The Beebo University Podcast is back!!!! This week features Justin Trewitt owner of Dapper Wood Works, an amazing menswear brand out of Texas. How did his business get started? Has it's growth been organic or strategic? What does he advise to others who are trying to make something out of their passion projects? All of that and more on this episode!!!!

1:38 - Making products out of necessity, or seeing a problem that he needed to fix

2:05 - Dapper Wood Works began…. With furniture?????

4:20 - learning skills outside of day job crucial to his beginnings

5:40 - you have to be in it for the long term in order to see success. It will not be overnight.

6:30 - when his menswear journey began. #menswear. 2010

8:00 - pocket square storage issue led to his first product. Created Etsy shop.

9:50 - Networking leading to collaboration with The Hanger Project.

11:50 - Lapel Pins

14:20 - Creating a product that leads to repeat customers.

18:10 - Strategy vs. Organic Growth

19:25 - Instagram as primary platform.

21:20 - Pride in the type of client he has.

23:00 - How I make use of the lapel pins.

24:30 - Business growth and expectations.

31:00 - Advice for turning passion projects into a sustainable business. Realistic long term goals.