Today we’d like to introduce you to Jadan Miorke.
Hi Jadan, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
As a young man growing up in the inner city of Miami, it was extremely rigid, my mom worked, and my father wasn’t there so I had to figure out a lot of things on my own. As a child, I suffered enormous amounts of sexual, psychical, mental, and religious trauma at the hands of my community, and from that moment, I knew I had to be tough. I quickly understood that the world was not a place filled with harmonious humanity and peace, the world was a game that I had to master to survive. In my city you had to know how to fight and that usually started with your family and later reappeared in the streets, that’s how you gained respect. I watch people fight with guns, some fought with their minds, and I chose to fight with my mind. Creativity offered me a way out, a way to escape from abuse, uncertainty, and suicidal thoughts, creativity was my superpower. Math and language saved me, by helping me construct that creativity into an equation that was my key to freedom, it allowed me for the first time to hack my reality and choose the life I wanted to live.
Early on I understood that other kids didn’t see what I could see, they were stuck and there was nothing I could do to make them change. I knew I had a choice and that the road would be lonely, hurtful, and hard, but it was a choice I had to make. As a young man, I grew up around drug dealers, hard workers, and hustlers and witness Black Death at rates quicker than I could count. Witnessing so much pain, I didn’t value myself, my black skin and Afro-centric features and being LGBT; my community didn’t value me either. For the longest time, I had a dream that my father would come save me, but that day never came so I just stopped thinking about it altogether. I learned that I needed to create to grow, and I had to be an alchemist if I wanted to be successful, I turned pain into fuel that gave me the energy to move on and press forward. My mother tried hard to be there for me, but I always felt alone because love came with conditions. Her husband was tough; he knew the world was unforgiving, at least it had been to him. My stepfather taught me about hard work, and he was also responsible for a lot of my pain, but he gave me only what he knew how to give me, he was a broken man trying to raise a broken boy with tools that were broken, so who was to blame.
By 15, I was from house to house, finding family wherever the door was open; some took advantage, some caused more trauma, and some provided genuine love and safety. During this time, I started to see the rewards of my sacrifice, I was in a top-level magnet school for fashion, winning scholarships, making friends, and working in nightclubs but I was still empty. My relationship with my mother started to grow but I was still hurt, to some, I was a child, but to the world, I was a grown man. At 17, I became a marketing manager at Sobe Live on south beach and worked with Lia Kiss at opium group on creative marketing, I was being noticed, the door was starting to open for me. During this time, I got a glimpse of the life I wanted but I was never comfortable with leaving others behind, so I minimized myself to stay relatable. By 22, I had lost half of my friends and family to illnesses, injuries, and homicides and decided that I needed to escape. After the murder of three friends, my brother was next and that was the last straw, I packed up and finally got the courage to leave Miami. I lived in Atlanta and other cities, constantly running to find belonging and acceptance, looking for distractions anywhere I could find them, but the road always brought me back home. My last time back in Miami, I decided I would take my life because every road kept leading me back to my trauma and this wasn’t a reality I was willing to accept. Before I went through with my decision, a friend of mine called, I told him about where I was, and he respected my decision but asked me to visit him before I said my last goodbye. I chose to go to Key West to visit him, and we talked, reflected, and thought about alternative possibilities that would give me a better outcome.
One day, he took me to the furthest most point of Florida to walk into the water and that’s where I remembered, I remembered that promise I made to myself as a child and how valuable I was to my community, I remembered all the lives I had changed and how many more I would be able to help, and right in that moment I chose to live, and I left and never looked back. That was my ah-ha moment that was the hack, I had to face the trauma to be released from its grips and that’s exactly what I decided to do. By this time, I had been the owner of multiple businesses and was the go-to guy to help others launch their companies and give their visions a voice. I’ve worked in Business development, creative marketing, and sustainable technology for over ten years now and have taught so many people how to give their brands a heartbeat. During the pandemic, I found myself in perfect alignment with my destiny, I was well on my way to success, and I didn’t sacrifice my connection with people to make that dream come true. My company Stamped Marketing was an idea created out of necessity, but my creativity was a gift given out of love, a love of the very same community that didn’t always love me. My goal is to help as many business owners and dreamers as I can realize their vision and manifest their reality, no matter what cards life deals them.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The road wasn’t always smooth, but the outcome was always perfect. The sheer knowledge and wisdom that complex decision-making and critical thinking provide are unmatched. Trauma and exposure gave me the unique opportunity to gain an understanding of the world, while creativity and humility provide me the ability to change it.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a creative business consultant and sustainable technology developer. I help build and create brand identities through messaging, creative marketing, mindset development, and strategy execution. My company stamped marketing was created to help companies grow with technology and expose their business to more people in less time. My main focus is to get my clients as much targeted digital real estate as possible, which consequently provides them larger market shares and exposure for their companies which translates into higher earnings. My team provides invaluable business solutions that most people are not exposed to through general marketing and advertising firms. We help business owners from start to finish, whether you’re in the developmental stage, rebranding, or general marketing. We also offer legal assistance in china to protect and develop products for clients, anything that’s needed, we provide, so whether our clients come to us for web development or local brand exposure in the states, we have them covered. The goal of Stamped Marketing is to build a business ecosystem that relies on inner connections to gain outer success. We look at business solutions from an abstract point of view, and that how we get our answers.
What are your plans for the future?
My plan for the future is to continue to build strong business ecosystems for the modern world built on proven solutions that work. We will also continue to develop technology that will help all business owners compete in a way that is fair and balanced. I believe that to grow your brand, you must have the ability to forecast ten years into the future and work to do it now. We plan to help our partners and clients position their business in a way that will keep them relevant for years to come.
Contact Info:
- Email: support@stampedmarketing
- Website: https://stamped.stampedelite.com
- Instagram: @stampedmarketing
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/jadanmiorke/
Image Credits
Jasper Hood Lauren Lacey Tammy Rozier Calvin Rozier Ashae Amana Denise Kelly Polote Benjamin Polote Tracey Morris Reem Team Dwight Skrapp Reynolds Roq Fluellen
