When Passion Replaces Profit

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I’m joined by artist and creative entrepreneur Mikael Brandrup, whose journey took him from corporate graphic design in Denmark to the heart of the global art scene in Los Angeles. We talk about burnout, identity, and how personal evolution led him to create without limits. Mikael shares how meditation and mindset work became his foundation, why he stepped away from a profitable business to follow his instincts, and how he built a career on abstract expression. From brand collaborations with Nike and Bentley to large-scale public art, his story is a rare look at freedom, resilience, and the power of starting with nothing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Office Hours. It's Celebrity Entrepreneur Show with James Maslow. I got all the great entrepreneurs, the young entrepreneurs, the old entrepreneurs, the ugly and the beautiful entrepreneurs. And I'm lucky to have the young and beautiful with me today with James Maslow. Thanks for doing this with me, buddy. I'm glad you clarified that. I really wasn't sure where I fit into that.
0:21.0	But I'll take it.
0:22.2	Always pleasure to see you.
0:23.7	David, how you doing, buddy?
0:24.7	I'm doing great.
0:25.7	Thank God for virtual because we get to catch up
0:28.2	with our favorite celebrities.
0:29.7	And we've run the gauntlet when it comes to athletes,
0:32.6	celebrities, billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs.
0:35.6	But one of the verticals, the industries we haven't really
0:39.2	ventured into as far as celebrity goes. And the entrepreneur role in that celebrity is the world of
0:46.6	art. And there's a lot of celebrity and a lot of entrepreneurship within the context of the
0:53.2	industry of art design.
0:56.8	And so I was trying to pick who's the most entrepreneurial of all artists.
1:00.9	Because as you know, in history, artists don't really become entrepreneurial until they die.
1:07.4	And so today, Banksy and others like Michael Brandrup, the Mikiel Brandup, my man, has figured this out from the world of business into the world of art and back into the world of business.
1:21.6	We're blessed to have our latest celebrity entrepreneur here on the Celebrity Entrepreneur Show.
1:27.5	Mr. Michael, what's going on?
1:29.4	How you doing, man? Welcome.
1:30.7	Thank you very much for having me.
1:32.3	I am great.
1:33.6	I'm in my studio in LA.
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