English in a Minute: Beth teaches you some verbs that can be used with 'business'
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. You're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. We hope you're ready to learn because we mean business. If you mean business, you are serious and determined about what you're doing. Meet Barbara. She works in business. It's the area of work she does.

I'm an operations analyst and my husband is an auditor. We work in business. Now meet Joshua. He's set up a business. That means he's prepared, planned and now has a business. I've set up a bakery. I make and sell cakes and bread. He's the owner but he's also running the business. That means he's managing it and working in it.

Unfortunately, his customers aren't very happy. £10 for a loaf of bread? You're going to go out of business with those prices. If you go out of business, you don't make enough money and you have to close down. Poor Joshua. BBC Learning English Yoga is more than just exercise. It's the spiritual practice that millions swear by.

And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation. It felt a really safe and welcoming space. After the yoga classes, I felt amazing. But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders. ♪

I don't have my passport, I don't have my phone, I don't have my bank cards, I have nothing. The passport being taken, the being in a house and not feeling like they can leave.

You just get sucked in so gradually.

And it's done so skillfully that you don't realize. And it's like this, the secret that's there. I wanted to believe that, you know, that...

Whatever they were doing, even if it seemed gross to me, was for some spiritual reason that I couldn't yet understand. Revealing the hidden secrets of a global yoga network. I feel that I have no other choice. The only thing I can do is to speak about this and to put my reputation and everything else on the line. I want truth and justice.

And for other people to not be hurt, for things to be different in the future. To bring it into the light and almost alchemise some of that evil stuff that went on and take back the power. World of Secrets, Season 6, The Bad Guru. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.