Brendan O'Shaughnessy on Ocean & Sea, Skateboarding, and Building a Business Bitcoin Treasury
Podcast
September 16, 2026

In this episode of the Becoming Sovereign podcast, host Brandon Karpeles is joined by Brendan O'Shaughnessy, founder of the Kansas City-based design and branding studio, Ocean & Sea. Brendan shares his lifelong entrepreneurial journey, detailing how he started his first company at 13 and eventually built his current studio, which has accepted Bitcoin for goods and services since 2017.
The conversation explores the practical realities of operating on a Bitcoin standard as a small business, how skateboarding parallels the mental shift needed to understand Bitcoin, and why Bitcoiners need to drop the FOMO tactics and focus on long-term education.