Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
Aug 12, 2026 · 34 min · 24 segments
From Harvard basketball captain to one of the country’s most formidable attorneys general, Maura Healey has never backed down from a fight. Now, as Massachusetts’ first woman and first openly LGBTQ…
Sophia BushHost
Maura HealeyGuest
Now, you have just the most impressive track record, you know, from being a collegiate athlete to an attorney general to the governor of your state, and frankly, I can say it because you probably won't, kicking ass and taking names all the way along that road.
And, ah, I just, I love your story more, but I, like probably so many people who know you now, uh, met you or became aware of you when you were well along this road to successful leadership.
I'm really curious, you know, even pre-sports, which made you a, a household name at certain schools as a young woman, what was going on in New Hampshire when Maura Healey was just the kid next door and she was, like, nine years old?
Who was that little girl? If you, if you ran into her now, do you think she'd see herself in you as an adult?
You know, nine years old, man, I'm, I'm growing up in a small town in New Hampshire on 40 acres of farm.
I was the oldest, and I guess that made me a natural-born leader out of the gate.
... used the money to pave, like, half a basketball court out behind our farmhouse.
And I think with five kids she just, like, sent us out to play, and I was good at sports.
Now, you have just the most impressive track record, you know, from being a collegiate athlete to an attorney general to the governor of your state, and frankly, I can say it because you probably won't, kicking ass and taking names all the way along that road.
And, ah, I just, I love your story more, but I, like probably so many people who know you now, uh, met you or became aware of you when you were well along this road to successful leadership.
I'm really curious, you know, even pre-sports, which made you a, a household name at certain schools as a young woman, what was going on in New Hampshire when Maura Healey was just the kid next door and she was, like, nine years old?
Who was that little girl? If you, if you ran into her now, do you think she'd see herself in you as an adult?
You know, nine years old, man, I'm, I'm growing up in a small town in New Hampshire on 40 acres of farm.
I was the oldest, and I guess that made me a natural-born leader out of the gate.
... used the money to pave, like, half a basketball court out behind our farmhouse.
And I think with five kids she just, like, sent us out to play, and I was good at sports.
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