Break
“Fight until you make it”
- Manuel Hernandez
We’re breaking the mold on mental health support
Most people are trained to bury their story. Or trained to become a long-term victim of it. Nobody trains you to embrace it — to use it as the thing that makes you overcome.
That’s what BREAK does differently.
Founder Manuel Hernandez spent over a decade turning his own anxiety and depression inside out, asking why so many people who “get better” end up back in the dark — even after doing everything right. What he found became BREAK: a framework built around four things he watched take people down one after another when nobody stepped in — stress, anxiety, depression, addiction. Left alone, that path can end in suicide. Manuel knows that cost firsthand — losing a friend to it, and surviving his own attempt, are both part of why BREAK exists at all.
Embrace Your Life Story is the heart of it. Not burying it. Not staying its victim. Your whole story — everything you’ve carried — is what made you who you are. Manuel didn’t bury his story or stay a victim of it to build BREAK. He embraced it, and used it to overcome.
BREAK meets people at two points most programs miss:
Before it spirals — real tools for stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction while there’s still room to change course.
Before it’s too late — because we know firsthand what’s at the other end of that path, and preventing it is the whole reason BREAK exists.
After treatment ends — support for people who did the hard work and now have to live it, alone, without the structure that got them through.
What We Offer at BREAK The Mold Coach:
One-on-One Coaching: Sessions built around the BREAK framework — a space to ask real questions, not just get handed answers.
Guided Workshops: Interactive, reflective sessions that help you explore your inner self, address emotional challenges, and build tools that last.
BREAK: Embrace Your Life Story: The book behind the framework, available at Barnes & Noble online only.
Online Community: Connect with others on a similar journey of growth and healing.
BREAK is led full-time by Claudia Hernandez guiding clients through this framework with real results, alongside founder Manuel Hernandez.
If you or someone you know is in crisis right now, you don’t have to wait. Call or text 988 — free, confidential, available 24/7.
Meet the Team
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Founder & Life Coach
My name is Manuel Hernandez, founder of Break The Mold Coach. I started this journey in 2013 with a mission to raise Mental Health Awareness — long before I had any idea what that would eventually become.
Running was the thing that got me through the hardest period of my life. It kept me moving when nothing else did. Over the next 10 years, that same discipline turned into something bigger: ideas, self-analysis, and a personal growth I couldn’t have predicted when I started.
BREAK was built out of a question I couldn’t stop asking myself: no matter what I did in my own recovery, I kept ending up back in the same place. Stress, Anxiety, Depression. And for me, it went further than that —I lost a friend to suicide, and I survived my own attempt. I kept asking “why.” Why does this keep happening, even to people who are doing everything right?
Through running, meditation, and years of working through that question, I built BREAK — a method I believe will change how we look at mental health. Not by replacing treatment, but by standing in the gap most people fall through: before the spiral starts, and after the structure of treatment ends.
I go by OGRunningMan on Twitch and Instagram, if you’ve found me there first — same mission, same story, just different room.
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Owner & Lead Coach