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 Camden and Lincolnville , 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. My friend John Ostrand owns and operates Green Tree Coffee & Tea in Lincolnville, Maine.  It’s my go-to source for coffee beans despite the coffee mecca in Washington State. What does the wa...

Hello to you listening in Davos, Switzerland ! 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 was preparing a storytelling workshop series for professional women who wanted to craft their origin story when I came across a scrap of paper with these lines:     “ No life, however charmed, is un-vi...

Hello to you listening in Canandaigua, New York !   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. Question: What connects art and literature? The answer might sound too simple to be true. Imagination. And yet, the answer has never lost its truth. This from Australian artist, writer and filmmake...

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 Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain ! 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. One morning on the Camino I called ahead to inquire about an available bed in an albergue I hoped to reach by the end of my day. The hospitelero who answered the phone asked, “ How many pilg...

Hello to you listening in Navarette, Spain ! 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 have been retracing my boot steps across Spain as I remember the anniversary of my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. 5 weeks - 500 miles - border to border. My journal reminds me how hot, tired, fatigued,...

Hello to you listening in Roseau, Capital of Dominica, Lesser Antilles ! 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. Many people are under the impression that the Hero’s Journey made famous by Joseph Campbell is about an external journey to vanquish foes and return with some Truth. In truth, t...

Hello to you listening in Gray’s Point, Sydney, Australia ! 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’re curious about how to stick with the practice of letting go of your unhelpful reactive habits to arrive at your spiritual grounded center. I can tell you this about that...

Hello to you listening in Ilhéus, State of Bahia, Brazil ! 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. Struggle You want a communication transformation. You have something to say but may not know the words to create the change you want to see. You want to advance your business, practice or c...

Hello to you Patrice Kealy celebrating your Happy Birthday up in the Lovely Land of Maine ! 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.   In her book “ Wanderlust: A History of Walking  author Rebecca Solnit captures solitary ambling perfectly: “ Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, th...

Hello to you listening in Koh Yao Noi, Thailand ! 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 Monday the 18th of September I stepped off the LinkedIn platform. Why? Each year at this time I revisit my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. 5 weeks. 500 miles. Across Spain. This year I want to truly...

Hello to you listening in Chişinău, Capital of Eastern Europe’s Republic of Moldova ! 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. As the plane began its descent into Madrid, Spain I had made up my mind that I could not, should not, would not walk the Camino de Santiago. I was no pilgrim. I wo...

Hello to you listening in San Jose, Capital of Costa Rica ! 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. Did you ever wonder: How did I get here? Where did I come from? How did I get started? You can’t really imagine your own beginnings any more than you can imagine your parents beginning them...

Hello to you listening in Kuwait City, the State of Kuwait ! 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. Once upon a time I invested in a podcasting workshop without forethought or preparation. Out of the gate I was asked what’s the title, who’s it for, what’s it for, what do you intend? Gul...

Hello to you listening in Accra, Capital of Ghana, Africa ! 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. Now that I am revisiting the anniversary of my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage as I do every year at this time I’m reminded of the most difficult lesson. Letting go. Letting go of the way I was....

Hello to you listening in Roncesvalles, Kingdom of Navarre, Spain !  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.   It took me 48 hours of traveling to arrive at my Camino de Santiago departure point. A flight from California to New Jersey and on to Madrid, Spain, a bus across Madrid to the tr...

Hello to you listening in Brus, Serbia ! 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 Be very careful what you ask for. Some years ago I asked for a clean slate. I got it. In the space of 9 months I lost my mom, my marriage and my law firm position. That experience was enough to snap me like a d...

Hello to you listening in Eldsberga, Sweden ! 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. Soon I’ll have recorded 1,000 podcast episodes. I’ve been asked where I get my ideas. These podcast episodes are actually my art form. My art form is to say things I didn’t know I knew until I speak them...

Hello to you listening in Salta, 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. I have decades of story prompt exercises to help my clients clarify their ideas, create their origin story, amplify their message, and connect with their audience in a way that authentically influences t...

Hello to you listening in Bushtyno, Ukraine ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Tie Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Why wait for the national Thanksgiving Day holiday. Why not create an early one for yourself and loved ones.  I am reminded of a few favorite lines of poetry by David Ignatow who wrote: "I wish I understood t...

Hello to you listening in Dhaka Capital of Bangladesh ! 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. The other day I was waiting at our local pharmacy with a group of elder folks. To pass the time one woman was regaling us with how she had to learn on site how to pay for admission to a nationa...

Hello to you listening in Greeley, 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. My long-time dear friend and former US Navy corpsman, Gene, is fond of emailing me wisdom packaged as a joke. Here’s his latest: Little Johnny turns up late for school one morning. Teacher asks: Johnny, w...

Hello to you listening in DeBary, 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. I’ve been mulling over this predicament posed in Seth Godin’s blog post dated 10th June 2023 : how to tackle having too much competition. According to Godin you have two choices: “ Broaden your offerings,...

Hello to you listening in Puyallup, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washingto n this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me you were raised in a culture, a generation, a home where your voice, the power of your one true authentic voice was not appreciated. Maybe it was  shuttered, shushed, shut down. Why? W...