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 Lohr am Main, Bavaria, 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. Several Christmases ago my brother Paul gave me a copy of his favorite book: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Hors e by Charlie Mackesy. It has become my daily habit to select a page from...

Hello to you listening in Muscat, Gulf of Oman ! 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. We’ve seen the movies, we’ve read the books and maybe like me you wonder: what is it about the very best of them that draws us in? I have an answer: the more vulnerable and open the character, the more...

Hello to you listening in Wood Green, London, England ! 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. As the story goes the likelihood of any one of us being conceived is like that of a sea turtle swimming in the ocean and rising to the surface once every one hundred years and putting her head...

Hello to you listening o Mercer Island, 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. Imagine that voicing your ideas is an act of creation. When we have the courage to use our voice to speak our mind to say what we mean and mean what we say we have taken a bold and beautiful step...

Hello to you listening in Cambridge, Massachusetts ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds, your daily dose of hope, imagination, wisdom, stories, practical tips, and general riffing on this and that. Try this : consciously breathe in and out. Be aware how natural breathing can be, taking care of itself. Natural breathing anchors us to the here and now. Now relax your bo...

Hello to you listening in Kampala, Uganda ! 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. You might notice that I’ll be dipping into the podcast archives to give you something to listen to this week. Why? Because on Friday the 1st of December I had to keep a promise to Gus the Good. Gus was the...

Hello, to you listening in Canovanas, Puerto Rico ! 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 came across something the author Simone Weil wrote.  “ The love of our neighbor in all its fullness means being able to say to her, ‘What are you going through ?’”  I wondered what would happen if...

Hello to you listening in Moelv, Norway ! 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. The Witch of Whidbey is a voracious reader. So many books, so little time. Here’s one summary of a recently read novel: On Memorial Day 1958 in small town Jewel, Minnesota, the body of wealthy landowner Jimm...

Hello to you listening in Kelowna, 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 inviting you to subscribe to my Quarter Moon Story Arts Monthly NewsAudioLetter where you will join a growing movement of people who are shaping storytelling to shift attitudes, behaviors, even culture...

Hello to you listening in Santiago, Chile, S. America ! 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 cobbled together a short list of questions to muse upon as I go walking for the hope, comfort and healing the answers might reveal to me.  Perhaps they would be of use to you: 1. What dreams did...

Hello to you listening in Scarborough, Maine ! 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. On Wednesday December 13th, 2023 beginning at 11AM PST / 2PM EST my colleagues Dr. Hoda Kilani (Right Career Fit) and SB Rawz (Rawz Coaching) and I will be hosting a free hour-long event: Bias in the Wo...

Hello to you listening in Wilmington, Delaware ! 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 remember my mother taking me to our local library when I was a very little girl so I could apply for and receive my very own library card. To this day one of my most treasured possessions is my libra...

Hello to you listening in Geneseo, New York ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thanksgiving Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Here in the US Thanksgiving Day is a designated holiday. I am deeply thankful for you and each of you on this podcast journey of almost 4 years. Together we have shared so many intersecting...

Hello to you listening in Sumner, 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. If this is the day before Thanksgiving I’m elbow deep in boxes of pumpkin pies cutting and boxing slices for upwards of 700 turkey dinners being prepared by 200 Mobile Turkey Unit volunteers who have b...

Hello to you listening in Decatur-Forsyth, Illinois ! 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. What happens when our brain automatically judges a person, makes assumptions about them, and functions on those preconceived assumptions? How can we approach others with more openness and curiosity s...

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 in Slacks Creek, Queensland, Australia ! 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. In my role as a storytelling communication change-maker I help professionals and organizations create their origin and brand stories. My clients benefit from co-creating stories tailor...

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 Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada ! 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. Question : Are origin and brand stories one and the same? Not at all. While origin stories and brand stories share similarities, they serve distinct purposes in the realm of storytelling...

Hello to you listening in Glendora, California ! 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 a story? In its most basic form: “ That was - Something happened - This is ." Here’s more: " A story is content plus context ."  Our human brains crave meaning. Without context you are left wit...

Hello, to you listening in Wasilla, Alaska ! 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. Not too very long ago I met up with Michael Alvarez on the editorial staff of Bold Journey magazine. For over 10 years using stories gleaned from the experiences of people just like us, Bold Journey has c...

Hello to you listening in Belleville, Ontario, 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. What if you invested in your brand/origin story with a co-creator? For 30 years, I’ve helped professionals take their story from a message only they could hear to the publishing world, the cou...