Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Arvada, 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. Soon I’ll be revisiting my Camino deSantiago pilgrimage as I do every year at this time. 5 weeks - 500 miles. One of the gifts that keeps on giving is the reminder that outside or external values do not suppo...

Hello to you listening out on Nubanusit Lake, New Hampshire celebrating Michele’s Happy Birthday! Nubanusit Lake, New Hampshire drone footage:  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. Niccolò Machiavelli got it right with this quote on Change and Innovation in his 16th century political t...

Hello to you listening in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina !  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. Two lines from the novel Bel Canto by Ann Patchett gave me pause:  “ It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how .” [~...

Hello to you listening in Goose Creek, South Carolina ! 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 sat in on the Dennis Pitocco-inspired  Biz Catalyst 360° #OurFriendshipBench, a weekly in-depth online co-hosted conversation about sentiments, observations, opinions, and ideas on w...

Hello to you listening in Garfield, 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. Imagine that voicing your ideas is an act of creation. When we have the courage to use the power of our voice to speak our mind we have taken a bold and beautiful step toward making...

Hello to you listening in Holland, Michigan ! 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   All great stories start with simple words. For example: “ Here is a small fact. You are going to die .” [The Book Thief by Markus Zusak] “ It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thi...

Hello to you listening in Driggs, Idaho ! 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 mentioned that she was having a rough go of it because the job she had she didn’t want and the job she wanted she couldn’t get and this made her feel somehow lacking. If this undesirable si...

Hello to you Patrice listening in Big Bear, 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. Recently I read the fierce, funny and subversive novel entitled When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill.   A fiery feminist fantasy tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spo...

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 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 Tania Marien of Talaterra listening in Riverside, California where we trust you are safely on the other side of the recent tropical storm! 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 friend and colleague Tania Marien of Talaterra wrote the following piece on trust in her blog. I w...

Hello to you SB Rawz listening and making a ruckus in Roanoke, Virginia ! 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 not yet had the opportunity to sit across the table with my friend SB Rawz of SB Rawz Coaching and laugh the blues away. But, I’ve had the next best thing: sitting across...

Hello to you listening in Los Lunas, New Mexico ! 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. The other day my friend and colleague Dr. Hoda Kilani of Right Career Fit  posed this question: “ Are you moving forward in a way that motivates you to wake up and run to work ?” Her question carried...

Hello to you listening in Key Largo, 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. Today is Episode 916 since I launched Stories From Women Who Walk a little over 3 years ago. The numbers are great: over 145,000 plays around the world! Your steadfast listening keeps me creating daily...

Hello to you listening in Mount Vernon, 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 if we could solve your communication challenges? We can! I can help you find the words you didn’t know you had to speak with confidence and conviction to make the change you seek. ✔ Struggle...

Hello to you listening in Truro, Cornwall, UK ! 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. Here on Whidbey Island our blackberries are in full summer bloom! No matter where you go along highways and byways, back alleys and backyards, fields and forests it’s easy picking: dark, sweet, luscious bl...

Hello to you listening in Mount Lawley, Western Australia ! 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 former British actor Alan Rickman (whom many remember as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movie series ) was an avid diarist of all things large and small in his storied life. The bo...

Hello to you listening in Madaba, Jordan ! 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 known my friend Gene since we served together on pediatric wards at the US Naval Hospital Portsmouth. We went our separate ways after being honorably discharged; but, because the world is small and the...

Hello to you listening in Ooltewah, Tennessee ! Ooltewah Pronunciation Guide   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 look at the analytics, downloads, and likes; they’re not measuring up to what you would like. You ask yourself: What am I doing wrong? What am I missing...

Hello to you listening in Bonny Lake, 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. I’m close to launching my new and improved Quarter Moon Story Arts website. It’s taken a long time.  Along the way I took time to clarify who I am and what I have to offer. It was a very long road...

Hello to you listening in Stalybridge, UK ! And check out this fun video about the most famous service on Britain's railways: the Stockbridge to Stalybridge Parliamentary Train .   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. Sometimes when we are in the thick of it we are hard pressed to make sen...

Hello to you listening on the Camino de Santiago in Castrojeriz, 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. Camino means “ the way .” Maybe you have been waiting for the invitation to set out on your way. Here it is. Pack what you need. Lace up your boots. Bid farewell to those you l...

Hello to you listening in Milan, Italy ! 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.     Maybe like me you feel reluctant to ask for a hand up. Maybe you think that others will find you weak or lacking. Maybe you were raised to look to yourself for everything you needed. Whatever the backstory...

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 Colville, 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.    You might be wondering: what is a NewsAudioLetter? I’m inundated with requests to sign up for newsletters. I bet you are, too. They might be good, but I don't have the time or inclination to sit a...