Community Highlights: Meet Twisted Lidz Hat

Today we’d like to introduce you to Twisted Lidz.

Hi Twisted, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
A passion for hats is how we got started. A love for hats, who can always be seen in a hat no matter the day, hour, and our outfit you could find the four of us in a hat. With that passion we: Rodney, Bryan, Rodrick & Nuby, decided to turn that passion into a hustle, a movement, a brand, and that how was Twisted Lidz was born. We wanted to take the typical hats you find out in your everyday life and put a peculiar twist to the hats.

We have a wide variety of hats that we twist so all can be included from kids to women, and men of all ages. Twisted Lidz Hat Co-brand offers Dad caps, Trucker hats, Bucket hats. We soon wish to expand to fedora and wide brim hats and then later into apparel that will allow everyone to join and push the Twisted Lidz Hat Co-brand and join the wave we are riding. We know everyone does not wear hats, but we wish to have everyone included.

They say, “less is always more, but we say a hat is so much greater” and we want everyone to look their best with Twisted Lidz.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Man this Twisted Lidz journey is definitely a learning experience. We are learning each and every day we open our ways and focus on this brand. We all are four hard-working young men who have been working since our teen years. You cant put us together as one unit and we still can’t tell you how to run a business or brand but we are learning each step away. We leave each learning lesson that this journey exposes us to; the good, the bad, the ups, the downs. The long nights, the early morning, the rush and thrill, the failures and success, we really would not trade it for the world.

We have learned that running hats are definitely easier to produce than apparel. Also deadlines, deadlines are our greatest struggle at the moment. We set a deadline but with us still learning and finding connections to help bring our ideas to life we tend to fall behind. Once we are able to find a solid team to consistently help us produce our products I believe we will never have to worry about missing a deadline.

You would think a brand with four men who have their own separate lives and other ventures would have struggles getting us all on one page but that is the very last of our struggle. We seem to always be able to get on the same page and stay on the same page at the drop of a dime. We just are driving ourselves through this venture taking every speed bump and roadblock we get as a life lesson and keep on pushing forward.

We never let a struggle hold us, we can’t, especially when you have a drive, a passion, and a support team to push you forward each day. We take the knocks down as motivation periods which allows us to pull back, reevaluate, and keep pushing this forward towards our bigger picture.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Twisted Lidz Hat Co.?
Twisted Lidz Hat Co. wishes to be a go-to brand for everyone hat needs and wants. You know how you have your Lids and Hat WRKS, well Twisted Lidz wants to be the next one if not the only one. We want to brand all styles of hats that people see and just have to have. You see it out in the city or even on tv and you will know that is a Twisted Lidz hat. We wish and aspire to be that brand.

Twisted Lidz wants to be set apart for the hats you can not find anywhere else. Yes, you have your MLB and NBA but we want to take that it makes it more than a simple MLB and NBA hat. Twisted Lidz originals will have also have a nice spin on them that we hope will set us apart from the other. We aspire to make hats that cater to an audience for everyday life such as running errands, bad hair days, rainy days or I just want to put on a hat to high-end influences and or celebrities.

We have aspirations to have everyone in a Twisted Lidz hat and while in that hat, we wish, want, and aspire to have that individual feel bold, confident, stylish, and amazing in their own Twisted Lidz hat.

Do you have any advice for those looking to network or find a mentor?
Network! Network! Network! With social media being the new super bowl halftime commercials. It is now all about who you know and what they can do for you. All it takes is one person, at the right time, in the right setting to mention, say, or wear your name and or brand, JACKPOT! You are a winner baby. So always get out and network. Speak highly among yourself when asked or entering a room because you are never for sure who is available to take you places you may not be able to take yourself.

As we experience this journey, we definitely would recommend connecting and following a mentor who has walked down the road before you. For they could have and share gems with you that will set you on the path of your dreams and aspirations. If you have the opportunity to explore and experience either of the two, most definitely go for it.

Contact Info:

• Email: tntwistedlidz@gmail.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/twistedlidz

Image Credits
Dre Shipp

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