Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today we’re talking about how you can learn how to live in the moment and use mindfulness to take life one day at a time, instead of worrying about whatever it is that you’re prone to worrying about. This is a very personal episode for me because I’m going to share the story that I wrote for our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think P...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday. Today I’m excited to be talking with Dr. Mike Dow, who I like to call America’s go-to therapist. You may have seen him as an expert on The Doctors and the Dr. Oz show, and he also coauthored a Chicken Soup for the Soul book with me called Think, Act & Be Happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some instant inspiration for you from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I want to talk about one of my favorite topics, and that is how mothers are so often right even when their kids are skeptical. I think kids finally figure this out when they’re in their twenties—that mom is usually right. So we featured lots of stories about that in our new book for mothers and grandm...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some instant inspiration for you from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I want to talk about mothers as role models, because when you’re in the trenches raising your kids—or even later, when they’re grown but you’re still trying to give them advice, which is sometimes unwanted—you wonder if you’re getting through. Did you make a difference? Did the kids even listen to you...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today we’re hearing from Joan Lunden, who has a new book out that combines humor with great advice. It’s called Why Did I Come Into This Room? And the subtitle is A Candid Conversation about Aging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles, with today’s stories being about miraculous healing, the kind of cases that doctors call one in a million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles, stories about miraculous connections that occurred that helped one woman find love and another find a branch of her family that she never knew existed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today I’m talking to Deborah Norville, who is my coauthor on a new Chicken Soup for the Soul book coming out on September 24th called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy. Today we’re going to talk about how you can use positive thinking, mindfulness, gratitude, and a host of other strategies to...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m sharing two stories from our latest bestselling cat book about Life Lessons from the Cat. We created this new collection because we do learn so many lessons from our cats… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels All Around. This book offers glimpses into the lives of regular people who find themselves in extraordinary, unexplainable situations. From miraculous connections and answered prayers, to divine intervention and inexplicable healing, to angels and messages from heaven, these s...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today I’m talking to Mark & Maggie Damon, who were kind enough to share their amazing and miraculous love story in our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. We’re going to talk about that story, which I promise you will give you goose bumps, and also about Mark’s latest hit movie, La...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. I think today’s stories will give you goose bumps, as they deal with something so important, and so emotional… and that is a couple of long overdue reunions between mothers and children who were separated becau...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles—two stories of amazing, miraculous, hard-to-explain coincidences. These are just of two of the 101 stories in this new book that will open your eyes to the possibilities—the possibilities that sometimes amazing things occur even in our...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today your inspiration is from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons from the Cat. Today I’m sharing two stories about the uncanny ability of cats to act as natural therapists for their humans. They’re small animals, and often thought of as aloof, but when they want to, these little animals can be a huge help, of...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I bring you inspiration from our new book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels All Around. This new collection of stories offers glimpses into the lives of regular people who find themselves in extraordinary, unexplainable situations. From miraculous connections and answered prayers, to divine intervention and inexplicable healing,...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I want to share a couple of stories about how your dog can be the key to a better social life. This is one of the many themes from our bestselling book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons from the Dog. We always think that we rescued them, but in fact they usually rescue us, because of the way they ser...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Our guest today is Carol Andrews, who wrote a story about miraculous healing that appears in our new Believe in Miracles book. Carol is going to talk about that miracle, plus share her wisdom as an executive coach and TV personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. If you’ve lost something valuable, even if it’s been lost for years, these stories will give you hope that it might just turn up, the way it did for our writers. You won’t believe how it happened, but it did. S...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. We’re going to talk about miraculous life-saving coincidences and I think you’ll get goose bumps from these stories about two women who most certainly avoided death through the luckiest breaks, ones that almost didn’t happen. Learn mo...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I want to share a couple of stories about how even the biggest, bravest dogs can be afraid of some things. And with the Fourth of July fireworks almost upon us, and all those summer thunderstorms, I thought it would be fun to see how other people’s dogs react. We have several funny stories about this in ou...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your daily dose of Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration. It’s summer and it’s time to get yourself on your feet and outside. If you’ve been thinking about getting into a regular routine of running or walking, I have the stories to motivate you today, from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Running for Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons from the Cat. We created this book because we learn so much from our cats—they show us how to be better humans and they teach us about resilience and fortitude and loyalty. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. And then there are the times when th...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today I’m talking with Rob & Cheryl Cuccio. Rob wrote a story about literally coming back from the dead for our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles, so we’re going to talk about that—how he WAS dead… until his wife insisted the doctor go back and keep trying, and also about how Cheryl’s dad...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles, because miracles happen every day to people from all walks of life, and today we’re talking about miracles involving money—because we’ve all had those times when we really needed some financial help. And someti...

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. As the back cover says, this book is filled with “101 Stories about the Miracles that Are Just Waiting to Happen to All of Us,” with true stories of miraculous coincidences, answered prayers, mysterious healing...