Live Well. Be Wise

Deepening the well-being conversation---the podcast that finds the Gold in your stories of hardship and the connection to Wise action and lived Wellness! Hosted by Kari Lyons-Price & Dorrinda Carlson.

Our Mission:
Sharing stories that reconnect the divide within us and between us through the shared human experience. Sparking connection, inspiration and possibility that helps our community be a place where we can connect, learn and grow—together!

Here's how it all began...

"Hey Dorrinda, let's do lunch."

"Ok, any special occasion?"

"Nope, just wanna connect and feast in your presence." (oh and I also have an idea for a podcast?!)

The brainstorm began and even though we both work in the mental health & wellness field, we quickly ruled out a Wellness podcast because of how overdone they already are. We felt they primarily skim the surface with a repeat loop of ''expert" advice, gimmicks and trends. We wanted to go deeper--much deeper.

What's the real story I wondered, "how do some people manage to be well amidst all kinds of hardship and others with every resource known to humankind, can't even catch the tail of what it means to be well."

What is that thing within us that motivates us to be well--to find our wellness? We're not talking about a health goal or a number, a state that is achieved. We're talking about wellness as a state of mind; contentedness, balance, or an optimal state of being.

And then the VISION fully landed...

At Live Well. Be Wise, we are on a mission to engage with people beneath the "doing" and the products, to find out how wellness is a living, breathing, personal thing that gets shaped through life itself!

Told directly to you by the individuals who have lived it. No experts, no products, and no judgment. Raw, powerful, real life stories told by everyday people about how they met the challenges and hardships of life and came out the other side.

At Live Well. Be Wise we answer the questions:

how do we learn and grow through the storms of life?
what is the wisdom process? how do we cultivate it on purpose?
And...how does our wisdom process inform our wellness?

Live Well. Be Wise is based in North Central Washington State and is explicitly a community-based podcast. This is a place to hear the stories of your neighbors. To celebrate diversity in all ways and to bridge the divide between us; culturally, economically, politically and personally.

Through the shared human experience called, "story" we hope to connect each of us to one another. To recognize parts of ourselves in our neighbors story. And to allow this shared humanity to be an anchor for building connection, community and goodness, one day at a time.

Reach out, share your story, be inspired to cultivate your own wisdom path through hard things. We are 100% in this together!

Kari & Dorrinda

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Elder Speak

June 27, 2026 • Kari Lyons Price

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In today’s episode we do our very first interview with a non-profit organization to highlight a program. Elder Speak. Part of the Ripple Foundation, centered in the Upper Wenatchee Valley led by Deb Pobst, Robin Boal, Theresa D-Litzenberger and Dzhan Wiley.

Deb and Theresa share the bones of the program and the personal and community-based impacts, over the 12-years they’ve been gathering elders in safe and sacred circles to refine and share their wisdom.

We talk about what it means to be an elder, the term Elderhood and the interplay of personal value and intrinsic wisdom. Theresa and Deb share their discoveries and insights about a time of life we all hope to arrive to.

You may be surprised what richness & possibility lies hidden at this time of life. Because of their work, they both say how they are valuing their aging experience with new vigor and compassion.

I have to say friends, this conversation today was like meeting our long lost siblings—we share so many values, geek out about the wisdom and wellness process and have such meaningful and fun conversations. It felt like we sat around the fire today with old friends and warmed up our hearts together as we shared about what it means to be human.

Bio - The Ripple Foundation

We are dedicated to empowering and respecting the unique journey within each individual. We adventure to explore, discover, and embrace the power and depth of the human heart and the expansiveness of the human spirit.

At The Ripple Foundation, our goal is to create environments in which we have the opportunity to experience personal transformation. To that end, our course work is diverse, varied, and exciting. Our courses challenge us by expanding the boundaries of how we may define and limit ourselves.

Elder Speak Journey to Wisdom

Elder Speak is a guided journey that honors, affirms, and brings forth the essential untapped wisdom of our Elders.

As this latent wisdom is brought forward it benefits not only the elder, but their families and the entire community. The heartfelt reflections that the Elders offer connects us to our shared human experience.

Through Elder Speak we gain insight on how to navigate tough times, how to cherish the easy times and how to hold gratitude for it all. Elder Speak teaches us the meaning of resilience.

Our Elders, by exploring their own lives and sharing their life experience with us, honor us with their wisdom, and challenge us to explore our own wisdom and honor our own lives. Elder Speak is facilitated by Deb Pobst, Robin Boal, Theresa D-Litzenberger and Dzhan Wiley

Resources:

1. Elder Speak Community Event:

This year’s community events are October 15th with the Wenatchee Valley Museum from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and October 25th at Snowy Owl Theater in Leavenworth from 2:00pm to 4:00pm.

2. Ripple Foundation & Elder Speak