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.

One of our initial goals with this podcast was to highlight the outstanding mentors in our C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program. We also use this podcast to highlight the guest speakers we have for our students and mentors during the weekly sessions.

Well, in this week’s episode, we’re combining both of those, if you will. On Wednesday, March 31st, we did relatively short interviews with three of our mentors in front of our students on the main stage at the Musical Theater Heritage location at Crown Center in downtown Kansas City.

This week, you’re going to hear one of those interviews, as we chat with third-year mentor Lori Top.

Lori grew up in the Kansas City area, and after getting a degree in architecture from the University of Kansas, she went to work as a Design Manager for Starbucks Coffee out of Seattle. She was in charge of rebuilds of Starbuck stores throughout Canada. Eventually, she came back to Kansas City, where she is a principal and Aviation Projects Director for Burns & McDonnell.

One thing to keep in mind as you hear those last couple of sentences and then listen to this conversation, as an architect, Lori has spent the majority of her career in male-dominated professions. She has a couple other characteristics that she’s open about in this conversation -- one has made her self-conscious, particularly in a male-dominated profession, and one has helped her throughout her career. You’ll hear both of those in this chat.

Finally, some quick background. Lori was the third mentor we interviewed that night for our students, so there’s a reference or two to George and Fred, the other two mentors we interviewed. And Lori directed a lot of her answers to our students. But, frankly, whether you’re 14, 54 or 74, her answers can apply to all of us today.

With all of that being said, we hope you enjoy it.

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.

Our goal each week with this podcast is to bring you guests who have great stories and have been successful leaders or mentors in various fields. Although we’ve had some well-known guests, there are so many outstanding leaders out there who have stories and principles that you and I can apply to our everyday lives. 

That’s the case this week.

We’re joined by longtime college golf coach Ed Bethea, who actually joined us for our C-10 Mentoring & Leadership session and spoke to our students for a few minutes this week. 

Ed was the women’s golf coach at Dodge City Community College for 20 years -- actually helped start that program -- and had incredible success. The success that most of society uses to determine the success of college coaches, but also success in the number of student-athletes that he helped mentor, and still mentors today.

You'll hear about that, as well as Ed's thoughts on working with students today, and he takes a swing at our Pregame Batting Practice.

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.

If you’re a long-time listener of this podcast you know that one of our initial goals was to highlight some of the outstanding mentors in our C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program. We also use this podcast to highlight the guest speakers we have for our students and mentors during the weekly sessions. 

Well, in this week’s episode, we’re combining both of those. On Wednesday, March 31st, we did relatively short interviews with three of our mentors in front of our students on the main stage at the Musical Theater Heritage location at Crown Center in downtown Kansas City. 

This week, you’re going to hear one of those interviews, as Max Utsler, who’s been a co-host on this podcast, chats with mentor George Norton.  

George has been a mentor in C-10 since our first year, and he’s served on a couple of committees for “C” You In The Major Leagues. George is very active in the Kansas City community. He has served -- or is serving -- on various nonprofit boards and committees, including Musical Theater Heritage and Kansas Public Radio. 

George has led an interesting life. He was a career Army officer, which you’ll hear about during this conversation, including serving as the Public Information Officer for the Army in Berlin during the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

But the cool thing about this chat is that it’s two old friends talking. Max was a professor at KU when George was working on his Master’s, and they developed a great friendship that’s spanned about 40 years.  

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.

Episode 145 of the C-10 Podcast is a fun chat with Chase Coffman, who grew up in the Kansas City area, before becoming an All-American tight end at the University of Missouri, and then a journeyman career in the NFL. 

Chase, whose dad starred at Kansas State before a career in the NFL with Green Bay and Kansas City, chats in this conversation about his football career, how faith played a role in his decisions, what he would've done had football not panned out originally, and MUCH more.

This interview was recorded in front of our students and mentors at Music Theater Heritage inside Crown Center in December 2023.

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.

We wrote this last week, but if you want to know what it looks like to be a leader in business and in the community, you don’t have to look any further than our guest this week. 

J.R. Buckner has been the President and CEO of First Federal Bank of Kansas City since April 2014.

After receiving his degree in accounting and management from Park University, Buckner went into banking through a management trainee program in 1994 at a community bank in Lee's Summit, Mo.

Community is at the heart of his focus, professionally and personally. In fact, under his leadership, FFBKC is involved with various nonprofits and community service projects throughout the greater Kansas City area, including CYITML.

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.

If you want to know what it looks like to be a leader in business and in the community, you don’t have to look any further than our guest this week. 

Carolyn Watley has been with CBiz since 1977, during which time she has gone from office manager to President, and is now the Vice President of Community Engagement. Oh, and speaking of community engagement, she’s the Chair for the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, she’s served on various committees and boards in the community from St. Luke’s South Hospital to her alma mater (and one of our partner schools, Benedictine College), to Starlight Theater. And, she was one of the driving forces behind the construction of the Kansas City MLB Urban Youth Academy.

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.

It's perhaps the toughest basketball tournament in the country: the national tournament for the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics), which starts on March 18 in historic Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.

We're joined this week by the President and CEO of the NAIA, Jim Carr.  We talk hoops, leadership, the relationship between the NAIA and the NCAA, and Jim takes a swing at our "Pregame Batting Practice" questions. 

Jim Carr joined the NAIA in July 1998 as Managing Director and General Counsel and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer, while retaining the title of General Counsel, in 2000.  In September 2006 Carr became the seventh President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAIA. 

Before joining the NAIA, Jim practiced law in Birmingham, Ala. from 1994-1998.  His primary areas of practice were public finance, and corporate and intellectual property.  He also worked in the athletics development office and served as Director of Licensing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1989-1991.

LINKS:

To learn more about the NAIA's basketball tournament, visit the NAIA.

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.

If you’re a long-time Kansas City resident -- “long time” as in you were here in the 1980s and even ‘90s -- you likely remember a movie theater inside Crown Center. It wasn’t huge inside...in fact, the theaters could be called cozy. But in 2007, after the movie theater closed and Crown Center renovated the space, they approached Musical Theater Heritage, which had been producing shows since 2003 on a loading dock, about moving its shows there.

That was a great move for all, as nearly 50,000 people see shows at MTH each year in that renovated 244-seat theater. They do much more than shows, though. 

Joining us this week is a former "singing waiter" in Kansas City and Los Angeles, and someone who helped market those loading dock shows, the Executive Director of Musical Theater Heritage, Chad Gerlt.

In this episode of the C-10 podcast, Gerlt talks about his leadership journey and the importance of finding good mentors, takes a swing at our "Pregame BP" questions, and much more.

LINKS:

To learn more about Musical Theater Heritage, visit MusicalTheaterHeritage.com.

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.

If you’re into college sports at all, you’ve likely heard the name Bill Hancock. He was the long-time director of the NCAA Final Four, the first executive director of the Bowl Championship Series and the first executive director of the College Football Playoff. Shoot, you may have even seen him TV helping to present the championship trophy to the game’s winning coach. 

Or, if you’ve ever had to deal with the unimaginable grief of losing a child, you may have read his incredible book, "Riding with the Blue Moth," which he wrote a few years after the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 Oklahoma State plane crash. Frankly, it’s a must-read for everyone. 

On top of all of that, Bill, who’s a longtime Kansas City resident, is one of the most genuine, caring people you will ever meet. 

In this episode of the C-10 podcast, Hancock talks about his leadership journey and the importance of putting others first, takes a swing at our "Pregame BP" questions, shares how he's dealt with the loss of a son, and much more.

LINKS:

To read our 2018 blog post about "Riding with the Blue Moth" and Hancock's journey, click here.

To purchase copies of "Riding with the Blue Moth," visit Amazon.

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.

Something must've been in the water at Shawnee Mission South High School in the late 1980s because in a two-year span, 1987-88, it produced Michael Brandt, a successful writer/executive producer of movies and a hit TV series -- not just a single show, but a series of shows -- and two Hollywood actors: Rob Riggle, who was on this podcast last spring, and this week's guest. 

He can be seen pretty much every Wednesday night as “Capp” on the hit NBC show, Chicago Fire. He’s also been in movies including, Men of Honor with Robert DeNiro and Cuba Gooding, Jr., and The Double with Richard Gere. From Shawnee Mission South class of 1987, Randy Flagler. 

In this episode of the C-10 podcast, Flagler shares stories from his career, talks about a different type of leader, takes a swing at our "Pregame BP" questions, and much more.

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.

There's a good chance, regardless of your age, you know Bill Kurtis. If you're a little older, you may remember him from WIBW-TV in Topeka, or as the anchor of the CBS Morning News, or as the host of various shows on PBS and A&E. If you're a little younger, you may just know his voice from the movie “Anchorman,” or from hearing him each weekend on NPR’s awesome show, “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me.” (You may have even seen his video for our Crown Town Challenge last fall, talking about his mentor as a young man in Kansas.) 

In this episode of the C-10 podcast, Kurtis shares powerful stories from his career, talks about a different type of leader, and takes a swing at our "Pregame BP" questions, and much more.

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.

Stories are a powerful tool in leadership and mentoring. One of the best storytellers today is this week's guest: Contemporary Christian singer and songwriter, Matthew West. 

West has had 10 No. 1 songs on Billboard's Christian Airplay chart, including "More," "Hello, My Name Is," "The Motions," and his latest hit, "Truth Be Told." He is also a fantastic writer, and if you follow him on social media or seen him in concert, you know he’s pretty funny as well. 

In this episode, Matthew talks about the power of stories and being a part of someone else's story, he takes a swing at our "Pregame BP" questions, and much more.

 LINKS:

To get tickets to the Feb. 12-14 "West Love Fest" virtual concert, click here.

To hear Matthew's current hit song, "Truth Be Told," please visit his YouTube page.

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.

There is a relatively new movement in Kansas City that you may not be familiar with. It’s called Unite KC. In essence it’s the idea that through faith and our churches in Kansas City, along with a diverse group of folks from every sector across the board, we can bring about racial harmony and justice to this community. In full disclosure, one of the people who helped start Unite KC is the founder of “C” You In The Major Leagues, Royals General Manager Dayton Moore.

This week's guest is the Executive Director of Unite KC, Ray Jarrett. In this episode, Ray shares about some of his experiences of racism in Kansas City, how Unite KC is working toward fighting social injustices, and he takes a swing at our "Pregame BP" questions. 
 

LINKS:

For more about Unite KC, click here.

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.

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Precision Printing, please visit PrecisionPrintKC.com.

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.

One of the most exciting aspects of our C-10 program is how our graduating seniors will be able to receive a C-10 Leaders scholarship. On top of that, though, we have partner schools in the region that are willing to go above and beyond that to help the students realize their dreams even more. 

One of those schools is Avila University here in Kansas City. We are pleased and honored to be joined this week by Avila's president, Dr. Ronald Sleptiza.

After growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, Dr. Slepitza has worked at the University of Maryland (10 years), Creighton University (9 yrs), Xavier University (13 years), and now at Avila for almost 15 years. Additionally, he has been involved with a mentoring program through the Leawood Rotary for more than 10 years, is an Ambassador for KC Scholars, and has served on a number of local and regional boards.

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.

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Precision Printing, please visit PrecisionPrintKC.com.

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.

Episode 144 of the C-10 Podcast is a fun chat with Karli Ritter, who's been a meteorologist with Fox4 in Kansas City since March 2007. She’s currently on the morning broadcasts.

Karli got her start as a student at Florida State University and worked in Sarasota, Florida, and Montgomery, Alabama before moving to Kansas City.

She enjoys traveling, cooking, yoga, spending time on a boat and playing or watching any sport. And she’s involved with several nonprofit organizations here in Kansas City…including being a celeb at C You In The Major Leagues' C You At Topgolf event for two years.

This interview was recorded in front of our students and mentors at Music Theater Heritage inside Crown Center in November 2023.

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 you may know, when we have a guest speaker for our C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program students, we oftentimes like to use part of that conversation for this podcast. And that’s what we’re doing this week. 

With the holiday this month celebrating Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our students heard recently from a Kansas City area resident who knew Dr. King. His name is Carl Jemison. He grew up in a single-parent household in Birmingham, Alabama, during the Civil Rights era. Carl’s uncle was with the national office of the NAACP, so Carl was around several giants in the Civil Rights Movement. Carl moved to the Kansas City area in the mid-1980s to work as a chemist at the Sunflower ammunitions plant. He is now retired and active in the caring ministry at the Overland Park Church of Christ.

In this episode we talk with Carl about some of his memories of Dr. King, the Civil Rights Movement, and what we can do to make a difference for each other.

 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.

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Precision Printing, please visit PrecisionPrintKC.com.

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 we're chatting with Brian Diddle, a long-time CYITML supporter and the owner of Precision Printing. Shortly after graduating from MidAmerica Nazarene in 1980, Brian went to work for a local bank for two years. About two years later, though, a friend started talking to Brian about opening a printing firm. And the rest, as they say, is history. 

In this episode we talk to Brian about why he started Precision, how much technology has changed the printing business, the importance of Precision's culture in keeping employees, how the company survived the pandemic in 2020, and much more.  

LINKS:

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Precision Printing, please visit PrecisionPrintKC.com.

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, as we close out 2020 and charge into 2021, we're chatting with someone who has a special place in our hearts (learn why during the episode), Dr. Matt Tidwell, who is the assistant dean at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. Dr. Tidwell also serves on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Business Communicators – one of the world’s largest communications associations with more than 9,000 members on five continents.

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Tidwell worked in marketing communications as a vice president at two Midwest communications agencies and served in communications leadership roles for companies including Great Plains Energy and St. Luke’s Health Systems. And he’s the co-host of a podcast focused on marketing professional development called “The Cultivated Marketer.”

LINKS:

Until 11:59p on December 31, we have a $7,500 matching gift available to provide mentoring for students in Kansas City. If you'd like to double your impact, please visit our donation page.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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 week's episode we chat with one of our C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program mentors, Eli Medina. 

Eli grew up in the Kansas City area before attending Truman State on a volleyball scholarship. She went on to earn her MBA at Rockhurst. It was during this time that Eli became a licensed realtor. She now is part of the Medina Team for ReeceNichols, working for her dad George Medina.

In this episode, Eli takes a swing at our "7 Questions," discusses leadership and the housing market in Kansas City, and talks about her experiences as a mentor in the C-10 program.
 

LINKS:

Until 11:59p on December 31, we have a $7,500 matching gift available to provide mentoring for students in Kansas City. If you'd like to double your impact, please visit our donation page.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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.

The two names became synonymous with each other: Larry Holley and William Jewell College. After all, Holley was the school’s basketball coach for 40 years, compiling 916 career wins, which made him the ninth-winningest coach in college basketball history at any level when he retired in 2019. He is the winningest coach in the state of Missouri. He earned 15 Coach of the Year awards, including the NAIA national coach of the year in 1996, and the 2018 Kansas City Sports Commission coach of the year. 

Last year he was selected as the "Blue KC Coach with Character" honoree for the month of April.

This week we talk about Holley's leadership background, how he and William Jewell have been intertwined, how he used to get the most out of his players, and have him take a swing at our "7 Questions."

LINKS:

Until 11:59p on December 31, we have a $7,500 matching gift available to provide mentoring for students in Kansas City. If you'd like to double your impact, please visit our donation page.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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’ve mentioned before how a year ago, when we first started talking about this podcast, the idea was to release a new episode every two weeks. One week would be a conversation with one of our mentors, like we had last week with long-time L.A. sportscaster Todd Donoho. The other episode each month would feature the conversation with that month’s guest speaker for the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program. 

Obviously COVID changed a lot of things with the C-10 program and this podcast, including the release of a new episode each week.

But, this week you get to hear a conversation from our C-10 session on Wednesday night, December 9, between C-10 curriculum chair and contributor to this podcast Max Utsler and long-time Kansas City meteorologist Bryan Busby. 

Bryan has been in Kansas City since November 1985. He had an opportunity several years ago to join the cast of Good Morning America, but, as you’ll hear during this conversation, he ultimately chose to stay in Kansas City. And this city is better for it. Besides being one of the most recognizable faces on TV here in Kansas City, Bryan is very generous toward many nonprofits in our community with his time, talent and treasure. "C" You In The Major Leagues is one of those, and we're thankful to Bryan for that.

You’ll hear about that and much more during this conversation with Max and Bryan, which was recorded in front of our students and mentors at the Otten on Main in downtown Kansas City.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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.

One of our original goals with this podcast was to introduce you to the mentors and committee members that are so important to the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program. So, this week, you'll hear from one of those mentors, Todd Donoho. 

Todd was a television sports anchor in markets including Cincinnati and Los Angeles before joining the Mizzou Tiger Sports Network as a pregame and postgame host. 

In this conversation, Todd takes a swing at our "7 Questions" before sharing memories from his career, and talking about some of the great leaders he's been around, including legendary college basketball coach John Wooden. 

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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 may remember or have have seen -- or you might’ve been on the original call -- in October we ended the month-long Crown Town Challenge campaign with a celebration webinar on leadership featuring Christa Dubill, the Chief Communications Officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Retired General Richard Myers, who is a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current President of Kansas State University, and “C” You In The Major Leagues Founder and Royals General Manager Dayton Moore. The NFL Network’s Jeff Chadiha, who has been a guest on this podcast, moderated the discussion.

The group discusses leading through difficult circumstances, the importance of mentoring, and so much more, including answering viewer questions.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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 episode for a couple of different reasons. One, our C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program Committee Chair Max Utsler is co-hosting and two, because our guest is Steve Minnis, the president of one of our C-10 Leaders Scholarship partner schools. 

Minnis became the president of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, in October 2004. Before that, he had a long legal career in the Johnson County prosecutor’s office and with Sprint.  

This week we talk about Steve's leadership background, how he and Benedictine have been navigating the pandemic, how Covid might positively affect colleges and universities in the long term, and have him tackle our "7 Questions."

 
LINKS:

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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.

Mark Garrett has been the Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Blue KC since July 2019. Before that, he had distinguished careers in leadership with Smithfield-Farmland Foods, Kansas City Public Schools, Hallmark Cards, and he’s on the board for the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

This week we talk about Mark's leadership background, a time when he struck out and when he hit a home run as a leader, what you can do right now if you're looking for a job, how Covid might affect companies in the long term, and have him tackle our "7 Questions."  

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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 Episode 143 of the podcast, and we're chatting with Dayton Moore, C You In The Major Leagues' Founder and Board President. 

Dayton talks about Christmas memories and movies, some "Hot Stove" talk, the Texas Rangers' World Series victory, and so much more.

LINKS:

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

To make a year-end financial gift -- that'll be DOUBLED -- to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring, 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.

Al Wallace shouldn’t be new to anyone who’s lived in Kansas City during the past 35 years. After all, you invited him into your home countless times. He retired from WDAF-TV (Fox 4) in December 2018, but since then he’s written a book, "One for the Coyotes," he’s taught classes in the journalism department at the University of Kansas, he’s led tours at historic Allen Fieldhouse, he’s co-hosted an episode or two of this podcast and he’s been a terrific mentor in the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program.

This week we talk about some of Al's memories from the 2015 World Series, have him tackle our "7 Questions," and discuss a couple of the things he's doing today.

LINKS:

For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, please visit BlueKC.com.

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 episode features Diane O'Byrne, one of our C-10 Curriculum Committee members and the founder and Managing Partner of Competitive Resources, a Kansas City based sales coaching company. Although her background is in media and advertising, Diane’s client list is varied from international companies such as Black and Veatch to a local automotive dealer. The sales skillset she coaches can be applied across any industry.

In addition to sales coaching, Diane has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas for over twenty years in the William Allen White School of Journalism, teaching sales, presentation skills and capstone courses. She has also taught in the MBA program at KU.

LINKS:
For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

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

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

For more information about this month’s presenting sponsor, Stepp & Rothwell, please visit SteppandRothwell.com.

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 been looking forward to interviewing this week’s guest for a few months. In fact, as you may recall from an episode in June, we told his “brother from another mother” that we needed to get him on the C-10 Podcast. So it’s a huge honor to introduce you to this week’s guest, the Executive Director of the Kansas City MLB Urban Youth Academy Darwin Pennye. 

The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Pennye, and he spent five seasons in the minor leagues before getting into coaching and then becoming the Athletic Director in Texas. He came to Kansas City to become the Executive Director of the Urban Youth Academy when it opened. 

LINKS:
For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

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

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

For more information about this month's presenting sponsor, Stepp & Rothwell, please visit SteppandRothwell.com.

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 unique episode for you this week. As you may have seen -- or you might’ve been on the original call -- this week we began closing down the Crown Town Challenge campaign with a celebration webinar on leadership with three tremendous leaders. One of those was Dayton Moore. After the first hour of the webinar with the three leaders, Dayton Moore and Matt Fulks spent the last 30 minutes answering viewer questions. Since it was an interesting conversation and we're pretty much at the "Dayton's Dozen" episode, this seemed like a good week to share this conversation.

LINKS:

For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

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

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

For more information about this month's presenting sponsor, Stepp & Rothwell, please visit SteppandRothwell.com.

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.

After recording the initial episode of the C-10 Podcast with CYITML founder Dayton Moore, he said, "Marasco is someone you need to get on this podcast." As you'll hear in this episode, Dayton was right. Marasco, the Royals' Director of Leadership Development, shares a lot of wisdom about the overall subject of leadership and the differences in leadership styles between players such as Alex Gordon and Whit Merrifield...and how that can apply to anyone in a leadership position.

LINKS:
For more information about this month's presenting sponsor, Stepp & Rothwell, please visit SteppandRothwell.com.

For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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.

The beauty of this podcast focusing on leadership and mentoring is that when a company sponsors the podcast, it’s not a shameless plug to interview one of that company’s leaders. As we kick off October, this month's presenting sponsor is Stepp & Rothwell, Inc., and we're chatting with the company's Director of Client Relations, Ron Fredman. 

Ron joined Stepp & Rothwell earlier this year, after a varied career in leadership and fundraising. He’s been a fundraiser for the Kansas City Ballet and the Kansas City Symphony, he’s worked in management consulting and public relations, and he even had a stint as a sportswriter for the Kansas City Star. Fredman, who's actually an Eagle Scout, has been active with the Boy Scouts for 40 years.

LINKS:
For more information about this month's presenting sponsor, Stepp & Rothwell, please visit SteppandRothwell.com.

For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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.

Today’s guest is somewhat of a unicorn in today’s business world -- someone who has been with the same company for more than 25 years...basically since college. We’re excited to be joined by one of our Crown Town Challenge committee members and someone who’s active with various nonprofits around Kansas City, the Senior Vice President of Finance at Cerner, Ed Enyeart.  

After opening with "7 Questions," we talk with Ed about his leadership journey, how much Cerner has changed in 25 years, how many companies might be changing because of Covid-19, and about the importance of mentoring.  

LINKS:
For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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.

Mark Collins, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants, who played in the mid-1990s with the Chiefs, chats about Bill Parcells and Marty Schottenheimer, and reminisces about his team's biggest championship of all -- the Collins' Crushers of the 2019 Crown Town Wiffle Weekend.

LINKS:
For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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.

It's funny how things happen sometimes. In the summer of 2019, our curriculum coordinator and occasional C-10 podcast co-host Max Utsler met a man who'd recently retired from a 34-year career at Hallmark. During the next few days, Max told the man how, since he was now retired, he should become a mentor in the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program. The man, Chris Colliatie, got home and immediately filled out the application. He has since become invaluable to "C" You In The Major Leagues as a mentor and a committee member, helping with this spring's (cancelled) "C" You At The Tee event and the current Crown Town Challenge.

In this podcast, Chris talks about meeting Max, the value he sees in C-10, the importance of the Crown Town Challenge and, of course, leadership and mentoring and being retired.

Incidentally, where did this original meeting between Max and Chris take place? On a river cruise. In Germany.

LINKS:
For more info about the Crown Town Challenge, visit CrownTownChallenge.com.

For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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 talk with people who work for or with Christina Lively, or you just spend a few minutes with her, it's obvious that she's a leader with confidence who cares about the people around her. 

Christina has held various positions over the last few years with CommunityAmerica Credit Union, H&R Block and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC). Early in the pandemic, she made the difficult decision to leave Blue KC to become the VP of Global Supplier Marketing for C2FO. 

LINKS:
For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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 Episode 142 of the podcast, and we're chatting with a great storyteller and filmmaker, who happened to start a conference to help folks in the nonprofit world get better at their jobs.

In short, Chris Davenport is a storyteller by heart. He’s had a career in Hollywood and doing documentaries, but he’s making his biggest impact working with nonprofits — working with organizations on videos of need and impact, and with a concept about 10 years or so ago for a conference to help nonprofits called the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

As you'll hear, Chris' background is in films and Hollywood. He'll share some wonderful stories (and lessons) from a couple of films, how the death of his brother changed his outlook on work, and the importance of storytelling for businesses and leaders with any type of organization. And much more.

LINKS:

To learn about the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, click here.

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

To make a year-end financial gift -- that'll be DOUBLED -- to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring, 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.

He's been a guest co-host on other C-10 episodes but today you get to hear another side of our C-10 Curriculum Committee Chair Dr. Max Utsler.

Dr. Utsler was instrumental in getting the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program planned and launched before the 2018-19 school year. And, lucky for us, he was about a year from retiring as a long-time journalism professor at the University of Kansas.

Earlier this summer, Utsler received broadcast journalism education’s highest honor, the Edward L. Bliss Award. Before retiring, he was also recognized at KU as the top mentor among his peers.

Prior to joining the faculty at KU, Utsler served as assistant news director at KOMU-TV (NBC) and Asst. Professor for the School of Journalism at Missouri. He joined the KU faculty in 1984 and served in both teaching and administrative positions. After serving as assistant news director at KSDK-TV (NBC) in St. Louis, he was a reporter, producer, and freelance writer with major media outlets like MLB.com, MLB-TV, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Fox Sports, and ESPN. He spent half a year at KPNX-TV covering sports in Phoenix, Arizona.

Utsler, who's from a farm community in central Illinois, graduated from Knox College before starting his career as a junior high English teacher in Minnesota.

LINKS:
For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program, 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 episode. And a fascinating one as we talk with retired 4-star General and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Kansas City native and the current president of Kansas State University, Richard Myers. It's particularly fascinating when hearing General Myers talks about leadership as someone who sat in the Oval Office countless times during a tumultuous time in our country’s history. 

Joining host Matt Fulks this week is returning co-host Max Utsler, along with “C” You In The Major Leagues founder and Royals General Manager Dayton Moore, C-10 mentor and career U.S. Army officer George Norton, plus two of our C-10 students, Jared and Carmen.

We recorded this interview at the end of April so we don’t get into terribly much about how classes could look this fall at K-State or General Myers’ thoughts on today’s political climate amid the pandemic. As we promised you from the beginning of this podcast in May, though, you’ll get an incredible look into leadership...and this week it happens to be with the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who’s won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

LINKS:

To learn more about K-State President Richard Myers, click here.

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

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.

If you've run one of the big races in Kansas City, if you're involved with any nonprofits in Kansas City, if you've ever watched the pledge drive on PBS Kansas City, or if you follow influencers in Kansas City, you've likely come across the voice or the name of this week's guest, Jake Jacobson.

After working in the sports department at The Kansas City Star, and then in public relations for Garmin and Children's Mercy Hospital, Jake is now the VP of Growth & Partnerships for Native Digital.

Jake and host Matt Fulks have known each other since about 2004, when they worked together on the desk at The Star. So, as Jake puts it, you're eavesdropping on two old friends talking about the world of public relations, how Garmin was staying a step ahead of Jimmy Buffet, and working with the Big Slick fundraiser for Children's Mercy.

LINKS:
To learn more about Native Digital, click here.

To see the awesome menu at Spokes Cafe, click here.

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

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.