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Private Mentorship

Build the business behind a career you can depend on.

Work one-on-one with me for two months.

For people who mix with real paid work, whether full time, moving into it, or alongside live sound, mastering, production or MD work. We figure out what is actually holding the business back, build what needs to change, put it to work with real clients, and adjust from what happens.

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$8,000 total · Financing available

Michael J. Morgan at a mixing console

I don’t teach mixing. I work on everything around it.

  • Pricing
  • Positioning
  • Client acquisition
  • Paid ads
  • Sales
  • Capacity & terms
  • Client experience
  • Systems & automation
  • 6,000+Conversations with audio professionals
  • 500+One-to-one business calls
  • 350+Audio professionals taught or coached

What we work on depends on what your business needs

The Business of Mixing gives us the map. Your business determines the route. We assess the whole business at the start, identify where the real constraint is, and concentrate the two months there.

Clarity

Observe · Shape · Position

Numbers, capacity, rates, services, positioning, website and deciding what parts of the career should grow.

Growth

Attract · Communicate · Sell

Relationships, referrals, outreach, inbound, partnerships, paid ads, follow-up and sales.

Delivery

Manage · Retain · Compound

Terms, revisions, CRM, onboarding, automation, repeat work and referrals.

One client may need pricing and capacity. Another may need a client-acquisition system. Another may need to turn an existing network into work, rebuild a website, launch ads, or get the business out of their head and into systems someone else can help run.

Why two months?

One call can tell us what might need to change. Two months lets us find out whether it actually works.

  1. 01Diagnose
  2. 02Decide
  3. 03Build
  4. 04Use
  5. 05Measure
  6. 06Adjust

The point isn’t to complete my curriculum. It’s to build what your business needs, test it in the real world, and leave you knowing how to run it.

How the two months work

Think of it as a personal trainer for the business side: a session every week, real work in between, and someone holding you to it.

Each week
A private video session with me, same day and time each week. A moved week gets rescheduled.
Length
Booked for an hour. Most run 90 minutes to two hours, and we keep going when the work needs it. That’s my guarantee: effort. I don’t end a useful conversation because the clock hit 60.
In between
Assignments that take about 2 to 4 hours a week. Text, voice memo or email me anytime.
Who builds it
I set up your CRM with you. Your website and ads, you build and run with my guidance.
Your time
Plan for about 3 to 6 hours a week, session included.
You keep
Everything we build: your systems, CRM, plan, decisions, templates and scripts, plus the recording and notes from every session.
People
Introductions when they help, and an invite to my peer groups around the world.

The goal is to stop needing me

I’m not trying to keep you in coaching. We make the business visible, build what’s missing, practice running it and fix what doesn’t hold up. Then it ends.

The point is ownership, not dependence.

Three businesses. Three different problems.

Same framework. Different diagnosis. Different work.

Edsel Holden

01 / Pricing

From “I can work with your budget” to a pricing system he could actually hold

Before

Eight years mastering at $90, then $125 a song, always offering to work with any budget.

What we changed

Business time kept apart from studio time, a financial model, outreach to past clients, and four tiers with turnaround built in.

What happened

The first real test came when an A&R asked to move a release up. He didn’t discount or negotiate with himself; his tiers already had the answer, and the rush master was approved immediately at $300.

“Owner vs operator is worth the price alone.”
Edsel HoldenMastering Engineer, Redact Studios, Nashville
Read Edsel’s full story
Josh Goode

02 / Finding clients

From waiting on referrals to finding his own clients

Before

Four jobs, mixing not yet the main one. Nearly all his work came through a few producer friends, and he froze at the first message to anyone new.

What we changed

Weekly outreach time, hangs with five producers in 30 days, a process for bringing new clients in, project and budget tracking, and a new brand and website.

What happened

New work no longer had to come through his referral circle. He messaged someone he had never worked with, asked to hang out, and it turned into paying work.

“There are real, tangible ways that I can generate growth beyond just waiting for someone to recommend me to my next potential client.”
Josh GoodeMixing & Mastering Engineer, Los Angeles
Read Josh’s full story
David Maria Trapp

03 / Running the business

From busy and reactive to a business other people can help him run

Before

Plenty of work, nearly all of it coming to him, and he rarely saw more than three or four weeks ahead. No fixed rules, so he took on too much and delivered near-full mixes at stem prices.

What we changed

Rates built from his real costs, tiers by type of client, rules for stems and revisions, set rush fees, an outreach system, and processes other people can run.

What happened

A 25% rush fee on a late project, and the client didn’t blink. He books himself to 80% of capacity, and his team was starting to handle project management and client communication.

“I have clear rules instead of having to rethink everything from scratch. … The decisions are already made.”
David Maria TrappMixing & Mastering Engineer, Cologne
Read David’s full story

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What clients say

This has been the best investment I've ever made in my mixing career. Better than any piece of equipment or any tutorial.
Alex KrispinMixing Engineer, Miami, FL
Learning the difference between operating as a technician versus an owner completely rewired how I think about my career.
Ryan DuludeMixing Engineer, Los Angeles
You won't feel like you're in the passenger seat anymore hoping that people will reach out. You will become proactive in your business.
Nicholas SetterMixing Engineer, Los Angeles
Michael wasn't pushing a random sales system — he takes the time to understand you as a person first, then translates that into a business system that works around you. He helped me realize being a good mixer doesn't always translate to having a good mixing business.
Jaspreet SinghMixing Engineer, Fairfield, California
Not only has my workflow improved, but I've also noticed a significant decrease in stress and overwhelm. The insights about my thought patterns and boundaries have completely changed how I approach both work and life.
Julia BorelliMixing & Mastering Engineer, Berlin
I always had this scarcity fear that if I didn't say yes to everything, the phone would never ring again. Now I have the confidence to be more selective.
Matt KellerMixing Engineer, Arizona

What changed outside the business

From a client’s partner

I have known my husband for 16 years and this is the biggest transformation I've ever seen in him. The work he put in with you has shifted the dynamic of our family for the better and I'm forever grateful.
Kelli SetterLos Angeles

From a client’s partner

The biggest difference I've noticed is his motivation and outlook on the future. He's been much more driven and confident — it pours into his role as a father and husband.
Kristine TureckLong Beach, CA

Your results depend on your work, your market and your follow-through. None of this is a promise of income.

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How this compares to other coaching programs

Most people who apply are also weighing one of two other kinds of program. Here’s how they differ.

Private Mentorship compared with paid-ads consulting and producer business development
Paid-ads consultingProducer business developmentPrivate MentorshipMe
Built forAll creative freelancersRecord producersPeople who mix
Starting pointClient acquisitionYour producer careerThe whole business
Finding clientsPaid ads at the centreOutreach firstThe channel that fits your business
Who you work withA consultant and group callsA founder and advisersMe, every session
What gets builtAn ads-led acquisition systemProducer career developmentWhat your business needs
Length90 days, then monthlyA yearTwo months
When it endsOngoing monthly supportLonger-term developmentYou run it yourself
PriceInside the applicationAfter a few meetings$8,000, published

There isn’t one universally better model.

Private Mentorship is for the audio professional who doesn’t want one acquisition tactic or an ongoing adviser. We look across the whole business, find what actually needs attention, build it together, test it in the real world, and leave you able to run it yourself.

Each column describes the program applicants most often weigh this against, from its own published pages, October 2026.

What it costs

One fee

$8,000

I keep the mentorship intentionally small: every session is with me, sessions run past the hour when the work needs it, and you can reach me in between.

Full terms

Pay in full, pay $4,000 now and finance the rest, or finance it all from $388/month over 24 months (about 14.99% APR, about $9,308 in total).

See financing examples

  • Pay in full

    $8,000

    One payment, before the first session.

  • Half now

    $4,000

    Today, and the rest financed through Affirm or Klarna.

  • 6 months

    $1,333/month

    0% APR with Affirm. $8,000 in total.

  • 12 months

    $667/month

    0% APR with Affirm. $8,000 in total.

  • 24 months

    $388/month

    About 14.99% APR, about $9,308 in total.

Financing is through Affirm or Klarna, subject to approval. The lender shows your exact terms at checkout; the monthly amounts here are examples.

If you won’t do the work between sessions, this won’t help.

Common questions

People with real paid work who mix, whether full time, moving into it, or alongside live sound, mastering, production or MD work. A lot of the people I work with are parents fitting this around a family.

It’s me in every session, it’s built for people who mix, and after every change we look at what happened and adjust together. It’s built so you can run the business yourself, not to keep you paying. Other programs usually pair you with a consultant who has dozens of other clients, or a founder and advisers, and charge monthly or yearly.

The Intensive is one session to pick your next move. The mentorship is two months of doing it, with me in your corner. If you’ve done one, $100 comes off when you apply within 30 days of it.

No. Quiet weeks are for building; we test it as work comes in.

Whenever you’re ready. Once you’ve paid or set up financing, we book your first session.

Yes, if they fit your market. I help with the offer, the audience and the numbers. You run them.

No. I help with the structure and the wording, and you build it.

Yes. After our call I’ll put you in touch with one.

I’ll tell you. If the Intensive, another resource or someone else makes more sense, I’ll point you there.

Apply

Tell me where you’re at

I read every application myself.

What happens next

  1. I get back to you myself.
  2. We get on a call, just you and me. You can talk to a past client too.
  3. If it feels right, you decide afterwards. I don’t need an answer on the call.

About you

Your business

Your message

I’m taking new clients now. I keep the number small.

Other ways to work with me

The Intensive Choose the move. $400 The Business of Mixing CourseComing soon Install the system. From $146/month Private Mentorship Build it with me. $8,000

Not sure where to start? Start with the Business Reality Check. It shows whether the real issue is pricing, positioning, outreach, operations, client flow, or the foundation underneath all of it.