Beyond the Numbers with Bev Wakefield

About Beyond the Numbers with Bev Wakefield

Welcome to Beyond the Numbers, the podcast where we take the stress out of business finance and break down the numbers in a way that actually makes sense. Each week, you’ll be joined by Bev Wakefield as she shares straight-talking, practical advice to help you take control of your business finances. From cash flow to pricing, profit to planning, Bev breaks it all down with clarity and simplicity, so you can make confident decisions and build a business that truly works for you.

Publisher

Briight Studios

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Apr 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

43 of 48 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   They Gave Her 12 Months to Live. She Built a Business and a Life of Meaning | Author Barbara Baker

   Host Bev Wakefield interviews author and Chartered Director Barbara Baker about thriving after a terminal diagnosis, building a business, and finding resilience in life's challenges.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   He Lost £250,000... and It Was the Best Education He Ever Had | Martin Sandhu | Beyond The Numbers

   Bev Wakefield interviews Martin Sandhu, a product and technology strategist, about his £250,000 business loss as a pivotal learning experience for redefined wealth.

3. 

   24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   You’re Not Failing. You’re Learning. | Baasit Siddiqui, Gogglebox & Educator

   Host Bev Wakefield interviews educator and Gogglebox star Baasit Siddiqui about separating failure from identity and learning resilience through unexpected opportunities.

Inside a recent episode

They Gave Her 12 Months to Live. She Built a Business and a Life of Meaning | Author Barbara Baker

Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And for a very long story short, I ended up setting up a nursery in the hospital near to where I lived and where I worked so that I could deal with that. Back to work. So then you climbed through the ranks to sister. Did you get to your sister role at that point? Yes, yes. But you'd already then created a business of a workplace crash, in effect. That's right. I was given the old matron's bungalow at Mothers Cave Hospital in Coventry and set that up and then found another fellow nurse that was, you know, we got on really well. So I asked her to join me. And we set up and built the business in that initial stage with one nursery and ended up 16 years later with 10 nurseries across the UK and sold the business in a trade sale. […]

Who has been a guest on Beyond the Numbers with Bev Wakefield

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Barbara Baker
• Martin Sandhu
• Baasit Siddiqui
• Richard Gerver
• Ben Afia

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

38

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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