Get Your Shift Together: The Profit & Growth Podcast

Welcome to a slightly different, unplanned episode of Get Your Shift Together. Usually, we are breaking down the technical mechanics of profit, cash flow, and systems. But today, I’m sharing a personal look into my own journey, my background, and why I see businesses differently. My path didn't start in a fancy corporate office; it started in a messy portacabin surrounded by filing cabinets, c...

We are wrapping up a season that has hopefully been a real eye-opener into how profit leaks, cash flow squeezes, and lost time are all connected. If you found yourself nodding along to our episodes on contracts, pricing, and boundaries, it might be the right time to consider getting better financial support to help guide your business forward. I have decided to take a summer break this August to s...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together. We are wrapping up our three-part series on contracts with our final lens: time. We’ve looked at profit and cash, but today we are tackling the ultimate silent leak: why your team is flat out, yet there is nothing to show for it. Many owners fall into the trap of thinking a job is a job. They assume 100 small, one-off callouts are worth the same as 10 regular co...

Welcome back to Get Your Shift Together. This is part two of our series for B2B service businesses with mobile teams. Last episode, we looked at how one aggregate P&L can hide contracts that are quietly losing you money. Today, we are looking at cash. Because even a highly profitable contract can empty your bank account if you don't understand your gap. We’ve all experienced the excitement...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together. Today we are launching a three-part series specifically for B2B service firms with mobile teams, our Trades with Teams. Over the next three episodes, we are looking at your contracts through three lenses: profit, cash, and time. Today, we start with profit. Most owners can tell me exactly how many contracts they are running, but when I ask which ones actually ma...

We are wrapping up our mini-series focused on operational and service-based B2B businesses. In the last two episodes, we explored the dangers of flying blind on profit and the true cost of delaying proper financial support. Today, we tackle what might be the most common—and dangerous—scenario of all. This episode is for the business owner who thinks they don't need a finance function because t...

In the last episode, we explored the dangers of flying blind and how relying on year-end accounts can lead to nasty profit and tax surprises. Today, we are focusing on the other side of that coin: cash flow. We tackle the most common—and most dangerous—excuse business owners use for not getting proper financial support: "I know I need it, but I just can't afford it right now." It’s c...

Welcome to a new mini-series on Get Your Shift Together. This specific series is dedicated to service-based B2B businesses running complex contracts with mobile or floor-based teams—think electricians, M&E engineers, commercial cleaners, facilities managers, plumbers, and warehouse operators. In this episode, we are tackling a dangerous trap that many of these hard-working, operational busines...

We've spent the last two episodes looking at how a lack of structure damages your profit and cash flow. In this episode, we tackle the final, most personal cost of weak structure: Time. If you are a business owner whose phone is always on at night, who checks emails on holiday, and who answers messages all weekend, this episode is for you. We explore why being constantly available isn't a...

In our last episode, we explored how a lack of structure turns the business owner into the bottleneck holding everything together. Today, we’re looking at what happens next: how weak operational structure bleeds into weak financial structure. If you've ever looked at a healthy turnover and wondered, "Where the hell has all the money gone?", this episode is for you. Most cash flow pro...

In the first three episodes of this season, we explored how the wrong client base can quietly destroy your profit, tighten your cash flow, and steal your time. Now, we are moving into the next layer of pressure that growing businesses face: Structure. There comes a point where the problem is no longer just the clients. It's the fact that the business has grown faster than the foundations under...

We have already analyzed profit and cash, and now we are adding the final, most revealing column to our client audit: Time. Many of you are probably asking the same question I hear every day. Where the hell does my day go? The typical advice is to work smarter, but I find that completely useless. You are not working in a silly way. You are simply working in a business designed around your constant...

Welcome back! In our last episode, we looked at the profit lens and how the wrong clients can quietly eat your margins. Today, we’re adding the next layer: cash. Specifically, I’m answering that frustrating question I hear from so many owners: "Revenue is up, so why does the bank balance still feel so tight?" Most people jump to the conclusion that they just need to "chase harder.&q...

Welcome to the season three premiere of Get Your Shift Together: The Profit & Growth Business Podcast. In this episode, I’m tackling the single most common frustration I hear from business owners across every industry: "We’re busier than ever, but profit is less than it was two years ago." If you feel like you're on a treadmill—working harder, hiring more staff, and winning more...

Welcome to the season finale of Get Your Shift Together. Throughout this series, we haven’t just been talking about improving your business; we’ve been rebuilding how it works from the ground up. If you look at your business today and feel like you’re constantly trying to keep up rather than being in control, this episode is for you. Most of us didn't build our businesses to feel stretched or...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together. We are continuing our journey through the Achieve milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework. After setting a clear destination in our last episode on Direction, we now tackle the strategy that ensures you actually get there: Accountability .  We explore why the "whirlwind" of daily operations—the urgent problems and demanding clients—constantl...

We have arrived at the final strategy within the Achieve milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework: Success . After setting your Direction and building the Accountability to stay on track, this episode is about the crucial step of actually recognizing and understanding your results. Many business owners are moving forward and improving, but because they only focus on what needs fixing nex...

In this episode, we transition into the final milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework: Achieve . We've moved past "operating in the dark" (Analyse) and solved the problem of "dependence" (Optimise). Now that your business is running properly, the next crucial question is: Where is it actually going? This is where we tackle the first strategy of the Achieve miles...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together. In this episode, we complete the Optimise milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework by addressing the final, crucial piece of the puzzle: Confidence . We’ve built structure to solve the problem of dependence, and we’ve built stability to stop the business from wobbling. But often, even after these improvements are made, business owners still feel a ling...

We are continuing our deep dive into the Optimise milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework. After building structure to solve dependence, we now tackle the feeling that holds so many growing businesses back: a lack of Stability . This episode is for any business owner who feels like their business could "wobble" at any moment, even when revenue is strong. You're constantly...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together. In this episode, we move into the second major milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework: Optimise . After building visibility in the Analyse stage, we now tackle a different, more personal problem: dependence . Many business owners understand what's happening in their business, but it still relies entirely on them to hold it all together. This is...

Today we are closing out the "Analyse" milestone of my Efficiency & Profit Framework by discussing the missing link in most scaling businesses: Control. Many business owners I work with feel like they are "on top of things" because they have more data and more meetings. However, they are often still operating in a reactive state. If you find yourself constantly putting out...

We are continuing our deep dive into the Analyse milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework, moving from Awareness to the second crucial strategy: Review . This episode is for every business owner whose relationship with their numbers is reactive. You glance at the turnover, check the bank balance, or see a reasonable profit figure and assume everything is fine. You tell yourself you'...

Welcome back for Season 2 of Get Your Shift Together! We're kicking things off by diving straight into the first and most crucial milestone of the Efficiency & Profit Framework: Analyse . This episode is for every business owner who feels responsible for knowing everything, who absorbs the pressure when things get tight, and who has become the final sense-check for every decision. We expl...

Welcome to the first episode of Series 2 of Get Your Shift Together. In this episode, we are tackling a truth most business owners feel but rarely say out loud: growth doesn’t automatically make business easier. In fact, for many, it makes it heavier. You’ve built momentum and proven your business works, but somewhere along the way, something shifted. More clients, more revenue, and a bigger team...