When business entrepreneur Angela Ruggiero was 9 years old, she was cut from a boy’s hockey team, despite believing she was as good as the rest of the squad. She may have been cut, but she was determined to prove she had not been defeated.
Years later, the four-time Olympic medalist became the first female to play a non-goalie position on a men’s professional hockey team. Ruggiero played fearlessly on the ice, but she was anything but fearless, as she said in a recent episode of Corporate Competitor Podcast.