The U.S. almost never wins gold medals.

There is this Anne Maria kid.

Let's give her some money and send her to France.

Maybe we'll bring home a medal for a change.

Hey, everyone.

Thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio.

You may know her as Ronda Rousey's mother,

but Anne Maria DeMarge forged the family's legacy in judo.

As a professional educator and Olympian, she knows what it takes to coach and raise winners.

Here it is, episode 626.

A lot of athletes right before the hammer strikes. So make sure the left on the box.

A lot of athletes are in sports where the probability of making a living from it is minute.

And a statistician.

My doctor is in applied statistics.

So at some point, maybe when you get done and maybe five, 10 years down the road,

you realize they spent 15, 20 years my life doing this. What for? And I would like to argue that

it has benefits that perhaps you don't see in your 20s and maybe not even in 40s.

I don't think I'd argue with you on that in any way. I think just in terms of business and the people we've encountered, the people that have played sports at a much higher level tend to be much better teammates and actually better employees and better people for me to work with. I mean, to the point where it's one of our prerequisites when we start meeting people,

especially people that apply to work for us. I want to know, like, you know, what was your athletic background? Did you, like, what level did you play for? I find that people that have actually competed and trained for something tend to be much more resilient and easier for me personally to work with. You know, when I got my first engineering job, they said that's one of the reasons they

hired me was I was the National Tudor champion at a black belt.

They figured that shows your ability to set a goal and work toward it, which is funny because

that has nothing, I mean, judo has nothing to do with industrial

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