Miki Agrawal
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And for me, like when I'm when there's too many things on my to do list, I'm moving too quickly. It ends up coming out intense, sparky when I like slow down.
lower my tone of voice, really, really think... There's this video that my friend showed me about this guy who is... It's just a total funny comedy about this guy who wants to become a politician. And Nelson Mandela basically was like, you have to slow down your voice and make comments like this. And so it's like that level of like...
When it's, oh my God, excitement, we can be our full effervescent, vivacious selves. But when it comes to tough feedback, it's for me, it's the learning of dropping in, slowing down, lowering my voice.
They have to deal with their feelings being hurt.
And it ends up taking 10 times more time. And then I spend time just like calibrating my own self, being like, oh, I was too hard. I was like beating myself up about like, oh, was that too intense or whatever? Versus like when it's exciting, yay. When it's fat, it's fun. When it's feedback, slow. I love this.
Yeah, I love you. So for me, Daybreaker really, our foundation is about belonging and belonging through the lens of joy, through the lens of the body. And, you know, I went to Burning Man, and the creation story is I went to Burning Man, and I, at that time, had only been comfortable dancing if I was drunk or if I was, you know, whatever. I just didn't fully know myself.
And I remember going to, you know, deep playa, throwing my bike down, and just sober, getting into my body. It was like four o'clock in the morning, and I just remember closing my eyes alone. I didn't know a single person at Burning Man, except for my RV, my sister, and three friends that I went with. This is 12 years ago, before I started Daybreaker.
And I remember just being anonymous in a sea of just like strangers. And so, just the safety of being able to just practice being in my body. I remember closing my eyes and just finding myself for the first time, finding my self-expression for the first time, and crying, and just like this, like, coming home to my body, because we're so cut off, right?
We're in our head, we're not in our bodies, we need a Medicaid to be in our bodies. And so the idea was like, in that moment, it was this aha of like, oh my gosh, like, how is it that it only... can we find ourselves in these faraway festivals? How can we bring this type of return to self into the cities where we live? And so Daybreaker was really born from that kind of a social experiment.
It's our project where my co-founder, Matt Breimer, and I, he and I, you know, got together and we just said, let's try to bring that experience of a sober dance party. Oh, and then, actually, one thing I missed out was, as I was dancing, my eyes closed, crying, coming home to my body, I then blinked my eyes open and the sun was rising.
And you know what happens when the sun is rising and you're just, like, seeing and all of a sudden the whole, just the desert just lights up. And I just remember being in the most incredible awe and realizing, oh my gosh, like, we just don't dance enough in the daytime. We're always dancing at night.
And so the idea was like, okay, let's replace the, you know, let's replace all the negatives of nightlife with the positives of daylife. So let's make the dance party, let's call it Daybreaker, we'll break the day. with energy and tension in life and do it in cities where we live. So we started in New York and then it grew very quickly to San Francisco and LA and London and Paris and Chicago.
And now we're in, you know, 45 cities around the world. We're a community of a million people. And just people, I think, are just tired of going to bed. I think there's a wellness movement, right, that happened And people realize like they need sleep. Yeah. We want sleep. We want to, we want to get like sleep is such an important part of mental health.
And so let's still find a place to dance and connect with the light, with the circadian rhythms, drink green juice instead of alcohol and do it in, you know, where you can get to know yourself, come home to yourself rather than escape yourself, which so much of festival culture can be. Right? And so... It's incredible.
Like, you can't... Like, it's very difficult to go to any other party after going to Daybreaker, because the vibration is so high. Like, every time I leave, the frequency of my body, I'm vibrating at the highest level. It's truly next level. Well, we're in our 11th season, and so it's wild, you know, when you think of a dance party, you know, they typically come and go.
And I think that the reason why the threat of this is here to stay is that, you know, we're only a million, you know, it's a lot, but we're only a million community members strong. There's seven billion, eight billion people on the planet.
And it's like if everyone just woke up and started their day with a dance party in costume with a friend or two, or just outside in the sun with the vitamin D on your face, like think about how different the world would be. So I think we still have a lot of work to do in this space and just in terms of proliferating around the world, but just really excited.
And I'll also say one thing about Daybreaker is that it's like you rarely see a community of people like so behind something and just like, oh my God, the Daybreaker, it's like the band that's like coming to town, you know? And it just... it creates such a space of like belonging. Like it's such a place where people can like feel like they can go and know how they're gonna feel when they leave.
They're gonna feel so good. And so it's like, why wouldn't you want, that's why it's been 11 years old. That's why it keeps going because it's not like a, okay, this club is done because I've done enough And I'm like kind of like this place reminds me of like the down that I feel after, you know, versus like when you whenever whenever I think about Daybreaker, I feel my body's frequency rise.
And so why wouldn't you want to go do that for yourself over and over again with it with people that you meet, fall in love with, build community with? It's just... Yeah, fully expressed in the morning.
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