Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Carrickmacross, Ireland ! 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. To truly live with meaning, we must explore a place more exotic than the farthest corners of the planet - the depths of our inner being. It is only in these depths that we discover the truth of wh...

Hello to you listening in Arles, France ! 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 pleasure of sharing the mic with my friend, colleague, podcast host, and career consultant Emily Carlson about helping women find the words they didn't know they had to be seen, heard, un...

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 Port Townsend, 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. Admiralty Head Lighthouse harkens back to the day of sailing ships powered by wind. When the ships entered the Strait of San Juan de Fuca from the Pacific Ocean the ship captain would know to st...

Hello to you listening in Billericay, Essex, England ! And a short   YouTube   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. Folks ask me: What was the most difficult lesson on my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage? Letting go. Letting go of the way I was. Letting go of my old self. Giving myself ov...

Hello to you listening in Lucknow, India ! 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./ “ Story is a way to resurrect our humanity so that we can engage and connect with others and transform the lives of those we serve .” [Diane Wyzga] We are all “ living stories. ” The best stories usually ar...

Hello to you listening in Hackney, London, UK ! 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 you grew up at a time when children were supposed to be seen and not heard. I ask you! What child doesn’t want to be heard? And yet society worked hard to quiet our voices. In time I was...

Hello to you listening in Utica, New York !  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 pleasure of sharing the mic with my friend, colleague, podcast host, author and genuinely wonderful human being, Dave Roberts, ( The Teaching Journeys podcast ) about the mission of em...

Hello to you listening in Powder Springs, Georgia ! 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. What is vocation? Frederick Buechner says, “... it’s the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger .  What a long time it can take to discover, to be called to  your deep identity...

Hello to you listening in Muhos, Finland! 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. We’ve had days of continuous rain; but I’ve discovered an antidote to cabin fever: walking the deep woods on my island. In the forest I’m reminded of the reciprocity of the universe - the give and take betw...

Hello to you listening in Warsaw, Poland ! 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 pleasure of sharing the mic with my Canadian friend and colleague Beverley Glazer of Reinvent Impossible, Inc . who helps “ woman over 50 discover their true purpose, to reinvent themsel...

Hello to you listening in Reykjavik, Iceland ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday with your host, Diane Wyzga.   Recently, a friend and colleague asked me if I might have “ a balanced, introspective, and helpful word or two that would help us pause and think about the passage of time, priorities, where/who/what...

Hello to you listening in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada ! 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. 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 be a sto...

Hello to you listening in Flushing, Borough of Queens, New York ! 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 you stop and wonder who you are, where is the girl (or fellow) who used to be you, whether you’re on the right track, and so on. It feels insecure, doesn’t it, not to ha...

Hello to you listening in Cologne, Germany ! 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. My baby brother, Paul, is a well-married, well-established adult whom I love dearly. It seems like only yesterday the family of 9 was camping in New Hampshire. One morning the parents parked the family sta...

Hello to you listening in Pender Island, BC, Canada ! 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.   To this very day my clients from classrooms to courtrooms can repeat my opening lines about presentations: “ Put down the paper and nobody gets hurt .” “ It’s a privilege to stand and deliver...

Hello, to you listening in Huntsville, Alabama ! 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 pleasure of sharing the mic with my friend and colleague Debbie Sluys of Dare to Declare  who helps “ ambitious individuals and entrepreneurs turn their wants, hopes, dreams and de...

Hello to you listening in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium ! 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. After 4 years, almost 1,100 episodes 5 days a week to my global audience, and maintaining the top 3% of podcasts worldwide I’m stepping back. I’ll continue to offer 60 Seconds on Motivate Your...

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 Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga! Several years ago I started the practice of opening each daily 60 Seconds episode with a shout out: “ Hello to you listening in ... .” I’ve been asked whether there really are listeners in these locations...

Hello to you listening in Snohomish, 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. What problems do I solve? I help 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 th...

Hello to you listening in Front Royal, Virginia ! 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’ve been asked, What one thing do you offer that no one else does? Here’s my answer: “ I listen keenly and then tell the world something it needs to hear .” Perhaps like these borrowed words: "Lord, make...

Hello, to you listening in Darmstadt, 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. Recently, I had the pleasure of sharing the mic with my friend and colleague Alethea Felton whose coaching mission is “ Courageous, Authentic, Purpose-Filled Living Despite Obstacles .” Question: What...

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 Peoria, Arizona ! 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. Maybe like me you’ve moved from one place to another, or changed job positions, become an entrepreneur instead of an employee, or moved duty stations if you are in the military. I’ve experienced all these...

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...