Degrees of Success

CAREER COACH CLAUDIA FOX

CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL COACH

CERTIFIED COACHES ALLIANCE, CANADA

INTERNATIONAL COACHING FEDERATION MEMBER

 

CALL OR TEXT FOR AN APPOINTMENT:   914-391-8274 EST

 

MY PROFESSIONAL MISSION:  To inspire and influence you to achieve your goals.

 

MY STORY

When I was in my twenties, I used to feel intimidated when I was asked to a party.  I was living in New York City as a single person with roommates.  I was always afraid the issue of college would come up.  If someone asked me if I had a college degree or which college I went to, I would freeze and feel shame.  It took me over a year of feeling this way before I devised a plan.  I began to ask the host or hostess ahead of time if there was something I could do to help with the event and that helped me take the focus off myself.  Soon I became more confident because I had a task for the evening and it made me feel connected and like I belonged.  I began to ask others questions about themselves which made me feel more comfortable over time. As I began to reach out and connect to more people, I discovered, not everyone had a college degree, but most people were embarrassed by it.  Often people lied on their resume just to get their foot in the door or a company. Through the years I focused on getting my own coaching, going to therapy and figuring out myself how to become a business success.  I have accomplished so much and would like to help you feel good about yourself, degree or not.  Because of my background, I can honestly say I am like a business therapist.  I can help you with defeating patterns as well as figure out what makes your heart sing.  I can get you on the road to finding your passion and helping you make money doing something you love.  It takes time and patience but what is the alternative?  Dreading getting up each morning to go to work or shuffling along anxiously awaiting retirement.  I am doing what I love to do and I actually don’t even want to retire. I believe I can help you to feel as much aliveness and joy as I do. (Go to video tab to view interviews with people who are successful without a college degree to hear the obstacles they encountered growing up).

 

Here are some reasons you might want coaching:

  • Graduate from high school and can’t figure out what to do next?
  • Want to start your own business, but never get to the first step?
  • Have a great idea but never do anything about it?
  • Quit work to be a Mom and want to do something to enhance your finances?
  • Unexpectedly laid off from your job (Covid-19) and need to reinvent yourself?
  • Deserve a promotion and/or raise but afraid to ask?
  • Find your work unfulfilling and want a new career path?
  • Hate going to work each day?

TO GET YOU STARTED:  Claudia offers a FREE 30-MINUTE INTRODUCTORY COACHING SESSION.  After establishing your goals to decide what you want to achieve through coaching, you will be invited you to join a ZOOM session.  Claudia offers a half hour weekly session or full hour every other week, your choice, for a mutually agreeable time to set the appointment..

 

ONE-ON-ONE OR IN GROUPS

Claudia’s sessions are offered in eight week classes, one per week for an hour to an hour and a half, depending on the number of participants.  The group calls will be done on ZOOM at a designated time each week.

EVALUATED AND COACHED CLIENTS TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESS

Claudia Fox has a stellar reputation as a one-on-one coach and group trainer for people wanting to move to start their own business. This can be done in a group setting or individually.  Groups can have a finite number of sessions or go on for up to six months.

Claudia offers confidence, patience and enthusiasm to every individual and group she works with.  Her history includes evaluating, coaching and training thousands of individuals, many of them teens and young adults through the Boys & Girls Clubs, executives who have attained higher career levels and were able to recognize their valuable contributions by transferring their skills and talents to new companies or starting their own businesses. At Bernard Haldane, where Claudia was an Executive Coach for more than four years, more than 90 percent of her clients increased their salary packages by using negotiation skills that she taught them.

VOLUNTEER WORK

In addition to coaching people who want to move ahead in their lives, Claudia has also spent hundreds of hours volunteering her time to develop and lead workshops for non-college and college-bound teens to help them get a greater understanding of the options available to them, specifically at Mt. Vernon High School, Mt. Vernon, NY, and the Boys & Girls Club in Stamford, CT. These workshops addressed career assessment, career exposure, resume writing, networking and interviewing skills as well as interview role playing. She has also involved the community by encouraging them to provide shadowing and mentoring positions for prospective part and full-time job openings for the teens.  Claudia works with women in a local shelter teaching them the necessity of financial independence, including spending plans, payment plans and the importance of not debting.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Claudia also brought a Texas based “Prepared4Life” Program to New York City on June 3, 2012, called “Lemonade Day” where she enrolled over 1,700 young adults in a program that taught them how to be entrepreneurs through making and selling lemonade at a home-made lemonade stand.  The streets of New York City were lined with stands through cooperative arrangements made with establishments, which lent their support to the youngsters efforts to learn business skills. Harlem, Chinatown, Brooklyn, Jamaica, Queens, Long Island City, White Plains and Manhattan were some of the areas in which Lemonade Day took place.  Claudia was interviewed by CBS and Fox & Friends.   ABC ran a video of Lemonade Day on their network. To see more of the project, go to “Videos” and see the CBS interview or go to www.NYC.LemonadeDay.org and you will see Claudia at work.

Claudia has raised money for the Northern Westchester Women’s Shelter with Oprah “Big Give” winner, Stephen Paletta, by doing a fund-raiser at a bowling alley.  She has also worked on homes for Habitat for Humanity, actually putting up sheet rock.

PUBLICITY

Claudia Fox was interviewed by Marsha Gordon, President of the Westchester Business Council about her career business services. The interview was aired on WVOX. She was also featured on Peekskill’s New York cablevision show “Healthscope” talking about the affects corporate downsizing has had on executives. She co-hosted two cablevision shows, one called “Turn Your Passion into Profit” and the other “Get a Job” which aired in White Plains, New York, every Monday and Friday nights at 8:30PM for two years running where she gave tips on how to get a job and interviewed people who were passionate about their careers.  Claudia has promoted her book on Joe Franklin’s Bloomberg radio show and given positive advice on success, job finding and how to go on an interview on Armand DiMele’s “The Positive Mind” radio show on WBAI, New York.  Claudia was also interviewed on CBS, Fox & Friends and ABC.

 HOBBIES

Claudia has skied all over the world including; France, Austria, Italy in Europe and in Salt Lake City, Snowbird, Aspen, Vail, Mt. Snow,  Stratton Mountain in the United States.  She has travelled throughout the world and most recently visited Russia and five surrounding countries on a cruise to the Baltic Sea where she said, “The educational value was mind-blowing!” Dance being her current favorite hobby, Claudia can often been seen on the ballroom dance floor and at country & western dances in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado, Texas and Florida. She is also an avid tennis player and can be found biking on trails throughout the northeast in her spare time.

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE POTENTIAL CLIENT

Perhaps you have a pretty clear idea of what you want to improve in your life, such as becoming more assertive or starting your own business, and have begun to take a look at what your life is like now and how you would prefer it to be. You may have already formulated an idea of what you would like to create but have just never been able to get your ideas off the ground.  Over time as procrastination sets in and you begin to think of reasons to justify your lack of efforts.  You are become more and more discouraged because the difference between how you want your life to look and how actually is affects your daily attitude.

What’s going on?  Are you simply weak or lazy?  One can even guess that you have beaten yourself up about this issue a fair number of times.  The good news is that the reason you are blocked may have nothing to do with weakness, laziness, or any other trait that one could use to “label” you.  You may well be blocked because deep down you don’t believe that you are capable of executing your plan.  Or even worse, that you don’t really deserve happiness in your life.  It call comes down to beliefs.

UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR BELIEFS SHAPE YOU

You can lack resources and your future plans can be little more than a few random scribbles on the back of an envelope, yet if your motivation is right and you really believe you can accomplish what you want to do, your plans can blossom.  History is full of men and women who defied the odds and overcame seemingly immovable obstacles to reach their goals.  These people all had one thing in common; an unshakable belief that they were exactly the right person at exactly the right moment in time to achieve whatever they set out do do, whether scaling an impossible mountain or winning a marathon.

In life, coaching a belief is simply a feeling of conviction about something, specifically about oneself, and strong positive beliefs are the foundation for action.  Holding negative beliefs are ones that no longer serve you well, have the opposite effect and keep you stuck.  Your inner critic specializes in these destruction beliefs and can produce them at the drop of a hat.

Beliefs are tricky things.  For the most part they tend to appear logical and watertight, that is their nature, but whole communities have built their worldview on beliefs that were later proved wrong.  For example the world isn’t flat but people used to believe that it was and wasted a lot of energy in formulating strategies to avoid falling off the edge.

The beliefs that hold someone back are not truer than the beliefs that spur someone into positive action, so why not choose to focus on the beliefs that get you the great results you want?

BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH COACH CLAUDIA

Coaching has been proven to work when the client is willing to grow and when there is an obvious gap between where the client is and where he or she wants to be. With me as your coach, you will:

1.  Make Broader Actions

Ultimately, all of us do what we want to do under any circumstance. To find out what you really want for yourself and in your career is our first task. I help you to distinguish between what you think you “coulda, shoulda, oughta” do and what you actually have to do to get where you want to go. Once you understand and create your ideal goal, you are much more likely to take actions to reach it.

2.  Balanced Life

Having it all, means having a balanced life. And in doing so, it often means that we must be selfish. I will work with you to help you create a plan that will meet your needs by establishing a personal foundation.

3.  Make Financial Freedom

Money. We have to have it. Chances are you know that you can make more money. I will work with you to design a strategy to earn more for your efforts, set up a spending plan and even get out of debt.

4.  Reach More and More

When you work with me you have a partner you can trust, I will have faith in you and with my support you will find yourself reaching for bigger and better goals.

5.  Make Better Decision for Yourself and Your Business

Every single client of mine is smart!  Yet, they still use me. Why? Because ideas rarely grow in a vacuum.  Everyone can use a sounding board. It’s fruitful to share ideas with someone who  is subjective enough to offer valuable feedback, someone who wants more for them than they do for themselves.

6.  Have A lot More Sustainable Energy

When you are productive, your endorphins will make you happier and even life’s problems become more tolerable. You are always going to have more energy when you are happy.

Now You Can Discover The Secrets of Men and Women Who Have Taken Alternative Paths to Achieve Extraordinary Success In Their Lives!

Now, for the first time, you can learn how people in “DEGREES OF SUCCESS” Inspiring Stories and Secrets to Success have achieved astonishing success using “street smarts.”

Hi, I’m Claudia Fox and I invite you to read their inspiring stories in my brand new book, “DEGREES OF SUCCESS” Inspiring Stories and Secrets to Success. Now you’re wondering… is this book right for you? Then please let me ask you something…

Could You Be In One Of These Three Places Right Now?

  1. Are you feeling inferior and stopped from pursuing your dream because you don’t have a college degree?
  2. Do you have a college degree but have not achieved the success in life you’ve craved? Or…
  3. Are you already successful with or without a college degree but still feel you haven’t reached the goals you’ve set for yourself?

Well, I’m here to tell you: IT DOESN’T MATTER! Whatever your status is today, you’ll be moved by the touching and heart-warming stories of the courageous and dynamic individuals who refused to allow obstacles, setbacks and adversity to derail them in their relentless quest for success, fulfillment and happiness.

You Will Be Astounded When You Read How

  • A tender six-year-old girl who was abused by an alcoholic father nevertheless stayed true to her heart to become an award-winning artist.
  • An innocent young boy diagnosed with attention deficit disorder whose father signed him out of school at age sixteen went on to create his own thriving high-end auto body shop business and become financially independent by investing in real estate.
  • A young woman who suffered from severe acne and started out as a secretary worked her way up to becoming a famous author.
  • A determined young man who felt fat and ugly as a child received an award for selling the second highest amount of one nationwide company’s product at the age of twelve and later became the president of a large hotel franchise.
  • A teenager who quit high school to get married to the love of her life later became the Mayor of a town in Texas.

These determined individuals discovered their unique ability and refused to be weighed down by the judgments and labels society placed upon them.

Read their stories… model their success… and your life will be enhanced in ways you cannot now even begin to imagine by their wisdom.

Don’t wait another moment to find out all you can about them.

CLICK HERE to read an excerpt of my book.

“DEGREES OF SUCCESS” Inspiring Stories and Secrets to Success, stories of men and women who have taken alternative paths to achieve extraordinary success!

“Degrees of Success” captures short inspirational stories of every day people who became successful without a college degree.

“Claudia Fox has written an enlightening book that will demonstrate to you, that although education may be the key that will unlock doors, with only dedication and desire, you can blow them right off their hinges.”
– John Roland, WNYW, FOX 5