.EmboldenAdventures.com www.facebook.com/emboldenAdventures YouTube: @EmboldenAdventure ✨ 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 Working with April 1:1

    38 min

  8. MAR 15

    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.  Lynn describes practices like clearing clutter as “energetic money hygiene”, tracking where you are financially and emotionally, and using her money archetypes (including the risk-taking “maverick”, the hyper-frugal, and the planner) to identify stories and blind spots. She discusses common abundance blocks for women – confidence, fear, comparison, perfectionism, people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, and difficulty speaking up – and offers strategies such as batching financial tasks, getting support, and manifestation exercises like writing specific monetary or career goals with dates. Lynn shares her transition from Wall Street after workplace toxicity and her boss’s murder, emphasizing rest, intuition, and “living in the and.” She mentions her 24-card oracle deck, Substack community, an upcoming 24-hour retreat, and offers a free card pull/energy reading via email or DM.  Lynn Mull is a Holistic Career Coach, Author, Speaker, and Facilitator who helps women reconnect with their inner wisdom and create success that feels true to them. After nearly 25 years in the fast-paced world of Wall Street, she found herself burnt out from chasing goals that left little room for health, joy, or balance. Through yoga, Reiki, and navigating the balance of motherhood, caregiving, and career, Lynn found a way to move from stress and depletion to clarity and alignment. Now, Lynn guides women through life’s pivots with compassion and clarity, blending practical tools with energy work to release stress and open space for purpose. Whether working one-on-one or with groups, she creates spaces for women to slow down, realign, and step into a life that feels abundant, grounded, and fully their own. @_lynnmull, lynnmull.com, lynnmull.com/substack DM me or hello@lynnmull.com Use code TEN for 10% off the 24 Oracle Deck on my site. ✨ 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 Working with April 1:1

    41 min
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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!

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  • Creator
    April DeMille
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    54
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Own Your Essence
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