Preeti Davidson has over 25 years of experience working with students from the country’s most prestigious schools and universities. By twenty-three, she became the youngest Director of Development and Alumni Relations at a New York university. By thirty-five, she led fundraising for the nation’s oldest and largest public interest law firm. And by forty, she had joined the C-suite.

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But beneath the success, Preeti was silently struggling. Like many high-achieving young people, she learned to perform to perfection on the outside while feeling unworthy on the inside. Her coping mechanisms—addiction, disordered eating, and relentless overachievement—were driven by a need for external validation and a desire to numb the shame she carried in secret.

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In 2020, everything changed. Preeti entered long-term recovery and began rebuilding her life from a foundation of internal self-worth. That journey revealed a hard truth: ambition, achievement, and success mean nothing without self-leadership, confidence, independence, and purpose.

Today, that’s the foundation of everything we teach at MAYA.

As the founder of MAYA Self-Worth for Life and host of The Unloveables podcast, Preeti now coaches high-performing youth to build emotional resilience, direction, and confidence—from the inside out—before life forces them to break down and rebuild. She helps them rewrite the story early.

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She lives in Norwalk, CT, with her two dogs, Max and Major, who have never worked a day in their lives—but are proud of their resilient mom and her unwavering commitment to the next generation.