MICKEY IS FREE!®

External Brand Advisor

Scott Bedbury is a globally recognized leader in brand building and marketing strategy. With senior leadership roles at Nike and Starbucks, he helped shape two of the most culturally influential and commercially successful brands in the last 50 years. His work in brand positioning, storytelling, and experiential marketing have become case studies for how companies can develop enduring emotional connections with customers and employees.
Bedbury has advised startups from Silicon Valley to Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv. He has also advised c-suite clients within legacy brands such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Apple, Samsung, NASA, the US Navy, Grupo Modelo, Starwood Hotels, Ferrero, and Volkswagen AG. Since the release of his first book, 'A New Brand World', he has delivered keynote speeches in 35 countries.
At Mickey Is Free! Scott serves as an external brand advisor. He understands that the brand runs deep - his association reflects our commitment to building something with purpose, independence and integrity.

Skateboarder / Co-Founder

Amelia is co-founder of Mickey Is Free!® and a key voice in shaping the brand’s creative direction and cultural legitimacy within global skate and streetwear. At 15, she left Norway to attend Malmö’s Bryggeriet College in Sweden - an internationally known epicenter of Scandinavian skateboarding culture. Bryggeriet is a school built around skateboarding, creative disciplines and independent thinking. She has the last 3 years divided her time between Malmö, Copenhagen (shout out to Hypno crew/the skate & art scene across The Bridge) and the Norwegian west coast, testing out ideas and hoodies. Nothing moves forward without Amelia’s read on the scene. She brings first hand awareness of what resonates and what doesn’t.

Like mega corporations, the squad here in the fjord country likes cheese. The Norwegian Thor Bjørklund invented the cheese slicer and patented his  ostehøvel design in 1925, 3 years before the now public domain Steamboat Willie character.

The collective, a gang of individuals with common interest in digital tech, media, AI, fashion and popular culture. Håkon G, Grace, Espen, Eric H, Atle N, Christen S, another Erik, Amelia and Paul G, are into skateboarding, surfing, music, politics, snowboarding, film, finance, energy, environment and brand strategy - mixed in with Henrik Ibsen and friluftsliv sensibilities to bs.

Image Note; a public available generative AI tech used for the squad image, to expensive/find time to gather squad gang people at the end of a fjord for a photo.

Derivative Works Creator / Co-Founder

Erik is the original creative spark behind Mickey Is Free!® The streetwear brand fusing legal nuance, countercultural design and strategic storytelling into a commercially grounded brand. Based near the end of a Norwegian fjord, Erik, an old school breaker, draws inspiration from the legal and cultural legacy of the 1928 Steamboat Willie character, now in the public domain and reimagined. For this brand, Mickey is off the boat® and into skate and surf culture. Erik is also a founding member of Norway Squad. This squad, a loosely connected collective passionate about digital tech, Abraham Wald, AI, skateboarding, hoodies, Maslow, surfing and Richard Feynman. Erik loves surfing, not good at it, near drowning experience every time.