Create your own luck: Radhika Bajoria on personal growth, business leadership, and building what doesn’t exist
Learn how to create your own luck.
In this episode of Be All You Can, Radhika Bajoria, Founding Member of Radically Yours and one of India’s emerging voices in entrepreneurship, shares how she built opportunities from scratch at a young age, long before anyone opened doors for her
From a small-town upbringing to becoming a recognised voice on LinkedIn and a United Nations Foundation fellow, her journey is rooted in one powerful idea: curiosity and conversations can change everything.
Whether it’s reaching out to strangers, walking into rooms she wasn’t invited to, or building meaningful networks from nothing, Radhika reflects on what it takes to create your own path in an unpredictable world.
Tune in as she shares her perspectives on creating opportunities through intent and consistent outreach.
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Mar 14, 20260:02: The United Nations Fellowship, I got it because I just randomly DM'd a lady whose work I admired
0:09:, and with the friendship I built, she gave me an opportunity to work with the UN.
0:13: And who in their sane mind would think that, okay, let me just do this.
0:19: Today we are joined by a young dynamic leader who's redefining entrepreneurship through
0:24: the lens of purpose and equity.
0:26: She is the founding member of Radically Yours, a next-gen knowledge platform connecting
0:31: founders to global capital and creating pathways for women in enterprise.
0:37: At just 26, she's been recognised as one of India's top voices on LinkedIn and a next-gen
0:43: India fellow for the United Nations Foundation.
0:46: She's helping shape conversations around the future of work, entrepreneurship and inclusion.
0:53: Welcome to Be All You Can, Radhika.
0:55: Thank you.
0:56: I hope I can be all by myself in this podcast, as the tagline goes.
1:02: At Be All You Can, we explore a lot of conversations that inspire purpose, courage and impact.
1:09: Your journey has definitely been a powerful example of that.
1:13: So I would like to dive right in and ask you the first question, that is, if you had to
1:18: Describe your life's purpose in one sentence. What would it be?
1:25: Curiosity combined with conversations.
1:28: I think this is something that has led me to whatever I've done so far in life.
1:34: I have always been a person who has been referred to, like Paresh Rawal in a movie where he's
1:40: called like a question mark, like people say that you should put a question mark and not
1:44: a bindi on your forehead because you're always like asking too many questions.
1:49: Ah, okay.
1:49: That's a good thing.
1:50: Yeah, it's a good thing.
1:51: Earlier, I used to be like, what is this that people are saying now in hindsight, I feel
1:55: like, okay, it's a unique compliment that no one ever gets, but I did.
1:59: So yeah, I think the questions have led me to seek answers which I would have never gotten
2:04: otherwise.
2:05: And that's how all of my journey, which is being either writing on LinkedIn, getting
2:08: this United Nations Fellowship, or even now today doing this podcast with you.
2:13: It's always been there because of the questions I asked, like I reached out to you to get an
2:18: interview with one of your senior management leaders and now we are here doing this podcast.
2:23: So I really feel that you need to stir up the conversations to lead it into something
2:27: else.
2:28: Even though you're talented, but you're sitting still, nothing happens in stagnant waters,
2:33: you know, you need to create the ripples for something to happen and for the flow to be created.
2:38: So yeah.
2:38: Yeah, I think most often we just get stuck on the first step, right?
2:42: Like we just don't reach out.
2:43: If you reach out and the rest just takes shape.
2:46: Exactly.
2:47: But in all of this, and I'm sure your, you know, whatever you've done till now has led
2:53: from your purpose.
2:55: So how does Radically Yours fit into this?
2:59: So I always, you know, didn't have many female role models to look up to.
3:04: I come from a small town called Pachora.
3:07: Not many even know about it, it's in Maharashtra only, nine hours from Bombay.
3:12: And there, studying in a municipal school, where teachers themselves didn't know English,
3:18: and I was discouraged to speak in English by my peers, because they were saying that, why
3:22: are you trying to show off?
3:23: You know, coming from that background, I was like, where do I really look up to people if
3:27: I have to?
3:28: And I was always very ambitious in the fact that I wanted to create a name for myself
3:32: in what industry that was yet to be explored, but very keen on making a mark in my life.
3:39: And when I used to search on the internet about who are the women leaders, whose journeys
3:44: I should follow, although I would get the names of the people, but how did they get
3:48: to that position that the media never spoke, they only spoke about the numbers that their
3:52: businesses are making, and what the competition looks like.
3:56: So I always had this thing in my heart that I want to create a presence where I attract
4:01: people to tell their stories to me.
4:03: So when I used to reach out to people to get to know their stories, nobody really paid
attention to me.
4:09: And they were like, why should we spend our time with you?
4:12: Like, who are you?
4:13: Because nobody likes to speak unless there is a camera put in front of them, and they
4:17: know they're going to reach multiple people.
4:20: You know, yeah, it's like they should be like, our time, if we're dedicating this one hour
4:24: to someone, it should also be heard by many people.
4:27: It should not just be one who's hearing it.
4:30: So yeah, I was like, I need to create an online presence now, which will help me get these
4:35: people to talk about their stories.
4:38: That's how I started writing on LinkedIn.
4:40: And I always wanted to create a presence where people would be happy to come and tell their
4:46: stories and journeys to me because I want to really learn from them, till date I want to.
4:51: So yeah, that was the purpose in my heart.
4:53: And that fire kept me going always that how do I make sure that I reach to a level where
4:57: whoever I want, I can reach out to, and they will reply with a yes to me.
5:02: So, you know, with that fire in the belly, I still keep going because I think the world
5:06: is such a huge place.
5:08: And there is always someone bigger than the other.
5:10: So I never feel satisfied, even though I've had a big interview with someone on my show,
5:14: I always feel like, okay, who's the next one who I can sit down and learn from?
5:19: So that was my purpose.
5:20: So I think you need to learn more that growth mindset is what's kept you going, right?
5:25: Yeah, yeah.
5:26: How do you achieve so much?
5:27: But I still want to know that just one moment, you know, or highlight that where you felt,
5:33: you know what, let's just build this.
5:35: Do you remember that one moment that would have defined it?
5:40: Yeah, I think I had written to someone in media.
5:44: I always wanted to work in media, because that was my passion.
5:50: And the managing director there didn't respond to me.
5:53: I was like, I've written to you with the exact purpose why I want to work with you and how
5:58: will I do it?
5:59: But she didn't respond.
6:00: And one day she didn't respond, but she put me in touch with our HR who didn't know anything
6:04: about how she can help me, but just because of the formality and because I was knocking
6:09: on her door constantly, she's like, let's give her a meeting.
6:12: So they did call me to their office in BKC.
6:14: I feel you don't have to be invited somewhere to go and explore.
6:21: You can self invite yourself, you know, like, I really feel that you have to have that
mindset.
6:27: And the president of Canada was visiting India.
6:32: So I went there early, talked to everybody in their media team, in their high commission
6:37: team that I really want to, you know, go interact with luminaries that are present because I have a show, I have a presence on LinkedIn, it's beneficial for me.
6:47: And like, they made me wait for half an hour, but they were eventually like, you can come
6:51: and attend our event.
6:53: And that's how I got to see the president speak and also meet some of the really interesting
6:58: people from ecosystem, which I would have never met.
7:01: And they would have never replied to me on an email because these are like really one
7:04: on one people.
7:05: And they talk to you if they have the trust and if you have the access to them.
7:09: So I was just thanking my stars that thank God I took that bold decision to turn my car
7:14: back and go to the hotel and just randomly self invite myself to an event like this.
7:20: And now the high commission has my details and they will definitely invite me to the
7:25: next ones also.
7:26: So that's like a story which I have to tell to all the youngsters that take that leap
7:30: of faith, even though nobody is having the confidence in you to do something, have the
7:34: confidence in yourself that you can pull it off.
7:37: The opportunities to live that life in a meaningful way can be endless.
7:41: So that's a very important learning.
7:43: And then the other thing would be like, just be open to learning from everywhere.
7:50: We sometimes we shut our minds, you know, the United Nations Fellowship, I got it because
7:56: I just randomly DM a lady whose work I admired and the friendship I built, she gave me an
8:02: opportunity to work with the UN.
8:04: So and who in their sane mind would think that okay, let me just do this.
8:08: I actually have a dedicated three hour window in everyday schedule, where I'm talking
8:12: to random people and messaging them. 8:14: Oh, wow.
8:14: Yeah, I do that every single day.
8:17: Because everything that I get, be it the guest on my show, or the opportunity to speak, or
8:23: even get to learn anything, it's all through these people who have randomly
connected.
8:27: Like I don't wait for the right opportunities to come at my doorstep and then get into it.
8:32: I actually believe in creating opportunities.
8:35: You know, the larger you create the surface area for the luck to hit you, only then you
8:40: will experience magic.
8:41: If you're not willing to experience how will the universe even conspire for it to happen
8:47: to you.
8:48: So that's my ultimate learning.
8:50: Very inspiring.
8:52: Yes.
8:52: No, this is, I mean, you actually have your day planned and you have this three hour window.
8:56: Yeah, I do that.
8:57: On Instagram, I see.
8:59: So it's a very interesting thing that I'll close this with.
9:03: So you know, these makeup artists who go to fancy weddings, and they tag everyone because
9:10: that's their job.
9:11: You know, tag the bride and the groom also.
9:14: So whoever the famous makeup artist is, I go to their pages sometimes, see who's this
9:19: person who's having this big fat Indian wedding.
9:22: And recently I connected with someone from that Hazuri Lal Jewellers, they have this legacy
9:28: of jewellery business.
9:29: And I just wrote to them saying that congrats on your wedding, love the work you've been
9:33: doing.
9:34: Let's catch up sometime.
9:35: And she responded saying that, yeah, let's catch up at our store in Bombay, would love
9:39: to see you there.
9:41: So now you never know that how this connection will help in some way or the other.
9:45: So yeah, I just go to these random pages of people who are connected to these high level
9:50: personalities through their work, and find them and talk to them.
9:55: It's just very unique, you know, how I find them, but not many people can think like this,
10:00: you know, I don't I don't think so anyone will do this, who is a sane person.
10:03: This makeup artist channel is really unique.
10:08: I feel you have to be insanely delusional to do something in life.
10:14: That's like the biggest takeaway.
10:15: Like I get got this minister Aditi Tatkare.
10:18: She's in the cabinet of Maharashtra, she's the Minister of Women and Child Development.
10:22: I gate crashed an event actually just to talk to her because I was, I got to know that she's
10:27: speaking at an event, and I have to be at this event anyhow, because she won't respond to my calls and messages.
10:34: I have to be in person telling her face-to-face with the eye contact that you have to come on my show.
10:38: So whenever her speech was done, and she was surrounded by so many people, I somehow went
10:43: in there and told her that, you know, you have to be on my show, just help me connect
10:46: with your PA right away.
10:47: And being in that, you know, chaos, you don't think twice, you're like, okay, she would
10:52: be a good journalist.
10:53: So she connected me to the PA and then I had my ways to convince the PA that it's a big
10:57: show this that.
10:58: So did you end up?
10:58: Yeah, I ended up interviewing her then.
11:00: So yeah, that's how I create opportunities for me.
11:03: I don't like wait, okay, somebody big will, you know, introduce me, then it'll happen.
11:08: I'm like, nahi ho raha hai toh khud se create kar leti hoon, kya hai usse?
11:12: It's been an absolute delight to have you on our podcast, Radhika.
11:16: Thank you so much.
11:17: It was really inspiring.
11:18: Thanks to you for bringing out these stories from me.
11:21: I feel it's always the person who's asking the right questions that gets the content
out.
11:26: Otherwise, though, we're just normal human beings walking around.
11:30: Thanks a lot.
11:31: The journey that you shared with us has been a really powerful reminder for us to stay
11:36: put on our purpose, on the impact that we want to create, you know, you just all got
11:43: just one life.
11:44: So I think it really helped us with that.
11:48: Thanks for listening to Be All You Can, a podcast by Gowthrich Enterprises Group, exploring
11:54: the passion, purpose and dreams of pioneers.
11:57: Stay tuned for more stories that inspire action and impact.