by Victoria Sivrais | Aug 12, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
Advance copies of Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER went out a few weeks ago. Most of what comes back at that stage is polite. Nice writing. Great stories. Cannot wait to buy one for my sister. Then two notes came in that we have not stopped talking about. The first:...
by Victoria Sivrais | Jul 30, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
The call came at 7:45 on a Tuesday night. Just one quick thing. It was a legacy account. One of the first clients we carried over from our old firm when we left to start Clermont, and one of the reasons we had the nerve to leave at all. To get them to sign with an...
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...
