Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you Indivisible Whidbey activists listening  in Oak Harbor, Coupeville, Greenbank, Freeland, Langley, Bayview, and Clinton on Whidbey 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.   On Friday 18th April, 2025 I posted my 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday episode...

Hello to you listening all over America on this Memorial Day our nation’s foremost day of remembrance. 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. On this solemn day of reflection we honor and mourn the men and women who sacrificed their lives for their country in peacetime a...

Hello to you listening in Sacramento, 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. My friend and colleague Charlotte Wittenkamp, the Bridge Builder, writes a regular column on the LinkedIn platform entitled: What I Read Today offering a piece from the media along with her astute in...

Hello to you listening in Saratoga Springs, New York ! 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.   Over 100 years ago Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, ' We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We...

Hello to you listening in North Platte, Nebraska ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit mire) for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me you could use a bit of good news right  about now. What if you could find the “ best America there ever was ?” Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Bob Gre...

Hello to you listening in Fort Collins, 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. Two Old Women by Vella Wallis recounts an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival. Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed from mothers to daughters of the Upper Yukon Valley in Alaska th...

Hello to you listening in Pender Island, BC, Canada ! 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 will tell you something about stories. They didn’t come first. They came second. What do I mean? Our oral tradition of narratives, origin stories, creation myths, and so on - up to the present...

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 Medicine Hat, Alberta, 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. The Camino de Santiago de Compostella is fairly well marked with yellow arrows painted by volunteers and images of scallop shells pointing the way West. But every once in a while - like life -...

Hello to you listening in Issaquah, 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. Maybe like me you’re curious about what makes you different. Cultivating our identity helps us to know who we are, where we’re going, what we have to offer. What makes me different is an ability to l...

Hello to you listening in Farmington, Missouri ! 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.   This photo is my view of Ebey's Landing, Whidbey Island, Washington looking south toward the Admiralty Head Lighthouse, Fort Casey, and Admiralty Inlet which becomes Puget Sound. Fields are cleared,...

Hello to you longtime storytelling galpal Michelle in Victoria, BC, 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. The other day Michelle alerted me to a post in Seth’s Blog , a long, long, long-running publication by Seth Godin, author and strategist.  A protest or a project? Protests...

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 all over the world, and especially Ukranians here and abroad.  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.   Feeling completely broken down after having witnessed the world-wide-televised brutality by our so-called leaders shamefully berating President Zelensky and, by...

Hello to you listening in Newport News, 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. Kindness. What is it good for? Absolutely everything! ✓ Reduces stress, anxiety, feelings of pain and depression, and lowers blood pressure ✓ Boosts self-esteem, feelings of well being, happiness, an...

Hello to you listening in Bainbridge 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. The Hands Off! rally was the largest of its kind that Whidbey Island has ever seen! 600 people responded to Indivisible Whidbey to attend and 1,500 showed up!   The message was clear: if 47'...

Hello to you listening in Mumbai, India ! 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. Walking the Camino de Santiago was miles and more miles. 500 of them. No matter how many I had walked, there were still more to walk. Uphill, across hot, dry plains, and then the rains in the mountains that...

Hello to you listening in Dublin, New Hampshire ! 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. Imagine this: It’s February 1998. You are 89 years old. You have arthritis and emphysema. You live in a small town in New Hampshire. You laid to rest your husband of 65 years after ca...

Hello to you listening in Seal Beach, California ! 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 remember a story about a woman who sat down at the bar in a pub, placed her order, turned to the person sitting next to her and said, “ Hello. ” When he turned to her she asked: " What is somethi...

Hello to you listening all over the globe! 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. After 5 unbroken years on the podcast airwaves with 1,200 episodes and over 202,000 plays it’s time to take a break from producing daily episodes. Why? To shake things up and unbalance the status quo of th...

Hello to you listening in King, North Carolina, The Gateway to the Foothills ! 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. Our very own Whidbey Island Poet Laureate, philosopher, and Bard of the Boardroom, David Whyte once said, “ Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you did...

Hello to you listening in Thornton, Colorado ! 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 privilege to share the mic with my friend and colleague Lori Murphy, the host of SHEThrives: Influential Women podcast. If you are ready for some good positive influence, supporting...

Hello to you listening in Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain ! 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 was told to stop using a script for my podcast. I was told to take off the training wheels. I was told to fly free. I said “No!”  Ever wonder why top speakers and broadcasters oft...

Hello to you listening in Fredricton, NB, Canada ! 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 have a robust imagination that works overtime to figure out all possible bridges that might be crossed in the future and how to cross them. The “ what if ” worries. And then I rem...

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...