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Clocking Out with Raymond LeeClocking Out is a podcast about bold moves and personal breakthroughs. Author: Raymond Lee
Clocking Out is a podcast about bold moves and personal breakthroughs. Each episode spotlights people whove made the life-changing decision to walk away from jobs, careers, or situations that no longer served them in pursuit of something more meaningful. Through candid conversations, we explore the pivotal moments, mindset shifts, and personal values that fuel these transformations. Guests share the setbacks, surprises, and self-discoveries that helped shape their new paths, with themes of resilience, reinvention, and purpose woven throughout. Created as a tribute to Raymond's mother, who inspired the show by chasing her own dream of career fulfillment, Clocking Out is a reminder that its never too late to choose yourself. Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Episode 77: Anne Mounts: Account Executive to Founder & Managing Partner of Acera Partners
Episode 3
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
In this episode of Clocking Out, we meet Anne Mounts, who grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, the daughter of a physician father and a mother who left New Zealand and never went back. Her dad was a Navy medical officer stationed in New Zealand during the Vietnam War, where he met her mom. Anne grew up in an international bubble of immigrant families and dreamed of becoming a doctor like her dad.Halfway through pre-med at Carleton College, while shadowing her father in his ear, nose, and throat practice, Anne realized medicine wasn’t her calling. She had a hard conversation with her dad, leaned into the English major she'd chosen as a counterbalance, and later earned a Master of Liberal Arts from Harvard. Her first job was at a business writing training organization, and from there she moved into consulting, sales, and business development, including a stretch at Vantage Partners, a spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project. She became a top producer in human capital consulting, driven less by selling than by a curiosity about how the pieces of an organization fit together.The clocking out moment came in 2022, when Anne learned that the consulting practice she had been hired to build would be divested. She gave five months' notice, interviewed along the way, and received an offer to be chief revenue officer at a San Francisco consulting firm. Days later, she learned the firm was being acquired by a $3 billion brokerage, and she turned the offer down with three weeks left and no job lined up. She had already been working through the Co-Active Training Institute's executive coaching program. Being coached as intensely as she was learning to coach gave her the space to ask what lit her up. In 2023, she founded Acera Partners, where she helps organizations connect talent management and compensation strategy so people can see a path for both their careers and their pay. This conversation is about the courage and the "right" it takes to bet on yourself. It explores how curiosity can carry a career from pre-med to entrepreneurship, why listening matters more than pitching, what Anne's father taught her about really hearing a patient, and how she landed on a company name that means "sidewalk" in Spanish.Connect with Anne at:Website: https://www.acerapartners.com/Acera LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acera-partners/Anne’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-mounts/Follow Raymond:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clocking_out_raymond_lee/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpodX: http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneurYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videosBecome a guest on Clocking Out: https://bit.ly/46sqClq
