Miki Agrawal
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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So you're sort of forced to sit in a circle and see each other, look each other in the eye. And so we're putting these benches all over America right now.
And then the last thing we're doing, just in our first year kind of temple projects, is a study with UC Berkeley and the Greater Good Science Center on the science of collective dance, collective awe, so that doctors can begin prescribing social dance experiences that are sober to their patients as an antidote for loneliness, depression, isolation, and anxiety.
And I don't know if you know this, but like 75% of depression cases are from, you can guess, loneliness. Right? But, you know, we medicate depression and anxiety, but really the way to actually support or solve it is solving loneliness.
And you have to belong to yourself first. And so I have this whole compass of belonging, which is sort of a directional map that you can sort of like do for yourself. So whenever you're feeling lonely, you can just sort of ground in and you can say, okay, Alyssa, you know, in this moment, I'm feeling out of belonging. Let me just get into my compass. The north is the spiritual realm.
The south is the planetary realm. The west is your lineage, where you came from. And the east is your service. And as soon as you actually sit in those maps and you're like, you're touching another realm, which is sort of greater than you. And so you feel that relaxed, you're the, you're, you're, you're actually, your brain begins to relax when you're like, ah, there's something greater than you.
than me. And then you recognize when you go down in the South and you realize, oh, I'm part of a node of the planet. There isn't a word for separate in indigenous cultures. There isn't a word for lonely in indigenous cultures because we are all one with the planet. So as soon as you ground into this the energetics of the planet, you don't feel lonely.
And then when you look behind you and you realize, oh my gosh, I am the product of all this lineage, you know, behind you, your parents and your four grandparents, your eight great-grandparents, your 16 great-great-grand... You know, within 10 generations, it's 2,064 people that it took to get to you. And so you all of a sudden realize, like, you get to carry the legacy of,
thousands of people in just ten generations. What a gift. And you feel less alone, right? You feel less unmoored when you have that type of map that you get to go with. And then finally, of course, service in the East. What faces forward? It's like, as soon as you ground into, it's not about me, but how can I actually serve my community?
And as you know, there's lots of research around this, when you serve your community, you feel so much happier, so much more, you know, purposeful, and of course, less lonely.
Yeah, I mean, when you look across the board between Thinks, Tushy, and Hero, they really are about my core mission, my core values, which is to elevate people on the planet.
And ultimately, Thinks was meant to elevate, you know, the shame around women's periods and through a solution, through our period-proof underwear, but then we've helped divert billions of tampons and plaids outside of landfills, which is huge. They take hundreds of years to decompose. With Tushy, our modern bidet, you know, washes your butt clean after you poop.
You know, we've helped save over 10 million trees from getting flushed on the toilet. We have 4 million really happy people who love our product. because it serves them, it makes you feel cleaner, but it also serves the planet. So there's this purpose, this self-purpose, but then there's this external purpose.
And I think Hero, we've created the world's first myco-digestible diaper, which is, that can be digested by fungi. So myco-digestible means digested by fungi. So actually harnessing plastic eating fungi to help solve the global plastic crisis.
Really exciting. It's insane. It's going to change the world. The whole concept is when the baby poops into the diaper, the baby poop fertilizes the dormant fungi to grow, eat the diaper, and then when you throw it in the landfill, the goal is for it to eat plastics in landfills too. So it has this double solution, it's like the mission behind what we're creating.
But when I think about just the... Yeah, the vein that sort of ties all of it through is this lens of elevating people on the planet. I think with Hero, it's really about, you know, the agency that parents can feel for their babies and say, like, my baby's poop can literally help, you know, solve this plastic problem. It's now beyond me. I have to take care of my next generation and the planet.
It's no longer just me creating a bunch of waste and just not, you know, like worrying about it because I'm going to be dead. But now you have a kid and now you're leaving. What are you leaving behind? What legacy are you leaving behind?
So I think one of the reasons why we're approaching the diaper category first beyond it being the number one household plastic waste item in the household, the number three waste item in a landfill, diapers are, they take 400 years to decompose. A single baby goes through 6,000 diapers in their lifetime. And the very first disposable diaper is still somewhere in a landfill today.
And so, there's crazy stats. And so, to be able to wake up people and say, hey, like, we have been in collaboration with nature for billions of years, and we've just lost touch.
When we built cities, we made everything concrete, and like, that's why I'm so excited about the Blanc Center and turning everything back to this harmony between people, you know, each other and the planet, self, each other and the planet. I really believe in that too because we've lost touch with nature and because of that lost touch, we just think we can just trash it and then just say whatever.
But because we now have our lineage forward-looking service, like really thinking about what's coming next, especially as a new parent, I think that's the right people to go after first because they're just going to care more. P.S. Mickey just won, her team just won yesterday, first place at a competition.
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