How to Make a Friend - by Radha Agrawal (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

We're living through the most connected and disconnected time in history. We're attached to each other by phones, texts, emails, and Instagram, but we spend more time at home and less time together than ever before. That's why we're living through a friendship recession. Not because we aren't "good at friendship," but because the world has lost its old infrastructures for friendship. And without those guardrails, we were never really taught how to make friends.

Now, it's time to turn a lifetime of knowledge, experience, and inquiry into the book that the world is asking for: the blueprint for friendship.

About the Author

Radha Agrawal is a community architect, bestselling author, speaker, DJ, inventor, and investor in mostly women-owned businesses. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Daybreaker, the global dance, music, and wellness movement in five continents with a community of people around the globe. Since Radha founded Daybreaker in 2013, it has grown to an 800,000+ strong community across 30 cities, in the midst of a 100-city tour in 2025. It has been featured in thousands of publications including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, GQ, and many more. In 2018, Radha published her first book, Belong, a practical guide to building community, which received praise from Esther Perel, Deepak Chopra, and Mark Hyman, and sold 50,000 copies.

In 2023, Radha co-founded non-profit The Belong Center alongside prestigious board members including Dr. Mark Hyman and Kimbal Musk, with a mission to gather thought leaders, creatives, and founders to address the greatest epidemic of our time, loneliness. A partnership with UC-Berkeley, its cornerstone program, Belong Circles, has already expanded to 25 cities in just over a year.

Before becoming a social entrepreneur, Radha co-founded, sold, and invested in multiple nine-figure businesses in the wellness space including reusable period underwear brand THINX. She was named by MTV as "one of 8 women who will change the world" and has won numerous entrepreneurship awards and accolades on disruptive innovation.