WC 2020 Nov You Failed? Just Get Up. Again and Again and Again.

Failure. It's not a word that most of us are comfortable with. It's certainly not something most of us would choose to experience. Nobody likes to fail, but women seem to be particularly terrified of it. Perhaps that's because we get so many fewer chances to take risks than men do. But we all will fail. We will fail in our careers, with our relationships, in our diets, as parents, in any number of situations. If failure is inevitable (and believe me, it is), then it's what you do after the failure that matters. How do you pivot to get past the failure to discover the joy that can come of the new path you find yourself on, the joy that can only happen because of the failure? Dayna is dedicated to working on, talking through and getting comfortable with the intersection of remarkable and so, so ordinary. Because that's the pivot point. And that's what she wants to explore with this audience.

This month's presenter.

Dayna Del Val
President & CEO
The Arts Partnership
 

About the presenter
Dayna Del Val was born with tenacity and advocacy in her DNA. She sharpened those skills as President & CEO of The Arts Partnership (TAP) where she consistently and successfully advocates for the enduring power and value of the arts across every facet of the community. In her tenure, TAP has received the Governor’s Award for the Arts, The Differentiator Award from the Governor’s Main Street Initiative, the Pineapple Award from the FM Convention & Visitors Bureau and Dayna was awarded the Emerging Leader Award from the ND Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

With a vast portfolio of publications, including a multi-year, monthly arts advocacy column for The Forum and more than 10 years writing the reflections end page for Inspired Home magazine, as well as TEDx, Creative Mornings Fargo and Ladyboss talks and a commencement address for MSUMoorhead, Dayna is equally at home in front of a screen or a live audience.

Never one to put on the brakes, Dayna has recently turned her advocacy efforts to inspiring people to pivot from failure and find joy on the other side through her blog extraordinaryextraordinary. She weaves stories and insights of being a young, single mom, of lessons learned in her professional role, of the complexities of middle-age and, most importantly, of the shared journey her husband Dr Mazz Marry and she took to joyfully restore their marriage and their lives after his near-death experience from alcoholism. They do the short, focused weekday daily livestream "Daily Dose of Dr Marry & DD" on extraordinaryextraordinary's Facebook page at 8:30am.

A life-long fighter, both for herself and of those in her sphere, Dayna’s core belief is that there is always more for anyone who’s willing to pursue it, and she’ll help you do it!

Dayna holds a Master's degree in English Composition as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre.
 

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