Toughen Up: Basic Training for Leadership and Success

Don’t let anything stand in your way of having the great life you deserve and are capable of achieving. It’s time to take responsibility, choose the tough path, and be your truest and best self. Claude Hamilton teaches you what it takes to toughen up your heart, mind, and soul in order to become all that God created you to be. He shares his own personal stories of his dreams, struggles, and victories that enabled him to pinpoint the Eight Strengths (Attitude, Courage, Character, Duty, Honor, Relationships, Passion, and Tenacity) of real toughness in leadership and success. He explains the true meaning of each of these strengths and how they are all critical to success. Through Claude’s inspiring personal example and his “Basic Training for Leadership and Success,” you will learn how to develop the emotional toughness to carry you through the most difficult of challenges in all areas of life even when it may not seem possible to go on any further, and you will learn why the tough path is actually the most enjoyable and rewarding one.

From very humble beginnings growing up in a small town in northern Ontario, Canada, Claude joined the military at 17 and moved to Nova Scotia for basic training. It was there that he began a successful career as a Navy diver and met his wife Lana. Just out of basic training, Claude and Lana were posted to Halifax and soon discovered that life in the military would not help them realize their goals and dreams. Claude soon started a business and five years later, left a promising military career at the young age of 25 to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. Claude has invested almost 20 years developing an international business that now affords him and his family a lifestyle of choice and financial freedom.Claude is deeply committed to his family and takes great pleasure in being a father. He and his wife Lana have planted deep family roots in Nova Scotia and built a home in Fall River, where they live with their two small boys, Wyatt and Gryffin.