C-10 Mentoring & Leadership Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

For Episode 156 of the C-10 Podcast, we're featuring Tim Kluempers, the second of six 2024 Blue KC Coaches with Character honorees.

Tim started the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints Rugby team in 2007. Under his direction, the Saints have won the Kansas state championship nearly every year, and they’ve competed on the national stage, also. Before getting into coaching, Tim played for the US National Rugby team from 1996-2001, and for the Kansas City Blues Rugby team for more than 20 years. By day, Tim is in Business Development for Budnick Converting.

Additionally, he's heavily involved in youth rugby in Kansas City area.

LINKS:

For more information about the Blue KC Coaches with Character program, visit this page on our site.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, visit our website.

To make a financial gift to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring and to help families in crisis, visit our secure donation page.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

On Episode 155 of the C-10 Podcast, we're chatting with the July Blue KC Coaches with Character honoree, Jill Courter, the girls golf coach at Blue Springs High School. 

Jill Courter has worked in the Blue Springs School District for more than 25 years, and has been the golf coach since 2007. During the past 17 years, she had an undefeated team that won the Missouri state championship in 2014, she’s had one individual golfer win the state championship, and she’s had five all-state golfers.

But, as Alli Bowers, one of Jill Courter’s former golfers and her nominator wrote: “Jill’s tireless efforts to create a place where female athletes are respected and loved is her priority. I still remember the love, care and concern she gave me as a young athlete. Constantly encouraging, teaching, and pushing me to be my best self.”

 LINKS:

For more information about the Blue KC Coaches with Character program, visit this page on our site.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, visit our website.

To make a financial gift to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring and to help families in crisis, visit our secure donation page.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

On this episode of the C-10 Podcast, we're chatting with Ryana Parks-Shaw, the Mayor Pro Tem in Kansas City, Mo. She began serving her first term as council woman in the 5th District in August 2019. She has lived in the 5th district with her family for more than 22 years.

Mayor Quinton Lucas appointed Ryana Mayor Pro Tem of Kansas City in August 2023. She also serves as the Chair of the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee, Chair of the Land Bank Commission, Vice Chair of the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Commission, and Co-Chair of the Health Commission. She previously served as the Chair of the Mayor’s Houseless Task Force. She is also a member of the Kansas City Zoo Board of Directors and the Starlight Board of Directors.

Mrs. Parks-Shaw is a long-time healthcare executive. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Missouri State University and a Master of Science degree from Southwest Baptist University. She is an alum of Ruskin High School in the Hickman Mills School District. She has a deep passion — a COMMITMENT — for community service and improving the quality of life for Kansas City residents.

LINKS:

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, visit our website.

To make a financial gift to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring and to help families in crisis, visit our secure donation page.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

As we mentioned last week, here in June, the month of Father’s Day, we’re talking with folks who were greatly influenced by their fathers. And this week, Father’s Day week, appropriately enough, we're chatting with Kansas City Star columnist Vahe Gregorian, whose father Vartan died in mid-April at the age of 87.

But what a life he lived. Vartan was born in Iran to Christian Armenian parents and by the time he came to the States in 1956 to attend Stanford, he spoke seven languages. We’re going to talk more about his life, but we'll add these distinctions and honors: he taught at multiple universities, was the President at Brown, and also led the New York Public Libraries and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. While there, he helped lead an initiative with other foundations called the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, which made grants to nine countries totaling $440 million over ten years, improving conditions for 4.1 million African students enrolled at 379 universities and colleges. Oh, and there’s this: President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Humanities Medal, and President Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.

This will be unlike most of our podcasts but we think it'll be a tremendous blessing as you hear about a great leader who wanted to make a difference for others.

Vahe takes a swing at our "Pregame Batting Practice," and then he discusses the influence of his parents, particularly that of his father. 

LINKS:

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

This week’s chat features Jennifer Dehan, the President and COO of Velocity Staff, which is a different kind of staffing agency.

Jennifer started her career in staffing in 1993 shortly after graduating from Kansas State University, and about 10 years later had a chance meeting with an Entrepreneurial Technologist that led to the founding of Velocity Staff, Inc.

In addition to her work Velocity, Jennifer is a founder, board member and volunteer of Hoops4Hope, a not-for-profit that raises funds and awareness for organizations that support cancer patients in need in our community. She also works with the Natalie M Foundation to support scholarships for college bound students interested in pursuing STEM disciplines and works with the Foundation to encourage and educate young women to celebrate their strengths and capabilities.

Jennifer, who is a graduate of Shawnee Mission South High School, enjoys spending time with her husband John, who I hope to have as a guest on this podcast one day, and three step-children. 

Jennifer takes a swing at our "Pregame Batting Practice," and then Jennifer and Matt discuss the influence of her parents in her leadership journey, the keys to finding a job now at any age, and Jennifer shares a great story about how Ewing Kauffman set her up on her first blind date.

LINKS:

To learn more about Velocity Staff, Inc., visit their website.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

This week’s chat features an old friend of host Matt Fulks, Rob Browne. Although most of these episodes feature someone with Kansas City ties, we're breaking that this week. Rob is from Atlanta and lives there now, but there's no doubt that you’ll be entertained, enlightened and encouraged after listening to this conversation.

Rob played basketball at Lipscomb University under Hall of Fame coach Don Meyer before embarking on a career focused on serving others. Not long after graduating from Lipscomb, Rob became a missionary in Russia, but not just any part of Russia...Siberia to be exact. He eventually became the Director of Russian Operations for YouthReach International, and nearly 10 years ago -- in December of 2011 -- he became the President and CEO of YouthReach International, which establishes local mentoring communities to serve vulnerable youth. Their locations include Ukraine, Zambia and Beirut.

Rob and Matt discuss the leadership lessons of Don Meyer, tell a story about how Rob had a chance to make the Bisons better once, and how those leadership lessons have carried with Rob as a missionary and nonprofit CEO. 

 LINKS:

To learn more about YouthReach International, visit their website.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

This is a special week as we're joined by two-time Emmy Award winner and Peabody Award winner, Andrea Kremer. To make it even more special, this episode, which was recorded during a session with our C-10 students and mentors, includes questions from a few of our students.

In 2017, Kremer was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2018 she received the Pete Rozelle Radio-TV award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

She was ESPN’s first female correspondent and in 2018, she and Hannah Storm became the first ever all-woman NFL broadcast team when they started calling games on Amazon Prime.

She has done in-depth interviews with and profiles on some of the most recognizable names in sports including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Pete Carroll and Bill Parcells. She’s covered championship games in nearly every major sport, plus the Olympics. Oh, and she teaches a journalism class at Boston University’s College of Communication.

LINKS:

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

With this 52nd episode -- so a year of the C-10 Podcast -- we bring you a conversation from one of our C-10 sessions with our high school students and mentors. 

This one's a little different than all of the others, though. It was a roundtable discussion recorded on April 28 at Menorah Medical Center. Moderated by Stann Tate, a C-10 mentor and the VP of Marketing for Menorah, it featured the following three leaders from Menorah:

Angel Monroy, the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer, who helps oversee all nurses at Menorah. Angel has worked in the intensive care unit at Truman Medical Center, a level I trauma center. He holds three degrees: BA in Psychology, a BS in Nursing, and a MS in Nursing. Additionally, he works with Sporting Kansas City as part of their medical staff.

April Rahe, who's the Director of Respiratory, Neurology and Sleep Services at Menorah. She recently graduated and received a Leadership Certificate from the HCA Healthcare Leadership Institute, and is currently working on a Leadership Certificate through Rockhurst University.

Denise Culver (BSN, RN, SCRN, CEN), who's the Neuroscience Coordinator at Menorah. She is responsible for the hospital's stroke and neurosurgery programs. She is also a certified stroke nurse and a certified emergency nurse. For the past six years she has been a nurse leader in the management of two stroke programs.

As with many of the sessions with our students that we turn into podcast episodes, parts of the discussion were reserved for them. But we wanted to share these great insights into crisis management and leadership with you. 

With that, here is C-10 mentor Stann Tate with Angel, April and Denise. 

LINKS:

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

As you probably know if you follow us on social media or have gone to C10Mentoring.com, there are two huge goals for the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students here in the Kansas City area. One is to help develop a servant-leadership heart in them -- or to continue developing that. The second is to help prepare them for the next stage in life.

This year with our nine seniors we have been more deliberate about helping to prepare them for that next step. One of the ways we do that is with teaching them about money and budgeting and investing.

In early May we had a Zoom session with our seniors, their parents and guardians, and their mentors, as we introduced them to the idea of a donor-advised fund, which, essentially, is a savings account to use for charitable purposes.

Our guest speaker that night was Evan Lange, who’s the President of the Midwest division of The Signatry, which is a Christian community foundation. Before joining the Signatry, Evan was an associate attorney with a couple of the big law firms in Kansas City.

As with many of the sessions with our students that we turn into podcast episodes, most of our conversation with Evan was focused on the seniors and some things we’re doing for them, but we wanted to share Evan’s story, his leadership journey, and thoughts on the idea of generosity with you.

LINKS:

To learn more about The Signatry, please visit their website.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

We have a signed book to give away this week! But first...

This podcast, as you know, focuses mainly on leadership and mentoring. What better person to have on this week than a leadership coach and someone who, literally, wrote a book about leadership.  

Marc Pitman is the CEO of the Concord Leadership Group. He has a Masters in Organizational Leadership and certification as a FranklinCovey Coach. His clients have included Maine Public Broadcasting, Georgetown University, Habitat for Humanity, and the Association of the U.S. Army.

In essence, he helps leaders lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. His latest book is "The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be." He’s also the author of "Ask Without Fear!" – which has been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish, and Mandarin.

Marc’s expertise and enthusiasm engages audiences around the world both in person and with online presentations. And has caught the attention of media organizations as diverse as The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Al Jazeera, Fox News, SUCCESS magazine, and Real Simple. Marc tweets regularly at @marcapitman.

LINKS:

We have a signed copy of "The Surprising Gift of Doubt" to give away to one lucky winner. To be entered into the drawing, simply visit our contact page and let us know why you listen to C-10 and where you're listening from. We'll have a drawing on Wednesday, May 5, at 10a CDT.

For more information about Marc's book, please visit this link. 

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, including the application process for current high school freshmen and sophomores, visit our website.

For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.

If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.