Episode 7 • You Weren't Supposed to Say That
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Never Been Asked That di BeTold
S1 · E7
7 ago 2026
02:47:56
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The confidence cost her everything, she rebuilt it form nothing.
Dayna Del Val spent thirteen years running one of the region's most visible arts nonprofits and became one of its most recognizable leaders... but leaving it made her irrelevant almost overnight.
Dayna Del Val is an executive presence coach who helps leaders humanize their message and present it confidently, instead of hiding behind their slides. She's built a coaching practice spanning Los Angeles, New York, Germany, and London out of sixty cold calls she made after losing her professional network almost overnight.
In this episode of Never Been Asked That, we get into:
- Where her unshakeable self belief actually started, decades before she had any evidence to back it up
- Why the title she spent thirteen years earning turned out to matter more than she ever let herself admit
- The real reason so many leaders hide behind their slides instead of their actual message
- What it looked like to lose nearly her entire professional network overnight, and how she rebuilt it from sixty phone calls
- The conversation that convinced her and her husband to go public with his recovery from alcoholism
Key moments:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:01:33) You’re Going to Be Miss America!
- (01:12:12) Practically Perfect in Every Way
- (02:01:18) Nobody Gives a Hoot About Your Slides
- (02:50:27) It Only Took One Night to Become Irrelevant
- (03:43:42) The Beauty Comes After the Darkness
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