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In a new interview with the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, the 36-year-old described how she came to instead resent the company’s day-to-day operations, which she co-founded with husband Nic Davidson. “The way I often look at it is we think about everything on a macro, the goals level, the titles level, but we often don’t think day to day, will that make me happy?” the Seize the Yay podcaster told Something To Talk About host Sarrah Le Marquand. Listen to Sarah Davidson on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: “And at the very end, before we sold our business [Matcha Maiden in May 2020], it was the flashiest it had ever been. It was so successful. It was in 5,000 stores around the world. “The revenue was about to triple if we locked in this next big chapter,” she continued. “On a macro level, it was like, I could retire. On a micro, day-to-day level, I had never hated it more. “I resented every day that I had to go to the office. I was so detached from enjoyment and fulfilment that it was like, well, what’s the point? “So I now am led a little bit more by what are the small yays each day. And if they’re not there, then really nothing is worth it.” The content creator went on to explain how she has redefined what ambition and balance really look like now that she’s a mother. After navigating through painful pregnancy loss in 2023, Davidson and her husband welcomed their now 18-month-old son Teddy last year. Listen to Sarah Davidson on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: “There is an external assumption and an internal assumption that motherhood is going to make you less of a career-driven woman, less sharp, less efficient, less ambitious, and probably less effective at your job,” Davidson said in the interview with Le Marquand. “If anything, it has made me better in all of those things.” Davidson, who was adopted from South Korea when she was six months old, spoke about the difficulties she experienced to become a mum for the first time. “I think lifelong exposure to how challenging it can be to become a mother and how much that can tear your hopes and dreams and identity apart,” she told Something To Talk About. “My own mum did IVF for nearly 10 years and struggled a lot in her journey to conceive us, which actually never happened naturally, as I was adopted. “And so from the beginning, I had seen the many different kinds of ways people get there or sometimes not get there.” As an adoptee, Davidson thought having a biological child would be more “fundamentally huge” but found that ultimately her and her mother’s path to motherhood was similar. “It’s almost like, yes, I birthed him, but that also kind of hasn’t really mattered that much. It was a beautiful experience,” she said. “But people ask, was it this huge your first blood relative? And what did your mum think of that? I don’t really see Teddy and I as any different to mum and I, even though we have now shared that whole experience together.” The content creator said Teddy was the son she was always meant to have. “All I could think of was this is why it didn’t work all those times. It was always him,” she told Stellar. “I think a lot of people who have a really difficult journey and a long journey when their child does make it their way to you, and mum was exactly the same. She’s like, it never worked because you were the daughter I was meant to have, and I felt that way about Teddy.” Listen to the full interview with Sarah Davidson on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About. For more from Stellar, click here.
