Mike‘s Search For Meaning

#37 - Rada Yovovich on DEI & A, Accessing Pleasure, and Checking Our Biases


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Rada Yovovich (she/her) is an experienced transformational leadership and meta-coach, trainer, skilled facilitator, and entrepreneur based in Chicago.  

 

She is the co-host and co-founder of The Darkest Horse (TDH), a minority and women-owned Think/Do Tank exploring the intersections of Radical Inclusion; Emerging Technology; The Future of Work; and Health, Well-Being & Human Potential. TDH stewards leaders, innovators and communities through a process of equity-centered experiences, to co-create new worlds + ways of being.

 

Rada co-leads The Rising Practitioners Circles, a national collaborative community of practice and growth for transformational facilitators, coaches, mediators, consultants, and trainers. She is a Certified Emotional Intelligence Meta-Coach, and a trained practitioner of Somatic Abolitionism. She is also an active advocate for LGBTQIA+ equity efforts broadly, including as a founding nonprofit board member at Evanston Pride. She has extensive public speaking experience on topics such as identity, intrapreneurship, inclusion, transformation, and creativity.

 

Rada earned her BA at the University of Chicago and her MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. One of her favorite extra-professional achievements is her rugby career -- she played for the #2 rugby team in the US!

 

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the charity is Brave Space Alliance. Any and all donations make a difference!



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    • Positive Intelligence - Shirzad Chamine
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
  • Somatic Abolitionism
  • Resmaa Menakem
  • Daniel Goleman
  • Adult Development Theory
  • Julie Ann Otis
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