Rewiring the World Today & Driving Change for Women (Season 2 Ep. 8)

May 8

We're getting techy with fellow founder, entrepreneur, mother of two and web 3.0 Maven, Dayna DeStefano. She is the former VP of Product who worked with the Gary Vaynerchuk team at Gallery Media Group. Dayna has surely set her sights on bringing women to the forefront of redesigning the Internet as we know it. In this episode, we spend a lot of time discussing her personal and mental challenges with meeting the needs of herself, her family and her growing business. Dayna shares how being a working mother plays into every part of her life. Don't worry, even if you are a mom ally andnot a mom to human babies, I promise a lot of what she shares will still resonate with you. We talked about breaking things down to put them back together again and how women are positioned to be leaders on the frontier of web 3.0. Enjoy the show!

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What can you expect from this episode:

[3:05-10:43] Dayna shares with us her plan and feelings about her maternity leave and expecting her second child as she is doing heavy lifting with her personal and professional growth. She tells us how proud she is of the momentum she has built with growing her business and how instrumental it has been for her to have a network of like minded women along the way. She highlights the value of balancing fluidity and structure at this time in her life.
[10:44 - 13:41] Jess, Mari and Dayna talk deeper around being one’s worst enemy and how important it is to set boundaries for oneself no matter where you are in your life. They bring up how entrepreneurship is a lot like life where a lot of times you don’t know what’s going to happen until you are actually experiencing it to then make the decisions you need to make.
[14:01 - 18:16] Dayna tells us more about her 10 plus year background in digital media and advertising. She shares how she has always had the entrepreneurial itch, but she didn’t feel it was right until 2019 when she took the leap to start her consultancy, The Day Consulting. She also tells us how she has also recently geared her focus to working more with female founders when creating her newest venture, Unblcd. Dayna goes into detail on how she is using web 3.0 to rewire the world today and drive change for women.
[18:17 - 29:18] We get to hear Dayna’s experience working with the Gary Vaynerchuk team. She tells us her top learnings from working with him and what she took with her from that experience when starting her venture. Dayna enlightens us with her perspective on authenticity and shares advice she received when it comes to blocking out the noise that distracts us from truly showing up for ourselves.
[32:48 - 44:05] We get the deep dive of web 3.0 as Dayna explains why women need to care about this new frontier of technology. She gets into how empowering this time is for women to have a seat at the table and be a part of solving real world problems for our lives and our children. Dayna tells us more about Unblcd and how she is using her platform to bring this new innovation to light.