Get Your Shift Together: The Business Fixer 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
16 episodes
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
4. Connecting The Dots
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...
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9:57
3. Where Does the Cash Actually Go?
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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9:08
2. Why You're Working for Peanuts (And Don't Even Know It)
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? Dav...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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9:50
1. Is Your Bookkeeping Lying to You?
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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9:57
Introducing The Efficiency and Profit Framework
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...
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6:12
Welcome to Get Your Shift Together: The Business Fixer Podcast
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'...
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