Lauren Tilden
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Making Good helps you do better marketing so you can make a bigger impact. If you’re a small business owner, you’re ALREADY making an impact. I’m here to help you supercharge that impact using the power of great marketing, because the more effective marketing you do, the better your business results will be, and the bigger impact you'll be able to make. Want to make money, do something you love, AND make the world a better place? You're in the right place.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lauren Tilden makes marketing and business strategy usable by connecting big frameworks to the everyday decisions facing small-business owners.
Making Good turns small-business ambitions into decisions an owner can actually make. Lauren Tilden moves between guest conversations and book-club discussions with Sherelle Griffith, consistently translating broad ideas into operating questions: how to plan around the life a…
A Pinterest pin gets attention; Lauren Tilden wants you to think about your take-home pay, too.
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A thoughtful book club episode about aligning small-business work with what energizes it.
This book club episode uses Designing Your Life to frame a practical conversation about satisfaction, energy, and the work that actually fills a small business owner's day.
A practical look at Airtable for organizing content, repurposing, and podcast workflow.
Here, the point is less the tool itself than the mess it is meant to organize. Coley James makes a straightforward case for Airtable as a home base for email broadcasts, sequence emails, blog posts, short form content, and podcast work.
Inclusive marketing is framed as a plain, useful way to reflect the audience a business wants to serve.
Inclusive marketing is treated here as a plain business habit, one that helps a company reflect the people it wants to reach instead of chasing a passing branding mood.
A calm reset for small business owners who need to stop over-learning and start acting.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith use this Making Good Book Club episode to treat Pat Flynn's Lean Learning as a practical reminder that more learning is not always the answer.
A practical, low-friction reset for founders who want their numbers to feel manageable.
Making Good takes Leah McCool's accounting background and turns a familiar warning into something useful: clean numbers matter because they make growth easier to handle and keep the business from drifting.
A practical book-club episode about using short, finite experiments to make progress without committing forever.
Lauren Tilden is back on Making Good after a month away, and this book-club episode stays grounded. Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World becomes a useful frame for talking about a pact as a finite, time-boxed way to make progress in business and life.
A practical Pinterest guide for small businesses that want traffic without constant posting.
This episode treats Pinterest less as a social feed and more as a search channel with small-business upside. Lauren Tilden and Heather Farris keep the focus on practical setup, from profiles and boards to what to pin, and the advice stays grounded instead of drifting into…
A practical reset for owners who want growth without turning their business into a grind.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith keep coming back to a simple question for small-business owners: does success have to feel like constant strain?
Simon Owens interviews founders about the revenue mechanics behind their media businesses.
Colin and Samir break down creator-economy news, from OpenAI's TBPN deal to AI podcasts.
AI-era marketing tactics from operators testing what works next.
Mark DeGrasse interviews agency and marketing operators on the frameworks behind their case studies.
Cory Cotten-Potter interviews B2B sales and marketing founders on AI's reshaping of pipeline generation.
Kristina Halvorson interviews content strategists about how the work actually gets done.
Lauren Tilden returns after a month away and opens with a personal reset.
Lauren Tilden and Heather Farris break down Pinterest as a practical growth channel for small businesses.
Lauren Tilden says episode 303 of Making Good: Small Business Marketing Podcast is about being “in a funk” for months, not a one-day slump, and she connects it to overcommitting after Black Friday 2024.
Lauren Tilden uses Making Good episode 321 to walk through a 2026 planning process built around one “North Star goal,” quarterly focuses, and a destination postcard exercise from Dan and Chip Heath’s Switch.
Lauren Tilden marks episode 300 of Making Good by speaking with Andy Hunter, founder of Bookshop.org, about making purchases that support independent bookstores instead of Amazon.
Lauren Tilden turns Making Good episode 320 into a year-in-review framework for 2025, with a strong push to slow down before rushing into 2026.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith discuss Seth Godin’s “This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans,” a 297-entry book that they describe as more like poetry than a conventional business guide.
Lauren Tilden brings together three Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumni for a conversation about marketing and impact.
Lauren Tilden and Brian Thompson talk about building a business that does meaningful work and still leaves room for the life behind it.
Lauren Tilden opens with inclusive marketing and why it matters for small businesses.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle open the book club chat with a firm boundary.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith return to Making Good Book Club with Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestley.
Lauren Tilden opens episode 317 by pushing for more intentional planning for 2026.
Lauren Tilden talks with Leah McCool about why understanding your numbers is the first real step toward a business that lasts.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith return to Making Good Book Club for a conversation about Chill and Prosper by Denise Duffield Thomas.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith are back on Making Good Book Club with Pat Flynn's Lean Learning.
Lauren Tilden and Sherelle Griffith are back for Making Good Book Club with Dori Clark’s The Long Game.
Lauren Tilden returns to Making Good Book Club with Sherelle for a conversation about The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan.
Lauren Tilton republished episode 306 of Making Good as a replay on August 5 after returning from an extended family vacation in Central Oregon and missing a couple of recent uploads.
Host Lauren Tilden shares her personal journey through burnout, detailing the specific business decisions and personal factors that led to her exhaustion, and outlines the practical steps she took to recover including therapy, scaling back commitments, and prioritizing basic health habits.
Lauren Tilden sounds scratchy after losing her voice at the Mariners ALDS game, but she records anyway because email marketing is her favorite topic.
Lauren Tilden opens Making Good episode 309 with the line, "A quarterly plan without a clear execution plan is just a fantasy," then frames Q4 2025 as the quarter of travel, holidays, Black Friday sales, shipping deadlines, and family obligations.
Lauren and Sherelle bring *Designing Your Life* to this month’s Making Good book club.
Lauren Tilden opens by naming the kind of content chaos many people know all too well.
Lauren Tilden shares practical strategies for overcoming procrastination and improving productivity, including prioritizing tasks with the Eisenhower Matrix, scheduling tasks directly into your calendar, and using accountability and focus techniques.
This episode provides an anti-overwhelm guide to marketing for small business owners, addressing common issues like perfectionism and lack of clarity.