Ideas change everything

The best gift I ever survived

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Stacey Kramer |

TED2010

• February 2010

Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to be a priceless gift.

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Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to be a priceless gift.

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Brand strategist

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Stacey Kramer has traveled the United States and the world helping to create names and brands for growing companies.

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