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The Best Colorado Teachers are Colorado Magicians

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on July 14th, 2008

I was recently speaking to a group of amazing high school students with the Skills USA organization when I happened to meet up with an old friend, Colorado Magician Michael Townsend.  (We’ve been friends for ages, are both members of the Mile High Magicians Society.)
Mike is a great guy, and definitely one […]

Girl Scouts Chop Off Own Fingers

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on May 23rd, 2008

Craft Gone Wrong!!!
My wife and a pal of hers are Girl Scout troop leaders for some very cute Brownies, including our six year old.
Recently, we had a magic “unit” (do they give patches for that?) where I got to work with the troop and do some magic. After learning (and seeing) what real […]

Are Magicians Artists or Paint-By-Number Fakes?

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 16th, 2008

I’m a magician and proud of it. But….
There was recently a great National Public Radio radio show about magic that I loved. Link.
In this very cool call-in show, one of the many topics they cover is whether or not magicians are artists.
I’m not sure… in many ways I think that comedy and […]

Open Letter To Bad Magicians

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on June 7th, 2007

An Open Letter to Crappy Magicians
I recently was hired to coach a speaker who also happened to do a bit of magic in her programs. It seems to me that the things that I told him are the same things I tell a bunch of people. Usually I’m nicer than what follows… […]

Magicians Get Lucky

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on March 19th, 2007

But not the way you think.
I was lucky to recently spend some time in Mexico with my family. One of my absolute highlights of a killer fun trip was doing magic for some kids. Ok, one kid actually.
At one point I did some simple magic tricks for some kids. My daughter […]

A pretty cool blog for magicians picked me up

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on January 3rd, 2007

My post about magician Doug Henning was picked up by a cool website at iTricks.com. Check out their post here.
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Corporate Magician
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A pretty cool blog for magicians picked me up

Posted by Motivational Speakers: Brad Montgomery on January 1st, 2007

My post about magician Doug Henning was picked up by a cool website at iTricks.com. Check out their post here.
Brad Montgomery
Corporate Magician
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Doug Henning: Motivational Speaker or Magician?

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

Both, of you ask me. When I was a kid I loved this guy. His TV specials made me want to become a magician.
We miss him. (He died a few years ago.)
I just ran into the cool quote from Doug, and thought you’d be interested:
Wonder is very necessary in life. […]

Need a Colorado Magician? Book my Kid!

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

Yup, I’m a Colorado magician, and work all the time for corporate and association audiences performing my magician / comedian thing. But to be honest, nothing has made me so proud as watching my eldest daughter do some magic at a birthday party for her sister (my youngest kid).

Claire did some killer magic, fooled […]

Good Magican… good friend.

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

A good friend, and fellow Colorado magician Danny Archer was just profiled in the Society of American Magician’s magazine.
Danny is a good magician; and he has also invented many tricks for sale to other professional magicians. Besides that… he’s a good guy.
Congrats, Danny.
(Another cool connection: Colorado magician Lindsey Smith wrote the article about Danny. Lindsey […]