by Beth Mazza | Mar 4, 2026 | Female Entrepreneurs
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...
by Beth Mazza | Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
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....
by Beth Mazza | Feb 12, 2026 | Female Entrepreneurs
Last week’s post on the Kitchen Cabinet hit a nerve. Our DMs exploded with questions about Champions, Compensators, and Connectors—the three types of advisors every entrepreneur needs. Specifically, everyone wanted to know: “Wait, what exactly IS a...
by Beth Mazza | Jan 29, 2026 | Female Entrepreneurs
Victoria and I were 24 hours away from signing the worst deal of our lives. The acquisition offer sat on the table. Life-changing money. The buyers kept calling, increasingly exasperated. Our lawyers had the paperwork ready. All we had to do was sign. But something...
by Beth Mazza | Jan 21, 2026 | Female Entrepreneurs
I still remember the exact moment Victoria and I finally admitted what we’d been avoiding for weeks: our business was in a death spiral. We were sitting in our conference room, staring at numbers that made us physically sick. For a company used to 50 percent...
