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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Groundhog Day with Frank Cone

June 02, 2026 • Kari Lyons Price • Season 2 • Episode 5

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Today we warmly welcome Frank Cone. A Wenatchee man who with humor and heart tells us what it’s like to have a son with a developmental disability.

You’ll hear what it was like to get the news hours after Evan was born, at 3-pounds, 2 ounces and 11-weeks early, “we believe he has Down’s Syndrome.”

You won’t hear Frank talk about sacrifice or being a hero, instead you will hear about a man who faced his “my life is over” moment with courage and grace. Who rose to the circumstances of his own life, to provide his son and family with stability and love.

We discuss the fallible aspects of parenting a child with special needs, when anger feels like a betrayal and OCD behaviors aren’t something to be solved, but simply part of daily life.

Frank is a humble, kind and humorous soul with whom we had the great pleasure to talk to about his life.

He lives with his wife Patty, and his son Evan, downtown Wenatchee. Frank is known for his local wildlife photography and is in our eyes a model for living well and being wise.

Bio:

My name is Frank Cone. I am married to Patty, and we have a son named Evan who resides with us at home. Our daughter, Erin resides in Colorado with her husband, Aaron. I was raised in the Wenatchee Valley and attended college in Ellensburg.

During my career, I worked as a medical transcriptionist at the local hospital. Additionally, I worked at the Planning Department at Chelan County.

Currently, I am a stay-at-home dad, while my wife is a retired teacher. I am an avid photographer and enjoy reading. Evan and I enjoy reading, engaging in jigsaw puzzles, and constructing LEGO models. Evan particularly enjoys SpongeBob SquarePants, and I have been watching it with him for over two decades.

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