Forbes Top Creators Show

How do you turn a silent GRWM video of yourself crying before a dreaded restaurant shift into a full-time, highly lucrative career? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni records live from the Cannes Lions festival for a special two-for-one episode featuring Forbes Under 30 creator Katie Fang and Adobe’s Head of Social Media, Jared Carneson. (Produced in partnership...

How do you go from finishing high school early to amassing 50 million followers and self-funding your own beauty brand using just an iPhone stuck to a window? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni decodes the business of influence with master of short-form and long-form, Brooke Monk. In this episode, Brooke breaks down her explosive growth, revealing her obsessive...

How do you go from facing eviction at 30 years old to running a massive digital production studio that pulls in more daily views than the Game of Thrones finale? Welcome back to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with the ultimate storytelling mogul, Dhar Mann, for an inside look at a modern creator-led studio. In this episode, Dhar opens up about his lowest poin...

From launching the first cannabis cafe in West Hollywood to running OnlyFans, Ami Gan is risking it all to build a brand-new 18+ social network! Welcome back to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Ami Gan, the former CEO of OnlyFans and the visionary founder behind Vylit. Ami shares her jaw-dropping professional evolution, detailing what it was really like ta...

How did PlaqueBoyMax go from making a 30-slide PowerPoint presentation to convince his parents to let him pursue streaming, to entertaining 50,000 live viewers a day and producing Grammy-nominated music? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with the multi-hyphenate creator, musician, and streamer, PlaqueBoyMax. Max breaks down his "disruptive" approach t...

How do you go from getting laid off from a brand strategy job in New York City to photographing 50,000 dogs, hitting the New York Times bestseller list, and doing a "panthoot" with Jane Goodall in Central Park? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Elias, the street photographer and creator better known as The Dogist. In this episode, Elias breaks do...

How does a digital creator transition from the Apple Pay growth team to designing a 25-unit, limited-edition Bentley SUV? This week on the Forbes Top Creator Show, host Steven Bertoni sits down with the ultimate lifestyle disruptor: The Gstaad Guy. After a 30-second parody video for a friend’s mother went viral on WhatsApp, the creator walked away from a dream role at Apple to build a multimillion...

How do you go from juggling soccer balls on Britain's Got Talent to generating 10 billion views a year as a comedy duo? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Paul "Woody" Wood, one half of the legendary UK creator duo, Woody & Kleiny, recorded live from the World Government Summit in Dubai. In this episode, Woody breaks down their 13-year journey fro...

How do you go from stand-up comedy and nannying on the Upper East Side to becoming a millionaire "finfluencer" and author? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Haley Sacks, the financial expert and media mogul better known as Mrs. Dow Jones. In this episode, Haley shares her hilarious origin story, including her pivot from a film and comedy backgrou...

How does a star of global hits like The Vampire Diaries and H2O: Just Add Water transition from playing iconic supernatural characters to becoming a full-time creator with a social media following built on vulnerability and authenticity? On this episode of the Forbes Top Creator Show, host Steven Bertoni sits down with actress turned entrepreneur Claire Holt to deconstruct her "reverse trajectory"...

How do you go from eating dollar store food and sharing one bathroom with ten guys to building an 8,000-square-foot production studio and trash-talking Barack Obama on the basketball court? Welcome to the Forbes Top Creator Show! This week, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Zach Justice, a creator, comedian, and podcast host who has mastered the art of hacking the internet’s attention span. Zach...

From an unemployed linguistics student to running a commercial film agency, Grace Wells (@gracewellsphoto) turned pandemic boredom into a massive creator business. On this week's episode of the Forbes Top Creators Show, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Grace, a self-taught commercial filmmaker who built a massive audience creating "epic commercial content" for random household objects, and it al...

How do you go from taking corporate consulting calls on a laptop in the back of an Uber to signing a 7-figure deal with Pepsi and throwing a $1.5 million live food festival? In this episode of the Forbes Top Creator Show, host Steven Bertoni sits down with Jack Goldburg and Liam Henning, the masterminds behind the viral food channel Jack's Dining Room and its parent company, The Yes Chef Group. Ja...

Miranda McKeon (@miranda.mckeon / @mirandamckeon) didn't set out to become a global health advocate. She was a professional actor best known for playing the "schoolhouse mean girl" Josie Pye in Anne with an E. While studying communications and entrepreneurship at USC—with plans for a corporate marketing career—a "one-in-a-million" Stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis arrived during her sophomore year....

Creator Kate Mackz sits with Forbes assistant managing editor Steven Bertoni and opens up on the origins, viral success and business secrets behind her hit running interview show. Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kennedy Eurich joins Steven Bertoni on the Forbes Top Creators Show. She shares her strategies for dealing with online backlash and the pressures of living a public life online, and unveils her roadmap for winning in the creator economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Devon Rodriguez started by sketching strangers on the New York subway—now he’s a global creator with 65 million followers. In this episode of Forbes Top Creator Show, Devon reveals how he went from graffiti in the Bronx to portrait commissions, viral TikToks, and interviews with icons like Oprah Winfrey. He walks us through his breakthrough moment, the algorithm hacks he studied, and how he built...

Haley Kalil went from studying biomedical science to walking the runway for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit—then became one of the most successful digital creators in the world. In this episode of Forbes Top Creators Show, she shares how a single apartment tour video went viral and launched a career now followed by over 30 million people across platforms. Haley opens up about building her brand from s...

Evangelina Petrakis (@evange) made the bold decision not to attend college after finishing high school. Instead, she went all in on growing her then-budding social media business. On this episode of the Forbes Top Creators Show, assistant managing editor Steven Bertoni delves deep in Evange Petrakis' career, and growing business. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priva...

On this episode of the Forbes Top Creators Show, assistant managing editor Steven Bertoni sits down with Rebecca Zamolo to hear about how she was able to translate early success on Musical.ly a YouTube empire, and how she's leveraging her influence to launch new line of prenatal supplements. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...

On this episode of the Forbes Top Creators Show, assistant managing editor Steve Bertoni sits down with Kareem Rahma (@kareemrahma), host of  @SubwayTakes  and @keepthemeterrunning, to hear about how how his hit show went from humble beginnings to booking Cate Blanchett, Kamala Harris, and Tim Walz. We also dive into his past career, and how it influenced his success today. See Privacy Policy at h...

On this episode of the Forbes Top Creators Show, assistant managing editor Steven Bertoni sits down with Claudia Oshry (@girlwithnojob), host of The Toast, for a deep dive into how her daily show comes life, and how she's been able to leverage her deeply loyal audience to find financial success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...

Shawn Ryan, a former Navy Seal, has built a YouTube channel with more than 4 million fans with content focusing on military veterans, security, and defense. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After being bullied in high school, Rickey Thompson got his own sweet revenge posting over-the-top comedic videos on Vine and later, Instagram. The North Carolina native, who now has 3 million followers on TikTok, has made sponsored content for brands like YSL Beauty, Moncler, Marc Jacobs. He also has an exclusive deal with Spotify for his "We Said What We Said" podcast and is starring in his firs...

Justine Ezarik began her social media career in 2007, back when influencers were known as lifecasters. Over the years, she's built a tech-savvy brand by reviewing new gadgets and gear from Apple, Google, and Tesla. Her 7 million YouTube subscribers tune in to her Tech Tuesday videos to watch her review the latest smartphones, headphones, and EVs. Beyond reviews and unboxing, iJustine interviews th...