How To Go From Entertainer To Entrepreneur | Brandon T Jackson
Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz
Barry Katz
4.7 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Brandon T. Jackson talks about navigating Hollywood, the shift to self-tape auditions , and why artists today have to think like entrepreneurs. From big studio films to building his own projects, he breaks down what it takes to stay relevant, provide for a family, and keep evolving in a business where everyone’s their own studio.
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| 0:00.0 | The business is set up now for everyone to be a studio. If you're on YouTube, you're a little mini |
| 0:04.9 | studio. You're getting advertising. You're doing talent. That's the only way to do it now. |
| 0:08.5 | When we were coming up, we only had the five major studios. Now everyone's a studio. |
| 0:14.0 | You know, we're on the studio. This is the studio. Everyone's their own studio so you have no choice |
| 0:18.7 | but they evolve. And then now it's going to be |
| 0:21.2 | AI it's going to be AI BTJ are you actually Brandon or are you an AI? |
| 0:26.1 | That might be AI. |
| 0:31.7 | Ladies and gentlemen please welcome my guest today. What an honor, Brandon T. Jackson. |
| 0:40.6 | I have so many things to ask you. |
| 0:42.2 | Yes. |
| 0:42.8 | And I want to start with this. |
| 0:46.7 | You're a happily married man. |
| 0:50.1 | You've got four kids that you know of. |
| 0:55.5 | You're an entrepreneur. You're an entrepreneur, you're an actor, you're a stand-up comedian, |
| 1:00.5 | you've taken time off for spiritual healing. |
| 1:07.1 | Yet, when you're in the room across from me yes it just feels it seems like you are the most |
| 1:18.6 | at peace and successful human being in the world that everything you're doing but i would like to believe |
| 1:27.3 | that there's a ball of fucking craziness happening inside you, |
| 1:32.8 | but yet on the outside, |
| 1:35.2 | you're just like, |
| 1:36.7 | ah, |
| 1:37.5 | how do you do that? |
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