Marketing Sucks

About Marketing Sucks

Marketing Sucks is the podcast for business owners who are looking for practical, fun, and strategic ways to get noticed online, and don’t want to sit through 30 minutes of filler to get to the good stuff. Each week, Grind Social Media + Co founder Amanda Casinha sits down with the industry’s most interesting and unconventional ad experts, funnel developers, content creators, and changemakers to explore their off-the-beaten-path strategies and experiences in the world of marketing and business — and dig into real stories of failures, strategies, and how they got their jaw-dropping results.

Publisher

Amanda Casinha-Ginther

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

16 Jan 2024

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

118 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026

   How We Run a Remote Agency While Living in Portugal for the Summer

   This week on Marketing Sucks, Amanda and Phil are giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how they run Grind Media Group remotely while living in Portugal for the summer. They talk about what it actually takes to work abroad with kids, clients, time zones, no full-time childcare, and a business that still has to keep moving. From late-night work blocks and summer hours to client boundaries, batch working, chaotic travel days, and the reality of working in paradise without actually being on vac...

2. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Working With Your Partner: The Mental Load of Business, Marriage, and Entrepreneurship

   This week on Marketing Sucks, Amanda and Phil are joined by award-winning psychotherapist Natacha Pennycooke for a real conversation about what it actually takes to work with your partner, protect your relationship, and run a business without letting it take over your entire life. They unpack the mental load that comes with being business partners, especially when you are also married, and why entrepreneurship can put extra pressure on your nervous system, communication, boundaries, and emoti...

3. 

   18 Aug 2026

   Email Marketing That Builds Community, Trust, and Sales

   This week on Marketing Sucks, Amanda and Phil are talking about why email marketing is not dead, but the way most businesses are using it absolutely needs help. Instead of treating your email list like a place to blast sales messages 24/7, Amanda breaks down how to use email as a community-building tool that creates trust, conversation, loyalty, and long-term sales. They unpack why people unsubscribe, why generic newsletters fall flat, how to send emails people actually want to open, and why ...

Who has been a guest on Marketing Sucks

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

• Alvaro Berrios
• Adrienne Kmetz
• Erin Tee
• Natacha Pennycooke
• Kunle Ifabiyi

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: 41 / 100

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

Quality

39

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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