No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week, Addie Graham-Kramer
Rebecca Jarvis
Chief Business, Technology & Economics Correspondent at ABC News Host , Creator/Host ‘The Dropout’ podcast & ‘No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis' Podcast
Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week, Addie Graham-Kramer!
Name + Title: Addie Graham-Kramer, Founder + CEO of The Event Company
Home Base: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Bio: After spending a decade designing events and working in the marketing + public relations industry, I took a leap of faith in 2013 and launched The Event Company. Over the last five years, our talented team of dream builders has designed over 210 events in 16 states with over 120,000 guests in attendance. Plus, we’ve worked alongside organizations to raise over $6.3 million through many of those events. I have always been passionate about encouraging other females to be empowered to follow their dreams, just as I have done, and engage in entrepreneurial conversations across the country. When I’m not building dreams through events, I stay busy being a mommy to William and Calvin and cruising alongside my husband in his classic cars.
Toughest lesson you’ve had to learn in your career?
While the perfectionist in me doesn’t like to admit it, it really is okay to make mistakes. Even somedays, I don’t like to take off my superhero cape, but we are all human. As my husband, and fellow entrepreneur tells me, “those mistakes are called tuition, but only as long as we learn from them.”
What’s one piece of advice you wish you knew when you started your career?
Don’t be afraid to ask for not only want you want, but also what you deserve. Let your voice be known.
What tools do you use to stay organized?
Outside of creating every to-do list under the sun, to help keep me organized, both personally and professionally, I live and breathe by my digital calendar. (If it’s not on the calendar, it doesn’t exist!) Not only does my team have access to seeing what I have booked for in-office and out-of-office meetings, but then I have included on that same calendar my gym and yoga sessions, basketball practices for my boys and other family activities. It’s synced to all of our devices and it’s what keeps me organized!
Hear Addie Graham-Kramer on this week's episode of #NoLimitspodcast featuring ClassPass founder and executive chairman Payal Kadakia: https://abcn.ws/nolimits