Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and we have a new book I’m very passionate about. It’s all about how Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. That’s because self-care is not optional. It’s a necessary, powerful commitment to making yourself a priority. And one of those priorities is your health. We all know that fitness is important, and what’s great about it is that you get to choose yo...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about traveling with grandchildren, from the mundane, like those emergency bathroom visits, to the sublime, which is basically everything else that happens when you travel with those amazing children. These stories are in our very cool new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma, which is a fabulous gift for e...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday, which is when I find awe-inspiring or surprising stories to share with you. Today I’ve got a couple of cool stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma. These stories are written by grandmothers and by their very appreciative families… and our first one is something new for me, even though I’ve personally...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing a couple of stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tap into Your Inner Strength, stories that will give you a better understanding of the troubles other people have and help put our own in perspective. When tough times happen, I think we’re all surprised by how strong and capable we can be, but it’s also great to see...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing another couple of stories with you from our book for grandmothers. This is the best book ever for grandmas – and I should know, as I have seven grandchildren and they’re a huge part of my life. When you become a grandmother it’s so exciting, but also a bit like stepping into a minefield. You have your own expec...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to add another element to our podcast – excerpts from our new audiobooks. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon &...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from our new book about being a grandmother. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma will make a great gift for Mother’s Day or any other occasion. It’s filled with stories written by grandmothers and also by grandchildren and grown children about the grandmothers in their lives. I’m biased be...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and it’s Friend Friday, which means I’m chatting with someone interesting from the Chicken Soup for the Soul world. Today I’d like to introduce you to Tess Clarkson, who has written two great stories for us, both about miraculous events. She also has such an interesting background that I wanted you to meet her. Learn more about your ad choi...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I always try to share awe-inspiring or surprising stories with you on Wednesdays, so I went back to one of our older books and found a couple that I really love from one of our biggest bestsellers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Touched by an Angel. They are both about what I call “deathbed miracles.” We do get a lot of...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. I’m continuing to share stories with you from our new book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. We made this book because this is such an important truth for us all to embrace. I’m sure you’ve been through plenty of things where you have NOT put yourself first, where you didn’t even put yourself on your to-do list AT ALL. An...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I want to share a couple of stories with you that I found so helpful. These are about grieving, and how, instead of just focusing on what you’ve LOST, you can also focus on what you HAD and be grateful for having had that. These stories are from a powerful new collection of stories that we selected from our library, all about how...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to share another couple of stories with you from one of our new audiobooks. Today’s stories are about amazing coincidences and they’re from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven. We owe thanks to Simon & Schuster Audio for permission to play a couple of these stories from the audiobook of our Mir...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing some very wise advice from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tap into Your Inner Strength. This book contains 101 stories from our library about resilience during tough times. It always amazes me how much inner strength we have inside us, just waiting to be called upon. I’m sure you’ve been through things that were awful tha...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and I want to share a couple of stories with you today from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, stories that may help you develop a strategy for making your resolutions stick… or even better, give you better resolutions and goals. When we put together this new collection we chose the best advice and the most relatable stories we found among the th...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to add another element to our podcast – excerpts from our new audiobooks. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon &...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing another couple of stories with you from our book about how changing your habits can change your life… in big ways and small ways. I know that we might have started the year with some pretty big goals and resolutions, but there’s something to be said for making incremental do-able changes instead of gigantic one...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m continuing to share some of the truly entertaining stories from our latest book called What I Learned from My Dog. These stories are not only fun but also eye-opening because sometimes I can’t believe how heroic, or sweet, or comforting, or CLEVER dogs can be. I know with all those Instagram videos, which I watch way too much, we DO...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I have two really amazing stories to share with you today, ones that continue to be top of mind for me even though I’ve published more than 17,000 stories during my tenure as editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul. These are stories about Amazing Life-Saving Coincidences that are almost impossible to explain,...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to share new stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from My Cat, which is our latest best-selling book of cat stories. We were overwhelmed with submissions for this book over the past two years, because it seems like every cat owner has a story about how their cat improved their life, made them a bet...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to share another couple of stories with you from the audiobook of our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Change Your Habits, Change Your Life. With permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon & Schuster audiobook version of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Change Your Habits, Cha...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I always try to share awe-inspiring or surprising stories with you on Wednesdays, and I have a bunch of those in our latest book, which is called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tap into Your Inner Strength. This book contains 101 stories from our library about resilience during tough times. It always amazes me how much...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I want to share a couple of stories with you today from one of our new books, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets. This is such a fun book and it’s been the #1 bestseller among pet books ever since it came out three months ago. I haven’t counted but I think there are at least 40 kinds of pets in this new collection, every kind o...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and it’s Friend Friday, which means I’m chatting with someone interesting from the Chicken Soup for the Soul world. Today I’d like to introduce you to Ellie Shefi, who wrote a great story for our bestselling book, Change Your Habits, Change Your Life. She also has such an interesting background that I wanted you to meet her. Learn more abou...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I always try to share awe-inspiring or surprising stories with you on Wednesdays, and I have new ones for you from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets. This book has been a big success, and I think it’s because of the tremendous variety of pets we talk about and all the different ways...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to add another element to our podcast – excerpts from our new audiobooks. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon &...