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. Hosted by Lauren Aquilino and Sydney Mulligan.
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.
www.prettyfunnybusiness.com (https://www.prettyfunnybusiness.com?utm_medium=podcast)
LinkedIn Famous and I Had No Idea: The Algorithm Picks Who You Know
Lauren talked to a man for 30 minutes at HubSpot’s UNBOUND conference before she noticed the line of people waiting to meet him. He has 400,000 LinkedIn followers. She is on LinkedIn every day and had never seen one of his posts.
This episode is about the algorithm, known on this show from now on as the Al Gore rhythm. It starts at home: Lauren looks up from a phone game where colored ants collect pixels and asks her husband what he’s laughing at. His answer is “whatever they give me,” which turns out to be Bob Does Sports Migos mashups and, later, pit bulls eating raw meat. Sydney counters with the Instagram ads responsible for every fun thing her family does all summer, and Lauren launches a new recurring segment, Algorithms I Have No Business Being On, starring the bald subreddit.
Then it gets uncomfortably close to work. At HubSpot’s conference with Leslie Douglas, Lauren met a whole tier of sales-world LinkedIn famous people she had never once been served, and realized LinkedIn is a different platform depending on whose feed you’re standing in.
Also this episode:
The pick-two rule for clean hair, makeup and outfit, and why neither host cleared one
Sydney’s husband reviews Shakespeare in the Park for the TikTok generation
Why Lauren’s youngest is not allowed to show her face on her YouTube channel
The $3 Duane Reade serum that made Sydney’s whole week
Who exactly has been following the PFB YouTube channel lately
Why Claude flags every transcript where we mention Zohran Mamdani
Timestamps
00:00:00 Cold open: there was a line to meet him
00:01:05 Clean hair, makeup, outfit: pick two
00:04:45 Introducing the Al Gore rhythm
00:05:20 Lauren’s most embarrassing phone games
00:12:05 “Whatever they give me”
00:13:55 The family computer YouTube era (and chat rooms)
00:17:15 Every kid wants a YouTube channel
00:20:05 Where “Never mind” came from
00:21:25 Shakespeare in the Park vs. Titanique
00:24:00 The car algorithm and the surprise Christmas car
00:27:05 Getting got by every Instagram ad
00:29:50 “I’m paying with my data”
00:31:20 Grocery store end caps are the original algorithm
00:33:00 Algorithms I Have No Business Being On: the bald subreddit
00:37:05 Pit bulls, color mixing and rug cleaning
00:41:20 Who’s following our YouTube channel
00:43:05 HubSpot’s conference and the LinkedIn multiverse
00:46:00 Zohran Mamdani, echo chambers and kids who can spot AI
00:48:50 Good luck out there
Links
Follow Pretty Funny Business on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pretty-funny-business (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pretty-funny-business)
Subscribe on Substack: www.prettyfunnybusiness.com (http://www.prettyfunnybusiness.com/)
Follow us on Instagram: @prettyfunnybusiness
MOPZA and the Marketing Operations community: https://marketingops.com/ (https://marketingops.com/) (code PFB10 takes 10% off a Pro membership)
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6 Oct 2026
I Truly Wish I Had Your Forehead" and Other Comments From Our New Hater
A stranger on LinkedIn looked at Lauren's selfie and decided the headline was her forehead.
The post was about Harry Potter houses and color seasons: Lauren's husband bought her a Gryffindor sweatshirt that matches her color season, though she is not a Gryffindor. The comment that came back from a third-degree connection was "I truly wish I had your forehead." Sydney gives Lauren a one-time permission slip to ask what exactly the woman liked about it. We are still waiting on a reply.
It turns out the forehead lady was the gentle one. A clip about Sydney trying to hire a nanny drew a comment telling her to "go take care of your own child or keep your legs closed," and a TikTok commenter wanted to know "what kind of mom checks out like that" after Lauren went to bed during her son's last-minute sleepover. Then Lauren shares what two years of EMMIE sales calls say about why teams hire Marketing Operations help, and the answer is the same list it was a decade ago.
Also this episode:
Why Lauren is convinced every Cancer is secretly a Hufflepuff
The 2004 sleepover itinerary: seances, Salad Fingers, and maybe a pizza
The web form where 70 of 120 leads never made it to Salesforce, and nobody noticed for months
The same five dudes in a trench coat running every reorg
Why "Frankenstack" is named after the wrong character
The deals that close fastest, and why that's bad news
Timestamps
00:00:00 Intro: we have haters now
00:02:09 The Gryffindor selfie and the color season problem
00:06:23 "I truly wish I had your forehead"
00:08:22 Asking follow-up questions about compliments (it's attribution)
00:12:41 The nanny clip and the "keep your legs closed" troll
00:16:48 "What kind of mom checks out like that?"
00:21:07 The good comment: "a very Lizzo agency
00:23:56 What 2 years of our sales calls say about Marketing Operations
00:27:14 Problem 1: leads never reach follow-up (54%)
00:31:37 Problem 2: nobody trusts the numbers (46%)
00:33:47 Problem 3: the Frankenstack, and who Frankenstein actually was
00:38:30 Problem 4: the only ops person leaves Friday
00:41:37 The T-shirt we should make
Links:
Follow Pretty Funny Business on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pretty-funny-business (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pretty-funny-business)
Subscribe on Substack: www.prettyfunnybusiness.com (https://www.prettyfunnybusiness.com/)
Marketing Ops community: https://marketingops.com/ (https://marketingops.com/)
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22 Sept 2026
We Let a Guest Host In (And Regretted Nothing)
We finally let someone else sit in the host chair, and it turns out Audrey Harze had no idea what she signed up for. Audrey Harze, CMO at MarketingOps.com, joins us as our first-ever guest host, alongside Mike Rizzo. We recorded this one in person ahead of MOPZA (formerly MOps-Apalooza), this year's marketing ops event, which goes fully virtual in October. We get the real origin story of MOps-Apalooza — the garage sale booth, the dollar store picture frames, and the tattoo artist Mike agreed to before he fully understood
what “tattoo booth” meant — plus why MOPZA is going virtual this year, how the MarketingOps.com membership works, and why EMMIE Collective calls its discounts a “big summer blowout” instead.
Also this episode:
● The Toronto pronunciation debate nobody asked for
● What happens when Lauren gets a compliment and immediately needs more data
● The real story behind the tattoo booth Mike agreed to without reading the fine print
● Audrey's 15 years in agency life before she found MarketingOps.com
● Rapid-fire predictions for marketing ops in the next 12 months
Timestamps:
00:01:51 — Sydney and Lauren welcome Audrey Harze as PFB's first-ever guest host
00:02:27 — Mike Rizzo joins, MarketingOps.com gets its due
00:03:42 — The MOps-Apalooza origin story begins
00:05:36 — The garage sale booth confession
00:07:04 — Why MOPZA is going virtual this year
00:12:12 — MarketingOps.com membership and the listener discount
00:13:42 — The “big summer blowout” bit
00:15:12 — The tattoo booth Mike didn't know he agreed to
00:18:10 — Barbie party debrief and the compliment-collecting bit
00:20:00 — How Audrey ended up running marketing at MarketingOps.com
00:21:17 — The Toronto pronunciation debate
00:24:47 — Audrey's 15 years in agency life, before the burnout
00:27:00 — Rapid fire: predictions, tools nobody should buy, and the most-used word at MOps-Apalooza
this year
Links
Follow Pretty Funny Business on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pretty-funny-business)
Subscribe on Substack (https://www.prettyfunnybusiness.com/)
MOps-Apalooza / Marketing Ops community (https://marketingops.com/)
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