Baz Baruah joined us in the Habitz Podcast studio and was talking all things profit. People start businesses to make money. That's the long and short of it. But, a lot of businesses don't put in procedures from the start to have their businesses last long enough to actually make a profit. Most businesses fail within the first five years from poor planning.

Baz is a certified profit first trainer who has helped loads of people realise where they're going wrong when looking at their P&Ls, their income and what they're spending. Just because the money is in your bank, doesn't mean it's yours to spend. With a few tweaks, you'll be set up much better to get through those first few difficult years in business to grow it into something profitable. Ideally seven-figure profitable...

Lewis Ellis joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through social media and using TikTok to your advantage. A lot of businesses don't want to use new platforms or categorise it based on their own views of it. "TikTok's for kids, we won't achieve anything on there".

The rise of lockdown businesses who launched (very successfully) because of TikTok is crazy. So, imagine you already had a platform and kind of knew what you were doing? Marketing doesn't have to be difficult. You just need to be reactive to trends and keep relevant. Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook are great - but there is always space for more. Who knows what audience you're not targeting...

Susan Walsh joined us in the Habitz Podcast studio and was talking all things data classification. A lot of businesses don't realise the importance of keeping data clean until it's really far gone and expensive to fix. Businesses waste so much money from paying attention to the details in their data.

You could be spending huge amounts more with any supplier just because you're not logging it properly. Then you need to pay even more for people like Susan to come in and classify it for you, when you could have had her there from the beginning and the job would have been way smaller.

We've got James Timpson in the Habitz Podcast studio talking us through employee engagement and how they keep everyone invested in the business - resulting in his business being in the top 10 of the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For every time it has entered.

James knows the importance of making your employees feel like family, and their company goals put their team at the front of everything they do. Their work in prison reform paves the way for other businesses to start thinking differently about who they are recruiting and bias they unknowingly recruit with.

We're joined by Lucy Dunleavy in the Habitz Podcast studio and she's talking about online learning. Nothing usually sparks dread like the thought of being on a training day or sitting through a training course on-site somewhere with magnolia walls and a trainer who just doesn't want to be there.

Engagement and entertainment are two hugely important factors when you're trying to complete educational courses for your team, but if you've ever delivered one, you'll know how hard it is.

That's why Lucy is a huge advocate of online learning, and her company LearnBox are proving you don't need to stick to what you've always done to see results.

Johnny Walker joins us in the Habitz Podcast studio today talking about executive job search. If you're an exec and looking for work, it can be easy to assume that because you have a good job title, the offers come flooding in. But that's not the case. Most job seekers don't know how to speak about themselves in an interview properly. They don't know what to highlight when they write a CV. Johnny talks you through how to grow your chances of landing the job.

Chris Cooke is with us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking about how to build an app with no experience. Chris isn't a developer but has now built several successful Jira and Confluence apps so has some tips if you're looking to do the same.

People overcomplicate the user experience or just don't think about the app's end-user at all - don't be that person. Anyone can create an app. You can search 'how to build an app' on YouTube right now and be on your way, but you should watch this first.

Stephen Hull joins us in the Habitz Podcast studio to talk about costing up a build. Whether you're Architect or a Builder on-site, if you’re costing builds or trying to get a realistic quote through from different suppliers you know it can be hard and construction costings can vary massively depending on where you go.

Stephen's business looks to take the difficulty away from getting realistic quotes, helps you save money and plan your build better.

Andy Bishop is in the Habitz podcast studio talking openly about the stigma that is men's mental health. 2020 was terrible for mental health in general but for years a lot of men have struggled with opening up about feelings of depression, anxiety and other mental health problems.

Andy gives a few tips to improve how we talk about these topics carefully and let men know it's ok to open up. Speaking about mental health isn't weak, it's one of the strongest things you can do. So check in on those around you using some of these habits and let men know that there's a life after poor mental health.

Chris Williams is with us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking about digital transformation in business. The high street is a struggle at the moment and it feels like an office is almost a thing of the past, so how do you keep up with the way everything is changing?

If all your processes are offline, if you haven't got an eCommerce platform or if you're just stuck in the past, Chris gives you some tips to join the 21st century.

If you don't transform your business, you'll be left behind.