Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Riga, Capital of Latvia ! 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’ve dared to throw caution to the wind to let your imagination run wild and free, inspiring others to challenge conventional ideas. Maybe you feel like a weirdo. But when our loved one...

Hello to you listening in Antioch, California ! 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 you’ve heard someone caution you by saying, “ You’ve bitten off more than you can chew ” meaning that you might choke. Perhaps we’re being ambitious with good reason; or, maybe we’ve taken on mor...

Hello to you listening in Tamuning, Guam ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for the story) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Charley Darkey Parkhurst was about 40 years old when hired on in the 1850s gold rush as a six-in hand stage coach driver with Wells Fargo & Co . working some of the most treach...

Hello to you listening in Miami Beach, 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 It’s true what they say: Each One Lift One ! is how we roll here. Today I’m delighted to give a shout-out to my friends and colleagues Mariah and Byron Edgington ( Mandate to Elevate ) to announce thei...

Hello to you listening in Kailua, Hawai’i ! 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. Life is language and stories. When we speak our truth with clarity, confidence and conviction we are seen, heard understood, and listened to while transforming the lives of those we serve. What communicat...

Hello to you listening in Barrigada Village, Guam ! 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. Interestingly, the word passion finds its root in both the Latin word passiō and the Greek word pathos, which both mean “suffering” suggesting that the things we care most about come from a place of su...

Hello to you listening in Sugar Land, 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. I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be facilitating an upcoming hour-long online FREE event sponsored by Dr. Hoda Kilani and Right Career Fit Speaker Series, entitled Shape & Share Origin Stories to Say What Y...

Hello to you listening in Lone Tree, Colorado ! 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. They say, “ We don’t get what we ask for; we get what we dream of .”  What if those dreams are coming from where they are? What if magic and miracles really do exist for us? What if you had actually cre...

Hello to you listening in Union County, Ohio ! 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. Oftentimes we’re stuck solving a problem because we just don’t know where to begin. I have an idea. 4 problem-solving words: Result + Reach + Resistance + Resources. Result :  Start at the end of the st...

Hello to you listening in Walla Walla, 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 problems do I solve ?  I help professional women discover, shape and share their Origin Story - the story of how they got from There to Here - so they can connect with, engage and inspire the...

Hello to you listening in King, North Carolina, The Gateway to the Foothills ! 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. Our very own Whidbey Island Poet Laureate, philosopher, and Bard of the Boardroom, David Whyte once said, “ Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you did...

Hello to you listening in Desert Hot Springs, California ! 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 a friend said that she was struggling because the job she had she didn’t want, the job she wanted she didn’t get, so she felt like a failure. Is there an alternative? What if we loo...

Hello to you listening in Edmond, Oklahoma ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds of Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me you practice paying attention to signs, symbols, people, and opportunities that show us the way, help us make a decision, provide what we need just when we need it. The Universe has unlimited...

Hello to you listening in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, South America ! 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. Recently I had the pleasure of sharing a conversation on the power of story with friend and colleague Dr. Jo Anne White on her live-streaming talk radio show: Power Your Life. Dr. White...

Hello to you listening in Freeland, 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. For over a dozen years I helped trial attorneys create and deliver winning trial stories and strategies to pre-trial focus groups, judges, and juries. My clients learned that simply recounting the fa...

Hello to you listening in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 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.   Podcast episode number 1,000 aired on Monday 1st January 2024 New Years’s Day. That’s a lot of episodes!  What do I talk about? I talk about things that interest me, which is the magic of tradit...

Hello to you listening in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany ! 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.   I am thrilled to bring you this recent value-packed conversation with friend and colleague Steve Ramona, host of the podcast, Doing Business With a Servant’s Heart .   Unlock the transformativ...

Hello to you listening in Cheyenne, Wyoming ! 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 inviting you to celebrate your Happy Birthday Continuation Day with me as I celebrate mine on Sunday February 4th! It’s a tradition to light the candles on a birthday cake and say, " Make a wish. Blow out...

Hello to you Lynn Miller listening in Chicago, Illinois ! Coming to you from Whidbey island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a wee bit more) for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. My friend and colleague, Lynn Miller of 10x Your Expertise consulting is an Opportunity Champion because she believes and has proof that connecting your purpose with your...

Hello to you listening in Morden, Manitoba Canada ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more)for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga It’s been years and years but I’ve never forgotten that moment in time when my baby brother, Paul and I were in the kitchen washing up the dishes after Easter Sunday dinner at the f...

Hello to you listening in Daniels, West Virginia ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for a great cause) for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.   The Appalachian National Scenic Trail  is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world, measuring 2,198.4 miles in length in 2023. The Trail travels through fourtee...

Hello to you listening in Hercules, California ! 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 had the opportunity to share the mic with my friend and colleague Dr. Keith McNally on his popular podcast, The Question Guy! One Story at a Time. During our value-packed 30 minutes Keith a...

Hello to you listening in Whitechapel, London, UK ! 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. I’ve lived a lot of years. I’ve enjoyed decades of experiences. Some good, some not so good. I’ve learned that there’s a great blessing to be had in falling down 7 and getting up 8. Maybe not at the...

Hello to you listening in Antwerp, Belgium ! 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.   Perhaps you’ve heard the old joke about two boys each of whom is brought into a room in the middle of which is a staggeringly high heap of horse manure. The first boy looks at the pile in disgust and sa...

Hello to you listening in Ritzville, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Fact: No one can teach anyone how to be a storyteller; although there are many who claim to be able to do just that. But there are people who can teach you how to teach yourself to...