Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Helsinki, Finland ! 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. These days it takes more than the usual effort to stop trying to burst people into flames with my mind.   What’s going on? What isn’t? The craziness is triggering our uncertainties, raising our blood pre...

Hello to you Patrice (long-time follower and supporter)  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. “ Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to .” [Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death] Said another way, “ The three...

Hello to you listening around the world! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey with your host Diane Wyzga. About a block from my library or a block from the post office sits a house on a corner. Propped against this house I saw a very large sheet of plywood. Spray-painted in large black letters were these words: Kill Lawyers - Not Cops .     Put...

Hello to you listening in Hamburg, 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.   We are living in a time of historic upheaval. But what if this currently confusing, chaotic, confounding, cultural churn is stumbling toward change that reveals the hidden roots of social injustice for...

 Hello to you listening in Ellsworth, Maine ! 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. Long ago in China there were cities surrounded with towering walls and magnificent gates. The gates let people in and out of the city but more importantly the gate was the place where the soul of the city...

Hello to you listening in Cartegena, Columbia, South America ! 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. Perhaps like me you have walked a long road to find out how to use your voice to shine a light into the world that would be vastly incomplete without you. Perhaps you might still feel s...

Hello to you listening in Adelaide, 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. Recently I was delighted to share the mic as guest with Christi Cassidy, the host of Moving Along podcast .  We giggled our way through stories about travel, relocation, and transition inspired by a se...

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 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...

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...

Hello to you listening in Blue Hill, Maine ! 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. Seth Godin , internationally known thinker, author and strategist posed a question: what’s the difference between a protest and a project? [Seth's Blog] Protests let off steam. They organize people who mig...

Hello to you listening all over Whidbey Island and these United States! 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. Traditionally, parades, picnics, and barbeques happen on Labor Day; but this year pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone go to one of many mass mobilization prote...

Hello to you listening all over Whidbey Island and these United States! 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. Traditionally, parades, picnics, and barbeques happen on Labor Day; but this year pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone go to one of many mass mobilization protes...

Hello to you listening in Seattle, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more to visit history) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently I read a comment on Substack about the changes being wrought by 47 and his criminal cabal to erase - as much as obscenely possible - evidence of slavery in Ame...

Hello to you Byron and Mariah Edgington listening in Gainesville, Florida ! 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. My friend Byron Edgington wrote: “ Isn't it fascinating how we humans revert to past events, as if we could/can change what happened there ?” Yes. We humans can be a silly...

Hello to you listening in London, England ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for courage) for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. It’s true what they say: " A story grows in the gaps where the facts fall short ." 47 and his cabal are exploiting the gaps to create cruel and obscene stories because they hav...

Hello to you listening in Manassas, Virginia ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for a story tip) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. For over 30 years I’ve keynoted, written, taught and consulted on the “ sorcery of stories .” Sounds rather magical and mystical, right? But there’s no witchcraft here. O...

Hello to you listening in Tillamook, 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. Our Pacific Northwest summers are a generous Mother Nature break from the cold, damp darkness of the November to May Rain Festival here on the island. Don’t get me wrong: we know how to keep ourselves w...

Hello to you listening in Woodbine, Georgia ! 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 endlessly churn old stories in your head: what you would have said, could have said, or should have said. Gets me nowhere. So, I’m learning how to shift out of my endlessly churning min...

Hello to you Michelle, listening in lovely Victoria by the sea, BC, CanadaLand ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for a story) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I am a story doula. I believe that stories are alive! They can follow you home, sit at your table, sleep in your bed. I also believe that st...

Hello to you, Annie Jesperson & Nathaniel Talbot listening from Deep Harvest Farm on Whidbey Island ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (& a bit more goodness) for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.   Every week I head over to Deep Harvest Farm from July through Thanksgiving to fill my basket with organic produce as a C...

Hello to you, Mary D., listening in Coupeville, 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. A longtime podcast listener and Substack subscriber suggested I read The Serviceberry - Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer . The author invites us to con...

Hello to you Lorraine, listening in Corona del Mar, California ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more for a story) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.     It was early morning when I lifted the shade and looked out the airplane window at the brown, mid-September harvested fields of Spain below me, stretchi...

Hello to you listening in Chandler, Arizona ! 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 it’s true and maybe it isn’t but the old ones say that once there was a village of people so stingy and tight-fisted that they hid whatever they had so that their friends and neighbors wouldn’t kn...

Hello to you listening in Gondomar, Galicia, 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 am often asked how to begin the next story chapter of life when there’s no clear path ahead. In truth, we really don’t see the path so much as we make the path while walking it. But that might b...