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 empowering women through storytelling and resilience. If you are curious to learn how adventure, justic...
Jul 07, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1065
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 deserve our place at the table. But here's what I know: it's not about arriving perfect—it's about show...
Jul 04, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1207
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 safety of the woods and then .... gone. A ghost fawn is all white instead of the typical brown coat...
Jul 02, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1206
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 through the vibration of our voices. Each radio host creates a safe space to share their internal soul...
Jun 30, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1055
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 music of the spoken word - telling stories out loud - why not say that ? Michelle knows me well. Here'...
Jun 27, 2025•6 min•Ep. 1202
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 . For as many times as I’ve read his work I keep coming back to the title: first, we experience an overwhelm...
Jun 25, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1205
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 happens when we uncover, discover, embrace, and share our unique personal story ? We recognize the ...
Jun 23, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1057
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. Lewis] So, you can imagine that nothing gives me greater joy than to receive a note telling me how my po...
Jun 20, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1204
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 help or hinder the state of the world? Cease being drawn into the whirlpool of chaos and confusion, of...
Jun 18, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1203
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 themselves and live a life with meaning, passion, and fulfillment .” Together Beverley and I are helping wo...
Jun 16, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1062
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 music of the spoken word - telling stories out loud - why not say that ? Michelle knows me well. Here'...
Jun 13, 2025•6 min•Ep. 1202
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 down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, d...
Jun 11, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1200
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 judiciary are not just here in America; they are sweeping the globe taking varied forms ranging fro...
Jun 09, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1201
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 what if nothing changes. Nothing except the way you act. What if you looked at all the miracles and mis...
Jun 06, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1149
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 down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, d...
Jun 04, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1200
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 wonderfully enjoyable and value-packed conversation with my friend and colleague Mark Reid of Zen Sammich...
Jun 02, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1038
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 familiar and fun! Guaranteed! Stand in front of a mirror, see your face and look directly into your ey...
May 30, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1199
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 entitled “What Difference Can 1 Ordinary Person Make?” about Granny D Haddock who walked across America...
May 28, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1198
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 and war. Today we are at war. Our Democracy, our constitution, our rule of law, and even our people a...
May 26, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1197
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 insights and questions about the article. In like mind here is what I read today and adapted from the ...
May 23, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1196
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 cannot have both. ” [Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice from 1916-1939] Here we are again. What to...
May 21, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1195
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 Greene found it in a small town, North Platte, Nebraska. As the story goes: During World War II, America...
May 19, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1194
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 this tale tells how 2 old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine create a means ...
May 16, 2025•2 min•Ep. 866
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 time - came about because we are a meaning-seeking people. Our ancestors looked up into the heavens...
May 14, 2025•2 min•Ep. 869
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 sense of curiosity, adventure, and possibility. There are tales of youthful independence and the courag...
May 12, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1193
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 - the way is unclear, unmarked, hidden even. You can get lost. I learned this the hard way. Now what?...
May 09, 2025•3 min•Ep. 836
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 listen for the meaning beneath the surface of the words, the context that gives life to content, the ...
May 07, 2025•3 min•Ep. 864
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, tilled, planted. Even a dwelling (Ferry House circa 1860's) still tucked in the woods. A brilliant su...
May 05, 2025•3 min•Ep. 857
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 let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time where there’s e...
May 02, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1186
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 wall. The painting was a scene of a little park and a tiny footbridge crossing a stream that meandered...
Apr 30, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1156
