
Book
Master life's pivotal moments to create a legacy of unstoppable momentum
Discover how Brant Menswar's Designing Momentum can transform your life by teaching you to capture and harness the power of everyday moments. In a world where uncertainty reigns, this motivational guide provides the mindsets and strategies you need for lasting personal and professional growth.
Designing Momentum is your practical guide to recognizing and leveraging life's transformational moments for maximum impact. Through engaging stories and actionable advice, Menswar shows you how to use Moment Momentum to propel yourself toward your goals, creating a legacy worth remembering.
Inside the book:
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Adopt the WITWAW Mindset: Cultivate a “What If There Was A Way” approach to turn probabilities into possibilities.
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Harness the BUMP Framework: Build momentum through belonging, understanding, meaning, and purpose.
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Leverage the power of OGREs: Unleash moments filled with an Overwhelming Gut Reaction of Emotion for tremendous impact.
Designing Momentum is perfect for anyone seeking to elevate their life from ordinary to extraordinary. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a corporate leader, or simply someone who desires personal growth and greater fulfillment, this book will guide you toward realizing your potential one moment at a time.

Endorsements
As someone who leads a company dedicated to fostering creativity and innovation in the design space, I was immediately drawn to the ideas in Designing Momentum. Brant Menswar has crafted a guide that feels both practical and deeply inspirational. The concepts like OGRE moments and the BUMP framework brilliantly illustrate how we can harness the power of small, intentional actions to achieve meaningful progress. This book offers invaluable tools for anyone looking to embrace uncertainty and build momentum—whether in business or life. It’s an empowering read for those ready to turn possibilities into reality, one moment at a time.
Erica Holborn
CEO, SANDOW DESIGN GROUP
Packed with actionable strategies and raw authenticity, this book is a masterclass in building momentum.
Zoe Chance
Yale School of Management professor and bestselling author of INFLUENCE IS YOUR SUPERPOWER
OWN YOUR MOMENT! The time is now. This book will motivate you to build resilience and go from dreaming about something to actually doing it.
Alison Levine
Team Captain, American Women's Everest Expedition
Brant Menswar has crafted something truly transformational. This profoundly personal journey of loss and redemption unveils a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. This is not just another self-help book—it takes a revolutionary approach to success that goes beyond traditional thinking. This book demonstrates how intentionality can harness the power of everyday moments to create unstoppable momentum that becomes a life by design.
Amilya Antonetti
Behaviorist - CEO - AMA Productions
Designing Momentum" is a breakthrough guide for anyone feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Brant Menswar’s powerful insights and actionable strategies help you harness the energy of everyday moments to build unstoppable momentum and achieve your goals. Whether you’re navigating uncertainty, rediscovering hope, or creating a legacy, this book will inspire and empower you to make each moment count. Highly recommended!
Erin King
Creator of “The Energy Exam” and 2x Bestselling Author
Designing Momentum is a transformative guide that captures the power of living moment-to-moment to overcome life's greatest challenges. Brant Menswar's deeply personal journey uniquely positions him to share this vital message.
Nick Hutchison
Founder/CEO of BookThinkers and Bestselling Author of Rise of the Reader
The value of momentum is vastly underrated. With Designing Momentum, Brant Menswar provides a powerful framework for transforming everyday moments into extraordinary opportunities. His blend of personal stories and practical advice makes this book both inspiring and actionable. It's a must-have for anyone determined to create lasting momentum in their life.
Steve Carlis
Co-Founder - 2 Market Media
Brant Menswar takes readers on a powerful, personal journey, offering both inspiration and actionable tools to embrace uncertainty, reclaim focus, and turn everyday interactions into catalysts for unstoppable progress. With heart, wisdom, and a touch of wit, this book is your ultimate guide to building momentum—one moment at a time. If you’re ready to stop surviving and start thriving, Designing Momentum is the blueprint you’ve been waiting for.
Laura Gassner Otting
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Wonderhell
Waiting for the ‘right moment’ is the fastest way to fail. In Designing Momentum, Brant Menswar proves that success isn’t about waiting—it’s about creating the moments that move you forward.
Tamsen Webster
Founder of the Message Design Institute
Brant Menswar delivers a blueprint to navigate uncertainty, overcome challenges, and create a meaningful legacy. Designing Momentum fuels the journey to intentionality, fulfillment, and success, one moment at a time.
Kathleen Wood
Founder and CEO, Kathleen Wood Partners
Before Brant's book, the only Ogre I thought I knew was a green animated character. Turns out, I've confronted more Ogres than I thought, and it's these critical pivot points in life that either sink us or redefine us. Brant's incredible personal story frames some real truths and practical applications that we can all use not just to survive, but to thrive in seemingly unbearable conditions.
Tom Webster
Partner at Sounds Profitable
Pay attention to the implementable and intentional strategies in this book. Give yourself the luxury of making the most of the little moments to build big momentum. Approach this book with curiosity, and you will be delighted with the transformational approach to building an accountability plan that allows you to make a greater impact in the world.
Neen James
Luxury Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Author of Attention Pays
Brant Menswar has crafted a brilliant blueprint for those seeking to harness the power of everyday moments. Designing Momentum is more than just a guide; it's a ‘verbs first’ catalyst for personal and professional transformation. The practical strategies and real-life examples make it an invaluable resource for anyone committed to turning their goals into reality.
Hank Norman
Co-Founder - 2 Market Media
Designing Momentum is like getting a 'personal legacy passport'. Brant Menswar's unique insights and keen understanding of human behavior teach us to treat each moment like an amazing trip to personal growth with strategy and practical application propelling us from destination to destination.
Matt Winn
Partner & Chief Development Officer - Maple Hospitality Group
This essential guide for the 21st century reimagines mindfulness, patience, and focus, showing you how to apply them in transformative ways during every moment of your life. Along the way, Brant challenges harmful illusions and opens your eyes to the untapped power inside you—ready for the moment to burst forth. Do yourself a favor: get this book, dive in, and take notes. Go ahead and Bump that Ogre (you'll see). It's time to rediscover your purpose, reclaim your momentum, and redefine the rest of your life.
Noel Zamot
Former Commander of the US Air Force's elite Test Pilot School, a combat veteran, and author of the award-winning novels The Archer's Thread and The Feather's Push


BRANT MENSWAR
Biography
Brant Menswar stands at the forefront of corporate transformation, masterfully equipping both organizations and individual trailblazers to navigate the current work landscape and ascend to new heights of performance. He is a best-selling author, certified in the Psychology of Leadership from Cornell University, and named one of the country's top motivational speakers. His dynamic live events are a fusion of groundbreaking research and powerful narratives that create "moments" to remember and ignite an emotional call to action among attendees. With more than a decade of strategic involvement with elite global brands, Brant has honed an unparalleled expertise in catalyzing connection, sparking engagement, and helping organizations achieve their big goals.
He has been called "America's Personal Development Coach" having appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX and has worked with companies like Netflix, Verizon, Hilton, Microsoft, ESPN, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and dozens more to help them create unstoppable momentum.



