Meredith Hudson

Raised by Sports

Business EN ↓ 5 episodes

What if the most important classroom you ever sat in had no desks, no textbooks and no teachers...just a coach, a team and a scoreboard? Raised by Sports explores how athletics shapes the humans we become. Host, former D1 athlete, sports mom and entrepreneur, Meredith Hudson brings real conversations with former female athletes who credit much of their success off the field to the lessons they learned on it.

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Meredith Hudson

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Episode 5 | Audacity, Alignment & the Best Thing That Never Happened to Her with Margarita Neymark 04.05.2026 28:13

The game ends. The lessons don't. ⚡ This week I sat down with Margarita Neymark, former D1 rugby player at Rutgers, post-grad athlete, triathlete, girls rugby coach, and currently Senior Director of Media Partnerships at Firefly. Margarita found rugby late (her senior year of high school!) and it completely rewired how she saw herself and what she believed she was capable of. We got into it a...

Episode 4 | From the Court to the Boardroom: Abiola Wabara and Mindset That Changes Everything 27.04.2026 15:59

In this episode, Meredith sits down with Abiola Wabara — former professional basketball player, Italian national team athlete, Baylor Bear, Accenture consultant, artist, and founder of GloBall Life — a platform built to help athletes find meaningful careers and opportunities after their playing days are over. Meredith and Abiola met at the Leadership Academy for Women's Sports at UC Berkeley,...

Episode 3 | Start Scared ft. AnnRagan Kearns 20.04.2026 19:24

What happens when a Penn State swimmer tears both rotator cuffs her freshman year and turns that setback into her superpower? Ann Ragan Kearns is a former DI swimmer at Penn State who went on to build not one but two companies; a successful PR firm and Medallist Skin, a clean skincare brand designed specifically for female athletes. After 12 years in the beauty industry and years of watching femal...

Episode 2 | Remember Where You Come From ft. Sara Uy 13.04.2026 24:03

What happens when a college soccer captain takes the discipline, humility, and resilience she built on the field and builds a business empire with it? Sara Uy played soccer at Fairfield University where she captained her team senior year. After graduating she went into sales, built Selling Sarah from the ground up, and amassed over 300,000 followers while closing millions in revenue and training s...

Episode 1 | What is Raised by Sports? 12.04.2026 5:11

Think about the most important lesson you've ever learned about resilience...we'd be willing to bet it didn't come from a boardroom or a classroom. It came from a field, a court, a pool or a gym. In this debut episode, host Meredith Hudson (former D1 field hockey player at Yale, 20-year ad sales veteran at Google, Snapchat and Roku, and founder and CEO of SLB) introduces you to exactly what Raised...