Refusing to Fit in a Box: On Identity, Foresight & Redefining What's Possible | Radha Mistry

What does it look like to build a career — and a life — entirely on your own terms?In this episode, Sai sits down with Radha Mistry, a foresight strategist, designer, and educator whose path has been anything but conventional. From growing up across India, England, and Taiwan, to walking away from architecture, moving to London for art school, and eventually finding her calling in futures research — Radha's story is about what happens when you refuse to let the world define you.They dig into:How Radha went from architecture school to leading foresight work at a global firmWhat "futures thinking" actually is (hint: it's provocation, not prediction)Why she struggled to call herself a designer — and how she found the language to own itGrowing up between cultures and never quite fitting inRedefining marriage, motherhood, and ambition on her own termsWhat it means to raise kids who feel free to contain multitudesWhy mentoring women of color in design is deeply personal to herBook mentioned: Trick Mirror by Jia TolentinoQuote: "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims." — Buckminster Fuller