Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today’s inspiration and advice come from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will. This collection of empowering stories is about resilience, positive thinking, and overcoming obstacles. It will provide you with some role models and some great advice for navigating your own way through life’s challenges....

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I want to share six stories from our book about clever, curious, caring cats and talk about the effects cats have on our lives. Because they do have an impact. Somehow, they brighten our days, act as our therapists, and become our best friends—without saying a word. They’re surprisingly clever, comically curious, and truly caring,...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Blessings of Christmas. Even though the book has Christmas in the title, it really encompasses all the fun winter holidays, from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas to New Year’s. And of course we have plenty of writers and readers who d...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration and advice comes from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will. I really love the two stories I’m going to share with you today because they show how you can use humor to reposition even the most dreadful of times in your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...

Hey it’s Amy Newmark with a special episode today featuring two fabulous poets from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now; Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope. In addition to the 101 stories, we have 12 poems, and today you’re going to hear from two of the poets, who will perform their poems for you and talk about this new book and what it mea...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I want to share some great stories that will encourage you to be you, not some other person who you think you should be. I’m going to talk about six stories that will help you be true to yourself, from one of our new books--Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You. Because, women—and men--are tired of being told who they should be. They’...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m starting a new topic today, with stories from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Eldercare & Dementia. This new collection really supports family caregivers, and we need lots of support, because it’s tough becoming the caregiver for an impaired spouse or parent. These stories will make you feel less alone and more e...

Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest for Friend Friday, Kelly Wright, who is not only a Chicken Soup for the Soul contributor but also a national award-winning journalist. He is seen nationally on the nightly news program, The World Tonight with Kelly and Nayyera, which airs on Black News Channel, BNC. He’s been a TV personality for...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Blessings of Christmas. So the holidays are rough if you’ve just experienced a loss, and we got a lot of stories with some great ideas for how you can help yourself or help someone else who’s facing the holiday season after the loss of a loved one. Learn m...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration and advice comes from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will. This new collection of stories will wow you with stories of resilience, positive thinking, and overcoming obstacles. These revealing personal stories will help you handle whatever arises in your life, whether it’s financial...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. So you know that we’re always presenting you with role models for living a better life—people who exhibit the traits we all want to emulate—but what about role models who are not human? That is what we often find in our books about dogs and cats—that these pets can be amazing role models for loyalty, and creativity, and resilience, and pos...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Blessings of Christmas, stories about how much fun it is to add new people to your holiday table, especially people who have nowhere to go during the holidays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today’s inspiration and advice come from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will. This new collection of empowering stories is about resilience, positive thinking, and overcoming obstacles. It will provide you with some role models and some great advice for navigating your own way through life’s challeng...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two more stories from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You. This is a collection of stories about female empowerment, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-care, and also about women helping each other—to be the very best version of themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re wrapping up our review of our big winter bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time. It seems like Me Time was a hot topic during the pandemic as people realized that self-care matters—work/life balance, finding that equilibrium in your life, that time to pursue your passions or hobbies or exercise or just close y...

Chicken Soup for the Soul’s powerful new book, "I’m Speaking Now; Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage, and Hope,” also contains 12 raw, personal poems that will open your eyes to the reality of the Black experience in America today. Please enjoy today’s episode in which two poets share their poems with you.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about the surprising loyalty of cats. Lots of people think cats are aloof and only care about their humans because they feed them. But we get lots of stories about cats exhibiting the same kind of loyalty that we expect from dogs. I’m going to share two of those stories with you today, from Chicken Soup for the Soul:...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Blessings of Christmas. We get a lot of stories about miracles at Thanksgiving and Christmastime—an unexpected gift that changes everything, money showing up just when it’s needed, random acts of kindness that give a family back their holi...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about dogs, and how they sometimes make great friends with animals outside in the yard—friendships their owners didn’t expect at all. We have lots of stories on this topic in our new collection of dog stories, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Hilarious, Heroic, Human Dog. So I’m going to share a couple of cute ones with...

Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest for Friend Friday, Monica Perez, who is the executive editor of Charlesbridge, a wonderful children’s publisher. And more importantly, she is the editor behind a new line of Chicken Soup for the Soul books for babies and little kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. And today we’re talking about cats who basically act like the very best healthcare aides. Because many cats do have an uncanny ability to know what their human charges need, and even when they are about to pass away. One such cat was described in a story by Anna Heaney in our most recent cat book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Clever, Curi...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Blessings of Christmas. I know it’s early, but since you’re going to start seeing Christmas stuff everywhere, you might as well get into the spirit of it. And what better way than with two stories about kids NOT being selfish, but instead...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration and today I’m sharing two more stories from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You. This is a collection of stories about female empowerment, self-discovery, self-esteem, and self- care, and that self-care is so important. It doesn’t take much to give yourself a little break—some self-care—and today we’re talking...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. So have you ever talked to someone who makes their me time by getting up an hour earlier each day? It sounds counterintuitive, but people swear by it. They feel more energized and happier because they’ve carved out that special time for themselves every morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. And today is going to be fun because I’m sharing two stories from our new humor collection called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Read, Laugh, Repeat. This is a compilation of some of the funniest stories we’ve published in our 28-year history. We’ve got stories about Domestic Disasters, Marriage, Dogs and Cats Doing Crazy Things, Embarrassing...