Every mom founder we know has had a week that turned into a trainwreck before Tuesday. Not because something catastrophic happened, but because they didn’t have the right information to prioritize the week’s actions before Monday started. The difference between a week...
Last week, Beth was sitting in a mastermind full of sharp, ambitious women who have built something real and are hungry to build something bigger. She brought up P&Ls. The room went quiet. Not the kind of quiet that means everyone is thinking. The kind that means...
Victoria and I agreed on a lot. But our arguments? Those are where we made our money. We cried. We fought. We went to our respective corners and came back swinging. And somewhere in the wreckage of those conversations, we almost always landed somewhere better than...
We used to think charm was a competitive advantage. Thirty years selling to Fortune 1000 executives as the only women in the room will cure you of that fast. The clients who hired us at Clermont Partners didn’t hire us because they liked us. Some of them...
Victoria called me on a Tuesday. It was not a good Tuesday. We had just lost a client we’d been nurturing for two years. Not a small client. A client that represented a good enough sized chunk of our revenue forecast for the year. She didn’t want advice....