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Archive for March, 2006

Make fun…. of your own darn self!

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 31st, 2006

Welcome to Cordes & Company
This company’s website has bios of all of their folks. What I love best is that they actually take the time to poke fun at themselves.
Check out a sample:
Linda is the person that keeps the office running. She manages the office and performs most of the accounting and related analysis for […]

Gotta be a Bad Magician First!

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 30th, 2006

This is a cool article about the growth of magician/performer skills. This guy is right on! You could change the word “magician” to speaker and it would be just ast true.
Look at this excerpt:

Glenn Bishop “Bish The Magish”: Magic’s Problems?
Being BAD is not a problem because you only get good by being BAD […]

Waste your time here!

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 30th, 2006

This blog rocks: Jasonspage.net
Crazy funny news. Careful… you’ll spend more time there than you plannned.
http://www.jasonspage.net Besides, Jason is about THE nicest guy on the planet.

NFL Carnival Selection!

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 29th, 2006

Hey sports fans! My blog on adding passion to the speaking industry was picked up by a very cool blog about football. Yes… you read it right. Football. Cool… check it out.

Multiple Mentality
Here’s a different place to start the Carnival: Brad Montgomery asks what does motivational speaking have […]

Comedian Idol? Nope…

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 29th, 2006

From ABC NEWS:

ABC News: Simon Cowell Takes His “American Idol” Search to Vegas
Wannabe singing stars on “American Idol” have been known to cringe whenever judge Simon Cowell speaks. Would-be magicians and other Las Vegas-style entertainers could soon become just as nervous if the acid-tongued Cowell finds a judge as outspoken as himself for a new […]

Shut Up! (You’re Making Me laugh!)

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 28th, 2006

My seven-year-old Ben was making a ton of noise at a family card game. (Crazy 8’s if you must know.) Tons of noise from a little kid.
We were having fun, so I challenged him, “Ben, if you can stay quiet for two minutes, I’ll give you a quarter.”
Ben started shouting, “Quiet! Quiet! […]

All good speakers are jerks.

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 27th, 2006

Actually, the opposite is true.
Brad Barton is now one of my newest speaker pals. He is a magician / motivatonal speaker based in Ogden, Utah. (His main market is youth and education groups, but does a fair amount of work in the corporate world as well.)
His family hosted me on a […]

Humor is not teachable!

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 22nd, 2006

I believe that humor has two parts: the ART of Humor and the SCIENCE of Humor. (Pal and fellow corporate comedian Mark Mayfield helped me articulate this point.) It is totally possible to teach the Science part of humor… the anatomy of a joke, some easy techniques that are just formulas… they […]

Cartoonist Motivational Speaker?

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 21st, 2006

You Bet!
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you’ll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners […]

Bored?

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 13th, 2006

I really like this site. www.bored.com
If you don’t have any humor in your workplace, and you need a place to procrastinate, this site is pretty cool.
My own personal procrastination station