A business show from Lodi, California

Mind Your
Momentum

A Central Valley business show about what it actually took. Not the highlight reel: the failure that came first, what it cost in money and everything else, and what they had to build in themselves to come back.

Host Mike Munerlyn
New episodes every other week
Language English y español
A man in profile looking upward, an antique gold clock dissolving into gold particles where the back of his head would be
The show

Nobody wins the first time.
This show goes to the part before.

Almost every business owner worth listening to failed at something first. The success you see is the second or third try. What ended the first one, and what they built in themselves to come back — that's the part nobody covers, and the only part you can actually use. Five beats, every episode.

1

The Cost

Money first, then everything else. What it took from your body, your head, and the people around you — and what's still on the bill.

2

What Ended It

Before this worked, something didn't. Not "the market." The decision, the month, the person. And how much of it was you.

3

Falling Forward

The week after it ended. What made you start again instead of getting a job, and what you did differently on day one.

4

What It Takes

The one characteristic an entrepreneur has to have or build. Every guest answers it. Born with it, or built?

5

The Handoff

One move for somebody watching who's in the part that hurts right now. Not advice — a thing. Linked in every description.

Why it's different

We ask better questions. The answers take care of themselves.

Most business interviews ask you to sound successful. This one asks you to teach — and the only people who can teach it are the ones who failed at something first and kept going. The real numbers come out on their own when the question is honest.

Why guests say yes

You won't sound like a brochure

Anyone can get you an interview where you list your services. This is the one where you sound like the person people should call. You leave with five clips of it, free, to post yourself. Nothing airs that you don't want aired.

Episode 1 · September 2026
Jose Montejano

Funding strategist & mindset coach · Modesto, CA

Coming first

A funder who had to fund himself first.

Jose Montejano helps Central Valley owners get access to capital. Before that, he built a real estate business, watched it come apart, and rebuilt from the ground. Episode 1 is that story, all the way through, recorded in a Lodi winery.

  • What Ended It: the real estate business that came apart, and how much of it was him
  • What It Takes: the one thing he built in himself between the first business and this one
  • The Handoff: the five questions to ask before you take any business funding
  • En español: segmentos clave subtitulados
Watch & listen

Full episodes on YouTube. Clips everywhere else.

This channel began years ago as an Empowerment & Knowledge Hub on history, health, wealth-building, and the issues that shape our communities. That library still lives on the channel in the Knowledge Hub playlist. The mission hasn't changed. It has grown.

Momentum For Your Business

One person runs your brand.
You show up and talk.

The team behind the show builds and runs brands for the businesses on it. We shoot it, cut it, post it, answer the DM, build your show, and sit in your office once a month and tell you what to do next. You don't have to know what you need. That's the job.

Fiverr sells you a task. Someone in another time zone edits the clips you already shot, and you still do the thinking.
An agency stack — podcast agency, social agency, videographer — runs $6,000 to $12,000 a month, and you coordinate them.
Us — one senior person in the room, in the Valley or remote anywhere, for less than a junior team on Zoom.
1 · The show
$750 free when you host
  • One full episode of Mind Your Momentum
  • Five captioned clips for your own accounts
  • Venue credit on screen and in the description
  • Host the recording at your business and it's on us — code HOSTING
Book a Feature
2 · The foundation
$2,500 21 days · 50% books it
  • Everything in Feature
  • Accounts consolidated, bios and link-in-bio written, art designed
  • One-page website on your own domain
  • DM automation and a 30-day content calendar
  • Twelve more vertical videos, one half-day shoot
Book a Brand Build
3 · Your own show
$6,000 45 days · 50% books it
  • Concept, name, format, and who it's for
  • Cover art, thumbnails, intro and outro
  • YouTube built; Spotify and Apple feeds live
  • First four episodes recorded and edited — in person or remote
  • Twenty clips, a trailer, and the system to keep it going
Launch a Show
4 · The brand department
$3,000/mo · six-month term
  • Two episodes of your show a month, produced and published
  • One on-location shoot, or two remote sessions
  • Sixteen shorts, captioned and posted 4× a week
  • YouTube channel managed; comments and DMs answered in your voice
  • The plan before we shoot; one report, one decision, monthly
  • Out of state: a videographer in your city once a quarter
  • First month is the Brand Build, included
Become a Partner

Project work is 50% to book your date and 50% when it's delivered. Founder rate for the first five Partner and Brand Build clients, in exchange for a published case study and three introductions. Momentum For Your Business is a service of Momentum Enterprise Inc., Lodi, California. Nothing on this site is financial, legal, or investment advice.

Be a guest

Built something in the Valley? Tell us the part you don't usually tell.

We book entrepreneurs, funders, and builders from Lodi, Stockton, Modesto, Sacramento, and anywhere the story is worth the drive. You don't need a following. You need something that didn't work, and the nerve to say what you learned from it.

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