The Founder Files
What I Wish I’d Known Before I Sold My First Company
The day I sold my first company, I didn't pop champagne. I signed the documents, took the congratulatory calls, and went home to make dinner for...
The Kitchen Cabinet You Build in 30 Minutes a Week
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...
The Delegation Lie You’ve Been Told
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...
The Business Model You Didn’t Choose on Purpose
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...
Your Mastermind Group Is Not Enough
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...
You’ve done the math.
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 One...