Belong ─ Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life

It’s the great paradox of the digital age, what Radha Agrawal calls “community confusion”—the internet connects us to hundreds, thousands, even millions of people, and yet we feel more isolated than ever, with 1 in 4 Americans saying they have zero friends to confide in. Where are our people? The answer is found in Belong, an inspirational, interactive, highly energetic and beautifully illustrated guide to discovering where and with whom you fit.
After suffering her own bout of community confusion, Agrawal embarked on a journey that ultimately resulted in co-founding Daybreaker, a transformative phenomenon described as “Studio 54 for millennials,” where hundreds of thousands of people get up at the crack of dawn, meet in event spaces in 18 cities around the world, and, completely sober, dance—with abandon, with joy, with a deep sense of community. Now she’s distilled her experience for finding meaningful connections into a step-by-step process.
The first step is GOING IN—discovering personal intention, gauging our energy level, understanding how we do (or don’t) show up for others. Then comes GOING OUT—looking out, like the eyes on the cover, to find a few special friends; a fully engaged group with similar business, artistic, or social aims; or both.
Connectedness is the most significant factor in human happiness, far more than money or status. Belong is a creative blueprint for bringing this most important dimension back into our lives.

A successful social entrepreneur, impact investor, inventor, speaker, and lifelong community builder, Radha Agrawal founded Daybreaker, the grassroots, sober early-morning dance phenomenon.? What began in 2013 as a social experiment with her friend has grown into a bona fide dance movement with events in 23?cities across North America, Europe, and Asia and over 350,000 loyal community members and is growing rapidly. Daybreaker has inspired lifelong friendships, surprise engagements, and transformational experiences for community members. It has been described as “the Studio 54 for millennials” and “the future of nightlife.” Daybreaker has expanded its offerings into a full lifestyle brand including a content channel and apparel line, and is going further to include a food and beverage line and fitness studios. It has been featured in thousands of publications including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, GQ, and SNL, among others, with over a billion social media impressions.

Radha is also an angel investor with over a dozen exciting start-ups whose investors also include Beyonce, Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel, and Troy Carter.? She travels around the world speaking on social entrepreneurship and community building. She is the recipient of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award and has been touted as “1 of 8 women who will change the world” by MTV. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.