Hello to you listening in Fort Collins, Colorado! 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 Old Women by Vella Wallis recounts an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival. Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed from mothers to daughters of the Upper Yukon Valley in Alaska this tale tells how 2 old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine create a means to survive. After being left behind in a snowy woods one woman says to the other, “We may die out her ..read more

Hello to you listening in Mississauga, Ontario, 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. Do you FEEL it inside? Nagging at you? Just out of reach? You have something to say. But you can’t find the words. So, your story can’t create the change you want to see. For 30 years, I’ve helped people take their story from a message only they could hear to the publishing world, the courtroom, hospitals, board meetings and more. Stories that swayed juries. Built markets. Spread ideas. Ch ..read more

Hello to you listening in Rehoboth, Massuchusetts! 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 had the pleasure of talking with my friend and colleague DreamVisions7 Radio & TV Network owner Deborah Beauvais on her Love By Intuition Show.  DreamVisions7 is serving the planet through the vibration of our voices. Each radio host creates a safe space to share their internal soul growth while offering unique healing modalities and tools to assist you and our planet.  ..read more

Hello to you listening in Perth, Australia! 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.     Recently I read a blog post by my friend and colleague Leanne Gordon. Leanne's Drip by Drop blog posts are designed to be “A daily dose of thinking helping you to make change happen in your work and life.”  Joy In The Making caught my ear.  In brief the idea is that we often arrive at the end of something and wonder why it took us so long to get there. Or, we listen to others who ..read more

Hello to you listening in Llanrhystud, Wales UK!  Click HERE for more on Llanrhystud, Wales  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. Here’s a scary thought: Saying No to someone when we're used to saying Yes. What are you afraid of? Many of us, especially girls, are taught that saying Yes is right, good, proper, helpful even and saying No is just plain wrong. The problem is the more we say Yes when we mean No we forget how to make choices in our own best interest and well-be ..read more

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 to Earth to be quiet. Set aside your limiting beliefs. They are of no use to you! The world ..read more

Hello to you listening in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England! Click HERE for more on Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England.  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. The salmon are running here. The ones that left our estuaries as small fry, headed out into the Pacific Ocean and return home a few years later as fully grown adults to spawn, their wild adventure at an end. Like the salmon there have been moments in my life when I risked it all, on a dream, a vision, a ..read more

Hello to you listening in Vigo, Galicia, Spain! 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. Society does not approve of laziness. Imagine what society would say about establishing a Lazy Monday! My teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, encouraged us to take a Lazy Monday. What’s the point? “A lazy day is a chance to train ourselves not to be afraid of doing nothing. You might think that not doing anything is a waste of time. But that’s not true. Your time is first of all for you to be - to be alive ..read more

Hello to you listening in Belgaum, Karnataka, India! 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. There is so much noise about the many ways available to us to open a new door, more doors, better doors to your life, your business, your heart, your relations... it’s exhausting! Do we need all those doors? Might there be another way? Yes. Perhaps you’re familiar with the Brazilian novelist Paolo Coelho de Souza who wrote the best seller The Alchemist, as well as The Pilgrimage about his road ..read more

Hello to you listening in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, South America! 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. Recently I had the pleasure of sharing a conversation on the power of story with friend and colleague Dr. Jo Anne White on her live-streaming talk radio show: Power Your Life. Dr. White is a leadership, spiritual and business coach, award-winning author and speaker as well as a gifted radio host. Highlights: • Your story deserves to be heard  • Healing power of story to connect ..read more