Radha Agrawal is a community force. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Daybreaker, an early morning dance movement in 22 cities around the world with a community of over 350,000 members who connect through dance, yoga, music and mischief. Her upcoming book “BELONG: Find Your People Create Community and Live a More Connected Life" published by Workman comes out next fall (September 2018) and open sources all that she learned about community building with methods and exercises she designed so that anyone could create the blueprint for their dream community. She is also the Co-Founder and Partner of THINX, a high-tech, beautiful underwear solution for women to wear during their periods with a growing community of hundreds of thousands of women globally. THINX also supports women and girls in developing countries with a 1 for 1 solution — for every underwear purchased, seven washable reusable cloth pads goes to a girl in Uganda. To date, THINX has helped tens of thousands of girls stay in school.Radha is an identical twin, half-Japanese, half-Indian French Canadian, Division 1 soccer player and graduate of Cornell University.She was the recipient of the TriBeCa Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award” and was named one of the “Top 20 Millennials on a Mission” by Forbes.

In this episode Michael and Radha talk about:

How the idea for Daybreaker was born.
Radha’s approach to creating community.
Our cultural and personal need for connection and belonging.
How to design engaging and compelling experiences.
How Radha thinks about using partnerships and collaborations.
The impact Daybreaker is hoping to have on college campuses.
The challenges of managing a global brand.

Episode 9: Building Connection and Belonging with Radha Agrawal