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 • 53 episodes
Improvly Speaking
Latest Episodes
Helping Good People Take Up Space & Ridding the World of Boring Presentations with Jordan Hirsch
What if the people with the best ideas spoke up more often? In this episode of Improvly Speaking, Dayna Gowan sits down with speaker, coach, and improviser Jordan Hirsch to talk about confidence, saying goodbye to boring presentations,...
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Episode 52
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1:54:14
Releasing All the Judgements and Expectations…A Special 50 Episodes Celebration!
Fifty episodes. Five thousand downloads. And a whole lot of doubt, courage, and creative growth in between.In this special solo episode, Dayna pauses to celebrate a major milestone for Improvly Speaking and to pull back the curtain on wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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39:17
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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Season 1
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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