Biophilic Solutions: Nature Has the Answers

Miki Agrawal on Motherhood, Nature-Inspired Business, and Mushrooms That Eat Plastic


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Let’s face it. Our waste habits are, well, pretty wasteful. Every single day, more than 27,000 trees are cut down just to make toilet paper. Meanwhile, the average disposable diaper takes over 500 years to decompose in a landfill, all while leaching harmful plastics and chemicals into the environment. And that’s not even counting other single-use sanitary products like tampons, pads, and wipes. Put simply, our throwaway culture is a serious environmental problem.

Enter today’s guest: Miki Agrawal. A bold entrepreneur and creative disruptor, Miki has built a career out of challenging the status quo. She’s the founder of groundbreaking companies like Thinx (revolutionary period underwear), TUSHY (modern bidets), and her latest venture, Hiro Diapers, a game-changing product designed to break down in landfills using fungi-powered decomposition technology. Hiro represents a major step forward in the battle against plastic waste, starting with a natural end-of-life solution for one of the most essential (and wasteful) products in parenting.

In this conversation, we explore the hidden environmental costs of traditional diapers, the importance of slowing down to meet the moment, and why nature (hello, mushrooms!) holds the key to designing smarter, bolder everyday essentials.

Show Notes

  • Hiro Diapers
  • TUSHY Bidets
  • About Miki Agrawal
  • Four Sigmatic
  • Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written By Nature
  • Do Cool Shit: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After by Miki Agrawal
  • Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman by Miki Agrawal

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