Episode 23 is here, and we've got the fantastic Kiley Nichols with us! Join hosts Sydney Mulligan and Lauren Aquillino for a wild ride through the worlds of demand generation, marketing ops, and delightful mishaps. From innocent playground rendezvous to PR escapades, this episode is a whimsical exploration of marketing, marketing ops and beyond. Uncover the fascinating journey from PR to demand generation with the amazing Kiley Nichols. Dive into memorable first jobs, from babysitting to embodyi...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min
We had a real OG join us on PFB today. We are HONORED to welcome Jessica Cross, legendary Marketo expert turned Marketing pro, to our show. We could never possibly touch on every topic covered in this roller coaster of an episode, but there will definitely be: Beer brewing How should you really be thinking about your B2B LinkedIn ad targeting A full behind-the-scenes rundown of the planning of THAT PARTY with Will Smith in Vegas Marketo Summit 2017 - CAN NOT MISS THIS Horses playing water polo M...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Today on the pod we have plant daddy and privilege PV, Connor Jeffers, who is BRINGING THE HEAT with his spicy takes about the marketing automation space. Connor is the world's biggest Hubspot PV and took us to Hubspot school to educate us on all the ways Hubspot as a platform has evolved and grown in the last year to be truly ready for the enterprise space. Our purple loving girls defended Marketo's honor but it's nice to see Hubspot catching up ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaster...
Oct 01, 2023•56 min
Dave Rigotti, CEO and Founder of Inflection.io , a new-ish Product-Led Growth (PLG) platform, joins the gals for a little fun recounting some Bizible tea, what it’s like to be a dad of twins (plus a dog), and B2B2C2H2H marketing. Don’t miss it! See you soon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/support This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss thi...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Join a top contender for favorite member of the Marketo Mothership, James Leedom, Customer Technical Advisor at Adobe. We cover a wider range of topics than ever before, from tech support processes, acquisitions to insurrections, male friendships to booze cruises, and what a five panel hat is. And you don’t want to miss hearing how he facilitated the greatest client call of Sydney's life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support thi...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 11 min
The gals chat with stranger-turned-bestie Jack Segal, Marketing Operations at DataGrail. New-ish in his career, Jack has already implemented Segment SOLO and taught himself Python. Set to take the marketing technology industry by storm, Jack can't escape the wrath of being a guest on Pretty Funny Business. Tune in to hear more from this wholesome-AF marketing ops professional. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support this podcast: h...
Aug 25, 2023•53 min
Dive right in to the next episode in our Working Dads series! Evan Kubitschek is a dad to 2 based in Raleigh, NC and one of EMMIE’s newest consultants. Learn about his career in commercial lighting coming back to haunt him, what you do with a Philosophy degree, how he got started in Marketing Ops, his fear of the sun, our favorite television shows and Trader Joe’s recommendations, and most importantly why Evan sought out freelancing as a way to bring more flexibility and balance to his life as a...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Justin Norris of 360Learning joins Lauren Aquilino and Sydney Mulligan to discuss the pros and cons of marketing operations consulting vs client-side, what it's like to work remote in the Canadian countryside and what he was doing during THAT Marketo Summit party. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/support This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 7 min
If you've been around in the Marketo world for even a short time, you've certainly heard of Jep Castelein. Jep is an OG Marketo expert -- he worked at Marketo for 8 years! Jep is a Marketing data engineer and founder of Momentera, and apparently does not know how obsessed everyone is with him. He's part of the EMMIE Collective crew and the most interesting guy you'll ever meet. Tune in to find out what Jep is short for (hint: it's not Jepisode or Jepperoni), Marketo builds that Jep regrets, and ...
Jul 11, 2023•55 min
Sydney Mulligan and Lauren Aquilino share a non-exhaustive rundown of non-marketing operations related things they are terrible at. To combat imposter syndrome, they add in a few Marketo and Hubspot things they are actually pretty good at, too. Cheers to toxic positivity! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/support This is a public episode. If you'd like ...
Jun 09, 2023•55 min
The man, the myth, the legend.... Mike Rizzo of MarketingOps.com ! Join Sydney Mulligan and Lauren Aquilino as they discover how Mike first got into Marketing Operations, HubSpot, and community building. Then, hold on tightly while they move REAL quickly into some Dick's Sporting Goods lore which sends Lauren into a fit of laughter from which she cannot recover. Sydney goes on to share her love of working retail as well. You'll also here other nonsensical things like: An infinite loop workflow f...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
In this episode, we welcome JASON RAISLEGER to the pod! Jason is a Marketing Operations OG, and creator and grandfather of MOPS MEMES ( https://mopsmemes.com/ ). He shares with us what it means for him to work less every day, and the best managerial advice he’s had. As a bonus, adding another Airtable PV like Jason to the crew really got us talking about all the fun things we can do with the tool. As always, we talk about some fun work-travel stories, people he’d love to work with again (and som...
May 12, 2023•58 min
In this episode, Sydney Mulligan and Lauren Aquilino host their gal pal from across the pond, Emily Poulton. Learn how these three friends met and how Emily got started in Marketing Operations. Find out which colleagues she randomly got MATCHING TATTOOS with (her first, ever!) and who she hopes to work with again in the future. You'll hear more about cats, pants, Mean Girls the Musical, and of course just lots of laughing. Emily has joined EMMIE Collective as a consultant and leads our European ...
May 05, 2023•59 min
Join us for a trip to the great white north to visit our very favorite Canadian, Mike Macfarlane. Mike is the nicest person we know, the OG Eloqua power user (seriously he practically invented key functionality in the product), and an outstanding consultant. Listen in to hear Mike's hot takes on Tim Horton's, his favorite wrestling subreddits, and why Sydney is not allowed to do any graphic design work ever. See you soon! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prett...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Join the gals as they chat with very special guest Rachel Squire (also featuring very tiny guest Mazie in her podcast/world debut). Rachel is a well known member of the Marketo Community and Marketing Ops world, with a career spanning IT (listen for her iconic IT moment funneling fans into the server room when the AC went down), Marketing Ops and Data Analytics. Get to know Rachel and the coolest things she's ever built as a consultant, what her real thoughts on ChatGPT are, and what the rain co...
Mar 24, 2023•47 min
In this episode, listen in as Sydney Mulligan and Lauren Aquilino take their quarterly business trip to see each other IRL. This time? To St. Augustine, Florida. Listen in to hear the shenanigans they get into, the top things they did NOT do in St. Augustine, and Lauren's secretly terrible bucket list item. They also recount a hilarious conversation about duplicate records in systems like Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot and Pardot. And, they recap a visit to the Fountain of Youth followed by a gold...
Mar 10, 2023•53 min
Join the gals of Pretty Funny Business as they explain words from their lexicon that may leave you scratching your head. Find out more about the NSFW term for being obsessed with something, the worst part of working for a typical agency, and how admin work makes us laugh and spend some extra QT together. Then, we shout out one of our favorite content creators on LinkedIn alongside some spicy comments made on her recent post. In a these unprecedented times, you know you can count on always regret...
Feb 16, 2023•41 min
In this episode, Lauren lays down her predictions for 2023 while Sydney reacts in real-time. Then, the two hosts recap a business planning trip to NYC gone awry due to bubbles on bubbles. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/support This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.pre...
Jan 20, 2023•47 min
In this episode, Sydney Mulligan and Lauren Aquilino share their picks for replacing the original 12 Days of Christmas Gifts for 2022. This year, we were all shocked and saddened to realize just how many birds we've been receiving year over year from our "true loves." Tune in to this special episode to find out the pretty things, the funny things, and the business things we are actually wishing for this year. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusines...
Dec 20, 2022•32 min
Fka Why does slow clapping have to get faster? This time we welcome our "Brandma," Liz Mayer, to teach us about bringing our whole ass to work, living our most authentic lives and being the main character. Liz is a consultant, coach, and creator of Work & Whim (@workandwhim on insta!), spreading the word on leading a career and ultimately a life with your whole self, that honors your productive and playful sides. Listen in for what a day in our lives are like (meh), thoughts on Taylor Swift ...
Nov 23, 2022•57 min
Join us for the very first ever MOPs Dream Team Snake Draft! Kimi Corrigan, VP of Marketing Operations and Strategy at Expel, joins the crew for a little TL;DR recap of her recent MOPsCON Keynote presentation. You'll learn the makings of the perfect MOPs organization and each position needed to create the perfect MOPs team. Listen on as the gals take broad liberties to staff their very own fictional MOPs Dream Teams. You'll find out who from IRL makes the cut, which version of Taylor Swift is th...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min
It's episode TWO and that's an accomplishment in and of itself! Listen in as we declare a new name for people who fill out forms, recount the most awkward networking moment of all time, and discuss the people who helped us early in our Marketing Operations careers. We also touch on the difference in the feeding patterns of alligators and crocodiles, the vibey time Lauren called Sydney at 6 am from Palm Springs, and a couple of LinkedIn posts that made us reconsider our places in this universe. Y...
Sep 21, 2022•39 min
Join us as we stumble through our v first podcast episode and discuss what Pretty Funny Business even means, why quiet quitting is dumb, and where Sheryl Sandberg got it wrong. Most importantly, you'll get EXCLUSIVE content on what it took to generate A Viral Post on LinkedIn by Sydney Mulligan, including how far in advance she plans her LinkedIn content and what she plans to do with her new-found fame. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/mess...
Aug 29, 2022•18 min
Introducing « Pretty Funny Business », the playground brand we were forced to create in order to corral our founders’ nonsensical ideas and general tomfoolery. From the founders of, by not generally endorsed by, Emmie Collective. You can expect off-the-cuff banter on feminism, funny business, and well.. not-so-funny business. Join us out of curiosity, stay for the hot takes and dad jokes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prettyfunnybusiness/message Support thi...
Aug 25, 2022•37 sec
