12.19.18 Shattering The Norm

There's nothing like women shattering glass ceilings but Miki Agrawal has taken it to another level with her inventions of THINX, TUSHY and now her new book "Disrupt-Her":

Miki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She was the recipient of The Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award”, she was named “2017 Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum”, “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Technology Summit, she was one of INC Magazine’s “Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016”, Forbes’ “Top 20 Millennials on a Mission”, and made the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine in 2016. Most recently, she was named Fast Company’s Most Creative People in 2018. She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table, alternative pizza concept called WILD with 3 locations in New York City, one in Guatemala and more on the way. She co-founded THINX, a high-tech, period-proof underwear brand and led the company as CEO to a valuation of over $150 Million and to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2017, all while helping tens of millions of women period better. She also co-founded Icon, a high-tech pee-proof underwear brand that helps women manage light bladder leakage. She most recently founded TUSHY, a company that is revolutionizing the American toilet category with a modern, affordable, designer bidet attachment that both upgrades human health & hygiene as well as the environment from wasteful toilet paper consumption. She and her team are also helping fight the global sanitation crisis by bringing clean latrines to underserved communities in India through their partnership with Samagra. Harper Collins published her first book entitled DO COOL SH*T on entrepreneurship and lifestyle design and Hay House is publishing her second book Disrupt-Her coming out in 2019. Miki is an identical twin, half-Japanese, half-Indian French Canadian, former professional soccer player, graduate of Cornell University and proud new mama of Hiro Happy.

Also on the show is Cheryl Benton, founder of The Three Tomatoes and author of "Can You See Us Now," impressively disrupting the ageism stereotypes for women over 50:

Cheryl Benton, aka the “head tomato” is founder and publisher of The Three Tomatoes, a digital lifestyle magazine for “women who aren’t kids”. Having lived and worked for many years in New York City, the land of size zero twenty-somethings, she was truly starting to feel like an invisible woman. She created The Three Tomatoes just for the fun of it as the antidote for invisibility and sent it to 60 friends. Today she has thousands of friends and is chief cheerleader for smart, savvy women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage.

After running her own successful ad agency on Long Island, she sold her agency to one of the largest ad agencies in the world, and spent most of her career in the NYC ad agency world. After 25 years in the world of mad men and women, she started a consulting firm, which she just recently folded to focus on her most high potential client – The Three Tomatoes.

Cheryl is a passionate advocate for advancing women and girls and truly believes that “tomatoes” have an obligation to help other women succeed. She is currently leading the Private Sector Development Committee for Plan USA and it’s “Because I am a Girl” program that is lifting girls out of poverty. For many years she was actively engaged with the US National Committee for UN Women, which is the United Nation’s entity that champions women around the world.