On this episode of Take a Seat with Sara, Sara sits down with longtime friend and entrepreneur Matt Waldon for a deeply personal conversation about family, faith, career pivots, and what it really takes to become a founder.
Matt shares the journey that took him from a successful career in commercial real estate to helping build Hybrid Coffee, Chadwick Coffee Co., and Windmill Commercial. But behind the businesses is a story filled with challenges that reshaped how he thinks about success — including infertility, adoption, his daughter Eleanor’s serious health battles, career setbacks, financial uncertainty, and the decision to prioritize his family even when it meant walking away from the security he once depended on.
Matt also shares how his wife Rebecca’s pursuit of cleaner living inspired Chadwick Coffee: a specialty coffee brand focused on creating a beautiful, thoughtfully sourced coffee experience without many of the ingredients and materials they wanted to avoid.
Through it all, Matt discovered that sometimes the hardest seasons are the ones that reveal what you were meant to build.
Sara and Matt talk about overcoming fear, trusting your calling, asking for help, entrepreneurship, hospitality, and why some people may spend years following before realizing they were meant to become founders.
It’s an honest conversation about building businesses — but even more importantly, building a life around what matters most.
