Improvly Speaking
Dayna Gowan is a speaker, improviser, and Facilitator of Fun, and the Founder of Improvly Speaking. Each episode, she brings you golden, beautiful, delicious nuggets of wisdom about public speaking, improv, performance, creativity and anything in between. Learning public speaking and improvisation skills has changed her life and made her a more confident speaker, colleague, and friend. Listeners will be inspired to face their public speaking fears, try new things, flex their creativity muscles, and say “Yes, and…” to challenges and roadblocks in both their personal and professional lives.
Podcasting since 2022 • 51 episodes
Improvly Speaking
Latest Episodes
Play, Profits, & Psychological Safety: Rediscovering Your Inner Child with Rona Lewis
On this episode of Improvly Speaking, Dayna sits down with the incomparable Rona Lewis — leadership and communication coach, keynote speaker, experiential learning facilitator, and unapologetic play instigator. As the co-founder and CEO of
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Episode 50
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1:18:46
Becoming a Boulder Hero & Creating Space for Connection with Jessilee Windhaus
What happens when an only child with boundless creativity decides to transform her hometown’s comedy scene? Jessilee Windhaus, founder of Haus of Comedy in Sacramento, shares how her love of improv evolved into multiple improv businesses with H...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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1:32:18
Speak Easy and Run Towards the Scary Things with Brian Lafontaine
When you’ve spent years performing on stage, doing standup, and speaking in front of crowds, you learn one thing very quickly: nothing ever goes exactly as planned. In this episode of Improvly Speaking, Dayna chats wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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1:34:27
Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable with Jacque Arend
If there’s one thing that improvisation teaches us, it’s that life rarely follows a script. For Jacque Arend, Managing Director of Camp Improv Utopia and Executive Director of Savi Fest, that truth has been especially clear over the past few ye...
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Episode 47
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2:06:59
Uncertainty is My Friend: A Postpartum Life Update and the Mantra that Keeps Me Grounded
After a podcasting hiatus, Dayna Gowan is back behind the mic – and she’s got a lot to share. In this solo episode, Dayna opens up about the wild ride that has been new motherhood, from unexpected detours in her birth plan to sleepless nights, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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57:45