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The Winning Momentum Podcast with Scott Sinclair
Winning Momentum is for business leaders, entrepreneurs, owner managers, related professionals and students of business. It is about improved business performance, leadership and crisis management. Turning negative momentum into positive momentum that, in turn, renews energy and passion, attracts resources, both human and financial, and relieves the destructive personal and family pressures that come with a struggling business. Winning Momentum content consists of three parts: 1. Leadership Skills: Because troubled businesses need leadership to change. 2. Mindset Development: Because troubled businesses are always limited by the personal habits and mental filters of its leaders. 3. Technical Skills: Because running out of money during a turnaround is not an option.
The Winning Momentum Podcast with Scott Sinclair
Sinclair Range Week in Review — June 29, 2026
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Building software with a cigar, launching a lending company, the merchant-cash-advance trap, and what a small-town sewage crisis teaches about execution.
This Week
Vibe-coded a business valuation tool — built it just by talking to an AI; it’s going up on thescottsinclair.com.
Also, built two websites.
We launched Interim Credit Corp. — a new lender for Canadian businesses in transition: bridge,
DIP, turnaround, and special-situations financing
Lesson Learned: The Merchant Cash Advance Trap
“Fast money” sold as a “purchase of future receivables” is often a loan in disguise
These agreements can be far weaker than the funder wants you to believe
The lesson for owners: the most expensive money is the money you take when you’re desperate
Also, talk to your lawyer. That’s not us
Struggles: When the “Friend” Turns on You
In contested situations, even a supposedly neutral party — or a cooperative professional — can turn adversarial
Don’t get emotional, get organized: control the record and do everything in writing
What I’m Thinking About: Execution Is Everything
Recording a podcast for our town’s mayoral race — a wastewater crisis fourteen years in the making
Distressed companies and city halls fail the same way: not a money problem, an execution problem