This brand was never about fashion. It was born from brokenness, from a cry for truth, and from a God who answered.

My name is Hope Weaver, and I’m the founder of CROWNED ONE. More than that, I’m living proof that Jesus still finds people in the darkest most unseen places. Actually, it would be better to show you this: Romans 4:17-18: "God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

From Rejection to Revelation

I grew up in a Christian home, actually I was your pretty stereo-typical PK, (Pastor's Kid), but I didn’t know the love of a father. I didn't even know my father. In fact, I was adopted, but I grew up feeling abandoned. I grew up extremely isolated and feeling completely broken. 

I want to share a vulnerable part of my story with transparency and love.
First, I want to make it very clear — I deeply love my parents, my parents did not know what happened to me, and that unawareness led to a lot of confusion and pain growing up. By no means did they physically harm me.

Because I didn’t know how to explain what I went through, and because communication in our home was often missing, I carried deep anger and brokenness that I didn’t know how to express. When I did try to speak, it often came out as outbursts. I was misunderstood and at times even seen as dishonest, when really, I was deeply hurting and didn’t have the tools to communicate what was going on inside me.

I’m sharing this not to dishonor my parents, but to highlight the importance of intimacy, transparency, and communication in families —even in pastor’s homes or Christian families. Brokenness can happen anywhere. Silence can grow into shame. But when truth is brought into the light, God can restore anything. Jesus is restoration, He embodies what that is, and He is why this story exists to point us back to Him.

My dad is a man of sacrificial love. He chose to adopt me as his own, a child who wasn’t biologically his —and that is one of the purest reflections of Christ’s love. I honor him deeply for that. Despite the pain our family walked through, I want to testify that God has healed and restored my relationship with my parents, and that began when I gave my life to Jesus. I love them both deeply. In fact, I named my son after my dad —Rex Darin Weaver. I love you, Dad. 

This testimony isn’t about blame —it’s about hope. It’s about showing that no matter how deep the wounds, Jesus can bring restoration. We’re all learning how to live and love well for the first time. And when we invite God into our pain, He writes a story of healing that brings freedom not just for us, but for others too.

Onto the story, 

May these words echo revival and carry deliverance into every heart, soul, and mind that reads them.

I spent most of my childhood trapped in a war zone inside my own mind. Tormenting thoughts and a scattered heart.
I battled suicidal thoughts, crippling fear, sexual abuse, deep insecurity, and even a speech delay that tried to silence my voice. 

I am unashamed to share it all —because Jesus has healed my entire life.
Every wound. Every scar. Every lie. 

But this brand is really not about me, but to point to the one who rewrites the entire narrative and brings dead things to life.

This brand exists to lead you to the same One who healed and delivered me.
Not a religion.
Not a self-help story.
But a Savior. The Crowned One, Jesus Christ.

My Turning Point

When I was 17 years old, I thought meeting my biological family would heal the wounds that felt like my entire soul.
The torment, the loneliness, the pain of feeling rejected and being rejected by my family, it was too heavy to carry anymore... if I could just find my biological family, the hole in my heart would finally be filled.
So, I reached out to my brother, TJ, on Facebook—longing to connect, to belong.
But I found out, he didn’t even know I existed. I remember his response... "um...you have the wrong person, I don't have a sister." I responded with a photo of him holding his teddy bear. I didn't realize the damage I was going to cause.

I learned my biological mother had hidden my birth from everyone.
She’d had another child after me, years later—one she kept—while I was placed for adoption.
That discovery shattered me.
The reunion I thought would heal me only dug the wound deeper.

In the years that followed, pain became my compass.
I spiraled into addiction, theft, abuse, lying, reckless living, and rage. Full blown Jezebel, basically.
Then came the final blow:
I discovered I was conceived in drug rape—a child born from violence and shame.
I believed I was a mistake, a curse, something that never should have lived. I literally would say that out loud.

Even as a pastor’s kid, I felt completely unseen.
Religion surrounded me, but no one reached the depths of my broken heart. Nobody even tried.
There was no healing, no deliverance—just silence.
So, I built lies to survive, pretending to be someone worthy of love.
But everything eventually collapsed:
my college, license, job, friends, and will to live.

By twenty years old, I decided it was over.
I planned to end my life.

Standing in my small apartment which was once part of an old insane asylum—I looked out the window and mocked the idea of God.

“If You’re real,” I whispered,
“send three birds to my window. Prove it.”

It was a bitter dare from a soul ready to die. I was already dead. If you have ever been emotionally numb or tormented, you believe that that is your life sentence. 

And then—

He answered.

Three birds appeared, just as I had asked, landing right on my window. I mean this in truth with every ounce of life inside me now, this happened.

In that instant, a holy moment wrecked and touched my numbness.
It was unlike anything I’d ever known
pure love, power, and peace that shook me to my core. He answered. Right away. 

That night, I didn’t find religion.
I found a Person.
Truth wasn’t an idea—Truth had a name. Truth is a Person. I kept searching to find that truth.

His name is Jesus.

The One who calls life out of death
and speaks purpose over what the world calls worthless
found me.
And I built this brand to bring the Crowned One here for you, too.

There is One Crowned One — Jesus, the King above all kings.

He crowned me when I was unworthy.
He spoke life when my mind was full of lies.
He restored what spirit of rejection tried to destroy.

This brand was birthed out of true healing — it’s not about me, it’s about the Crowned One.
Every hat is a declaration over the mind:
🕊 You are not the condemning thoughts in your mind.
👑 You are crowned with purpose.
💬 You carry a word in season that can refresh the weary and break chains.

We believe that a word fitly spoken can change a life — and sometimes, that word is printed on a hat that starts a conversation that leads someone home.

After that night with the birds, everything began to shift. I was not just going to be a convert, I literally became a follower and disciple of Jesus. Within months, I walked away from every drug, every addiction, every false identity. I moved back home, picked up my Bible, and started seeking the God who had just revealed Himself to me. I didn’t know what I was doing. I just knew He was real. At 21 years old, God led me to enlist in the U.S. Navy, where I arrived in San Diego with nothing but a backpack and a Bible, still searching for truth.

I kept seeking God everywhere. Went to like 10 churches before someone invited me to a small revival hub. One day in church, I realized I was not going to return to this church. It was extremely uncomfortable for me, they were speaking in tongues, the people were so happy, even dancing...I was like, "I need to run!" (Little did I know, what was inside me was trying to run).

As I tried to slip away unnoticed, a stranger — stopped me and began to speak words of knowledge to me: Before he began, he said, "please I need to give you this word now before you leave Miss."

....A word? What did He mean? I thought....

He began to share specific details about my past that only God could know about me. Like my darkest most shameful and broken truths about me. 

He told me specifics even about being 8 years old when I was first abused sexually, and many more personal issues that deeply disturbed and broke me emotionally as a child. In that moment, the numbness of me, broke, I wept. I sobbed. I felt like the man in the Chosen episode who took up his bed and walked, and that I had become alive. I couldn't believe God knew me, saw me, even back at 8 years old and possibly the most traumatic moment that crippled and stole my innocence and childhood.

For the first time, I felt truly seen. God used that prophetic encounter to break years of torment and numbness off my life. I was already saved for 2 years, but I still had so much oppression and demonic influence webbed in my heart.

 I stayed in that church — the one I once thought was “too radical” — and there, Jesus completely transformed me. He delivered me from fear, addiction, rage, shame, confusion. He healed my mind, restored my voice, mended my family (who I deeply love), and filled me with SERIOUSLY RADICAL joy and peace so deep I can’t even remember the emptiness anymore. I am living proof that Jesus still heals, still delivers, and still turns ashes into beauty. He paid for all of this — and now I live to tell the world He’s real, He’s alive, and He still sets captives free.

If you have gotten this far, you're a real one. I feel like it's important to include the full transparency to you. 

🔥 The Mission: Revival 

Crowned One exists to bring revival and prophecy into a broken world VIA the marketplace —to carry Jesus beyond church walls and into everyday life.
Each design is Spirit-inspired  and was birthed in the secret place, moments of encounter, or whispers from God. I believe a Word from God can be more powerful than the hair on your heads. I know, it has the ability to pierce both spirit and soul, bone and marrow. 

These hats are meant to open doors to present you to Him.
to spark questions,
to invite conversations,
to lead hearts to the Crowned One. To use as evangelism tools. Also, to just rock the collection! Which, will not always have a specific faith word, but is under the umbrella of identity and inclusiveness. 

Mark 16:15 says, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel.”
We’re answering that call — one conversation at a time. These pieces are legendary. Nobody has done it before. And with God's hand on this business, He will be opening doors for you and me to bring people to Jesus. 

This isn’t just for believers.
It’s for the searching, the hurting, the questioning, the ones who’ve been wounded by religion but still long for love that’s real.
CROWNED ONE is an invitation — not to a brand, but to a relationship with the One who heals the brokenhearted.

🌍 Our Family’s Calling

CROWNED ONE is a veteran-owned, family-built, faith-inspired brand.
My husband and I have both walked through fire — and we’ve watched Jesus redeem every piece.

After years of addiction and darkness, my husband surrendered to Christ and made a covenant:

“If You keep me sober, I’ll serve You for the rest of my life and go on mission every year.”

Now, 10% of every purchase goes into our Family Missionary Fund, fueling trips that bring food, medicine, and the Good News to nations around the world.
We don’t just want to make converts — we want to make disciples.
To teach others how to hear God’s voice, walk in freedom, and know His love.

My husband and I have two boys, Wyatt (my sweet and beautiful bonus son), and Rex, who is a giant in spirit and size! We live in San Diego. 

The spiritually dead or lukewarm church.

Many of us grow up in church, hearing about God —but never truly encountering Jesus. Without that encounter, we lack the tools, the foundation, and the intimacy needed to face life’s battles. The enemy loves to twist that — to convince people that religion is empty, that faith is powerless, that the church is hypocritical — when really, the issue isn’t Jesus. The issue is the absence of abiding in Him. Unfortunately, most churches are too scared and fear people's resistance to talk about the gifts of the Spirit, or even teach a lesson on repentance, exposing brokenness in our families, or having honest conversations that we need to ABIDE in the secret place, not just 'in theory'. There are too many Churches with converts and not disciples, pastors who don't even get in the secret place, people addicted to pornography, there is so much lukewarm RELIGION, and personally, I am sick of that, and I know God wants to break off that veil. And that's Bible, honey. 

That’s why I’m so passionate about transparency and truth —because silence is the enemy’s tool.
When we don’t talk about our pain, we let shame stay hidden. Jesus wants the most shattered and condemned parts of you, because He conquered those areas so you can live FREE. YOU COULD BE FREE!!!!! 
When we don’t bring Jesus into our wounds, they never fully heal. Half of the Church doesn't even really believe God is JEHOVAH RAPHA, and that He is ALIVE and ACTIVE just as much as He was 3,000 years ago. 
When we live by religion instead of relationship, we build on sand instead of the Rock. We basically miss out on the most transformative and life giving revival on the planet, a life consumed and on fire, burning for Jesus, overflowing with His Spirit.

What changed my life wasn’t just attending church — it was encountering the living Jesus. It was Him. And there are Churches that are doing their BEST to bring in the whole gospel, Genesis to Revelations... including the hard stuff, like the gifts of the spirit, deliverance, tongues, etc.... Longevity comes from abiding. 

When I surrendered everything, He came into my brokenness, healed my heart, and gave me new life.
Now, He’s all I know.
He’s all I talk about.
Because He made me alive — and my healed, restored life is the evidence of His goodness.

If you’re reading this, know this truth: Jesus wants to walk into your home too.
He wants to restore what’s been lost, heal what’s been broken, and build intimacy where there’s been silence.
This is why abiding in Him, knowing His Word, and walking in the Spirit is essential — not optional.
Because without Jesus, religion will always feel empty.
But with Him, life overflows.

🕊 How It All Began

In 2021, I walked away from a business opportunity that looked promising — a fitness franchise I thought would define my future. I always take everything to the Lord, and even with this open door idea, I went to the Lord, and he specifically told me,

“If you surrender this dream, I’ll give you what they are offering and more.”

So I laid it down.
I said no to opening the gym franchise. Walked away. And knew I made the right choice that honored God. 

In my life, I have learned if God's hands not on it, it will eventually crash. I have gone through enough trouble in my life to know, if my riches are in what matters most, Jesus, my knowing Him, Him knowing me, my intimacy in my family, then no price tag could ever come close to trying to compare. 

My daddy always told me, "we are rich in the ways that matter most", and I genuinely believe that. I am rich whether my physical material items prosper, and I am just as rich if they perish, because I have dug a deep well in the heart of God, that will never be purchased to take me away. 

Years later, at a concert, I saw a simple hat that read “Love Your Enemy.”
The Holy Spirit spoke to me again:

“I’m giving you back your creativity. And together, we’ll use it to heal minds, release prophecy, and refresh the world.”

That’s when CROWNED ONE was born.
Not from ambition — but from obedience. I got the name when watching and listening to my favorite pastor, Michael Koulianos at Jesus Image. Go watch them, seriously. 

💛 The Promise

CROWNED ONE is a revival brand for every soul who’s ever felt unseen. Every soul who knows their seen. For every person.
It’s a movement for the broken, the bold, and the becoming.
Each design is a seed of a fruitful conversation waiting to happen.

Our prayer is that every hat would carry the presence of God,
that every customer would encounter His love,
and that every story would point back to the Crowned One, Jesus.

Built to last. Designed to start conversations. Made to bear fruit.

You are seen.
You are known.
You are crowned.

CROWNED ONE!