Rising from Ashes ― Discover Your Hidden Power Through Adversity

"Rising from Ashes" is an inspiring story of what can be accomplished when one refuses to be a victim, one woman’s heroic journey that puts two notorious con men behind bars. The author weaves her secrets of how to overcome any kind of adversity into the harrowing journey of losing her life savings in a Ponzi scheme. This and subsequent inspirational and heart-warming stories are woven together in such a way that it allows the reader to discover the secrets of unvulnerability for themselves without having to learn the hard painful way. The process she reveals will not only help the reader, it can change the world when enough individuals discover the “Phoneix Principle”.

Claudia Nelson is a Certified Communication Counselor, started a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, International Association for Families (IAF) to create safer communities for families after hermother and sister were murdered in a robbery; she funded the association with her inheritance money and with the money she made from developing and running an extremely successful rehabilitation course in the courts for those with drinking and domestic abuse problems. One of the International Programs she did was with the Huichol Indians in the Sierra Madras who were loosing 1/3 of their babies due to a contaminated water supply. Claudia got the natives at Las Guayabas a clean water system and a small hospital and helped several other Huichol Villages in the area.
After losing her life savings in an International Ponzi scheme, she worked with victims, the courts, the IRS, the FBI and a deep throat informant for eight years until we had the con men in prison. Dirk Smillie, who wrote the article about the Ponzi scheme for Forbes magazine wrote, “Claudia is the best gumshoe (detective) vigilante I have ever seen.”
Claudia Nelson’s self-help articles have been published nationally and internationally. Claudia’s trainings are transformational.