Exploring Life & Business with Djoser Garrison-Quick of The POW Creatives

Today we’d like to introduce you to Djoser Garrison-Quick.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My journey started before I was born! The doctors told my parents that I would make it, so they should do a therapeutic abortion. Ironic term for that procedure because there is NOTHING therapeutic about abortion…let alone aborting a 5-and-a-half-month-old baby. They told my parents that if I WAS born and I DID make it, that I would have almost every deficiency in the medical dictionary, including being def, blind, quadriplegic, and retardation (that was the actual medical term back then). Spoiler alert: my parents elected to not abort. Instead, they went through with the delivery. I was born 1 pound and 7 ounces. I was three and a half months premature. There are way too many details of my birth to get into in this interview, so I’ll fast forward to kindergarten when I was introduced to drama class. I fell in love with acting. Fast forward to 4th grade when I began playing the sax in band. I loved that as well.

In 8th grade, my drama teacher told me that I had real talent. Freshman year in high school, I was introduced to the concept of music production and composition but had not done it yet. Sophomore year in high school, I joined the Thespian Society and began learning every aspect of theatre. Senior year in high school, I took an electronic music class, began producing and composing music, and fell in love with music composition. Armed with the unwavering strength of my convictions, My freshman year in college, I started my music production company and got incorporated (for the first time) at the age of 19. I began working with musical artists, doing artist development, and plotting my course for the entertainment industry. By my sophomore year in college, I knew I needed to get serious about business, so I switched my major from music to marketing and transferred to DePaul University. By my junior year in college, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I decided that I was going to get my Master of Science degree in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida and I did just that!

Five years later, I decided that the Entertainment industry wasn’t going to come to me, so I needed to go to IT and decided to move to Los Angeles and score movies as a composer. In 2015, my wife and I decided to have our first child. I didn’t want to take pictures of the baby with just my cellphone, so I bought a professional photography camera and taught myself photography. That turned into me becoming a professional photographer. One day my best friend jokingly asked, “So when are you going to start shooting music videos?” At the time, I only had a photography camera so I chuckled and almost moved on with the conversation, however he followed up and said, “It makes perfect sense, you started in music, got great at that, then went to photography, and your eye for photography is incredible. Plus, you are a creative, so It’s the next logical step in your journey.” I immediately stopped laughing, thought about it, and said, “Challenge accepted.” I then set out to learn cinematography on a professional level. I became obsessed with mastering angles, lighting, and just production overall. I began writing, directing, producing, filming, and acting in my own skits. In 2020 purchased a cinema camera, professional lights, and professional audio equipment and started my own creative agency, The POW Creatives, Inc. focused on Branding, Traditional and Digital Marketing, P.R., Advertising, and Film Production.

I combined all of my skillsets that I had gained over the course of my life, put a team together, and began getting clients. As I am typing this, The POW Creatives, Inc. currently has clients that we work with that are diverse in the industry as well as need. We work with startups as well as established businesses. We work with artists, content creators, and brands of all types. We also Produce music videos, social media content, commercial advertisements, short films, and feature films. It is now 2023, and I have evolved into a writer, producer, director, professional public speaker, photographer, cinematographer, and composer. I am a creative visionary and have put together an incredible team of industry professionals who are just as passionate about what they do as I am. We have incredible synergy, and we are up for any and every challenge. That’s how I started, that’s how I got to where I am today, and I look forward to where I’m headed because Los Angeles has been one big adventure, and I am grateful and excited for what’s to come!

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?
My journey has been balanced. I’ve had great times, bad times, hurdles, wins, losses, and everything else that you can imagine. What I have learned is that every experience that I have had has been exactly what was needed to get me where I am today. My birth was all of those things all wrapped up into one. My birth was challenging, but in the end, I emerged whole and healthy. I struggled and then thrived. My entire life has been the same way. I moved to L.A. because the opportunities that are in L.A. were not presenting themselves where I was. I applied to jobs for…well…even as recently as last year, I applied for jobs and didn’t even get so much as a confirmation that they received my application. Starting The POW Creatives, Inc. was directly related to my struggle to get work in my field. I know that I am not the only industry professional who has had tough times, but what separates me from most others is that I have a WHY that is so strong and solid that I am willing to go through the turmoil in order to get to the other side and accomplish the goals that I have in my career. I have no quit in me. I do not have a stop button. I am beyond driven…I AM drive, and I’m solar-powered on a cloudless day!

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?
The POW Creatives, Inc. is a fully comprehensive creative agency. We focus on branding, marketing, advertising, cultural activation, and film production. We are what your business/brand is missing. What sets us apart from others is that we don’t just help you think outside of the box, we remove it all together. I’m most proud that we are firing on all cylinders and we are going above and beyond for our clients on a daily basis. We are hitting all of our marks and evolving exponentially. We have exceeded even my own expectations and continue to do so. I want your readers to know that you can do anything that you put your mind to. Don’t limit yourself, and don’t let others discourage you from doing things that they can’t do. Some people only believe in things that they can see or that they have already seen. The trick is to not allow those people to give you advice on your vision because ONLY YOU can see YOUR VISION! I want your readers to dream big, think big, and DO BIGGER! I want your readers to know that if they have a vision and the magnitude of that idea doesn’t scare them, they are not thinking big enough. Don’t listen to people who call you or your big ideas crazy because they only call it crazy until it works…then they call it GENIUS!

How do you define success?
This is a VERY complex question with an equally complex and lengthy answer, but I’ll give you the cliff notes! I define success as a mindset, and it is as follows: “I have what I need and I get what I want!” This mindset is based in gratitude, and it blossoms into a work ethic, great habits, and super-imposing balance into your life. Success is all about mastering patience and persistence. You must be patient and persistent with your process. Enjoy the great times, and learn from the not-so-great times. We are NOT our snapshot! In other words, if you take a snapshot of your life at any given point in time, you are only accounting for a fraction of where you are on your journey. If you see wealth as a success, but you don’t have it, the attraction of wealth is not the success; the resolution to not stop until you achieve wealth is the success. Therefore, the moment you fully commit to the wealth journey, you are already successful because your wealth is now waiting for you to get to it. It is no longer a matter of IF but a matter of WHEN! I don’t define success as wealth, rather, I define wealth as a biproduct of success. TRUE success is in the wealth of knowledge, support, love, growth, wisdom, loyalty, empathy, and compassion that YOU share with OTHERS!

Contact Info:

• Website: www.THEPOWCREATIVES.com