Stories From Women Who Walk
Daily 60 Seconds doses of hope, motivation, time out, imagination, wisdom, healing, story prompts, & more! Diane-on-Mic episodes offer tips on storytelling & communication problem-solving. Guests with true-life, practical, funny, heartbreaking, insightful human experience stories from (mostly) women walking their lives while Life walked them & the lasting difference their journeys have made. You’ll see yourself here. I’m your host, Diane Wyzga. "Come for the stories - stay for the magic!"
Episodes
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 ...
Hello to you listening in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i!
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.
The other day I came across a scrap of paper on which I’d written these words: “Never let a crisis go to waste!” - a statement attributed to Rahm Emanuel, Winston Churchill and others. What if a short-term crisis might create the opportu...
Hello to you listening in Maple Ridge, 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.
The brand new logo for my new Quarter Moon Story Arts consultancy practice features a lighthouse with a quarter moon. Why? Both are navigational aids to warn from danger and beckon you safely home.
Following are a few testimonials from...
Hello to you listening in Bettystown, Ireland!
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.
Maybe this has happened to you: well-meaning family or friends tell you: just trust. And so you do. But what if your trust has been shaken? Trampled even?
There’s no help for it but to get back on the horse that threw you, grieve how you need t...
Hello to you listening in Antioch, Tennessee!
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’ve been preparing a course for those who are curious about how to write a mini-legacy or, if they’re daring their obituary. What prompted the idea? My belief - honed over 30 years of story work - that “What matters in life is not what hap...
Hello to you listening in Colchester, Vermont!
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.
When I’m feeling less than my best, and more my righteous, opinionated, judgmental self I remember something Elizabeth Ellis, my friend and storytelling mentor said to me: “When we feel like a hammer everything looks like a nail.”
Hello to you listening in East Cannington, Australia!
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.
Time out of mind I volunteered with ESL Program teaching English as a second language. I learned that trying to comprehend English is like wrestling an octopus. It is frustratingly difficult to get your arms around the rules, except...
Hello to you listening in Stanwood, 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.
Over a decade of litigation consulting across the US taught me a great deal about the differences in the regional populations of people who made up our pre-trial focus groups. To work together in an unfamiliar city or town I chose to lea...
Hello to you listening in Swansea, Wales!
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.
For all the many times you have soothed our souls with your photographs of life in a small valley in Wales, lifted our spirits with your poetry, and shown us how quietly life can be disrupted for the good thank you, Sue Heatherington. Most espe...
Hello to you listening in Jaipur (The Pink City), Rajasthan, 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!
For anyone who is a Baby Boomer, knows a Baby Boomer or would like to be a Baby Boomer (if only for a few moments) head on over to BabyBoomer.org, a free online membership community with a plethora of practical resourc...
Hello to you listening in Hatboro, Pennsylvania!
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.
As my mom told it I refused to transition from toddler diapers to toddler big girl pull ups the traditional way. No matter how they enticed me I was not going to sit on the Little Human pot. I wanted up on the Big Human’s porcelain throne...
Hello to you listening in Weatherford, Texas!
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.
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 penguins to the zoo. The man says, Good i...
Hello to you listening in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain!
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.
At one time our Greenbank Farm was slated for development: all 151 acres of hills, forests and grasslands to be churned into houses. The people of Whidbey rallied to purchase the land and today Greenbank Farm is a destinatio...
Hello to you listening in Sparta, 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.
“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” [Mark Kay Ash]
How often do we get caught up in our ego, our expectations of what we can or can’t do based on the next fell...
Hello to you listening in Antioch, California!
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 you’ve heard someone caution you by saying, “You’ve bitten off more than you can chew” meaning that you might choke. Perhaps we’re being ambitious with good reason; or, maybe we’ve taken on more commitments than we can fulfill.
Right ...
Hello to you listening in Reykjavik, Iceland!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday with your host, Diane Wyzga.
Recently, a friend and colleague asked me if I might have “a balanced, introspective, and helpful word or two that would help us pause and think about the passage of time, priorities, where/who/what is the “center” around which life and t...
Hello to you listening in Englewood, Florida!
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.
To this very day my clients from courtrooms to classrooms can repeat my opening lines about presentations:
“Put down the paper and nobody gets hurt.”
and
“To stand and deliver your work is a privilege - a gift from you to your audience.”
Th...
Hello to you listening in Burlington, 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.
I’ve been writing a few client case studies for my newly renovated Quarter Moon Story Arts consulting website. How does a case study differ from a testimonial. Testimonials are coach praise. Case studies are client proof.
Imagine that...
Hello to you listening in The Bronx, New York City, New York!
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.
Listening to a Maven podcast the other day about scaling your business, this tip crossed my radar: keep an ear tuned to what people might want from you even if they don’t say that’s what they need or want.
What I’ve learned from...
Hello to you listening in Slatina, Romania!
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 was asked the other day if Quarter Moon Story Arts (my consulting practice) and Stories From Women Who Walk (this podcast) are the end of the road for me. When might I begin to wrap things up?
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