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
34 episodes
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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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...
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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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...
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...
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...
S2E7. Direction: When Growth Has No Destination
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...
S2E8. Accountability: Staying on Track to Build Momentum
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...
S2E9. Achieve: Seeing Results and Keeping Them Moving
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 c...
S2E10. Scale by Design: Bringing It All Together
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 fee...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
