Angela Ruggiero: USA Hockey player and Entrepreneur

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

"When you're challenged, you find out the most about yourself." Angela Ruggiero is one of the most decorated American Olympians of all time. She competed in four Olympics, playing defense for the women's ice hockey team. Today, she's a member of the International Olympic Committee, serving on the Executive Board as its Chairperson of the Athletes' Commission. Angela Co-Founded and is a Managing Partner of the Sports Innovation Lab, a market research and advisory firm focused on the intersection of sports and innovation. She's the exemplary modern athlete. During the episode we discuss Olympic selection, gender disparity in sports, her decision to go to Harvard Business School, and how that's positioned her well in business. Also, find out the mobile apps on her home screen, and why she strives for 9 hours of rest and still trains regularly. Welcome to Suiting Up, where professional lacrosse player, operator and investor, Paul Rabil, talks to influencers within the world of sports to examine the modern duality of a professional athlete.

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0:00.0	Today I sit down with an American Olympic Ice Hockey Defencement.
0:07.0	She is now a member of the International Olympic Committee.
0:11.0	She's also on the Executive Board of the IOC and is the chairperson of the IOC
0:14.9	Athletes Commission. That's the body that represents all Olympic athletes worldwide. She's a
0:20.0	co-founder and managing partner of the Sports Innovation Lab, which is a market research
0:24.3	and advisory firm focused on the intersection of sports and innovation, which is actually
0:29.3	perfect for this pod. She's super focused, she's thoughtful and well spoken. I especially love her analogy on
0:36.9	playing bubble hockey. Briefly she's talking about perspective but I think you'll need to listen to our conversation to hear more.
0:44.0	I trust you enjoy it and here is Angela Ragero.
0:50.0	I appreciate you sitting down.
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	I was telling Tyler before we even got the chance to do this interview.
1:00.0	There's probably very few chances to sit down with you. I can't think of very many
1:06.6	athletes present or former that bandwidth is in overdrive.
1:13.0	I mean you literally came in from Sweden,
1:16.0	you know, on the board of the IOC.
1:18.0	You've done a ton on behalf of the USOC.
1:21.0	You sit on probably more than a dozen boards or at least have advised throughout
1:25.7	your career Harvard MBA and the list goes all way through and the most prolific
1:31.0	Olympic athlete of all time, I think, on a team sport.
1:37.0	It's what you've accomplished, so I appreciate you sitting down and looking forward to diving in.
1:41.3	No, thanks for having this.
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