by Victoria Sivrais | Sep 2, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
The book did not start as a book. One of us was in the middle of a brutal personal stretch. The kind where the ground moves and you start auditing everything behind you. What did we actually get for that many years of work? Two companies built and sold, with nine kids...
by Beth Mazza | Aug 28, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
Two years after COVID nearly took the legs out from under us, Clermont Partners had its best year. The ESG practice we had bet the farm on was finally paying. Retainers were up. New logos were signing. The pricing decision that had terrified us, moving our target from...
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 Beth Mazza | Aug 5, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
Most founders price the risk of asking. Almost nobody prices the risk of staying quiet. Early on, we built a spreadsheet of every person we knew. We exported our LinkedIn contacts, painstakingly scoured our email boxes (pre-AI of course) and added the membership...
by Beth Mazza | Jul 22, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
The smartest partnership decision we ever made happened at a kitchen table, interrupted every five minutes by shrieking toddlers. We were about to walk away from fat corporate paychecks to start Clermont Partners. Before we jumped, we did something most people skip....
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...
