About Signed: Conversations with Digital Mavericks
Digital mavericks. Media empires. Real conversations. The podcast celebrating digital first creators who changed the game with Anita Sharma of Sharma Law | Launching October 7th everywhere you listen to your podcasts.
Anita Sharma: AI, Entertainment Law, and What's Actually Happening in the Creator Economy
In her second solo episode, Anita Sharma tackles three things that have been on her mind. She breaks down how her law firm actually uses AI in practice, where she draws a hard line, and what she tells clients who show up with contracts clearly drafted by a chatbot. Anita then reacts to the massive box office success of Backrooms and Obsession, two low budget horror films from young YouTuber turned filmmakers Kane Parsons and Curry Barker. She pushes back on the idea that content creators are ...
12 May 2026
Hank Green: 30 Years on the Internet, the Algorithm, and the Art of Making Things (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this conversation, Anita sits back down with Hank Green to pick up where they left off, and the conversation gets more personal, more urgent, and more honest than ever. They start with the platforms. Hank has a clear-eyed view of why the algorithm puts us in silos: it's not because the technology is bad. It's because the technology is very, very good at keeping us watching. The problem isn't incompetence. It's incentives. And Hank isn't sure the platforms are going to fix it, but...
27 Apr 2026
Hank Green: 30 Years on the Internet, the Algorithm, and the Art of Making Things (Part 1)
Hank Green has been building on the internet since before most people knew what it was. He co-created Vlogbrothers, co-founded VidCon, co-founded Complexly (home to Crash Course and SciShow), and has spent nearly 30 years figuring out how to turn curiosity into something scalable, sustainable, and genuinely meaningful. He is, by any measure, one of the architects of the modern creator economy. And in this conversation, he is remarkably honest about what that means. In Part 1 of this episode, ...
13 Mar 2026
Victoria Bachan & Rana Zand: OGs of the Creator Economy (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this conversation, Anita sits back down with Victoria Bachan, SVP of Creators at Wasserman, and Rana Zand, Partner in Digital at Range Media Partners, to get into the nuts and bolts of what it actually takes to build a lasting career as a creator today. The conversation opens with a question creators and their teams are always asking: what actually gives you leverage at the negotiating table? Victoria and Rana don't sugarcoat it. Professionalism matters. The creators who treat th...
6 Mar 2026
Victoria Bachan & Rana Zand: OGs of the Creator Economy (Part 1)
Before the creator economy had a name, these two were already building it. This week, Anita Sharma sits down with two of the most respected women in creator representation, Rana Zand, Partner at Range Media Partners, and Victoria Bachan, SVP of Creators at Wasserman. These are Anita's colleagues, her friends, and her fellow OGs in a business they all joined before anyone knew what to call it. In Part 1, Victoria and Rana take us back to the beginning, from Victoria's summers on the Vans Warpe...
20 Feb 2026
Behind the Contracts: An Entertainment Lawyer's Guide to the Creator Economy
In this special solo episode, Anita Sharma flips the script on Signed: Conversations with Digital Mavericks. Instead of interviewing guests, she's answering the top 10 questions she gets about entertainment law, working with creators, and building a practice in the digital media space. Anita opens up about her unconventional path to entertainment law, from that lightbulb moment seeing "production legal" in movie credits during law school, to leaving a big law firm in New York, actually quitti...
12 Feb 2026
Nadya Okamoto: Toilet Paper, Socks & Cardboard - Why I Started a Period Care Revolution (Part 2)
In Part 2, Nadya Okamoto continues her conversation with Anita Sharma, diving into family reconciliation on social media, the recent TikTok ownership change, and evolving from solo creator to strategic business leader. Nadya opens up about going no contact with one of her sisters for three years, and how they navigated that journey publicly as content creators. She discusses the decision to finally set boundaries around what to share online, the unexpected community they found from others exp...
6 Feb 2026
Nadya Okamoto: Toilet Paper, Socks & Cardboard - Why I Started a Period Care Revolution (Part 1)
Founder and bestselling author Nadya Okamoto joins Anita Sharma for a conversation about building purpose-driven businesses, using social media intentionally, and destigmatizing periods for 6 million followers. In Part 1, Nadya shares how she went from teenage activist to entrepreneur, founding both a nonprofit and a thriving period care brand. Nadya opens up about discovering period poverty at 16 when she learned people in her community were using toilet paper, socks, and cardboard to manage...
29 Jan 2026
Drew Binsky: Borders, Risk, and Visiting Every Country on Earth Before Age 30 (Part 2)
In Part 2, Drew Binsky continues his conversation with Anita Sharma, diving into the realities of full-time travel content creation, the stories that didn't perform as expected, and what visiting all 197 countries actually taught him about humanity. Drew opens up about balancing documentation with experience, why he gets more fulfillment from filming than just experiencing moments, and how Anthony Bourdain remains his biggest inspiration. We discuss getting stuck in Pakistan for a week when I...
23 Jan 2026
Drew Binsky: Borders, Risk, and Visiting Every Country on Earth Before Age 30 (Part 1)
Travel content creator, storyteller, and bestselling author Drew Binsky joins Anita Sharma for the Season 2 premiere of Signed: Conversations with Digital Mavericks. In Part 1, Drew shares how he became one of the youngest people to visit all 197 countries in the world and built a 20 million follower community in the process. Drew opens up about his first international trip to Israel in 2009, catching the travel bug while studying abroad in Prague, and teaching English in South Korea for 18 m...
22 Dec 2025
Best of Season 1: When Creators Choose Themselves
Season 1 of Signed: Conversations with Digital Mavericks pulled back the curtain on what it really takes to build a creator empire. Hosted by entertainment lawyer Anita Sharma, this special Best Of episode revisits the most powerful, vulnerable, and inspiring moments from our first six guests. In this episode: Drew Afualo on climbing to the top of the NFL only to realize it wasn't what she wanted, and how getting let go (for "not being able to grow a following") led to building 8+ million fol...
26 Nov 2025
Jon Kung: Redefining Third Culture Cooking
Self-taught chef, content creator, and best-selling author Jon Kung joins Anita Sharma for a conversation about third culture cooking, finding creative freedom in Detroit's emptiness, and why teaching people to make tomato sandwiches matters more than showing off culinary skills. Jon opens up about his first vivid food memory, eating raw spiny lobster straight from the ocean in South Africa at 16, and how growing up in Hong Kong and Toronto gave him the confidence to never apologize for being...
13 Nov 2025
Sidney Raz: Building the Life Hacks Empire
Creator behind the viral "Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was In My 30s" series Sidney Raz joins Anita Sharma for an honest conversation about 18 years of grinding before "making it," building a real media company, and why he's now vlogging the most personal story of his life. Sid opens up about posting his first YouTube video in 2007, working at React Media for five years as his "trade school," and posting on TikTok every single day for a year and a half to grow from zero followers to 90K. We ...
30 Oct 2025
Shan Boodram: 'Why Am I Waiting for Somebody Else to Make My Dream Come True?'
Sexologist, intimacy expert, and best-selling author Shan Boodram joins Anita Sharma for an honest conversation about sex education, building a career in an unconventional field, and why intimacy is about so much more than sex. Shan opens up about growing up in a conservative Caribbean household, writing her first book "Laid" at 24, moving to LA with nothing but $5,000 and a dream, and why a failed BET pilot pushed her to YouTube. We discuss the most common questions she gets about sex (misma...
16 Oct 2025
Michelle Khare: She Hung Off a Moving Plane. Then She Crashed the Emmys.
2025 Time Magazine Top 100 Creator Michelle Khare joins Anita Sharma to discuss her journey from national cycling champion to YouTube creator breaking barriers in entertainment. Michelle opens up about successfully petitioning the Television Academy to get Challenge Accepted on the Emmy ballot, recreating Tom Cruise's plane stunt with FAA approval, escaping Houdini's water torture cell after 10 months of training, and her new Red Bull partnership. We discuss her "Keystones of Great Collaborat...
7 Oct 2025
Alyson Stoner: Child Stardom, the Kidfluencer Protection Act, and Movement Genius
New York Times bestselling author and former Disney child star Alyson Stoner joins Anita Sharma for a powerful conversation about the reality behind child stardom and their work advocating for change. Alyson opens up about the "toddler to trainwreck industrial complex," signing contracts before they could write in cursive, and why child entertainers are exempt from federal labor protections. We discuss their book "Semi Well Adjusted Despite Literally Everything," the $8 billion kid influencer...
7 Oct 2025
Drew Afualo: They Said She Couldn't Grow a Following. She Built 8 Million.
Welcome to the premiere episode of Signed: Conversations with Digital Mavericks! Drew Afualo joins host Anita Sharma to discuss her journey from getting let go at the NFL to building 8+ million TikTok followers, hosting two hit podcasts ("The Comment Section" and "Two Idiot Girls"), and writing her book "Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve." We talk about the viral "Red Flags in Men" video that started it all, why agencies said she was "too contentious" to be marketable, her s...
2 Oct 2025
Introducing 'Signed: Conversations With Digital Mavericks'
In 2013, Anita Sharma started representing talent who, back then, were simply called “influencers” - in a way, famous for being famous. Fast forward to today, and Sharma Law now proudly represents some of the most successful (what we now like to call) “digital-first creators” in the business. Their “influence” is earned through authentic, compelling, and insightful storytelling that engages their audiences. These digital-first creators are leveraging their influence and social media...
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