Live Well. Be Wise

About 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

Publisher

Kari Lyons Price

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

18 Mar 2025

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   "She Who is Brave Is Free"

   Send us Fan Mail Welcoming September’s neighbor, Wendy Peterson. A neighbor who spent her first 18-years in Leavenworth and who has recently returned home to heal. Wendy tells us today about two major life events. Caring-giving for her elderly fatherLeaving an abusive marriageThe key to finding her freedom was when she broke the seal of silence and told an old friend the truth of her abusive husband. It was then and only then she could see the control, the way she was kept small a...

2. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Loving, Advocating & Living Well

   Send us Fan Mail Welcoming August’s neighbor, Betsy Watters. She is a Wenatchee-based artist, a mother and a fierce advocate for mental health. She joins us today to talk about the power of story. As an artist who has used multiple formats to express herself, her latest medium is both the written and spoken word. Betsy shares both what it’s like to stand on a stage in front of strangers at a Live storytelling event as well as living inside her own story and recognizing she is the author...

3. 

   31 Jul 2026

   "What Powerful Really Means"

   Send us Fan Mail Meet July’s neighbor, Ruben Payan Jr. He is a Marine Corps Veteran, a wellness coach & motivational speaker, and a published author. Deep gratitude to my friend Beckett, who connected us so he could come into the studio today and share his phenomenal story! He takes us from childhood abandonment to being a young father who joins the Marines, all the way to the Seven Summits— the worlds highest mountain on each continent. And Yes, he has climbed them all. And Y...

Who has been a guest on Live Well. Be Wise

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Briseldy Hernandez-Ramos
• Zoe Jaspers
• Jaime Donegan
• Blake Suzelis
• Kelly Condefer

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

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Quality

40

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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