Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. Today’s stories are about crazy things that happened with work colleagues or at work. Both of these stories made me laugh out loud while I was editing them, and I think they’ll brighten your day as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I want to share a couple of stories about the uncanny way that dogs act as natural therapists. They just intuitively know what to do to help people. This is one of the many themes from our hit book—Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Dogs—which will probably make you want to go out and adopt a dog from your local shelter right away if you don’t already have one. 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 from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Cats. You know how some people think that cats are aloof or just take care of themselves? Well the stories in this book prove otherwise. They show how cats are our confidants, our true friends, our role models for how to live in the moment, and sometimes even our heroes. Like when they intuitively know how to be the best healthcare providers ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I want to share a couple of stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Dogs. We called the book The Magic of Dogs because our dogs really do bring magic into our lives. If we rescued them, they always rescue us back. They are our confidants, loyal friends, heroic defenders, and our role models for living in the moment. And sometimes they are completely surprising too, as in the two stories I’m sharing today, in which dogs truly pulled off miracles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest and greatest, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This humor collection has been a huge hit for us despite almost all the bookstores in the world being closed; I guess it’s just what we all need right now. Today’s very funny stories are about cases of mistaken identity, and I laughed out loud when I read them and selected them for this book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from a really fun new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This is our first humor collection, and even when I was reading a story for the third time during our editing process I found myself laughing out loud, so I’m excited to share a couple of these stories with you today and they are hilarious—one about a cat, and one about a dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This book has been a huge hit for us but I must admit I was a little nervous about it. We sent it to the printer at the beginning of 2020, before the COVID-19 virus left China, and then I worried it would seem kind of tone deaf to have a book come out in mid-April that professed that laughter was the best medicine. 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 from one of our latest bestsellers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Cats. Today I’m going to share two stories about cats that are so chill and zen and gentle that they wouldn’t hurt a fly, or a mouse. These are not your typical cat tales. 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 want to talk about dogs and destiny, because sometimes a dog is absolutely destined to be yours. We all know about the magic of adopting dogs from shelters, or when dogs just appear at your home… and make themselves at home. It’s always such a great fit. We have lots of stories along these lines in our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Dogs, but today I’m going to share two with you that I found particularly startling and magical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’ve got stories for you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Cats. This new bestseller was put together because we get so many stories about the magic that cats bring to the lives of their humans. Cats show us how to be better people. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. They make us laugh, they keep us company, and they can help us heal or persevere or step outside our comfort zones. They are also great role models for resilience and fortitude and loyalty. And loyalty is what we’re talking about today: loyalty with a little surprise thrown in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today we’re talking with LeAnn Thieman, who is the multitalented coauthor of 14 Chicken Soup for the Soul books, plus several more she’s written for health care providers. She is a nationally known speaker who inspires nurses and shows them how to take care of themselves through her SelfCare for HealthCare program. 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 from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Cats. We created this book because we learn so much from our cats… They show us how to be better humans. They teach us about resilience and fortitude and loyalty. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. And then there are the times when they just make us laugh, and it’s because of how they finagle extra privileges or how they get away with breaking our rules because they’re so cute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m sharing stories from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Cats. Today we’re talking about cats that go missing and then miraculously return to their families, even months later and many miles away. That’s just one of the ways that cats add magic to the lives of their humans, because according to the writers of the 101 stories in this book, cats just plain make us better, happier people. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. If we’re sad, they comfort us. If we need to have more fun, they show us how. They are our therapists, our role models, and our best friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. We’re welcoming journalist and book author Jen Miller, whose work you may have read in the New York Times, as she writes their weekly running newsletter. Jen is going to tell us how she got started as a runner and how we can get ourselves out there to do the same, or if we’re already running or walking, how we can make it even better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. In fact these stories will work for your whole family and give you some ideas about how you can run with your children and use running as a way to improve family bonds AND keep the kids’ faces out of their screens. 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 from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandparents. There is such mutual admiration between grandchildren and grandparents, and grandparents may not even know how powerful they are as role models and confidants and purveyors of advice and wisdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today let’s talk about how tired we are of watching the news. We’re stressed out by current events, worrying about everything, and need at least a tiny break. So here goes a little break for you, four feel-good stories to brighten your day from our first ever humor collection, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. 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 five stories from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. These are stories that illustrate how you can look for, and find, the miracles all around you. Everyone wants to believe that miracles can happen to them, and sometimes you just have to be watching and listening, whether it’s to your dreams, or to nature, or to that stranger you meet on the street. 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 all about humor. Our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine, is full of hilarious stories and I’m going to share two of them with you today—two stories that made me laugh out loud when I was reading them for the first time, and reviewing them a second time, and even editing them a third time. You know a story’s good when it makes you laugh over and over again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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/adchoices

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, Last Full Measure, which is that amazing movie that came out a couple of months ago about an unrecognized Vietnam War hero. 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. 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 because of substance abuse issues. The first story I’m going to share with you contains the most amazing coincidence, one that connected a mother and daughter over thousands of miles and many decades without either of them even knowing that it was happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 everyday lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. These two stories, about failures in communication, had me laughing hysterically while I worked on them for the book, so I wanted you to hear them, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our humor collection, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. Today’s stories are about kids and religious parents and grandparents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. Today’s stories are about crazy things that happened with work colleagues or at work. Both of these stories made me laugh out loud while I was editing them, and I think they’ll brighten your day as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. So I’ll just dive in and start with a story by Andrea Lebedovych Bilaniuk in which she tells us about what happened to her father’s wedding band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest and greatest, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This humor collection has been a huge hit for us despite almost all the bookstores in the world being closed; I guess it’s just what we all need right now. Today’s very funny stories are about cases of mistaken identity, and I laughed out loud when I read them and selected them for this book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from a really fun new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This is our first humor collection, and even when I was reading a story for the third time during our editing process I found myself laughing out loud, so I’m excited to share a couple of these stories with you today and they are hilarious—one about a cat, and one about a dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This book has been a huge hit for us but I must admit I was a little nervous about it. We sent it to the printer at the beginning of 2020, before the COVID-19 virus left China, and then I worried it would seem kind of tone deaf to have a book come out in mid-April that professed that laughter was the best medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 was murdered by her classmate back in high school, because he was sexually abusing Cheryl. Cheryl went to jail for that but I have a feeling she wouldn’t change what she did, because she had a little sister to protect as well as herself. We have a lot to cover and a lot to learn today from these this inspiring couple, who overcame tremendous challenges and are here to talk about it. 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, 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 sometimes, miracles occur, like in the two stories I’m sharing with you today. 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. 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, divine intervention, angels, and messages from heaven. Some of my favorite stories in the book are about when families adopt a baby that is so obviously meant to be theirs, often through really weird and fabulous circumstances. 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 grandmothers, particularly those larger than life grandmas whose grandchildren can’t stop telling stories about them. In our new book for Mother’s Day and beyond, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Moms, we have plenty of these stories about eccentric, spunky grandmothers who really do teach their grandchildren a lot about how to live their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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: Laughter Is the Best Medicine—two hilarious stories about parenthood and embarrassing kids. This is our first collection of stories devoted to humor, and I couldn’t stop laughing as I edited the manuscript, even when I was reading the stories for the third time. We had no idea the coronavirus was coming when we put this collection together, and I hope it’s viewed in the spirit with which it was conceived, as a way to brighten your days. We certainly don’t take the “laughter is the best medicine” phrase as a serious one, and we don’t want to make light of what’s happening out there. In that vein, as I record this episode on March 3rd, we offer today’s stories. 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 much we learn from our mothers. Often they help us understand how to count our blessings, which sets us up for much better lives because you really do need to know how to use the power of gratitude if you want to be happy. I’m sharing two stories with you today in which girls learned a lot about gratitude from their moms, including at that the time of year when that is sometimes most relevant, Christmastime. Both these stories are from our new book Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Moms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with today’s Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Forgiveness Fix. We made this book because I’ve read tens of thousands of personal, revealing stories from our writers during the twelve years I’ve been doing this job, and I’ve come to understand that forgiveness is an essential key to happiness. Why is forgiveness so important? It’s because of the emotional weight we carry when we don’t forgive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with today’s Chicken Soup for the Soul for you, and today I’m sharing two stories about how volunteering can change everything for you. The biggest beneficiary of volunteer work is usually the person doing the work, not the one receiving the help. And I know that I’ve read in the past that doing volunteer work is often suggested by mental health professionals for their patients who are depressed or grieving or going through some other kind of difficulty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with today’s Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration from a book that’s perfect for the new year: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Forgiveness Fix. We made this new book because I’ve read tens of thousands of personal, revealing stories from our writers during the twelve years I’ve been doing this job, and I’ve come to understand that forgiveness is an essential key to happiness. Why is forgiveness so important? It’s because of the emotional weight we carry when we don’t forgive. This may be the New Year’s resolution that you’re looking for; it works instantly and it’s easy. You just have to decide to put the past in the past, where it belongs, and move forward without that anger and resentment that you’ve been taking everywhere with you. You also may want to use the new year as an impetus to apologize; if you’ve been thinking about it, maybe this is the time to just do it. 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 moms, and how we just can’t stop ourselves from being moms, even for strangers, as we go about our daily lives. I’m going to share two heartwarming stories from our latest book for mothers and grandmothers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Moms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from a really fun new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. This is our first humor collection, and even when I was reading a story for the third time during our editing process I was laughing out loud. Today I’m sharing two stories about classic embarrassing moments, ones that are sure to brighten your day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. We’re talking about moms a lot as we head into Mother’s Day and today we’re focusing on moms who do volunteer work or give back in some way, and the impact that has on their kids. These are moms who quietly do their good deeds, sometimes with their children not even knowing about them. 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 we’re talking about the magic of moms—how they give such great advice and always know what to do, even if we don’t necessarily admit that until we’re well past college age. We included a lot of stories about great advice from moms in our latest book and I want to share two of them with you today because they contain such wise words that we can all benefit from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our latest and greatest, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. We put this book together long before the coronavirus outbreak, and I’m recording this episode of the podcast in early March, so I have no idea what will be happening by the time you listen to this, starting in mid-April. All I can say is that this is our first humor collection, and I laughed out loud over and over again as I was editing this manuscript. So I hope today’s stories about a couple of funny incidents that happened at home will brighten your day. 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’m talking about miraculous moms, because we all know that moms are miracle workers, right? They sometimes astound their husbands and children with what they can accomplish. They are our role models and our cheerleaders, and they are constantly making the impossible happen for us. That doesn’t stop when they die. I remember how I got my hair cut the day before my mother’s funeral because I heard her voice in my head saying, “Amy, don’t you think your hair’s gotten a little long?” Well, that guidance continues, but often in way more important ways, like in today’s stories about moms who actually saved their daughter’s lives… from the grave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with today’s Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy. Today I want to talk about how stepping outside your comfort zone and trying something new, or something you’re sure you won’t like, or something you’re afraid of can transform your life. You’ll feel proud and excited when you do those new things, and your life will expand and seem to hold much greater potential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices