WOW! Stories

Last year the audience at the very first WOW! Stories gathering heard from an underwater photographer, an Un-Schooled teen building her own house, the founder of The Giraffe Project, a physician, a police detective, two writers, an electrician, the queen of the simple-living movement, and more. They did yoga, shook their hips with the Zumba Goddess, were entertained with honky-tonk and R&B tunes, and sang together in harmony to end a day full of fascinating stories about the lives of some seemingly… Show more ordinary women of Whidbey.

Speakers at this year’s WOW! Stories range in age from 16 to 90, and include Dana Moffett, Gwen Jones, Elise Miller, Vivienne Hull, Gloria Ferry-Brennan, Sherryl Christie-Bierschenk, Joey Shapiro Key, Christina Parker, Mully Mullally, Alicia Lomne, Kelly Henriot, Gene White, Rene Neff, Ginny Green, Susie Richards, Wendi Barker, Leslie Cotter, and Rose Woods. Among the presenters are teachers, adventurers, scientists, artists, athletes, mothers of disabled children, karate masters, playwrights, and founders of nonprofits. They will be talking about their passions in life—and they won’t always be what you expect.

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