storytelling as legacy, healing, & connection with Diane Wyzga

About Diane Wyzga | podcaster, storyteller, walker, and so much more (read in her own words) The arc of my professional career stretches from serving as US Navy nurse, corporate businesswoman, speaker, educator, lawyer, litigation consultant, podcaster, and storyteller. The personal arc is that of a woman who backpacked across Europe, gone scuba diving on the Continental Shelf, learned to fly a plane, parachuted out of a perfectly good plane, walked the Camino de Santiago (a pilgrimage of 500 miles across Spain), and much more. Showing up means being scared but not afraid because you just fall down 7 and get up 8. That’s been the story of my life. When a person or opportunity beckoned and I said “Yes!” that’s the place where the story changed. For 30 years, I’ve helped professionals take their story from a message only they could hear to the publishing world, the courtroom, hospitals, board meetings, the airwaves, and more. Stories that swayed juries. Built markets. Spread ideas. Changed things. Today I help others become successful story creators. It’s a niche the world needs: helping people find the words they didn’t know they had to connect with, engage and influence their audience. Email: [email protected] Quarter Moon Story Arts (website): https://www.quartermoonstoryarts.netStories From Women Who Walk (podcast): https://www.quartermoonstoryarts.net/podcast/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-f-wyzga-qmsa/ *** All Up in It is a project by coach SB Rawz focused on telling stories of growth and change from the thick of learning. Learn more about SB, coaching with her, & her projects at https://rawzcoaching.com***Show NotesDiane Wyzga……would sometimes rather be her cat (relatable!)Listening for information, rather than feelingsEncouraging herself to speak upThe world is waiting to hear your unique story and voiceHer own journey of overcoming early messaging that she was making too much noise and the way gaining recovery of her own voice is her conduit to invite others to do the sameHer current learning is about the price of success – the ways her ever-growing podcast is taking away from her self-care/self-preservation habits and effortsShe’s reading Four Thousand Weeks and how it’s helping her reflect on how she’s spending her wild and precious lifeI referenced Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day which led her to share the moments she takes to watch the birds enjoying the bird bath in defiance of the norms so many of us were taughtOne of her most important tools is walking and this time of learning has taken her away from that practice, though she’s returningThich Nhat Hahn has long been a teacher for Diane and she described a teaching that she taps into each morning; we even touched on his recent transition and how his teachings keep him present despite the passing of his human body and the ideas of storytelling as a way to carry legacyDiane opted to not spotlight a specific organization. Rather, she offered an invitation for viewers to figure out something that matters to you and find an organization (Whidbey Camino Land Trust is one where she shares of herself) where you could put volunteer time and/or money.