“Miki Agrawal has always been interested in building businesses from a young age. As a teenager, she created an organic fruit juice bar in her garage, which eventually became a beautiful venue for weddings, events, and parties. Now with her latest company, Thinx, making waves, we wanted to chat with Miki about finding happiness through following your passions.”
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Thinx is a menstrual-hygiene company offering underwear that absorbs menstrual flow and panty liners to handle surprises. Miki Agrawal is the Founder and CEO of Thinx and one of our heroes! Check out this interview for more on how she went from starting boutique juice bars to fighting the stigma around menstruation. Miki Agrawal shares her story of not only building a successful business but also following your passions.
Don’t make friends just to make friends. Build the right community who will give you the strength to act on your ideas and inspire you to be the best version of you.
— . (@twinmiki) September 15, 2022
A real estate agent in New York City, I remember looking at houses as a kid and being interested in the right side of the cover letter. I loved it, but at fifteen years old, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I kind of pretended that this was the path that I would go down. It just led me to be more comfortable with interviewing. It took me a long time to figure out what really excited me and allowed me to feel like that’s where my passion is, which led me to eventually doing something related to that. Usually it’s not this obvious, but the best time to figure out what your passion is is at a really young age because you have all these different ideas and by the time you’re in your twenties, you have clearer thoughts of what that could be.
He remember being fifteen and discovering the world of juice bars and thinking it was so fascinating. I couldn’t believe that no one was doing something like this in the community, so I opened up this little side business at home on the weekends, with friends helping me out with juicing, serving and clean-up. We’d make like three thousand dollars on a weekend and then lose two thousand because we didn’t know anything about cash flow or how to keep track of receipts. That eventually became my five-year job which ultimately evolved into a full-scale juice bar conference center for weddings and everything else.
Original source to learn more: https://medium.com/@mikiagrawal