by Victoria Sivrais | Jul 16, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
What Actually Kept Us Going (Hint: it was not grit) People ask us what the hardest part of building Clermont Partners was. They usually expect the sale process. Or a nightmare client. Or the first time payroll got tight. It was none of those. It was one week in our...
by Victoria Sivrais | Jul 2, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
You don’t need another networking event. You need 30 minutes on the calendar. Most of the notes we get about the Kitchen Cabinet say a version of the same thing: I know I need one, I just don’t know where to start. The honest answer is that you’ve been picturing it...
by Victoria Sivrais | Jun 10, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
When we started Clermont Partners, we made a deliberate choice that most people in our industry thought was leaving money on the table. High-priced crisis communications work was available to us. We knew how to do it. Clients would have paid for it. But crisis...
by Victoria Sivrais | May 20, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
Now go tell three people your idea. (And one of them cannot be your mother.) Over the past two weeks, we’ve walked through the Mommy Mayhem Matrix — the non-negotiables and flexibility requirements that tell you whether a business fits your actual life — and the...
by Victoria Sivrais | May 7, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
The entrepreneurship playbook wasn’t written for moms. Here’s how we rewrote it — starting with the math and the non-negotiables. The entrepreneurship playbook wasn’t written for people with kids who somehow need to feed a starving family, get them...
