Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Sparta, New Jersey ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. “ Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway .” [Mark Kay Ash] How often do we get caught up in our ego, our expectations of what...

Hello to you listening all over the world! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. So often we are told to be quiet about our achievements to avoid looking proud. That’s really dumb advice. I am more than proud of all my global listeners who have sustained me since the beginning! Today ma...

Hello to you listening in Alexandria, Egypt ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.   Time out of mind my used-to-be-husband left me for Wife Number 4. By and by I learned to let go of my suffering. My teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh said that we suffer when we grasp something and hold tight to...

Hello to you listening in Yamaguchi City, Japan ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I’ve produced over 1,000 daily podcast episodes on the global airwaves. Each episode is typically between 60 and 180 seconds. In mere minutes I share a story, a message, and a call t...

Hello to you listening in Bow-Edison, Skagit County, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. “ Being underestimated because of gender (or any other reason) is an advantage when you’re a spy on the street trying to move around unobserved. Being underestimated is a problem for...

Hello to you listening in Estacada, Oregon ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me you wonder where your true home might be. Perhaps we’ve had it with us all along. " It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I foun...

Hello to you listening in Maineville, Warren County, Ohio ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently I got together with Stephanie Dalfonzo - radio celebrity, masterful interviewer and integrative hypnotist - who was sitting in for our Real 50 Over 50 host, Donna Cravotta . Stepha...

Hello to you listening in Aukland, New Zealand ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.   There is a gift in hindsight! Hindsight can show us how a breakdown becomes a breakthrough, a spiritual crisis becomes a spiritual awakening, a trail of tears becomes the trail of gratitude. It has t...

Hello to you listening in Yamaguchi City, Japan ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I’ve produced over 1,000 daily podcast episodes on the global airwaves. Each episode is typically between 60 and 180 seconds. In mere minutes I share a story, a message, and a call t...

Hello to you listening in Bow-Edison, Skagit County, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. “ Being underestimated because of gender (or any other reason) is an advantage when you’re a spy on the street trying to move around unobserved. Being underestimated is a problem for...

Hello to you listening in Estacada, Oregon ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me you wonder where your true home might be. Perhaps we’ve had it with us all along. " It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I foun...

Hello to you listening in League City, Texas ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently I got together with Wendy Facon on her podcast, Story Walking Radio Hour to talk about our favorite subject: stories. We all enjoy listening to good stories. Children, in particular, love heari...

Hello to you listening in Sarver, Butler County, Pennsylvania ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. When I’m operating at less than my best, and more my righteous, opinionated, judgmental self I remember something Elizabeth Ellis, my friend and storytelling mentor said to me: “ When we...

Hello to you listening in Jasper, Indiana ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga.  In the early 1990s a cellist in Sarejevo, Vedran Smajlovic , went out into the square when the bombs were dropping and started playing his cello. A journalist asked him, " Why are you out here playing you...

Hello to you listening in Oroville, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories from Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Do you FEEL it inside? Calling you? Just out of reach? You have something to say. But you can’t find the words. So, your story can’t create the change you want to see. For 30 years, I’ve helped peopl...

Hello to you listening in Rowley Ghost Town, Alberta, Canada ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. The other day my friend and colleague SB Rawz of Rawz Coaching floated a question about death. She acknowledged that when asked most people do not wish to know the time and place of their de...

Hello to you listening in Chandigarh, India ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me every once in a while you are most fortunate to sit down with a wonderful person and share a conversation as if you’ve known each other a very long time. Dr. Summer Watson of KORE Women is...

Hello to you listening in Rabat, Capital of Morocco ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. As the story goes I refused to transition from toddler diapers to toddler big girl pull ups the traditional way. No matter what they promised I was not going to sit on the Little Human pot. I want...

Hello to you listening in Talavera de la Reina, Spain ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Donna Cravotta of Cravotta Media Group is on a mission of global importance. She calls it the Real 50 Over 50 . It’s shaping up to be a true wisdom revolution, a visibility project featuring (m...

Hello to you listening in Ellensburg, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. They say that the measure of a well-told story lies in the emotions it stirs within the listener. What often remains unsaid is the magic behind this connection. Here's a secret: the “ sorcery of st...

Hello to you listening in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I paused my computer screen saver as it pulled up a photo from my Camino pilgrimage: a lake in a town on a sunny day - and swans. Graceful, regal, fully in their watery element, no longer bound to the la...

Hello to you listening in New Taipei City, Taiwan ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. How do you make a connection to others with a story that's unique to you? By discovering your Origin Story and crafting connections to share it with others. I am beyond lucky to have shared a wonde...

Hello to you listening in Mount Evelyn, Australia ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Perhaps like me those of us who are writers, artists, creators experience Story Stuckness, Creative Burnout, or the “ indefinite indescribable terror ” 19th Century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleri...

Hello to you listening in Englewood, Florida ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga.   To this very day my clients from courtrooms to classrooms  can repeat my opening lines about presentations: “ Put down the paper and nobody gets hurt .” and  “ To stand and deliver your work is a priv...

Hello to you listening in Mount Vernon, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. What if we could solve your communication challenges? We can! I can help you find the words you didn’t know you had to speak with confidence and conviction to make the change you seek. ✔ Struggle...