Radhika Gupta walks into the studio with the kind of quiet confidence you only earn through years of persistence. CEO, investor, mother, writer… she carries every identity with confidence that inevitably creates space.
What unfolds over the next hour is a conversation about becoming.
She tells us she calls herself a ‘Child of Change,’ a phrase she once scribbled into her LinkedIn bio and forgot, but one that now defines her story with accuracy. Growing up across continents, she learned early that belonging isn’t something you’re born into; it’s something you build.
Today, she sits here as a leader who understands that the rise of women is not one story, it is many stories layered across generations. A grandmother and mother who motivated and inspired her to follow ambition. A daughter who now refuses to see motherhood as a full stop.
Ambition grows when women are allowed to dream.
But with ambition comes the question – Can women really have it all?
Radhika answers without hesitation, “You can have a lot,” she says. “Just not the version of ‘all’ that Instagram sells you.”
There are boardrooms, awards, Harvard programs, and high-power meetings.
And then there are backstage days, the messy ones.
Days when childcare collapses, managing guests at home
“You only see the front stage,” she smiles. “But all of us live through the backstage. And that’s normal.”
Her journey in finance, a world she calls ‘male-dominated but surprisingly welcoming in India’, was never about proving herself to others. Her real battle was internal. Walking into rooms where everyone was older, louder, and more established. She observed, learned, and adapted.
Today, she sits here as a leader who understands that the rise of women is not one story; it is many stories layered across generations.
By the time the interview ends, you realise why conversations like this matter.
Not because Radhika Gupta is a CEO.
But because she is a woman who has done the work, internally and emotionally