About this Event
Women's Storytelling - Wine and Connection
Come play with us! Enjoy an evening of wine, small bites, and meaningful connection. Our events are designed to lift, inspire and amplify. So, we'll feature two story tellers, a non profit doing good work you may be inspired by and want to help, a venue that we want to introduce you two and/or a vintner we want to introduce you to.
Connecting, empowering, and healing women through story. An evening featuring a women's twists and turns through life shared from the heart. Plus plenty of giggles and laughs to round it all out.
A few comments from recent attendees:
"The conversation were so enriching, and created a safe space for trust, connection and building a community. This was amazing!"
"Wow, I have never felt the way I did."
"Real connection, real stories with real meaning."
"Loved the open discussion. The vulnerability that shared from hosts to audience members as well as storytellers."
Humans are wired for stories. Stories hold the power to convey profound meaning, bridging connections among those who hear them. In sharing our stories—of overcoming struggles, achieving wild dreams, enduring heartbreak, and honoring lost loved ones—we tap into the full breadth of the human experience, the depths of our emotions, and the resilience of our spirits.
Join us for an evening dedicated to the power of storytelling and uniting hearts. We’ll begin with an inspiring story from the Passionately Striving in “Why” anthology (curated by co-host Alise), followed by two remarkable women sharing the moments that color their lives.
This event is an invitation to connect, heal, and elevate one another through the strength of shared experiences. You’ll engage deeply with the storytellers and fellow attendees, leaving with a renewed heart and the power of genuine connection.
Our storytellers:
Diane Van Buren
Diane didn’t expect her highly successful, award-winning, architectural, landscape and urban design career to shatter her “perfect life.” Excruciating back pain, marital rift and Broken Heart Syndrome were her dreams calling. Her healing journey led her to redirect her career and recenter her dreams.
Today, as an author, speaker and coach, Diane guides high-achieving women to expansive thriving as they age.
Weeda Hamden
Weeda Hamdan is an interdisciplinary artist interested in how art, neuroscience, and the human body connect. But her biggest discoveries happened outside the studio. She found them in her backyard, watching shadows move across fabric on a treehouse.
In her talk, Weeda invites us to slow down and pay attention. She shares what she learned when she stopped acting busy, how trees and shifting light changed her view of time, and how feelings like stress, longing, and grief shaped her work. Her story shows that the everyday moments we ignore might be the ones that matter most.
Weeda is a NeuroArts researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas and a philanthropist. Her work connects art, neuroscience, and personal experience. Using art, immersive installations, light, and biofeedback technology, she creates spaces where people can sense what is usually hidden. She turns stress and memory into shared visual experiences.
Our non profit focus: Flat Flat Revolution, which empowers individuals impacted by breast cancer to make informed, confident decisions about their post-mastectomy journey. Founded by Farahana Kassam, a two time breast cancer survivor and advocate for positive body image after breast cancer, its goal is to bring awareness and education around aesthetic flat closure as an option post mastectomy. Having made a choice to have an aesthetic flat closure surgery, she stands to bring light to the flat movement as she embodies the beauty of her flat chest and remind women that we are all beautiful with or without breasts.
Their goal is to also remind medical professionals to inform patients about all surgery options, flat and reconstruction so that women can make the right choice for their bodies. We need stop becoming trapped in society’s stereotypical ideas about what a woman’s body should look like.
Your Hosts:
Dr. Alise Cortez, Chief Ignition Officer at Gusto, Now! Unleashing passion and purpose in individuals and organizations
Mayra Vizcaino De Bolanos, Agent, New York Life insurance
Venue: Hexa Coworking, courtesy of Weeda Hamdan, 2100 Greenville Avenue, Richardson, TX 75082
Diane Van Buren, Storyteller
Weeda Hamden, Storyteller
Mayra Vizcaino de Bolanos, Co-Host
Alise Cortez, Co-Host
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hexa Coworking, 2100 North Greenville Avenue, Richardson, United States
USD 19.97
