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.