About Day Dreamer Live

Where Dreamers

Become Doers

Daydreamer Live is a one-day immersive experience designed for dreamers, founders, leaders, creatives, and visionaries who are ready to bridge the gap between dreaming and doing.

Through inspiring speakers, experiential exercises, meaningful conversations, and practical tools, you’ll gain the clarity, confidence, and momentum needed to take your next step forward.Through our integrative approach, we bring together a team of nutritionists and the health-care professionals from a broad range of disciplines, combining years of an experience, diverse specialties, and wealth of knowledge plus experience.

What You'll Leave With

Access to a community of innovators, creators, founders, and leaders who see the world differently and are committed to building what’s next. Greater clarity. Renewed confidence. Meaningful connections. And practical tools to turn ideas into action.

Reg Malhotra

TEDx Speaker | Founder & CEO, Neuro Masters Academy

3,000+ Clients • Forbes Featured

The Mindset Gap

An Interactive Q&A & Guided Experience

Why do some people dream while others take action?

Join internationally recognized mindset expert Reg Malhotra for an engaging conversation exploring the psychology behind the gap between dreaming and doing. Through live discussion and an immersive guided mindset practice inspired by his work in neuroscience, NLP, and hypnotherapy, you’ll discover how subconscious patterns shape your decisions, confidence, and ability to take action.

Leave with practical tools to quiet self doubt, strengthen self belief, and create momentum toward the life you’re meant to build.

Katie McCleary

3x TEDx Speaker | Author | Founder, 916 Ink

What’s Subconsciously Driving You?

Discover the emotions secretly steering your decisions and learn to lead with unshakable self trust.

With more than 4 million TEDx views, Katie McCleary has spent 25 years helping people understand the stories that shape how they think, lead, and make decisions. As the co author of Bridge the Gap, a Top 3 Business Book of 2022, and the founder of 916 Ink, Katie has empowered more than 15,000 people to develop greater clarity, resilience, and confidence.

At Daydreamer Live, Katie will reveal the hidden emotions influencing your decisions and share practical tools to build lasting self trust. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of your own mind, a proven writing practice to strengthen confidence, and the clarity to make bold decisions with purpose.

Taro Arai

Chief Dreaming Officer | Mikuni Restaurant Group

The Dream

One family’s dream. A legacy that continues to inspire.

From helping grow a family restaurant into one of Northern California’s most beloved brands, Taro Arai has spent nearly four decades proving that the greatest businesses begin with a dream. Today, Mikuni Restaurant Group includes 10 locations and nearly 1,000 team members, serving millions of guests while giving back to the community through Faith in Giving.

At Daydreamer Live, Taro will share the inspiring story behind Mikuni and the timeless lessons on faith, perseverance, leadership, and purpose that transformed one family’s vision into a lasting legacy. Whether you’re building a business, pursuing a passion, or taking the first step toward your dream, you’ll leave inspired to think bigger and lead with purpose.

Andru Defeye

TEDx Speaker | Poet | Founder The Great Joy Hunt™ | PBS Contributor

Burnout has become one of the greatest challenges facing leaders, entrepreneurs, and communities today. TEDx speaker, PBS contributor, and founder of The Great Joy Hunt™, Andru Defeye has dedicated his work to helping people rediscover joy as a practical skill for building healthier lives, stronger relationships, and more resilient organizations.

Through neuroscience, storytelling, and years of experience, Andru teaches that joy is not simply an emotion. It is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and shared. His work has inspired universities, educators, nonprofits, businesses, and community organizations to rethink well being, connection, and sustainable success.

At Daydreamer Live, Andru will share how purpose, belonging, and the stories we tell ourselves shape the lives we create. You will leave with practical insights to overcome burnout, strengthen meaningful connections, and intentionally build a life filled with greater joy, resilience, and purpose.

Mike Salemi

Performance Architect, men's leadership facilitator, and host of The King Within Podcast.

Mike Salemi is a performance architect, men's leadership facilitator, and host of The King Within Podcast. With more than 21 years of experience coaching founders, executives, athletes, and high performers, he helps people bridge the gap between insight and action through embodied leadership and practical implementation.

At Daydreamer Live, Mike will lead Walking the Talk: Integration, an experiential session exploring how lasting change happens when knowledge becomes action. Through guided practices and practical tools, attendees will leave with greater clarity, a concrete next step, and a plan they can immediately put into action.

Andrew Zalasin

Venture Capitalist - Builder

Andrew Zalasin is a venture capitalist with more than 25 years of experience investing in category-defining technology companies. Throughout his career, he has made more than 250 investments, including early bets on Venmo, Facebook, Anthropic, Uber, Databricks, and Stripe. He has spent decades partnering with founders at the earliest stages, helping transform bold ideas into industry-leading companies.

At Daydreamer Live, Andrew will pull back the curtain on what really happens inside the venture capital world. He'll share when founders should raise capital—and when they shouldn't—what experienced investors look for before the numbers exist, the mistakes that kill deals in the first ten minutes, and the insights every entrepreneur should know before seeking investment. Through an open audience Q&A, attendees will gain practical knowledge they can immediately apply to their own entrepreneurial journey.

A Day Designed to Move You Forward

Daydreamer Live was created for dreamers, founders, creators, leaders, and visionaries who are ready to take the next step. This immersive experience combines inspiration, implementation, and community to help you turnideas into action.

Inspiring Speakers

Hear from founders, leaders, creators, and visionaries who have turned ideas into reality and are sharing the lessons they’ve learned along the way.!

Experiential Exercises

Move beyond inspiration through guided exercises designed to create clarity, self-awareness, and intentional action.

Visionary Connections

Connect with innovators, creators, founders, and leaders who see the world differently and are actively building what’s next.

Practical Tools

Leave with actionable frameworks, insights, and next steps you can immediately apply in your life, career, or business.

Who We Are

We are Day Dreamers

For the dreamers.

The creators.

The founders.

The leaders.

The visionaries.

Bridging the gap between dreaming and doing do not accept advertising, granting us complete freedom from corporate influences, And that makes us unique from others.