Still Standing with Diane Six

Still Standing with Diane Six

by Diane Y. Six

Self-Improvement Personal Journals

Season 1

My Imaginary Parents

Diane Six grew up adopted without knowing who her biological parents were, so her childhood imagination filled in the missing pages with two Hollywood legends: Lucille Ball and Dean Martin. Were they ever a couple? No. Did that matter to a little girl in Ohio who wanted a face, a resemblance, and a story for her beginning? Not at all. In this episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, Diane shares the funny fantasy she created with her adopted best friend - and the deeper truth underneath it. You can be deeply loved by the family who raised you and still be curious about where you came from. Curiosity is not betrayal. Wondering does not erase gratitude. This episode is about adoption, identity, belonging, imagination, family, storytelling, and the courage to write the rest of your life even when the first pages are incomplete. Find the podcast, books, Still Standing Method, meditations, courses, resets, and free resources at stepintomyshoeshere.com. If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

I Was Thermally Confused

Want to turn up the heat? Absolutely not. And sitting there on the wall were the words Johnson Controls. I didn't know who Johnson was, but I knew he certainly wasn't me. In this episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, I'm revisiting the frozen winters of my childhood, thethermostat fear I carried into adulthood, and the husband who now adjusts the temperature like it's aconstitutional right. But underneath the laughs is a bigger question: What childhood rule are you still following even though nobody is enforcing it anymore? Because sometimes growing up isn't about learning another rule. Sometimes it's realizing you're allowed to change one. If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

If You Think Your 80s Prom Was Bad - Hold My Corsage

If you think your prom was bad… hold my corsage. School dances in the 1980s were basically psychological warfare wrapped in tulle and Aqua Net. Freshman year, I turned down a Homecoming invitation because I was convinced an older boy was going tocall. He didn't. My mother then decided I had to turn down EVERYONE ELSE who asked. Sophomore year, a harmless Homecoming date accidentally became a two-year relationship. And junior prom? Let's just say it involved an ex-boyfriend, jealousy, a pink hoop-skirt dress, my algebra teacher… and one very unfortunate punch. In this episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, I'm revisiting the hilarious—and occasionally horrifying—school dances of my youth and what they taught me decades later about rejection, relationships and the difference between being chosen and being valued. Because maybe the real question isn't: “Will they choose me?” Maybe it's: “Would I choose them?” If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

My Secret Sauce

My whole life, I knew I was adopted. There was no dramatic reveal. No hushed conversation. No Lifetime-movie moment. It was simply part of my story. In this episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, Di shares the warm and funny origin story behind the storyteller she became. She talks about being chosen and welcomed by her parents, the intentional name they gave her, and the photo of her dad holding her for the first time when she was three months old. But adoption can hold more than one truth. You can be deeply loved and still wonder. So as a child, Di did what any reasonable child in Ohio with a big imagination would do: she decided her biological parents were Lucille Ball and Dean Martin living somewhere glamorous in California. With humor, tenderness, and her signature survival-with-sass voice, Di explores how imagination helped her fill in the unknowns, how family is built through love and showing up, and how the mystery at the beginning of her story became part of her secret sauce as an author, speaker, and creator of the Step Into My Shoes world. This episode is for anyone with a complicated beginning, missing pieces, unanswered questions, or a story that did not arrive with all the instructions. If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

In My Defense -- It Was Boot Season

One innocent trip to DSW. One badly balanced boot. One little girl on the other side of the display. In this funny, tender episode, Diane tells the story Grayson has been retelling—and exaggerating—for years: the day she accidentally launched a pointy-heeled boot into a child’s head. The girl was fine. Diane’s reputation was not. But beneath the family comedy is a reminder that the memories we treasure are not always milestones. Sometimes an ordinary mishap becomes the story that keeps a family laughing, connected, and remembering who they were together. Listen, laugh, and then ask yourself: what ridiculous family story deserves to be written down before the details—and the storyteller—are gone? If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

Did We Just Get Robbed?

Here is a fun fact about leaving your soon-to-be husband and kids alone for one weekend: you may come home to a crime scene. Not an actual crime scene, but definitely a "What in the actual hell happened here?" situation. Cabinet doors were open. Crumbs were everywhere. Something unknown had spilled, oozed, and become one with the counter. A lone plate in the sink practically read: Di will take care of this. Diane shouted, "Were we robbed?" Shawn calmly answered, "No. We made breakfast. In this funny and unexpectedly tender episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, Diane shares how a destroyed kitchen became proof of something she had wanted for years but once denied herself: a loud, relaxed, memory-making family life with the right person at the right time. Sometimes the mess is not a disaster. It is proof of life being lived. Clean it up, laugh about it, and move on. Your shoes can be polished later. If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

Step-Mom Life - I Left a Kid Once

Step-motherhood comes with plenty of milestones. The first lost tooth.The first school play.The first time you accidentally leave a child standing in a high school parking lot. Yes, I did that. In this episode, I’m telling the story of the day I drove away with Hamilton and Grayson while Payton stood on the curb looking like an abandoned Disney princess. The boys tried to warn me. I assumed they were joking. I even checked the backseat because I wasconvinced Payton was hiding on the floor, ready to pop up and announce that I had officially failed. She was not hiding. She was still at the school. This is a story about blended families, sibling dynamics, stepmotherhood, guilt, resilience, and the kind ofmistake that becomes family folklore forever. Payton survived. I apologized approximately 101 times. And now I do headcounts like I’m loading childrenonto Noah’s Ark—even though they’re adults. Because sometimes love looks like getting everything right. And sometimes it looks like making a U-turn, driving back as fast as you legally—or questionably—can, and saying, “I am so, so sorry.” If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

Who Does This Sh*t?

Who Does This Sh*t? In this episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, Di shares one of the most painful and defining pieces of her adoption story: the sentence her biological mother was told four months after placing her baby girl for adoption. When a teenage girl asked whether her baby had been placed with a loving family, she was not given comfort, truth, or compassion. She was given a sentence meant to close the door forever. But the truth has a way of surviving locked rooms. For decades, Ohio adoption records for adoptees born between 1964 and 1996 were sealed. No names. No confirmations. No answers. Then in 2015, the law changed - and Diane could request her original birth certificate. This episode is about adoption, identity, sealed records, the adults who fail the children in their care, and the courage it takes to ask for answers anyway. It is also about the truth that gratitude and grief can live in the same body - and that being loved does not erase the right to know where you began. If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

I Must Confess Publicly -- I Have An Addiction

I Must Confess Publicly -- I Have An Addiction This episode begins with a confession: Di loves shoes. Not casually. Not reasonably. Not in a minimalist, capsule-wardrobe, emotionally mature way. She owns over 100 pairs of heels, and that number does not include the everyday categories that somehow keep multiplying behind closed closet doors. The funny doorway is the shoe collection. The deeper story is the brand truth. Step Into My Shoes was never about admiring the outside. It was about understanding the walk. It was about remembering that a person can look polished while carrying pain, look bold while feeling scared, look put together while quietly rebuilding, and look strong while needing support. Di reflects on the way shoes can become emotional markers: the shoes we wore into rooms we were nervous to enter, the shoes that helped us feel brave, the shoes that hurt but looked amazing, the shoes we kept because they belonged to a former version of ourselves, and the shoes that remind us where we have been. The episode lands on one core Still Standing truth: the outside never tells the whole story. Before we judge the walk, we need to remember that every pair has carried something. If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

Spare a Square

What if the thing you do to protect yourself becomes the thing trailing behind you? In this episode of Still Standing with Diane Six, Diane tells the hilarious story of a 90s date, a hot pink neon jumper, and the public-restroom exit that turned into a full toilet paper parade. What started as one ridiculous bathroom incident became even funnier when it happened again at a golf country club - because apparently some women have a signature perfume, and Diane has a signature bathroom incident. But underneath the laugh is a sharper truth: we all have old protective habits we never question. We layer, guard, plan, control, and overprepare because somewhere along the way, someone told us what could go wrong. Sometimes that protection helps. Sometimes it becomes the thing we drag behind us. This episode is funny, honest, relatable, and tender in the way only real-life embarrassment can be. It is about humility, control, inherited fear, laughter, and the small brave act of noticing what is no longer serving you If this episode made you laugh, nod, or feel a little less alone, follow the show right now. That one tap tells the podcast world there are more women out here still standing — and apparently we come with stories Follow the show so the next episode lands automatically. Discover more: STEP INTO THE STILL STANDING WORLD at stepintomyshoeshere.com. Filled with community, meditations, mantras, support, reset courses and all the things! #Diane Six #Still Standing #Step Into My Shoes #The Still Standing Method #women’s healing #personalgrowth #grief #divorce #lifelessons #selfcare #storytelling

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