Why creativity is like sex with Courtney Smith Kramer
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Courtney is the co-founder of Purematter, a top Marketing consultancy. She has earned hundreds of creative awards as a creative strategist, writer and designer, and her first book "21 Reasons Creativity is Like Sex" launched as a #1 Business Humor book on Amazon in the Fall 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcome to episode 1741 of EO Fire. Right |
| 0:10.2 | out with today's most inspiring entrepreneurs who are on fire. Seven days a week. Goals |
| 0:17.6 | equal success and with the Freedom Journal.com. You'll be accomplishing your number one goal |
| 0:23.0 | in 100 days. Now I'll show it today's featured guest Courtney Smith Kramer. Courtney are you |
| 0:30.0 | prepared to ignite? Yes. Whoo. Courtney is the co-founder of Pure Matter, a top marketing |
| 0:38.4 | consultancy. She has earned hundreds of creative awards as a creative strategist writer and designer. |
| 0:44.6 | In her first book, 21 reasons creativity is like sex. Losh as a number one business humor book |
| 0:52.0 | on Amazon in the fall of 2016. Courtney, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from that in-tone. Give |
| 0:57.9 | us a little glimpse of your personal life. My personal life. You want to get personal with me? |
| 1:02.4 | Personal. Let's do it. Love it. Well, I was born in a small town in Michigan. Far back you want |
| 1:10.1 | me to go. But yeah, I was born and raised in Michigan. Those of you out there who are from Michigan. |
| 1:16.5 | No, I'm holding up my right hand pointing to the middle of my hand. That's like the secret |
| 1:20.0 | hand shake of Michigan. Live there for 30 years. Started my first business there. And then one |
| 1:27.1 | fateful day met my husband, Brian Kramer, who some of you guys might know in Washington, DC |
| 1:32.9 | at an advertising conference. And the rest was history. He lived in San Jose, California at the time. |
| 1:38.9 | And I never could ever could conceive that I would be living in California. But sure enough, |
| 1:44.5 | two years later, I was in San Jose. We were engaged and the rest is history. And yes, Brian is a |
| 1:50.9 | past guest of EO fire. So for all those fire nation faithful, you know exactly who BK in the house |
| 1:57.4 | is. Faux show. But Courtney, let's cut it from the focus back to you because I want to know what |
| 2:02.0 | your area of expertise is. Well, I think my book gave it away. So it's either creativity or sex. |
| 2:08.9 | Hopefully it's both. Well, let's stick with creativity. And within that, what would you say is |
| 2:16.0 | something that we don't know as entrepreneurs that we probably should. So I would say the dirty |
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