Ep. 1 - Markian

For THE HOLLYWOOD PODCAST's inaugural episode, Max interviews social media content creator Markian Benhamou. Markian is a third culture kid and aspiring entrepreneur. He’s the creator of the Smile Squad which brings together other talented young digital creators in putting on comedy sketch videos across social media platforms that highlight relatable scenarios centering on cultures, personality traits, relationships, body image, and college life among others. The goal of Smile Squad is to do just that - make people smile through their light-hearted, meaningful content whether that be comedic skits or uplifting vlogs. Markian has almost 6 million Facebook followers, nearly 900K Instagram followers, about 500K followers on TikTok (along with 3.8 million likes), and almost 750K YouTube Subscribers with three-quarters of a billion views across all of his videos. Hosted and Produced by Max Geschwind