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 wherever 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 Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.
Our rights were never given — they were earned, they were won. From the ballot box to the picket line, generations of Americans have fought to secure fundamental freedoms and dignity for all of us. Presiden...
Hello, to you listening in San Lorenzo, 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 like me you’ve gotten stuck. Maybe you’re stuck now; you don’t know what to do.
If you’re stuck, don’t watch what you think; watch what you do. You can walk your way clear. Walking activates a storehouse of strengths, experiences...
Hello to you listening in Fremont, 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.
In college I was taught by lay faculty and Benedictine monks.
Today I follow Joan Chittister, an American Benedictine nun, theologian, author, and speaker who is known for being an outspoken advocate of justice, peace and equality focusing...
Hello, to you listening in Salford, England!
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 practice the Five Remembrances as taught by Thich Nhat Hanh: I am of a nature to get old, get sick, and die, be separated from those I love, and there is nothing I can do about it. Sounds grim, right? Now what?
Maybe the Five Remembrances ...
Hello to you listening in Cieszyn, 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.
Women don’t often take the time to fully inquire into questions like:
✓ Who am I?
✓ What am I here for?
✓ Am I living my life in alignment with my true self and purpose?
✓ Am I willing to venture into an archeological dig on my story to leave behi...
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, and optimism
✓ Fosters a sense of community...
Hello to you listening in Camano 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.
Let’s be perfectly clear. Fascism is here.
It feels like we are shoveling sand against an incoming tide. It feels like we have little plastic shovels while the other guys have earth movers.
I get it.
But this much I know about the tid...
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 pressure, interrupting our sleep, and wors...
Hello to you Patrice (long-time follower and supporter) listening in Big Bear, 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.
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.” [Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death]
Said another way, “The three grand essentials of happiness are: Someth...
Hello to you listening around the world!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey with your host Diane Wyzga.
About a block from my library or a block from the post office sits a house on a corner. Propped against this house I saw a very large sheet of plywood. Spray-painted in large black letters were these words: Kill Lawyers - Not Cops.
Putting aside any 1st Amendment right of f...
Hello to you listening in Hamburg, 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.
We are living in a time of historic upheaval. But what if this currently confusing, chaotic, confounding, cultural churn is stumbling toward change that reveals the hidden roots of social injustice for what they are so that we can reconfigu...
Hello to you listening in Ellsworth, Maine!
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.
Long ago in China there were cities surrounded with towering walls and magnificent gates. The gates let people in and out of the city but more importantly the gate was the place where the soul of the city resided. How do you build such a gate...
Hello to you listening in Cartegena, Columbia, South America!
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.
Perhaps like me you have walked a long road to find out how to use your voice to shine a light into the world that would be vastly incomplete without you. Perhaps you might still feel self-conscious about using the power of...
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 possib...
Hello to you listening in Ocean Isle Beach, 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.
Two lines from the novel Bel Canto by Ann Patchett gave me pause:
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.” [~ p. 300]
Maybe like me you’ve done many t...
Hello to you listening in Puyallup, 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 were raised in a culture, a generation, a home where your voice, the power of your one true authentic voice was not appreciated. Maybe it was shuttered, shushed, shut down. Why? Who knows.
Sometimes our early fears and ...
Hello to you listening out on Nubanusit Lake, New Hampshire celebrating Michele’s Happy Birthday!
Nubanusit Lake, New Hampshire [drone footage]
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.
Niccolò Machiavelli got it right with this quote on Change and Innovation in his 16th century political treatise, The Prince. “There is nothin...
Hello to you listening in Blue Hill, Maine!
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.
Seth Godin, internationally known thinker, author and strategist posed a question: what’s the difference between a protest and a project? [Seth's Blog]
Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in t...
Hello to you listening all over Whidbey Island and these United States!
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.
Traditionally, parades, picnics, and barbeques happen on Labor Day; but this year pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone go to one of many mass mobilization protests that will be taking place from co...
Hello to you listening all over Whidbey Island and these United States!
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.
Traditionally, parades, picnics, and barbeques happen on Labor Day; but this year pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone go to one of many mass mobilization protests that will be taking place from coa...
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