Get Your Shift Together: The Profit & Growth Podcast
Feeling overwhelmed and overworked in your own business? You're not broken—your business is. Join "business fixer" Nicola J Barnett for the straight-talking advice you need to fix it.
Each week on Get Your Shift Together, we tackle the real challenges facing small business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn to:
Fix profit leaks and master your cash flow.
Streamline your operations and kill the chaos.
Build systems that give you freedom, not steal your life.
If you're a founder or service-based business owner ready for less stress and more profit, hit subscribe and start building a business that truly serves you.
Episodes
30 episodes
S2E6: Creating Confidence
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 solv...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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5:41
S2E5. Stability: Why Growth Feels Fragile
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 Stabil...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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7:00
S2E4. Create Structure: When Everything Depends on You
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 person...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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7:21
S2E3. Control: The Difference Between Growth and Chaos
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 th...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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S2E2. Review: Why the Bottom Line Isn’t Enough
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 w...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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5:40
S2E1. Awareness: You Can’t Fix What You Haven’t Faced
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Season 2 Intro: Growth vs Scale: Busy Growth Doesn’t Make an Easier Business
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 h...
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4:36
21. What You Know Now — And What Comes Next
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...
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Episode 21
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8:22
20. Cash Trapped Inside Your Business – When Profit Exists but You Can’t Access It
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...
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Episode 20
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9:29
19. Profit Slipping Away Quietly – Why Selling More Isn’t Fixing It
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 t...
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Episode 19
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9:50
18. Why Being Busy Is Costing You Profit
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 ...
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Episode 18
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9:48
17. More Profit Without More Sales – The Money You’re Losing Without Noticing
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 profi...
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Episode 17
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11:34
16. Winding Down, Speeding Up
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 cl...
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4:12
15. Your First 90 Days — How to Start the New Year Strong
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...
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Episode 15
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9:48
14. How to Create a Budget That Funds Your Goals
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 avo...
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9:53
13. How to Create a 12-Month Plan From Your Goals
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 ...
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10:15
12. Goal Setting — And Why It Will Save Your Business
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, bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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6:26
11. Why Business Owners Feel More Overwhelmed Than Ever — And What Needs to Change Before Burnout Wins
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 bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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10:39
10. Money Moves at the Speed of Light – It Comes In and It’s Gone
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 ...
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Episode 10
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7:46
9. Client Expectations – Getting It Right from Day One
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. ...
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11:49
8. Not Enough Hours in the Day
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 i...
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10:30
7. How to Fall in Love with Your Back Office
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...
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8:44
6. Are You Babysitting Your Business?
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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10:44
5. Why Falling in Love With Your Back Office Gives You Freedom
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 excitin...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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11:38
