The Toilet Paper Salesman® Podcast
The Toilet Paper Salesman® Podcast serves as your companion on the journey of life, focusing on areas that bring peace, joy, fulfillment, and success in both your business and personal lives.
The podcast episodes will cover topics such as:
1. Sales Techniques and Skills
2. Leadership Development
3. Special interests, simple pleasures: What makes your life worth living?
4. Discover your life’s calling.
We will feature guests who will join the discussions on these subjects when relevant.
Tune in with Mike Mirarchi, who brings four decades of expertise as a Salesperson, Executive, and Mentor. Mike offers unique, straightforward, and succinct wisdom on crafting a prosperous career and a meaningful life from the perspective of a Toilet Paper Salesman.
The Toilet Paper Salesman® Podcast
Rewriting The Future With An Ancient Fiber
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Imagine paper that’s stronger than what you use now, made without harsh chemicals, grown in weeks instead of decades, and ready to compost in your backyard. That’s the promise driving our talk with Ben Draper of the Hemp Paper Company, and it starts with a simple question: what if the future of packaging isn’t trees or plastic, but an ancient fiber returning at scale?
We dig into how industrial hemp differs from CBD and marijuana, and why the fiber-and-grain side matters for real-world products. Ben walks us through the lost decades—policy confusion, outdated stigma, and dismantled supply chains—that delayed hemp’s comeback. Then he maps the rebuild: partnering with mills, proving performance with high-strength paper bags and boards, and targeting cartons for brands that want premium packaging without the environmental hangover. Along the way, you’ll hear why hemp’s rapid growth and low-input processing can slash water use and chemicals, how cover-cropping helps pull toxins from soil, and why hemp paper can be recycled more times than typical tree paper, locking up carbon for longer.
The heart of the episode is circularity. Hawaii becomes a prototype for a full loop: grow hemp, decorticate locally, explore hemp-derived fuels to power processing, convert to products that either reenter the system or safely compost. We talk candidly about the pitfalls of plastic bans without composting infrastructure, the economics of early-stage materials, and creative pricing models that make adoption easier. If you care about sustainable packaging, microplastics, soil health, or practical climate wins, this conversation brings a grounded, ambitious route forward—one bag, one box, one supply chain at a time.
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Link to my website: The Toilet Paper Salesman ™ – Who Says Selling Toilet Paper isn’t Glamorous? ™
Link to my book: Wisdom from a Toilet Paper Salesman | BookBaby Bookshop
Link to buy Toilet Paper Salesman swag: My Store
Link to David Mirarchi's website: David Mirarchi
Link to RJ Schinner Co, Inc: RJ Schinner | Home
