Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Berlin, Germany ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (& a bit more) for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. This lovely poem you’re about to hear was written in Portugese by Ricardo Gondim Rodrigues, a Brazilian theologian and progressive pastor. The English translation and title (“ My Soul Has a Hat...

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 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 Labrador City, Newfoundland & Labrador, 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. Question : What does it mean to be gifted? Some of us come into this world with a natural talent in say, music, sports, or art that isn’t shared by most people. Those of us w...

Hello to you listening in Brockville, Ontario, 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. Question : What is the difference between knowing something and knowing about something? The distinction is important because people often write what they know about based on what social media...

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 Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Today marks the 5th anniversary of Stories From Women Who Walk which launched (no fooling!) on April 1st 2020. As you may remember the first year I interviewed men and woman who were walking their lives when...

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 for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. All over America Ordinary Persons like you and me are getting ready to hit the streets as an Army of Ordinary Persons on Saturday April 5th, creating some “ good troubl...

Hello to you listening in Lucknow, India ! 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./ “ Story is a way to resurrect our humanity so that we can engage and connect with others and transform the lives of those we serve .” [Diane Wyzga] We are all “ living stories. ” The best stories usually ar...

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women W60 Seconds, your daily dose of hope, imagination, wisdom, stories, practical tips, and general riffing on this and that. A man drives into a filling station and asks the attendant to fill the tank with gas. The attendant sees 3 penguins standing on the back seat of the car and tells the man, " Hey! You should take those peng...

Hello to you listening in Bow-Edison, Skagit County, 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. “ Being underestimated because of gender (or any other reason) is an advantage when you’re a spy on the street trying to move around unobserved. Being underestimated is a problem for...

Hello to you listening in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico ! 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. I paused my computer screen saver as it pulled up a photo from my Camino pilgrimage: a lake in a town on a sunny day - and swans. Graceful, regal, fully in their watery element, no longer bound to the la...

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: What...

Hello to you listening in Toronto, Ontario, 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. Recently, I was talking with my friend and fellow podcaster, Jeff Ikler of Getting Unstuck - Cultivating Curiosity podcast . We were comparing notes about growing up in a time when we made do with...

Hello to you Michelle, friend, world traveler, and storyteller listening in Victoria, BC, Canadalands ! 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 been hearing how this country of ours is miserably divided in ways we have never been before. It’s true. We have our divisio...

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. Recently I was asked: How are you disrupting the status quo narratives? How and where are you sharing your stories, and encouraging others to tell theirs ? I believe that I listen keenly to stories a...

Hello to you listening in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania ! 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. As many of you know I served as a US Navy nurse taking care of children in medical and surgical pediatric hospital wards. All these years later that time holds some of my very fondest memories. Rece...

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 Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently I had the pleasure of sharing the mic with Christine Gautreaux and Shannon Mitchell as their guest on Women Connected in Wisdom Podcast . We enjoyed our time together connecting with stories of ho...

Hello to you listening in Powder Springs, Georgia ! 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. What is vocation? Frederick Buechner says, “... it’s the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger .  What a long time it can take to discover, to be called to  your deep identity...

Hello to you listening in Cornelius, North 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. Maybe like me you toil in isolation as a writer, a podcaster, an artist, and so on. You believe in what you’re doing so you keep on keepin on trusting that the work you do is vital, that someone...

Hello to you listening in Natick, Massachusetts ! 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.   Recently I came across a question in a report about the thousands of federal workers who are being unlawfully and indiscriminately fired by an unelected businessman who seems to be running our gov...

Hello to you listening in Hackensack, New Jersey ! 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. I’m a gardener in the Pacific Northwest. Right now I have what’s called a “winter-looking garden.” The cherry trees, maples, and plants are mostly brown, not at all looking like what I expect will be fl...

Hello to you listening in Houston, Texas ! 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   While I am not a constituent of the 77-year old Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas , I am certainly a Fan Girl! The point isn’t whether you agree or not with his intentional decision to tell "47" tha...

Hello to you listening in Eugene, Oregon ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday with your host, Diane Wyzga. In various conversations lately I've been talking about being broken or, at least being cracked. We are cracked. We complicate being cracked by creating inner stories about our worthiness while trying to ignore our pain and hide our flaws....

Hello to you listening in Jasper, Indiana ! 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.  In the early 1990s a cellist in Sarejevo, Vedran Smajlovic , went out into the square when the bombs were dropping and started playing his cello. A journalist asked him, " Why are you out here playing you...

Hello to you listening here, there and everywhere! 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 dear friend, colleague, and fellow podcaster Charlene Norman, the voice behind The 5Cs podcast sent me a post on LinkedIn written by Terry Szuplat (Obama speechwriter 2009-17) and founder Global...