Own Your Essence

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

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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

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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

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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.

[email protected]
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https://www.facebook.com/ana.valezzileckenby
https://yourgenxcoach.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/anavalezzi

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***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: [email protected]
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



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***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: [email protected]
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

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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:
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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:[email protected]
Website: www.feelingbetternaturally.love
YouTube: Feeling Better Naturally
https://youtube.com/@feelingbetternaturally.nature
Substack: https://feelingbetternaturally.substack.com/

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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

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***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/

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