Stories From Women Who Walk · 2026-05-25 · 3 min
Hello to you listening in Da Nang, Vietnam ! 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 a storyteller I know that conflict is the driving force of any story. No conflict - no story. A character can struggle externally with outside forces like a person or situation as well as internally against fears, doubts and flaws in her own mind. While conflict feels miserable resolving the conflict often dictates how the character grows when she figures a way out of the hole she’s in. Once, when I was feeling hopeless and couldn’t see a way out my neighbor Fred showed me an illustration, a sketch of a man dressed in a business suit carrying a briefcase and trapped in a swirling blizzard of sheets of paper. You’re here , he said, pointing to the man, feeling caught in a tempest, seeing no way out. Think of each sheet of paper as an option. Choose one. It doesn’t matter which you choose. What matters is that you choose. Choosing will calm the chaos you feel and begin to reveal choices . And then what ? I asked. Focus on that one choice. Make a decision.
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