In this episode, I’m diving into a topic that can feel heavy, painful, and all too familiar for many of us - lateral violence. We’ll talk about the deep roots of this cycle in colonization, residential schools, and intergenerational trauma - and why understanding this helps us see it’s not about you, but about the wounds others carry. Most importantly, I’ll share how to hold yourself powerfully, protect your energy, and keep showing up in your truth and authentic expression. If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of judgment, criticism, or sideways energy from your own community, this episode will give you the perspective and tools to rise above it with grace, strength, and clarity. In this episode, I riff on: what lateral violence is why it's so prevalent examples of how it shows up how to navigate without perpetuating more harm a solutions-forward approach to lateral violence LINKS Rachael's Website Rachael's Instagram Rachael's LinkedIn Private Mentorship for Indigenous Leaders Indigenous Employee Empowerment Program
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The Role Your Nervous System Plays in Your Success
Join the fall cohort of the Freedom Method™️ Certification - a science-backed, trauma-informed and Indigenous-led program. Get 6 certifications in 3 months. Enrol here. This week, I’m diving into a truth I’ve been sitting with: success has less to do with hustle or strategy, and everything to do with how safe we feel in our bodies. Success lives in the nervous system. In this episode, I share my own journey with nervous system healing and why it’s not just about breathing or meditating more - especially when you’re carrying complex, intergenerational, or early developmental trauma. In this episode, I riff on: Why safety shapes your capacity for success How old patterns keep us looping in survival The window of tolerance & holding more with ease The vagus nerve as a key to regulation + resilience How the Freedom Method Certification helps you embody and share this work LINKS Rachael's Website Rachael's Instagram Rachael's LinkedIn The Freedom Method™️ Certification (we start October 1st) Private Mentorship for Indigenous Leaders Indigenous Employee Empowerment Program
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The Power of Vulnerability, Financial Shame, Holding the Vision No Matter What w/ Tupaarnaq
Join the fall cohort of the Freedom Method™️ Certification - a science-backed, trauma-informed and Indigenous-led program. Get 6 certifications in 3 months. Enrol here. This week we have a special guest joining us. Tupaarnaq Kopeck is an Inuk woman from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and she's passionate about supporting Inuit and Indigenous communities with personal finance and investing. Her background is in banking, and she also studied business and psychology, so she loves combining practical financial tools with an understanding of how our experiences and emotions shape money decisions. Her mission is to help people heal, feel empowered, and build long-term financial strength in ways that are culturally meaningful and accessible. In this episode, we discuss: Tupaarnaq's experience growing up Inuk while navigating two worlds navigating financial shame and how to reconcile with the past a transparent look at building a business & community from scratch how to keep holding the vision when results aren't coming in her mission and what keeps driving her forward LINKS Tupaarnaq's Instagram Tupaarnaq's TikTok Tupaarnaq's Website Rachael's Website Rachael's Instagram Rachael's LinkedIn The Freedom Method™️ Certification Indigenous Employee Empowerment Program
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I've Walked Miles in These Shoes
Join the fall cohort of the Freedom Method™️ Certification - a science-backed, trauma-informed and Indigenous-led program. Get 6 certifications in 3 months. Enrol here. This week's episode is an ode to the resilience, tenacity, personal growth and trust that it takes to build a movement. Rachael shares exactly how she layed the foundation for the Freedom Method™️ - brick-by-brick - throughout the past 7 years derived from lived experiences and divine guidance. You know how they say, "until you've walked a mile in these shoes..." rings so true as we explore how the greatest medicine we will ever gain is through life itself. In this epsiode, Rachael riffs on: what Iggy Azalea has to do with this episode taking pressure off yourself how each pillar of The Cycle Breakers Movement evolved from personal hardship how to recognize life's burdens as blessings how you can bring challenges into your work powerfully LINKS Rachael's Website Rachael's Instagram Rachael's LinkedIn The Freedom Method™️ Certification (cohort starts October 1) Private Mentorship for Indigenous Leaders Indigenous Employee Empowerment Program
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Go Where You're Understood
Join the fall cohort of the Freedom Method™️ Certification - a science-backed, trauma-informed and Indigenous-led program. Get 6 certifications in 3 months. Enrol here. Just a few days late, but worth the wait! This week's episode is a recap of my time in Yellowknife for a speaking engagement for a group of Indigenous entrepreneurs. I am feeling so grateful for the opportunity and after a few days of reflection, I wanted to share my takeaways with a motivational and empowering flare! Bottom line: don't give up on the vision - good things come to those who persist! In this episode, we discuss: the highlights of my week in Yellowknife lessons I've learned in the past 2 years why holding your own vision is the most important job how to surround yourself with like-minded folks how to navigate rejections LINKS Rachael's Website Rachael's Instagram Rachael's LinkedIn The Freedom Method™️ Certification (starts Oct 1) Registration for The Freedom Method™️ Info Session (Sept 11)
The Cycle Breakers Podcast is for those of us who have been chosen to be the ONE in our lineage to transmute pain into power & wounds into wisdom. Hosted by Rachael Hunt, First Nations Chippewas of Nawash, Intuitive Indigenous Mentor & founder of Freedom School & The Freedom Method™️. This is an homage to her roots as an Aniishnaabe Kwe (translated from Ojibwe, meaning indigenous woman)
This podcast weaves in personal storytelling, amplifies Indigenous voices, and features the inspiring journeys of those who have been passed the torch by their ancestors to build legacies.
Conversations range from finding & pursuing your purpose to overcoming adversity to divine & spiritual connection to walking the red road to manifesting your dreams to subconscious & energetic healing, and most importantly building relations with our kin.
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