Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in New Taipei City, Taiwan ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. How do you connect with and lead others? By using your voice to create stories with imagination, emotion and sensory detail. Curious to learn more? Take a listen. I am beyond lucky...

Hello to you listening in Grants Pass, Oregon ! 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. Once upon a time there was a young girl who lived with her wicked stepmother and wicked stepsister. One day the girl went to the well to fetch water. While there an old crone asked her for a drink of th...

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 Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. I’ve been walking in the rain to settle my restless, anxious spirit. I live in Washington. It rains. If don’t walk in the rain I’d probably never walk.   As I walked I reflected on something my teach...

Hello to you listening in Brisbane, 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. It’s wretched madness, stupidity, corruption, and greed! Yes, this is the time we’re living in. While chances are it could get worse, I can also say that it is impermanent. When does it end? How does i...

Hello to you listening in Alexandria, Virginia ! 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. Growing up in a family of 9 I remember a never-ending stack of dishes, cups, bowls and silverware to wash and dry. There was also the never-ending arguing about whose job it was to wash the dishes. Eve...

Hello to you listening in Woodburn, Oregon ! 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 all want it - don’t we? Perfection! We wait to ship our work until it looks right, feels right, sounds right. We hold back on letting go of the paintbrush and calling it art. We want another rewrite o...

Hello to you listening in Auckland, New Zealand ! 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 oldest of 7 children I learned early on the innate wisdom toddlers bring to the game of life. They know how to say No! And then the world shows them the error of their ways. We grow up saying...

Hello to you listening in Pasadena, California ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I’ve been binge-watching The Big Bang Theory TV series as I do this time each year to humor me through our Pacific Northwest November to May Rain Festival . As you might know a consist...

Hello to you listening in Olympia, 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. I am a storyteller of the old school. What do I mean? For over 30 years I’ve taught (and continue to teach) my clients and students the same thing: “ Put down the paper and nobody get...

Hello to you listening in Spokane, Washington ! 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. Christopher Armitage writing The Existentialist Republic on Substack posted an article entitled Democrats Can Launch Criminal Investigations into DOGE, Today . According to Armitage dozens of state inv...

Hello to you listening in Samish, Washington ! 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. Imagine this: a storyteller in a room full of litigators. No! Not alligators - litigators. Trial attorneys who are curious about learning the tools to engage with their own narrative so that they could c...

Hello to you listening in Bellingham, 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. There is nothing quite so still as an old growth forest to settle the anxiety I feel in these times of madness. Walking deep in the woods of the island’s old growth forests a stillness beckons me t...

Hello to you listening all over the world as we get ready to greet the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse last celebrated in 1966! 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 this: you’re a podcaster, storyteller, writer, or entrepreneur. You have honest-to-goodness talent, outs...

Hello to you listening in Layton, New Jersey and Hancock, New Hampshire ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday the 13th and your host, Diane Wyzga. I’m an East Coast Girl born and raised. Winter was always a time of mystery and majesty. All that snow! All that wild and welcome time to trek, ski, snowshoe, winter c...

Hello to you listening in Long Beach, California !  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.   Might there be an antidote to what feels like escalating badness and madness in the world? Yes! The good in our lives. Some may say I’m a Dreamer, but I’m not the only one. Inviting the good - e...

Hello to you listening in South Bend, Indiana ! 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 line on the birthday card from my sister goes like this: “The sun is up and you are alive to see it. Start there.” [Lin-Manuel Miranda] It’s just what I need to light my way in the early morning...

Hello to you listening in Marion, Ohio ! 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. They say that when Marco Polo returned from his decades of travels through Asia along the Silk Roads, he had gems sewn in his cloak to prove the fantastical nature of his stories. Where might we find the fanta...

Hello to you listening in Stellenbosch, South Africa ! 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’s a tradition to light the candles on a birthday cake and say, Make a wish! Blow out the candles ! Where did this tradition begin? Maybe it’s true or maybe it isn’t, but as the story goes th...

Hello and Happy Birthday to you listening in Daniels, West 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’m often asked: 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 over to t...

Hello to you listening in Gaborone, Botswana ! 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 have spent time looking for something even if you don’t know what it is.   After feeling stuck in the cross-roads of my life where the true way was wholly lost to me, I set out on a new...

Hello to you listening in Corning, New York ! 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. One of the first signs of recognition a new mother looks for in her infant is - a smile. Look! She’s smiling at me ! Yes! Baby sees you. Baby recognizes you. From earliest days we are cued to the smiles...

Hello to you listening in Mountain View, California ! 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.   Hand on heart: I can still behave like an over-stretched, over-committed, dutiful, responsible, and driven first-born daughter. Do it right or don’t do it at all. Maybe like me you find yoursel...

Hello to you listening in Torino, Italy ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories With Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I spend 2 hours every Thursday afternoon with my wonderfully supportive, encouraging, questioning, criticizing, hot seating, creative MasterMind Group. Before we get together we exchange our 4Rs from the prio...

Hello to you listening in Bethesda, Maryland ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories With Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.  When I launched my communication consulting practice, Quarter Moon Story Arts , I established a uniquely forward-looking, story-based business founded on the power of story to profoundly and positivel...

Hello to you listening in Bywong, Australia ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories With Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I remember taking part in a 2-week Outward Bound mountaineering trip high in the Canadian Rockies with 5 other women. In pairs we climbed up and then rappelled down the rock face of a near vertical mount...