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C-10 Mentoring & Leadership Podcast161: Ryan Lefebvre, Baseball Broadcaster and Mental Health Advocate, shares about his journey through addiction and depressionFor more than 25 years, Ryan Lefebvre's voice has been synonymous with Kansas City Royals baseball. In Episode 161 of the C-10 Podcast, we sit down with Lefebvre, who grew up immersed in baseball as the son of former big league player and manager Jim Lefebvre.Ryan's journey in broadcasting began at just 19 years old, and after graduating from the University of Minnesota, where he also played baseball, he worked his way through the minor leagues, and a stint with the Minnesota Twins before joining the Royals broadcast team in 1999. But beyond the broadcast booth, Ryan's story is one...
2025-03-2848 min
C-10 Mentoring & Leadership PodcastEp. 114: Ryan Lefebvre and his One Good ThingPeriodically since February, we’ve been introducing you to the remarkable people featured in the new book, "One Good Thing." This week, you’re going to “meet” Ryan Lefebvre. We're putting "meet" in quotation marks because although you likely know Ryan’s work as a Royals broadcaster for 25 years, you’re going to hear a different side of Ryan in this conversation, as we chat about race, how George Brett’s brother helped Ryan get his first real glove, and how that led to a project that’s put gloves on the hands of hundreds of boys and girls in Kans...
2023-05-0542 min
C-10 Mentoring & Leadership PodcastDenny Matthews on CONFIDENCE and how it's looked in the history of the Royals, Ep. 82Denny Matthews has been the one consistent radio voice with the Kansas City Royals since their first year, 1969. For his first few years in the booth, Matthews, who grew up in central Illinois, worked with the legendary Buddy Blattner.When Blattner retired in 1974, Matthews became the "voice" of the Royals and has been the Royals' top broadcaster ever since. From 1974 through the 1998 season – a stretch that includes some of the best seasons in the Royals' history – Matthews teamed with Fred White. During their 25 seasons together, "Denny and Fred" became one of the most beloved broadcasting duos...
2022-04-2834 min