Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Tokyo, Japan ! 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 parents were 1st generation Americans. Their parents came from Poland seeking better opportunities. Like so many others, my maternal grandfather had grown up on a farm and sailed to America when he was in h...

Hello to you listening in Wenatchee, 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. From Great Britain during World War II came this observation about the wide-ranging effect of radio on the population: “ Radio exposes nearly everybody in the country to a rapid, bewildering success...

Hello to you listening in Thornton, Colorado ! 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. Evildoing, like coercive power, depends on the cooperation, obedience, support, assent or at least passive tolerance of many people.   If you passively tolerate evildoing - or turn your...

Hello to you listening in Fredricton, New Brunswick Province, Canada !  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.   There is a gift in hindsight! Believe it or not hindsight can show us when a breakdown became a breakthrough, a spiritual crisis became a spiritual awakening, a trial of tears...

Hello to you listening in Nairobi, Kenya ! 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. The old ones in China tell a story about an equally old painter who invited friends to his home to see his latest work. His friends gathered around to admire the artist’s painting which he had hung on a wa...

Hello to you listening here, there, and everywhere your feet touch the ground!   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. We know the power of We the People coming together to defend our democracy against the lawlessness of this administration. We’ve felt our power at Hand...

Hello to you listening for a call to belong to who you are however imperfect! 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 am done waiting for perfect clarity to claim my place in this world. We've been told that doing equals worth, that we must have it all figured out to des...

Hello to you listening in Shrewsbury, UK ! 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 doesn’t matter how long you have forgotten, only how soon you remember .” (Buddha) We don’t often recall our memories with any reliable accuracy. But that’s okay. Sharing our stories is not about nail...

Hello to you listening in Utica, New York !  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 had the pleasure of sharing the mic with my friend, colleague, podcast host, author and genuinely wonderful human being, Dave Roberts, ( The Teaching Journeys podcast ) about the mission of em...

Hello to you listening for a call to belong to who you are however imperfect! 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 am done waiting for perfect clarity to claim my place in this world. We've been told that doing equals worth, that we must have it all figured out to des...

Hello to you listening in Greenbank, 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. Driving home on our 2-lane rural road in the morning fog I saw a flash of white and then a larger familiar brown body. A tiny ghost fawn high stepping ahead of its mother before both ducked into the...

Hello to you listening in Rehoboth, Massuchusetts ! 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 had the pleasure of talking with my friend and colleague DreamVisions7 Radio & TV Network owner Deborah Beauvais on her Love By Intuition Show.  DreamVisions7 is serving the planet throu...

Hello to you listening in Victoria, 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 change up) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. My friend Michelle asked me something that made me stop and think. She said, " You always end Story Prompt Friday with 'Write that story!' But you believe in the mu...

Hello to you listening in Fairbanks, Alaska ! 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. Jack Kornfield, American Buddhist teacher and writer asked, “ Where does enlightenment come from ?” and proceeded to offer an answer in his book, After the Ecstacy, the Laundry .     Fo...

Hello, to you listening in Darmstadt, 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. Recently, I had the pleasure of sharing the mic with my friend and colleague Alethea Felton whose coaching mission is “ Courageous, Authentic, Purpose-Filled Living Despite Obstacles .”  Question : Wha...

Hello to you listening in San Juan Capistrano, 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.   Podcasting can be lonely work. I offer my episodes trusting that there is at least 1 person in the world who will listen and say, “ What! You, too? I thought I was the only one .” [C.S. Le...

Hello to you listening in Sheridan, Wyoming ! 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 sharing a Findhorn Foundation Meditation to offer you a bit of breathing room as you navigate your day: How to Help the World " Do you realise that what you do, how you live and how you think can he...

Hello to you listening in Warsaw, Poland ! 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 had the pleasure of sharing the mic with my Canadian friend and colleague Beverley Glazer of Reinvent Impossible, Inc . who helps “ woman over 50 discover their true purpose, to reinvent themsel...

Hello to you listening in Victoria, 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 change up) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. My friend Michelle asked me something that made me stop and think. She said, " You always end Story Prompt Friday with 'Write that story!' But you believe in the mu...

Hello to you listening wherever your feet touch the ground!   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. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked dow...

Hello to you listening in Warsaw, Poland ! 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. I am deeply proud of my Polish heritage and being a lawyer. These times are tough on us all; but especially on judges, the last line of freedom’s defense. Attacks on the independence of the...

Hello to you listening in Asheboro, 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. Maybe like me you’ve dreamt of your life changing. You want this or that or the other thing to be different. Maybe even a clean slate. Start all over again. New place, new job, new partner. But wha...

Hello to you listening wherever your feet touch the ground!   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. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked dow...

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 for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. How do you make a connection to others with a story that's unique to you? By discovering your Origin Story and crafting connections to share it with others. I am beyond lucky to have shared a wonde...

Hello to you listening in Honolulu, Hawai’i ! 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. Let’s take a break from the news of the day and celebrate who we are in an alphabetical way. This little exercise might take some courage and humor the first time around. Day by day it will become more fa...