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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: Walking Across...

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2026/04/10

Hello to you listening in Dublin, New Hampshire!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. Imagine this: It’s February 1998. You are 89 years old. You have arthritis and emphysema. You live in a small town in New Hampshire. You laid to rest your husband of 65 years after caring for him with Alzheimer’s the last 10 years of his life. Your best friend of 50 years has also died

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: Want to Be...

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2026/04/08

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 everybody when you are a woman in a national security community trying to make yourself heard about

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00:02:16

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Not My Circus!...

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2026/04/06

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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00:02:44

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: What’s a Journey...

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2026/04/03

Hello to you listening in San Jose, 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. If you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know you’re on the right track, how close you are, not headed to somewhere else, or even, if you’ve arrived? Lazily drifting on a river of a summer afternoon is a worthy use of time. But if you want to move along with purpose, focus your energy, and track

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: Celebrating 6...

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2026/04/01

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. Today marks the 6th anniversary of Stories From Women Who Walk that launched (no fooling!) on April 1st 2020. As you may remember the first year I interviewed woman who were walking their lives when a conflict unexpectedly showed up causing them to make choices, accept consequences, change

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00:02:56

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

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2026/03/30

Hello to you listening in Forres, Scotland! 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. The Scots word “smooring” is an old practice of subduing a fire with ash or peat to keep the embers warm overnight until they’re rekindled in the morning. Maybe like me something or someone smoored your self-expression. Perhaps you were told that you were a handful, a free spirit, loudly curious, or just

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00:02:49

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: We the People Are...

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2026/03/27

Hello to you listening all over these still United States!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. I’m a long-time fan of the TV series, The Big Bang Theory. No matter how many times I’ve re-watched an episode I always learn something. Like the time Raj and Howard helped Amy with a dating app for her phone. Howard commented that one day there would be something to choose a date for her. AI

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00:04:56

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

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2026/03/25

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 an important announcement) for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. NO KINGS Rally 3.0 is another national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses from Trump’s regime. This regime has cracked down on free speech, detained immigrants, killed American citizens, defied

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Discover Your...

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2026/03/23

Hello to you women professionals 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 Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Since the beginning of time, humans have connected with each other by gathering together to share our stories. Around ancient fires, elders recited genealogies aloud while listeners traced how their own lives wove into the larger tapestry of the tribe. Creation tales,

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: My Dad’s Morse...

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2026/03/20

Hello to you listening in Barking, East London, England!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. Sometimes in passing he would whisper: dit, dit, dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit. Morse Code for SOS, Save Our Ship. I’m thinking of a skinny, 18 year old inner city kid hunched over a Morse Code machine in a radio room on a warship tapping out messages somewhere in the Pacific. During World War II

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00:04:56

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

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2026/03/18

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 an important announcement) for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. NO KINGS Rally 3.0 is another national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses from Trump’s regime. This regime has cracked down on free speech, detained immigrants, killed American citizens, defied

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Your Voice Is...

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2026/03/16

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 (and a bit more) for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. How do you connect with and lead others? By using your voice to create stories with imagination, emotion and sensory detail. Curious to learn more? Take a listen. I am beyond lucky to have shared a wonderfully enjoyable and value-packed conversation with my longtime friend and

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: Pearls, Toads and...

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2026/03/13

Hello to you listening in Grants Pass, Oregon!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. Once upon a time there was a young girl who lived with her wicked stepmother and wicked stepsister. One day the girl went to the well to fetch water. While there an old crone asked her for a drink of the cold water she was drawing up from the well. The girl gave her a drink and as a reward for her kindness

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00:02:56

60 Seconds For Wednesdays on Whidbey: Humans Like...

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2026/03/11

Hello to you listening in Aukland, New Zealand! 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 walking in the rain to settle my restless, anxious spirit. I live in Washington. It rains. If don’t walk in the rain I’d probably never walk. As I walked I reflected on something my teacher Thich Nhat Hanh said about people and the sturdiness of trees, “When you look at the tree during the

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Yes, It’s...

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2026/03/09

Hello to you listening in Brisbane, 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. It’s wretched madness, stupidity, corruption, and greed! Yes, this is the time we’re living in. While chances are it could get worse, I can also say that it is impermanent. When does it end? How does it end? No clue. But then again I don’t know how electricity works. I can’t see it until it flares in a

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00:02:50

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: Are You Doing It...

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2026/03/06

Hello to you listening in Alexandria, 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. Growing up in a family of 9 I remember a never-ending stack of dishes, cups, bowls and silverware to wash and dry. There was also the never-ending arguing about whose job it was to wash the dishes. Eventually our parents caved and bought a dishwasher; but the arguing didn’t end there. Did you know there

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00:02:30

60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: Let Go of...

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2026/03/04

Hello to you listening in Woodburn, Oregon!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. We all want it - don’t we? Perfection! We wait to ship our work until it looks right, feels right, sounds right. We hold back on letting go of the paintbrush and calling it art. We want another rewrite of the story before we’re willing to share it out loud. We want our work to be perfect. But what did

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00:02:56

60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Take a Tip From...

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2026/03/02

Hello to you listening in Auckland, New Zealand! 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. As the oldest of 7 children I learned early on the innate wisdom toddlers bring to the game of life. They know how to say No! And then the world shows them the error of their ways. We grow up saying Yes when we mean No! What changed? We were taught that saying Yes is right, good, proper, helpful even

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00:04:12

60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: What Do...

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2026/02/27

Hello to you listening in Pasadena, California!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’ve been binge-watching The Big Bang Theory TV series as I do this time each year to humor me through our Pacific Northwest November to May Rain Festival. As you might know a consistent theme is the characters’ devotion to comics and superheroes. Why? The characters are highly

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60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: What Happens...

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2026/02/25

Hello to you listening in Olympia, Washington!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. I am a storyteller of the old school. What do I mean? For over 30 years I’ve taught (and continue to teach) my clients and students the same thing: “Put down the paper and nobody gets hurt!” Why? Because storytellers have something to say that comes from their aliveness, which is what

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