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Stories From Women Who Walk

Diane F Wyzga * Podcaster * Communication Problem Solver * Story Strategizer * Founder Engaged Storyism® Method

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!"

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60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: What Will You...

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2025/10/24

Hello to you listening in Roseau, Capital of Dominica, Lesser Antilles!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.Many people are under the impression that the Hero’s Journey made famous by Joseph Campbell is about an external journey to vanquish foes and return with some Truth.In truth, the real journey is an internal one. The Hero is called to a task that is not at the surface of her being;

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00:02:18

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: Tip = Using...

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2025/10/22

Hello to you listening in Salta, Argentina!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 have decades of story prompt exercises to help my clients clarify their ideas, create their origin story, amplify their message, and connect with their audience in a way that authentically influences them to take desired action. In my experience practicing with fewer words focuses the core message. From

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Unsure of the...

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2025/10/20

Hello to you listening in Kokomo, Indiana!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.Each year at this time my Camino de Santiago memories come back to life as I retrace my pilgrimage steps through the pages of my journal. Why this annual ritual? It’s a witness to my life: how I lived life before Camino and living it after Camino.In truth I want to relive the memories like strolling down a

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00:02:33

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: I Want to Walk...

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2025/10/17

Hello to you listening in Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malasia!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.Retracing my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage footsteps in my journal and photos as I’ve been doing since 17th September reminds me how fully alive I felt then. 5 weeks - 500 miles walking the Way - all across Spain.Yes, there were aches and pains, cold and rain; there were crowded dorms that

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00:04:11

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: No Kings Rally...

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2025/10/15

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. President Trump thinks behaving like a king makes him one; but in America, we

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00:02:52

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: How Shared...

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2025/10/13

Hello to you listening in Londrina, Brazil!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 honored to share the mic with my podcast friend and colleague Maritza Perez, the host of My Accent Is No Accident. Together we celebrated cultural diversity by sharing stories and valuable insights about overcoming barriers, and the importance of community. If you’re curious to discover how

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: No Wonder We Feel...

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2025/10/10

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.Maybe like me you feel on constant alert - trying to hold it together with compassion, hope and humor even while those who cause all this suffering want to rob us of that as well. No one and no place feels safe.We humans were not designed nor created for being on nonstop vigilance; it raises our blood

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00:04:11

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: No Kings Rally...

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2025/10/08

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. President Trump thinks behaving like a king makes him one; but in America, we

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00:02:30

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: 4 Steps to...

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2025/10/06

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, helpful teachings, solutions gathered over your lifetime. Feeling

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: What’s Your Work...

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2025/10/03

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 on the empowerment of women.In her book, The Monastic Heart - 50

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00:02:32

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: What Does Your...

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2025/10/01

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 serve as an invitation to ask ourselves:✓ What does my Life want?✓ Am

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: How to Unlock...

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2025/09/29

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 behind my feelings of unfulfilment and get to the heart of the power I

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00:02:50

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: Kindness ~ Why...

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2025/09/26

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 helping people feel connected and supported✓ Encourages compassion

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00:02:49

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: No Failure on...

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2025/09/24

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 tide: it does turn.We the People have to do the turning. Collectively,

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00:02:16

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Stop Feeding...

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2025/09/22

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 worse.My dad used to say, Diane, Nie mój cyrk. Nie moje małpy. Not my

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00:02:47

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: How Might We Wake...

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2025/09/19

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: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for." [Alexander

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00:02:25

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: How Do We Grow...

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2025/09/17

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 free speech arguments or the notion that many folks don’t like lawyers

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00:03:01

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: We Are the Ones...

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2025/09/15

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 reconfigure for good?How easily the safeguards can be leaped. And they have

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00:02:20

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: How Might the...

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2025/09/12

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?People would collect the bleached bones of warriors from the old

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: What Might It...

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2025/09/10

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 your voice.Hear me when I say this: it’s your time! You did not come

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