The Reconnection Journey: Walking Between Worlds as an Indigenous Woman
Release Date: 06/12/2025
Cognitive Native (Angelo McHorse): Uncle's Advice, Uplifting Native Peoples & Adopting an Abundance Mindset
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
Angelo McHorse, known as the Cognitive Native online, is a tribal member of Red Willow People of Taos Pueblo. He is a husband, father of 3, entrepreneur, and everyone's favourite uncle. He is the co-founder of Bison Star Naturals, alongside his wife, Jacquelene. In this episode, we discuss: perceiving "riches" beyond money staying growth-minded while walking in two worlds Uncle advice for adopting a "glass half full" outlook overcoming victimhood through ancestral wisdom developing mental fortitude to thrive LINKS (use code COGNITIVENATIVE at checkout)
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Internal Capacity Building: Holding More Without Burning Out
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
Capacity building is everywhere right now - in corporate spaces, community work, leadership conversations, and funding rooms. But most of the time, it stops at skills, strategy, and external preparation. In this solo episode, Rachael Hunt explores what’s often missing from the conversation: internal capacity building - the ability for the nervous system to actually hold more responsibility, leadership, visibility, and expansion without tipping into survival. This is a grounded, trauma-informed conversation about leadership, sustainability, and what it really takes to grow without...
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Two-Eyed Seeing: Neuroscience Meets Indigenous Worldview
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
This is the first solo episode back for Season 2. Today’s conversation is rooted in Two-Eyed Seeing - the ability to hold Indigenous worldview (the medicine) and modern science (neuroscience) at the same time, without one overriding the other. This episode explores how Indigenous women can remain rooted in culture and values while navigating modern systems, and how the Freedom Method™ bridges these two worlds in a liberating, empowering way. In this episode, Rachael discusses: the gift of not belonging in western systems the origins of Two-Eyed Seeing how The Freedom Method™️...
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Dr. Gabor Maté: The Root of Trauma, Addiction & Autoimmune in Indigenous Communities
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
Gabor Maté is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of five books published in 43 languages, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. For his ground-breaking medical work and...
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Being Creator-Guided (Season 1 Finale)
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
As we close Season 1 of The Cycle Breakers Podcast, Rachael reflects on what it truly means to live and lead from a place of being Creator-guided - trusting in divine timing, surrendering control, and walking in alignment with Spirit. This episode is a gentle reminder that even when the path feels unclear, Creator is always showing us the way. Stayed tuned for Season 2, coming early 2026! In this finale, Rachael shares: What it means to live Creator-guided from an Indigenous worldview How to recognize the calling from Creator What to do when you feel disconnected or unsure of the path How...
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Cyber Security & Financial Literacy for Indigenous Communities w/ Darion Ducharme
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
Darion Ducharme is the founder and Owner of Teqare, a proudly Indigenous-owned education company based in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Through Teqare, Darion empowers communities across Canada with engaging workshops on cyber safety, financial literacy, and city life skills, bridging the digital divide for youth, adults, and elders in both urban and remote communities. A recognized national speaker and Mastercard Game Changer Award recipient, his work has been featured by Global News, CBC, The Globe and Mail, and SAY Magazine. With over 70 First Nations and hundreds of schools...
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What it looks like to build a movement
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
This week's episode is inspired by a recent conversation with a client who is in the thick of building her movement - she feels like she's not just growing her business but changing an industry. This is legacy work, and I know this season she is in all too well. As I shared with her my business pivot and the journey of building the Cycle Breakers Movement, I knew that there was medicine in it for others as well. This is what I wish I had heard 2.5 years ago when I was starting over from scratch. If you take anything away from this episode, let it be to stay persistent & consistent. In this...
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An Empowering Way to Look at Lateral Violence
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
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...
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The Role Your Nervous System Plays in Your Success
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
Join the fall cohort of the - a science-backed, trauma-informed and Indigenous-led program. Get 6 certifications in 3 months. 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: ...
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The Power of Vulnerability, Financial Shame, Holding the Vision No Matter What w/ Tupaarnaq
The Cycle Breakers Podcast
Join the fall cohort of the - a science-backed, trauma-informed and Indigenous-led program. Get 6 certifications in 3 months. 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...
info_outlineIn this solo episode, I share the sacred and sometimes challenging journey of reconnecting to one's Indigenous roots while navigating life in two worlds - the modern and the medicine. I speak candidly about identity, ancestral healing, spiritual initiation, and the transformative power of embracing the Seven Sacred Teachings. This episode is for Indigenous women who are also reclaiming their culture, breaking generational cycles, and seeking to live in alignment with their true purpose - personally and professionally.
In this episode, Rach riffs on:
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The realities and complexities of living between two worlds
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Facing and integrating deep ancestral and personal trauma
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The initiations of embodying the Seven Sacred Teachings
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The importance of decolonizing mindset and business practices
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Embracing your mission and walking the Red Road with humility and courage
LINKS
Private Mentorship for Indigenous Leaders (APPLY)
Indigenous Employee Empowerment Program (BOOK A CALL)