HeyJaredAfter The Shift
After The Shift is where tradies, founders and operators talk about the stuff that doesn’t get posted on Instagram.Money. Stress. Wins. Failures. Business growth. Relationships. Mental pressure. The reality behind the highlight reel.No scripts. No filters.
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#8 - Jay Tough (opens the original)
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Jay "Toughy" Tough did two apprenticeships, hated the first one, and built Fusion Projects into a nine-man electrical and carpentry business on the Central Coast without ever advertising. He tells Kirk, Sam and Liam how it really went: working a full year to lose $20,000, the BAS bill that emptied his savings, the first hire that made him busier instead of freer, and the business coaching that finally taught him his numbers. Plus the monthly toolbox talks where he shows the whole crew the profit
#7 - Tamika Johnston (opens the original)
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Trade business coach Tamika Johnston has seen the pattern hundreds of times: tradies working six days a week, flat out, burnt out, and not paying themselves a cent. She joins Kirk, Sam and Liam to break down the financial model she uses to turn that around, from tracking hours on every job to the client who was earning $1,000 an hour on work he was trying to push away. She shares her own story too: building a construction business, nearly breaking down, losing it in a divorce, and coming back as
#6 - Tom and Zoe (opens the original)
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Two firsts on the show: our first female guest and our first couple. Zoe the Barber grew up in her dad's barbershop and has been cutting for 15 years; her partner Tom Maloney ditched a teaching degree to start a sparky apprenticeship at 24. They join Kirk, Sam and Liam to talk about the trauma-dump chair and what blokes really tell their barber, the UK barber who got a free Porsche for cutting hair, unpaid invoices including a plumber chasing $50K from the council, and both of their biggest stuf
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