How do we find our people? And why is it important to find our people? My guest on this week's episode of The Doctors' Pharmacy is a community force.

Rada Agraw is the co-founder, CEO, and chief community architect of Day Baker, the early morning dance and wellness movement,

movement, mint. That currently holds events in 25 cities and more than a dozen college campuses around the world,

and has a community of almost half a million people who wake up at dawn to go dancing, which is impressive.

She is also the author of a new book called Belong. Find your people, create community, and live in more connected life.

Rada believes that without community, we can't survive or thrive. In this episode, we're going to talk about how social isolation can manifest into illness.

We also discuss the contagiousness of positive and also negative behavior. We know that our social networks matter more than our genetic network.

So community is important for our mental and our physical health. Rada shows us step by step how we can create a thriving and supportive community,

starting with going inward and acknowledging our own values and gifts, and then taking those gifts out in the world to make friendships that matter.

You don't want to miss this episode.

Welcome to The Doctors' Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann, and that's Pharmacy FARMACY, a place for conversations that matter,

and we're going to have a great conversation today with Rada Agrawl about things that really matter, which is loneliness and belonging.

Rada is quite a lady. She's a powerful force in the universe. She's the co-founder and CEO and chief community architect of Daybreaker, which may have heard of, but it's a big early morning dance and wellness movement that's global in 25 cities, different countries, a dozen colleges, and has a community of half a million people who wake up at dawn

to go have a dance party, which is pretty awesome. She's also an amazing entrepreneur, co-founder of Things and Live It Up. She's an author, speaker. She's a DJ, and I have party to her music. It's awesome.

She's an inventor. She's an investor and was named one of the eight women who will change the world by MTV. She's also the recipient of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, which is something I'd like to win.

And also spoken about social entrepreneurship and community building to audiences around the world. Her new book, Belong, Find Your People, Create Community, and Live A More Connected Life, answers the questions, how the heck do I find my people?

That's almost as important as what the heck do I eat? Maybe more important, actually. And how do I create a large and meaningful community in the real world?

Rada lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her love Eli, a baby's on the way, and a twin sister Mickey, who's also been on this podcast, and has lots of family and friends with a few blocks and has built an extraordinary community, which I've been in and seen.

You can most often find your tinkering with community and experience design projects are on the dance floor at Daybreak or at Dawn in New York City.

And if she's not dancing at sunrise in New York, she's in some other part of the world, dancing her butt off.

So we're here at Wellspring, and we just talked you actually danced your butt off this morning in the pool with music and piano sounded amazing.

So you are a unique human. You have done some things which are pretty unusual, creating super sprouts, which was making vegetables in the superheroes, dancing on a lot of the White House, which is pretty awesome.

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