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...
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 Beth Mazza | Jun 24, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
Mortifyingly far into building Clermont, Victoria was still personally creating and sending out every client invoice. ot reviewing. Not spot-checking. Editing. Every line. Every billing code. Every client reference number. After the kids were in bed, in the window...
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 Beth Mazza | Jun 4, 2026 | Mindset & Leadership
Power Move #2: Build Yourself a Kitchen Cabinet Twenty-four hours before our acquisition offer was set to explode (yes, that is the official term), Victoria and I were a mess. The buyers had been calling for days. Life-changing money was sitting on the table. And...
