Get Your Shift Together: The Profit & Growth Podcast

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...

Welcome to the final episode of Series 1 of Get Your Shift Together. This episode is a moment to pause, take stock of everything we've learned, and set the stage for what comes next. Over this series, we've moved from guesswork to clarity. We've untangled the mysteries of cash flow, explored the quiet ways profit leaks out of a business, and understood why being busy doesn't al...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together, the Business Fixer podcast. In this episode, we are tackling a common and frustrating problem: your business looks profitable and busy on paper, but cash in the bank feels tight, restricted, and uncomfortable. Many business owners assume this means they need more sales. But often, the real issue is that your cash is already in the business—it's just trapped...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together, the Business Fixer podcast. In this episode, we are diving deep into one of the most confusing and frustrating experiences for a business owner: watching your sales numbers look good while your bank balance tells a different, more stressful story. Have you ever had a strong month for turnover, only to find that cash still feels tight? Do you believe that if you...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together, the Business Fixer podcast. In this episode, we are tackling one of the biggest and most misunderstood frustrations in business: being constantly busy, but not seeing the profit to match. Do you finish your week exhausted, feeling like you never get to the important work? Do you look at your team, all working hard, and wonder why the financial rewards don't...