Name: Mikki Agrawal & SLICE - Sh*t You Should Know (Mikki Agrawal & SLICE - Sh*t You Should Know)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:56:59.000Z
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Hey there! It's Marie Forleo and we've got another amazing segment of Sh*t You Should

Marie: Okay so, I'm here with my friend, Mikki Agrawal and we actually just met not too long

ago. So we got to tell you this really quick story! On my birthday, I was at Crunch gym

and Josh and I were taking a Spin class, and we're leaving from the Spin class and there's

this beautiful woman. And, she's got pizza and she's giving away free organic vegan vegetarian

super-healthy pizza! And, I'm looking at it and my mouth is watering, and I'm like, Oh

my God, this looks so beautiful," but we were about to go out for dinner for my birthday.

So I couldn't take part in her beautiful pizza giveaway.

The way and the passion with which she was just sharing her pizza, I knew that... I was

like, "Are you the owner?" She's like, "Why, yes! Yes, I am," and I said, "Well, I have

this company called Rich, Happy & Hot and we connect women entrepreneurs," and I'm like,

"Do you have a card?" So Mikki gives me her card, probably thinks I'm a nut bag...

Marie: I go home and I type up a little email going, "Hey, I think you're really amazing

and this is going to sound weird. Probably sounds like a stalker but I have this intuitive

hit that we're supposed to be connected, right?

Marie: So I sent that email, did you think that I was weird or not so much?

Mikki: No! I was like this is so...it's amazing! I thought it was fantastic!

Marie: So then cut to one day later, I'm going to a birthday dinner for my friend Evan Hagen

whose birthday's right after mine and there's only like eight people at the table. Walk

into a restaurant in New York City, one of the eight people is her and she, your face

Mikki: It was insane! It was completely! I mean think about it, the million of places

we could be, the million people we could be with...

Mikki: And like and at a very specific time, and a very specific place, with the... It

Mikki: Serendipitous, and you know it's the synchronicity, it was just remarkable!

Marie: Yeah, alright. So we're at Mikki's restaurant which is SLICE. Right now, it's

in the West Village, she also has another location but her restaurant in the West Village

is like two blocks away from my house. So this could not be more perfect! And, I am

just fascinated with talking with cool women entrepreneurs and I did some like snooping

around on your site, and one of the things that you said that I just thought was hilarious.

You said, "I'm part sushi and part curry."

Mikki: Yeah, my mom's from Japan and my dad's from India so it's just a quick way...he'll

Mikki: [That's sushi and curry. ?] [2:13] It's very simple.

Marie: Which I think, I love that! And then, tell us a little bit about the part of your

story that I love and I think why we resonant so much is you know, you started off as an

Marie: And then you did a completely different shift to like music and video production.

Marie: And then at the ripe old age of 25, you said, "I want to open a restaurant."

Marie: Yeah so, tell us a little bit about like what the inspiration came from for SLICE?

Mikki: Well, when I was 24 my stomach started to act up, you know I couldn't. You know,

I couldn't eat regular dairy anymore, every time I eat pizza or ice-cream. Just the process,

you know cheese really hurt my stomach and so I had to give up all my comfort foods like

Marie: Oh! Mikki: And all my favorite foods and you know

I started reading some research and I couldn't find places that I could eat both satiated

my appetite. As far as, you know I can stomach it...

Mikki: But also that was flavorable. Every time I ate something, I had to give up on

flavor. And you know, then it kind of brought the bigger question is you know when you dine,

your dining experience you're always giving up one thing. You're always giving up on healthy

when you're eating something or you're always giving up on tasty.

Mikki: There's always that you know, you go "Okay today I'm going to eat tasty food but

I know it's not going to be healthy." Or, "Today I'm going to eat healthy but I know

Mikki: There's always that you know, that giving something up.

Mikki: Whereas you know, eating a comfort food that you know is made with better ingredients

and organic natural local ingredients. You know that there can be a marriage of healthy

and tasty especially when it's like pizza that everyone understands. So it just was

one of those things where I saw a necessity in the marketplace. And you know, I wasn't

being insatiated; my appetite wasn't being insatiated and so I just thought there would

be a great opportunity to start a business.

Marie: That's awesome! So okay tell us how long it took because many people, you know

they'll look at someone like you and they'll say, "Oh my God, Mikki has it going on." How

long did it take you from the time that you had the concept to actually had your first

restaurant, and had people were eating pizza and they were loving it?

Mikki: Yeah, I mean it certainly took time. I mean it took about two years probably from

the idea, to putting a team together with smart friends who are in various sectors of

the industry whether it be branding, design, marketing, architecture, finance, literally

every single aspect of the business. I'm not an expert on any of them.

Mikki: So you know I had an idea and I knew I wasn't an expert so I just brought on the

smartest people I knew in the various industries, put together a great round table team. And

then just constantly flushed out ideas and you know so much thinking outside the box

because when you're dealing with many different types of people that you're talking with,

you're getting different you know, angles of their opinion. So it was a really great

way to flush out something that could work.

Marie: But that just, it goes to show you like everything is "figureoutable..."

Marie: And, if you believe in something, you can absolutely figure out how to make it happen.

Marie: You can figure out how to get the financing and rock it out!

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