Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin ! 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. Walking home from a trip to the library and post office the other day in the damp chill that has settled on Whidbey Island I heard them before I saw them. Looking up I could make out two bald eagle...

Hello to you listening in Perry County, Pennsylvania ! 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.   Imagine yourself talking with a very good friend and telling them a story about something that happened in your day. Imagine them listening with energy and delight. It helps  you and your story...

Hello to you listening in Ellicott City, Maryland ! 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 did it! I really did it! I didn’t believe I could do it! But I did it !" Imagine my client’s enthusiasm when she produced a radically genuine origin story of her very own! It had been a work in p...

Hello to you listening in Dudley, West Midlands, UK ! 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. Challenge : Are you struggling with articulating ideas clearly, effectively communicating with clients, or grappling with the challenge of creating compelling and memorable narratives that resona...

Hello to you listening all around the world! 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. It feels like a year-long week since the circus of epic proportions rolled into town. Maybe like me you feel anxious, apprehensive, alarmed, afraid, even angry. But here’s the thing. We don’t have to buy...

Hello to you listening in Muscat, Capital of Oman ! 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 My very dear friend, colleague and newly launched podcast host, Mark O’Brien, invited me to share 60 minutes of radio air time with him on his program The Anxious Voyage talking about living life, makin...

Hello to you listening in Surfside Beach, South Carolina ! 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 was honored to share the mic with Heather Hansen O’Neill, noted author, keynoter, and podcast host. On this episode of From Fear to Fire we talk about story secrets to overcome fe...

Hello to you listening in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for a story) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. How do we get good at turning toward the uncertain future? How do we sustain ourselves, and each other? How can we help each other, even--or especially--those wit...

Hello to you listening in Painesville, 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.   Let’s call it like it is: We are living in decidedly difficult times. As a result we might feel restless, anxious, irritable, impatient or just plain cranky. That negative tension fills our body affect...

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 Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. I coined the term “ engaged storyism .” What do I mean?   “ Engaged ” in something means to be actively involved, focused, and committed. “ Storyism ” is concern about and action aimed at advocating for na...

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 Londrina, Brazil ! 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 was honored to share the mic with my podcast friend and colleague Maritza Perez, the host of My Accent Is No Accident . Together we celebrated cultural diversity by sharing stories and valuable...

Hello to you, dad, listening on your Happy Birthday! 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’m a born and raised Jersey Girl. What’s so special about New Jersey? The Diner Capital of the World, Bobcat Alley for the only wildcats in New Jersey, birthplace of music legend Bruce Springsteen...

Hello to you listening in New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Washington! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, The Witch of Whidbey. Maybe like me you were discouraged from displaying your womanly witchy powers, dismissed for dabbling in sparks of magic that would heal the world, disowned for seeing bey...

Hello to you listening in Laxa, Sweden ! 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. The other night I was watching Episode 16 of Season 3 of the TV series The West Wing. Sam Seaborn is visited by his former physics professor, Dr. Dalton Millgate, who wants Sam to put in a good word for the...

Hello to you listening in Parker, Colorado !  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. Since 17th September I’ve been virtually retracing my pilgrimage steps on the Camino de Santiago , an annual ritual to remind me what I gained, what I was willing to toss away, and marking my life as BC & AC...

Hello to you listening in Bucharest, Romania ! 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 privilege to share the mic with my empowerment friend and colleague Colleen Biggs, the host of Take the Leap podcast. If you are curious about how Your Voice is Your Power; The Import...

Hello to you listening in Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malasia ! 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. Retracing my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage footsteps in my journal and photos as I’ve been doing since 17th September reminds me how fully alive I felt then.  5 weeks - 500 miles walkin...

Hello to you listening in Giza, Egypt !   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. St. Augustine’s in the Woods is a small Episcopal church here on Whidbey Island with a female pastor and the message that all are welcome regardless where they might be on their spiritual jo...

Hello to you listening in Buenos Aires, Argentina ! 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. Willy Claflin is one of the most clever, insightful storytellers I know. He was a remarkable teacher. Here’s what he said about the "power of the pause" to create the very best stories: “ When I t...

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 Taoyaun 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. I’ve been asked, “ So, what are you doing on this FallBattical of yours ?” Work. Risk-taking, identity changing, gambling on myself work. I want to let go of living at the whim of digital age technolo...

Hello to you, Steve Wyzga, listening in Frederick, Maryland on your Happy Birthday! 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. To grow takes time. To grow takes patience, fortitude, even silence. To grow means letting go of what you know to allow life to help you recover so that you become fe...

Hello to you listening in Puyallup, 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. Maybe like me your fears, worries, and anxieties can feel overwhelming at times. How could things turn out well? I turn to a favorite scene from the movie, Shakespeare in Love . Philip Henslowe is th...

Hello to you listening in Medford, Massachusetts ! 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 privilege of being a guest on the Joyful Journey podcast with Anita Adams! In this soul-stirring  conversation, we dive deep into the transformative power of storytelling.  Storie...