Robby Klein
Chirag Challa
Occupation: Co-Founder of Lolu
Hometown: Richmond, VA
What is your self-care routine?
Reading allows me to learn through others' storytelling and achieve a sense of grounding before the day plays tricks on me. Writing helps me create stories out of blank pages, and through this I've learned more about myself and the world. Meditation has strengthened my relationship with my intuition, helped me catch emotions as they arise, and taught me to slow down. Movement has been the single greatest improvement to my mental health. It's a moving meditation, a communion with nature, and a moment to myself. Finally, contrast therapy (sauna and cold plunge) has taught me to embrace discomfort and find calm within intensity. There's something special about tapping into the power of our breath in extreme temperatures; it builds mental resilience and allows me to face what has been buried within, head-on. Call it inner work, but it helps quiet those loud voices of imposter syndrome.
What is your definition of beauty?
Beauty has no source of truth — it's completely personal and felt. A breathtaking smile, the sound of one's voice, and words such as “thinking about you" can all be rooted in beauty if they carry authentic emotion and genuine intention. Beauty, for me, emerges when I'm not performing or trying to be something I'm not, but just existing as my truest self. There's something beautiful about pure intention and that energy someone gives off when they're being completely.
How would friends describe you in three words?
Intentional, emotional, a clown.