283. Hayley Scamurra: Olympic Gold & the Business of Women’s Hockey
Trading Secrets
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jason is joined by Olympian, gold medalist, and PWHL star Hayley Scamurra!
A key member of Team USA’s women’s hockey team, Hayley opens up about what it took to reach the top of her sport — from years of elite training and representing her country on the biggest stage in the world, to finally bringing home Olympic gold. Growing up in Buffalo with NHL roots, Hayley shares how her dream of becoming an Olympian started early, and how that vision carried her through the grind of college hockey, professional uncertainty, and years of fighting for a real future in women’s hockey.
Hayley breaks down the emotional difference between winning silver and winning gold, what it was really like inside the Olympic Village, and the mindset she used to stay calm in the biggest game of her life against Canada. She also shares the business side of women’s hockey — from playing professionally for almost no money, to helping pave the way for the PWHL, navigating trades, free agency, and the continued fight for fair pay and better opportunities for women in sports.
She also talks about the support system behind her success, the role mental training played in changing her career, and why she believes athletes should never settle for the bare minimum when they know they deserve more. From gold medal moments to the future of women’s hockey, Hayley gives an honest look at both the dream and the grind behind it.
Hayley reveals all this and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's guest is an Olympian gold medalist and PWHL star, Haley Skamura, a key member of Team USA's |
| 0:27.1 | women's hockey team that brought home the gold medal in this past winter Olympics. |
| 0:33.0 | From the grind of elite training to competing at the biggest stages in sports, Haley has experienced what |
| 0:39.2 | it takes to chase a dream. Represent your country and win at the highest level. Today, we're |
| 0:45.3 | talking about her journey in the metal life, representing her country, representing Buffalo, |
| 0:51.7 | New York. Of course, we've got to talk a little bit about the Olympic Village |
| 0:55.1 | and what it takes to become one of the best hockey players in the world in all things. You have |
| 1:00.4 | seen this sport within women's hockey grow at a level that is unprecedented, selling out |
| 1:06.7 | arenas all across the world. Haley, welcome to Trading Secrets. Wow, great intro. Thank you so much for |
| 1:13.4 | having me. It is an honor. The big question I know everyone's going to ask is, do you got the metal? |
| 1:18.3 | You got the metal around? Yes. Let's go. And I heard this is one of the most expensive |
| 1:26.7 | metals of all time. How heavy is that thing if you had to guess? |
| 1:29.2 | I've actually weighted. It's over a pound. That's like pure gold? It's silver but gold plated. |
| 1:35.2 | Okay, silver but gold plated. But there were a lot of rumors in the Winter Olympics this year about |
| 1:39.4 | medals breaking. Is there validity to that? There is actually. So this one's good. |
| 1:45.3 | Apparently they fixed them. |
| 1:49.1 | But at the beginning, when people were celebrating and jumping, the metal was just falling off the ribbon. |
| 1:49.9 | They must not have had a strong enough ribbon for the weight of the medal. |
| 1:53.0 | Did any of your teammates have that issue or no? |
| 1:55.6 | Apparently, Megan Keller, when she was on SNL, they had to sew her ribbon back together |
| 2:00.2 | because apparently it was breaking. |
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