Brad Montgomery, Motivational Speaker

My Worst Gig Ever

By Ron Tite, Guest Author

From Brad:   Ron approached me online with this story, and the absolute truth of it cracked me up.  I’ve done so many shows similar to this, and the pain is still fresh.  Want to peak behind the scenes to see and feel how comedians think?  you’ll  love this article.    Enjoy!   — Brad

While we all have our favorite artists or genres, I’ve always felt that true lovers of music simply like good music. Crappy, lowest common denominator country is not something I have Faith Hill in, but good country – Johnny Cash, Willie

Nelson, and on occasion, Merle Haggard – is certainly worth stepping off thetractor to listen to. Most Glam Rock, on the other hand, is more glam than rock but on the right day, at the right time, I will channel my inner-Oshawa, throw my head back, close my eyes, and sing along with Jersey Jon as he proudly proclaims, “I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. I’m wanted (wanted!) dead or alive.”

I can do that because music can be neatly placed into categories. Those

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I had a very bright high school student call me recently.  She kindly asked if she could interview me about my job as a motivational speaker for a paper she wrote.  She was a great kid on the phone, and as you can see by her email (and paper) below you’ll see that her teacher agreed.  

Emily:   you’re  a rock star!  Keep it up girl and let me know if I may be of further service.

Here’s her email

Dear Brad,

I am writing to you both, as you requested, to let you know about the outcome of my senior project about motivational speaking.  I wrote and presented a speech about technology to a retired men’s group, which went really well.  I wrote a paper about my research, and I mentioned both of you.  An attachment of the paper is included in this email.

The most nerve-wracking part of this entire experience was presenting my topic to my panel of judges.  I had to speak to them about more than the material included in my research paper, because they read my paper prior to my presentation.  After a recap of what I learned in my research for my paper, I talked to them

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