Own Your Essence

***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/

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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.

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Tiktok: leewalczak
Instagram: leewalczak
Email: [email protected]

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45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading 

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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

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Email: [email protected]

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45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading 

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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 

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***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: [email protected]

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.

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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

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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

[email protected]

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45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading 

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Host April DeMille interviews author and speaker, Dr Stephen Edwards, about his book The Venus Flytrap. Edwards explains the book emerged from a tumultuous, toxic relationship that became a “dark night of the soul,” reflecting his own unresolved trauma, shame, and patterns. He discusses learning vulnerability and authenticity, the dangers of ignoring intuition and red flags, and the idea that people have pattern problems rooted in childhood. He shares concepts like the three universal fears (not being enough, abandonment, trust), attachment to identity and possessions, and the lesson of not trying to rescue or fix others. April relates her own toxic relationship recovery and celibacy period. Edwards outlines upcoming books, possible film/series plans, a community for sharing without shame, offers free first chapters, and a discovery call.

Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards is an author and speaker focused on relationships, emotional awareness, and personal transformation. Having been married and divorced four times, his life experiences have given him a unique perspective on love, attachment, and recurring relationship patterns. Through both his personal journey and his work, he now helps others better understand themselves, take accountability for their choices, and create more conscious and fulfilling connections.

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https://vft23.com/coaching-and-counselling/?utm_source=April+DeMille&utm_medium=Own+Your+Essence&utm_campaign=Podcast+Interview+-+April+DeMille

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Host April DeMille interviews children’s author Bracha Goetz, who has written 45 books and a memoir, Nourish the Soul: Filling the Emptiness Within. Goetz describes her ages-12-to-32 journey with inner emptiness expressed through food addiction, bingeing, and extreme dieting while appearing successful at Harvard and medical school. A turning point came during a break in Israel, where learning spiritual teachings centered on gratitude restored meaning and “color” to life. She distinguishes gratitude as redirection rather than bypassing pain and shares the “Pleasure Ladder” (sensory pleasure, love, meaning, creativity, transcendence). Goetz discusses her books The Mother Who Always Said Yes, The Happiness Box, and Don’t Read This Book, emphasizing playful practice, neuroplasticity, and noticing blessings, and directs listeners to Growing Impact Publications.

Bracha Goetz is the Harvard-educated author of 45 children’s books and a candid memoir for adults about her journey to joy, Nourish the Soul: Filling the Emptiness Within.  Her newest picture books include The Happiness Box and The Mother Who Always Said Yes.  

They can be found at www.growingimpactpublications.com.

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https://www.instagram.com/brachagoetzbooks

And click here to download a free Pleasure Ladder chart: https://www.growingimpactpublications.com/pages/the-pleasure-ladder

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45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading 

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On the Own Your Essence podcast, guest host Stephanie Ann Webb interviews April DeMille, a psychic medium, grief coach, and trauma and toxic-relationship recovery specialist. April describes realizing her abilities in childhood, hiding them until age 38 due to fear, family reactions, and religious shaming, and later gaining confidence in owning her role. She says her intuition expanded most after her daughter’s death and explains how mediumship overlaps with grief and trauma work, attracting both traumatized humans and spirits. April emphasizes that grief is sacred, requires “sitting in the discomfort,” and is often avoided, contributing to addiction and illness; she encourages talking openly about loved ones and discusses how phrases like “everything happens for a reason” depend on a person’s stage of grief. She defines toxic relationships as dynamics involving mistreatment and loss of self, explains covert abuse and why leaving can be dangerous, critiques toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing, shares grounding practices like barefoot walking or baths, and invites listeners to book readings or discovery calls.

Email April: [email protected]

aprildemille.com

www.facebook.com/IAMaprildemille

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45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading 

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