Miki Agrawal
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182 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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The most innovative companies of the year at the Hygienics Conference, which is like 150 companies went up for it and they came first place.
And what's really, really exciting and promising is that the industry that's been like the non-woven space that makes the diapers, the pads, the adult diapers, dog, all the products that are plastic and ending up in landfills.
these materials companies, these fabrics companies, these fiber technology, the fibers companies who make the fibers to make these nonwoven products are very interested in working with us. So they're not seeing us as a threat. They're seeing us as a collaborator, as an ally, because they understand their end of life
challenges that they're creating that the world is noticing too, and it's making them feel like bad guys and they feel it too. And so for them to say, wow, we can still continue to make the products that we're making and also have an end of life solution for it, which is plastic eating fungi. We had the most number of people at our booth. It was like a science fair project.
I felt so like we won the science fair. It was so cute. But it was just also to be received by these multi-generational incumbent textile people. In the world of nonwovens, it was a huge nod of validation. Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, they were all at their booth just learning and trying to understand, oh, how can we collaborate? It's cool.
But also, like, poop is the best fertilizer. It's mother's milk. It's, like, pure. Versus, like, Right now we're using cow poop, pig poop. We're using all the poop of like all the other animals. And yet baby poop, we're just throwing it, wrapping in plastic and throwing the trash and harnessing this potent, pure mother's breast milk, lead like fertilizer.
So now we can harness billions of pounds of these to help solve the global plastic crisis. Why not?
I mean, to me, what's really cool, it's like a, it's a sanitation company disguised as a consumer product. It's a biotech company disguised, yes.
I mean, I think becoming moms was the biggest change ever for us to like slow down, remember what matters, think about like what we really care about, like actually like doubling down on community, doubling down on the planet, doubling down on what matters for ourselves, family time, you know? I think that's been such a huge gift for us as well.
Yeah, and I think, I mean, to further kind of go into what's changed inside of me, you know, I actually feel like, you know, when you build a business as a CEO, your job is to criticize, is to be critical, is to like look at what's wrong and not what's right, right? Your job is to point and look at all the little mistakes and not celebrate as much the mistakes the magic and the juice, right?
So I think that for me, the biggest learning that I've had is to really let that critical side of, or my CEO kind of like looking for what's wrong to make small improvements, let that stay at the office so that when I come home, I can really be in just pure celebration
you know, of my family, of my children, of my friends, without that sort of, you know, trained critical eye that can often be judgmental or can often be self-critical in so many ways. And so, to me, that's been a big work in progress.
You know, of just like, you know, yeah, that we've been trained to be killer. You know, we're trained to look at what's wrong, and we bring that to our relationships, to our love interests. Like, we look at everything that's wrong with our partners, rather than all the magic that's going well with them because that's how we've been, you know, obviously that's how we've gotten to where we are.
And so I think it's really about training ourselves to let that go at home so that we can just be in pure support, love, and joy for our families and our relationships at home. I love that. My word for 2024 is soft power.
And, you know, I think for me, the most, I think for both of us, that is the greatest challenge is that, like, when we're in our soft, dewy, feminine selves, like, it's so, it feels so good and things flow, creativity flows. And it's not discounting the strong, powerful, structured masculine side of ourselves too.
We have feminine masculine in all of us, but I'm really challenging myself to find a way to find my breath to be able to stay in my soft power, even at work, because I feel like there's this like, kind of like when it comes to like money or more like business or having people rely on me, count on me, need me,
there is a bit of a contract, like a tightening that happens to like wanna perform and wanna get it right and not mess up. But when I'm in my soft power and when I'm breathing and I'm gentle, I'm actually performing better. I'm actually a better leader. I'm actually more creative. I actually get shit done even more smoother. It's more lyrical versus like structured and tight.
And so for me, it's like the retuning myself to relax when it comes to like financial conversations, when it comes to the harder conversations that historically have made me tighten up and to just remember to like, okay, I can feel my, you know, myself getting activated. Just breathe slower and take a second and relax.
You know, there's even my new friend is like, you know, shared with me, it's like, I can sense that, you know, it's your breath changes, your breathing pattern changes when you're in different versions of you.
and i wonder like what you can do to like keep your breath slow you know obviously when you're excited it's great but like when you're you know it's like how do you maintain a slow breath because then when you're that's when your soft power can be consistent is when you're just tuning in without losing the energy the jet the jet the jet the the But that's great.
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