Mutha Life30 Apr 2025

Episode 36: Meg Duff: Love of the (mutha) game

It's tradition when someone comes to the closet that I bake them something to bring home to their family...So you can imagine my surprise when today's guest brought ME something...a very special something in fact: Childish plates for my kiddos. Meg Duff is the CEO of Childish plates - a company she started because she just wasn't happy with the plastic alternatives out there for feeding kids. She was the goldilocks of plates: not dishwasher safe. Not microwave safe. Not cute. Not practical...the list goes on. So she took her high achieving self, a machine fine tuned by years of highly competitive sports, and applied all that gumption to a new game: business. If you're a sports family or you yourself were a sports kid - this episode gives a lot to chew on: What happens once a competitive chapter of sports ends for a person? What's it like for a kid to grow up in a household with a professional athlete at the dinner table? If you're not a sports person, maybe you're a parent who gets frustrated by the market missing out on something you want/need in your life. Listen to how one mutha is tackling it head on. If you're none of those things, surely you're a person who has had to withstand chapters of change and recalibration in your life - this chat is for you.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com

Instagram: @mutha.life @childishplates

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa

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