Meet Claudia - Confident Woman Campaign Participant
“The CONFIDENT WOMAN campaign” is a photography project aimed to boost confidence through self-acceptance and self-love, to create a platform to inspire and support women in achieving the life they want.
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“Confident woman is someone who can be transparent who she is, be okay with her flaws and using her flaws to make them her strength”, - Meet Claudia Vazquez Bernal, a final participant of the Confident Woman Campaign!
Claudia works in legal area and holds MSL in Employment law/legal studies. She shares her life journey and what helps her to find the balance between career and family.
Could you please introduce yourself?
I am Claudia Vazquez. Born in Mexico City and came to Southern California many years ago and lived there for quite some time. I had my two boys there and married my husband Josh there. And then we moved to North Carolina almost ten years ago.
Was it an easy decision to take this move from California to North Carolina?
It was definitely not an easy decision. We were a young family, young parents, and we just wanted the best for our two boys. We decided “let’s just quit our jobs”. And by faith we are going to go and move across the nation. We sold everything in our home and we moved across to the east side. We found a home and then we found our jobs and we just took a leap of faith. And it was by really God's help that helped us to get here. We felt like we can conquer this and we felt, you know, that we were powerful.
What is a Confident Woman for you?
Confident woman is someone who can be transparent who she is, be okay with her flaws and using her flaws to make them her strength. And I think a lot of times we grow up thinking “I have to be perfect all the time”. But we live in an imperfect world.
Can you please share a situation in your life which was transformative for you and helped you to find your formula of confidence?
I certainly have learned a lot from many women in my life who have served as mentors to me. One particularly my mom, she was fearless. I never realized how awesome she was until she died. You know, until I didn't have that role model is when I realized how fearless she was and how much she faced uncertainty every day. She was an immigrant woman, just like I am. And she faced life just like “let's do this. Let's figure it out”.
What would be your advise to other women?
Be okay if you were the only women in the room to be. Take that as your advantage. Be okay. You have an accent. Be okay. If you look different than anybody else in the room, it's okay. Use it to your advantage and use it as your strength. Because as women, we may be the only ones in the room and we may be the only ones who may have an accent or not, or we may be the only ones who are probably a little darker than others. And that's okay. Be confident in that and use it to your advantage.
How do you find balance between building career and your family?
It's not easy. I have my days when it doesn't work the way I want it to, but first and foremost is my faith in God. Second is having a good strong person who can support the things that I love the most. And my husband is very supportive. He helps me a ton and he has been very supportive of my career and everything. So that helps.
But in the absence of that, it's having a good community and choosing who is that is going to be there for you. It's not easy, but it's very important to have people that can help you and important to have people that can support you along the way.
Could you provide a feedback about the photo session?
So going through the photo session was definitely out of my comfort zone. But because I saw other women who did that, I knew I wanted to try it. Looking at the pictures makes you really realize, Wow, this is who I am. It makes you feel pretty and makes you feel like you have accomplished something. And this is great. It really made me feel like I am myself. And it made me realize maybe I should be laughing more.
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