Get Your Shift Together: The Profit & Growth Podcast

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together, the Business Fixer podcast. In this episode, we are tackling one of the most common and misunderstood challenges in business: the relentless pursuit of more sales. Are you constantly busy, but the profit in your bank account never seems to match the effort? Do you find yourself thinking, "If we could just get more clients, everything would be easier"?...

Welcome to the final Get Your Shift Together episode of the year. This is a short and sweet wrap-up to acknowledge the reality of this strange and busy season for business owners. From the outside, it looks like your business is gently closing for a peaceful break. But behind the scenes, you’re sprinting to the finish line, working extra hours just to earn that time off. You're not alone in t...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together, the Business Fixer podcast. This episode is the final step in our series on planning, where we turn your goals and your 12-month plan into a powerful, intentional start to the year. The first 90 days of any year are crucial. They set the rhythm, priorities, and momentum for everything that follows. Too often, business owners ease into January, telling themselves...

In our last two episodes, we set meaningful goals and turned them into an actionable 12-month plan. Now, we're diving into the step that makes it all possible: creating a budget that actively supports your vision. Most business owners avoid budgeting, not because they're bad with money, but because they're scared the numbers will tell them "no." They wait for things to cal...

In episode 12, we set meaningful, measurable goals to give your business real direction. But a goal without a plan is just a nice idea written in a notebook. Today, we're closing that gap. This episode is for every business owner who has felt the excitement of a new goal, only to get stuck wondering how to actually make it happen. We tackle the common traps of waiting for "the right time...

In this episode, we are tackling one of the most fundamental turning points for any business owner: setting real goals. So many brilliant entrepreneurs are working incredibly hard but find themselves stuck on a treadmill of being busy, but not actually moving forward. They are full of ideas but lack a clear direction, leaving them feeling reactive, behind, and stuck in the same place year after ye...

In this episode, I’m tackling a feeling I see in almost every business owner I meet: the crushing weight of overwhelm. If you’re constantly tired, always in catch-up mode, and secretly wondering if it’s supposed to feel this hard to run your business, this episode is for you. You're not imagining it, and you're not failing. The reality is, the job of a business owner has changed dramatic...

Welcome to another episode of Get Your Shift Together! In our last chat, we explored where your cash might be disappearing. Today, we're taking the next logical step: making that cash move more efficiently. It's a common frustration I see with business owners – your sales are strong and profits look great on paper, but your bank account tells a different story. This often leaves you feel...

Ever had that sinking feeling in your stomach when a "just checking in" email pops up? I've been there. In the beginning, I was so eager to please that I'd answer calls and emails at all hours, creating a standard I couldn't possibly maintain. I was trapped in a cycle of reacting to my clients' every whim, feeling stressed, and constantly worried about negative review...

This week on the podcast, I’m tackling the single biggest complaint I hear from business owners: “There are never enough hours in the day.” I see you. You wake up already feeling behind, with a mental to-do list that’s a thousand items long. You spend your day in a blur of email ping-pong, putting out tiny fires, and feeling busy but achieving nothing. By the end of the day, you’re exhausted, over...

Let’s be honest, does the phrase "back office" make you want to grab another coffee and run? I know the feeling. It’s the spreadsheets, the admin, the stuff you promise you’ll sort out "later." But what if I told you that boring, neglected part of your business is actually where your freedom lives? I used to see it as a chore, too—a heavy weight of paperwork and chasing that ma...

Are you the cheap duct tape holding your business together? Stretched thin, worn out, and about to snap? I get it. I’ve been there—running a business that felt more like a babysitting service, checking emails by the pool, and wondering what the point of all the chaos was. This constant firefighting isn't leadership; it's chaos dressed up as responsibility, and it's draining your sou...

In this episode, I explain why the key to getting your freedom and your weekends back lies in a place most business owners ignore: the back office. I know what you’re thinking—spreadsheets, cash flow, and bookkeeping don't exactly sound exciting. It’s not why any of us started our businesses. But I want to flip that idea on its head. When you learn to love your back office, I promise it will...

In this week’s episode, we wrap up the first crucial step of the Efficiency and Profit Framework: Awareness and Control. I know so many of you feel like you're working twice as hard for half the money, and you just can’t figure out why. This is where awareness comes in—it’s the beginning of all transformation. I break down what I call the "domino effect," that vicious cycle where on...

I'm diving into a question that keeps far too many business owners awake at 3 AM: "Where does the cash actually go?" You're working flat out, the jobs are coming in, but you never quite feel financially secure. That constant stress about whether direct debits will clear or if that customer will finally pay as promised is exhausting. You're always hunting for the next job b...

In this episode of Get Your Shift Together, I'm diving deep into a topic that affects so many business owners: why you might be working for peanuts without even realizing it. We often have a "system" for pricing, but where did it come from? Dave down the pub? Or real, factual numbers? Today, I’m pulling back the curtain on your true profit margins. Grab your latest Profit & Loss...

In this first episode of Get Your Shift Together, I’m kicking off my Business Fix Sprint by tackling the crucial first step of the Efficiency and Profit framework: Awareness and Control. I see so many business owners working twice as hard for half the money because they’re making decisions in the dark, based on financial data that’s lying to them. As I always say, you can't fix what you can&a...

Welcome to Get Your Shift Together, the podcast I'm creating for business owners just like you. I'm Nicola J Barnett, the Business Fixer, and I know what it's like to be flat out, stressed about cash, and unsure what to fix first. In this first look at what the show is all about, I'm introducing you to my proven Efficiency and Profit Framework. I’ll explain why simply chasing m...

Are you working flat out from the moment you wake up, only to find yourself drowning in chaos with cash flow all over the place? Do you look at your business and wonder, "Is it me? Is it the business? Can this even be fixed?" I get it. I'm Nicola J Barnett, The Business Fixer, and it's time to get your shift together. Welcome to The Business Fixer Podcast , the show for overwhe...