ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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. Just real conversations after the shift ends.
New episodes weekly.
🎙 Hosted by people who’ve been on the tools and in business
🇦🇺 Built for tradies and operators who want more
📈 Real talk about work, life and building something bigger
Money. Stress. Wins. Failures. Business growth. Relationships. Mental pressure. The reality behind the highlight reel.
No scripts. No filters. Just real conversations after the shift ends.
New episodes weekly.
🎙 Hosted by people who’ve been on the tools and in business
🇦🇺 Built for tradies and operators who want more
📈 Real talk about work, life and building something bigger
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
71 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
8 episodes
since Feb. 20, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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 tha…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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 c…
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…
Simon "Simo" Moloney got sacked from two apprenticeships before he turned 21 — once in carpentry, once in tiling. Today he runs his own tiling business on the Central Coast with a crew of four, books work out 12+ weeks in advance, and does 95% of his jobs through builders he's known for n…
In Episode 4 of After the Shift, Kirk, Sam and Liam (LS Fencing) are joined by special guest Tommy Simpson — carpenter, lifelong rugby league player, jiu-jitsu addict, and former cast member of MTV's Aussie Shore.Tommy takes us through the full ride: growing up in Wollongong, falling in love with f…
Andrew "Sootie" George went from swinging a hammer at 19 to running Lou Projects — a custom home building company now constructing $2-3 million homes on the Central Coast. In this episode, we dig into how it actually happened (spoiler: it wasn't the plan), what it costs mentally, and why …
I thought I'd be great in business. Then I lost ~$150k in business and ~$60k on a crypto horse-racing Ponzi.
This episode is the full story — engineer at BlueScope, made redundant at 25 with a $60k payout, blew some of it on NBA finals tickets in San Francisco, tried to build an app, came home, fa…
What do you do after you get sacked as an apprentice?
In this first episode of After The Shift, we sit down with Liam — who was let go as a landscaping apprentice… and went on to build a fencing company that now employs 15+ people.
We unpack:
Getting sacked early in your career
The mindset sh…
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