Stories From Women Who Walk

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Wednesdays on Whidbey: No Kings: Vote Early Rally on...

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2026/10/07

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 Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.You may be wondering what a No Kings rally announcement might have to do with Middle-Earth-Age women who are navigating their midlife pilgrimage story. One thing I’ve learned is how often we concede our voices, ideas and positions as a result of not having been seen, heard, understood, or listened to

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00:08:25

Story Prompt Friday: What Made Your Meal Singularly...

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2026/10/02

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground.Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Revisiting Camino experiences. I‘ve been virtually retracing my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage steps—5 weeks, 500 miles across Spain—revisiting lived experiences and all those memory moments—as I do every year on the anniversary.Struggles. By this time back then I’d been on the road almost 2 weeks. I

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00:05:33

Wednesdays on Whidbey: Are You Living an UNrecorded...

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2026/09/30

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 Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Everywhere in the world women are living their lives unrecorded. What’s up with that? What’s the use of unrecorded lives? What are we afraid will happen if we put pen to paper to set down one memory moment of our lived experience? If we had the courage to venture into the depth of inquiry that guides a

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00:06:08

Story Prompt Friday: I Have Arrived

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2026/09/25

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground. And, Happy Birthday, Patrice from wherever your feet are touching our Jersey Girl ground! As I have done at this time every year I retrieve a cardboard box from a shelf in my closet, set it on the diningroom table, open the top, and take out a spiral notebook, a guidebook, and a few tokens. The notebook is the journal I kept as I walked 500 miles across Spain on the Camino de Santiago. I was a pilgrim. The guidebook helped to

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00:05:58

Wednesdays on Whidbey: Hear the News? Quarter Moon...

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2026/09/23

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground.I am thrilled to announce that Quarter Moon Story Arts is live to the world with a new website designed by women for women to know themselves and each other through their stories. But not just any story. This is the space for women who are curious about how to discover and navigate their midlife pilgrimage stories so that they don’t go unrecorded. One who knew the radical power of discovering and revealing your personal narrative was

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00:04:03

Story Prompt Friday: How Might We Be Changed by Our...

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2026/09/18

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground!They say that when Marco Polo returned from his decades of travels through Asia along the Silk Roads, he had gems sewn in his cloak to prove the fantastical nature of his stories.Pilgrims who walked the Camino de Santiago brought back scallop shells they picked up on the beaches of Finisterre, Spain to prove that they had walked to the end of the earth. On the Camino the symbol of the scallop shell is used as a way marker. Like many

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00:05:58

Wednesdays on Whidbey: Quarter Moon Story Arts New...

Stories From Women Who Walk ·

2026/09/16

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground.I am thrilled to announce that Quarter Moon Story Arts is live to the world with a new website designed by women for women to know themselves and each other through their stories. But not just any story. This is the space for women who are curious about how to discover and navigate their midlife pilgrimage stories so that they don’t go unrecorded. One who knew the radical power of discovering and revealing your personal narrative was

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00:04:02

Story Prompt Friday: Do You Have a Story to Tell, a...

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2026/09/11

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground!Walking through John Wayne Airport I saw a man wearing a tee shirt with these words: “Many things in life will catch your eye but only a few will catch your heart. Follow those.”He was gone before I could ask him: What’s the story behind your tee shirt? How did you come to have it? What things in life have caught your eye? What caught your heart? And when you followed those what happened next?Today more than ever women need the stories

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00:03:43

Wednesdays on Whidbey: Eliza Young’s Journey From...

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2026/09/09

Hello to you listening from wherever your feet touch the ground.When I introduced my friend, Eliza Young (the genius behind my Quarter Moon Story Arts logo and new website) and the author of Life in Captivity to my colleague Dave Roberts of The Teaching Journeys podcast, it was simpatico!From the September 1st 2026 Episode Notes: “What happens when a child survives vitamin A toxicity, 20 plus surgeries, parental kidnapping, and a front-row seat to 9/11—and still builds a captivating life?In this

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00:05:42

Copy of Story Prompt Friday: The Courage to Be...

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2026/09/04

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.What Women Still Fight For. We women have to fight for so much: being seen, heard, understood, listened to, recognized, and acknowledged. Despite progress, we are still taking a stand to transform women’s rights, to overcome barriers to the freedom of voice, opinions, and expression. Little Human to Big Human. Maybe like me you wonder if there was a thru-line of

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00:05:29

Copy of Wednesdays on Whidbey: Hold Fast to Life and...

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2026/09/02

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.El Toro Sailing. My US Navy pediatric nurse off-duty days were spent sailing a tiny boat in the shipping channel off the Port of Norfolk. Believe it or not I sailed an 8x4 foot single-masted, centerboard El Toro that flew across the water. An old skipper powered a battered motor boat across the waves, curling around my boat with a great rooster tail spraying, and

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00:03:07

Story Prompt Friday: What if Reward to an Endeavor Is...

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2026/08/28

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 Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Bernard Moitessier sailed around the world single-handed to win the first Golden Globe Race but when the reward was within his grasp he turned away from it and kept sailing for another three months because to keep on the original route (Plymouth to Plymouth) was like “leaving from nowhere to go nowhere.”

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00:05:57

Wednesdays on Whidney: 60 Seconds Is Retired BUT...

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2026/08/26

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 Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Earlier this month I announced the retirement of my 60 Seconds format after 5½ years and Motivate Your Monday episodes after 6½ years. However, my long-running global podcast, Stories From Women Who Walk, is alive and well and evolving for you, my truly global audience. I launched my podcast, Stories From

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00:04:33

Story Prompt Friday: The Job of a Lifetime Is to...

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2026/08/21

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.The older I become as a Sterling Silver the more aware I am that the job of a lifetime is to collect memories and revere them for what they represent. What do I mean and why might that be? As any storyteller knows, memories help us reflect on our past, shape our identity, and inspire us to create new experiences. Memories serve as reminders of meaningful

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00:05:42

Wednesdays on Whidbey: Imagine How to Be Here Now as...

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2026/08/19

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.Recently, my dear friend and fellow Camino pilgrim Dennis Pitocco posted an essay entitled Why Is Presence the Most Radical Act of Love? Click HERE to read that essay and HERE for more of his thought-provoking pieces on Exploring Our Shared Humanity, his Substack banner. The gist of the essay is that our mindful attention to another is a radical gift—so rare as

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00:05:42

Story Prompt Friday: The Courage to Be Yourself, to...

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2026/08/14

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.What Women Still Fight For. We women have to fight for so much: being seen, heard, understood, listened to, recognized, and acknowledged. Despite progress, we are still taking a stand to transform women’s rights, to overcome barriers to the freedom of voice, opinions, and expression. Little Human to Big Human. Maybe like me you wonder if there was a thru-line of

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00:05:29

Wednesdays on Whidbey: Hold Fast to Life and Hope

Stories From Women Who Walk ·

2026/08/12

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.El Toro Sailing. My US Navy pediatric nurse off-duty days were spent sailing a tiny boat in the shipping channel off the Port of Norfolk. Believe it or not I sailed an 8x4 foot single-masted, centerboard El Toro that flew across the water. An old skipper powered a battered motor boat across the waves, curling around my boat with a great rooster tail spraying, and

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00:08:02

Story Prompt Friday: The Orphan Who Clung to a Stone

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2026/08/07

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.The other day my longtime, dear friend and storytelling galpal, Michelle, asked me if I’d like to take over an expiring domain name. Why would I be interested in that? Because the name, Storywerx, was what we called ourselves, a troupe of storytellers who came together when I offered to teach a semester of story skills. We kept on learning, growing, and eventually

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00:05:41

Wednesdays on Whidbey: We Absolutely Need to Hear a...

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2026/08/05

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.Why are stories spoken aloud? Why do we lean into the music of the spoken word? And why do we need to hear a woman’s voice speaking her truth from her heart, her identity? Written text is processed intellectually by the brain but the spoken word resonates deeply. When we hear a woman’s voice take a breath, pause, and speak from the heart, we feel it emotionally

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00:05:41

Motivate Your Monday: Retiring 60 Seconds & Motivate...

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2026/08/03

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with the final Motivate Your Monday episode and your host, Diane Wyzga.As you know, the ending of every story holds the beginning of a new one. I’m retiring 60 Seconds and Motivate Your Monday episodes. Instead of ending these changes are evolving to Begin Anew. I launched my podcast, Stories From Women Who Walk in April 2020 as a platform for conversations with women who were walking their lives until their lives

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