What Part of you needs a Boost?

A ticket to a dance party wasn’t on my bingo card for this spring. And yet. Here we are.

Have you heard about Earlybirds Club? Founded by two high school friends, Laura Baginski and Susie Lee, who basically asked: what if we created a high-energy, safe, early-evening dance party designed for women who still want all of that, just home by 10?
Genius.

The music is ours, the songs that shaped us, and there's something about letting nostalgia meet who we actually are now. Not who we were at 25, but who we are today, with everything we're carrying: the responsibilities, the joy, the challenges. The version of us that genuinely cannot do a midnight anything, and does not apologize for it.

I'll be honest. I think I've been quietly avoiding this kind of energy. The world is heavy, and the demands of life are already a lot. Plus, in my work, I'm deeply committed to bringing all people together, so spaces that feel exclusive sometimes give me pause. I've sat with that tension here too. But here's what I keep coming back to: I wrote a post a few months ago about how joy is an act of resistance, and dancing has always been one of my truest expressions of it. This ticket reminded me how often we quietly opt out of things that bring us joy, because of convenience, circumstance, or the low-grade mental load of just not feeling safe enough to let go.

Earlybirds continues in honor of Susie Lee, who passed away. The promise the club carries forward is to keep building what she started: To keep dancing, to keep showing up for each other, and to remember who we are. That true honoring of her legacy doesn’t escape me.

I know a dance party isn’t for everyone. What can YOU say yes to right now that honors a part of you that deserves some attention?
It doesn't have to be big.
It just has to be yours.