Chicken Soup For The Soul With Amy Newmark

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 do some combination of Hanukkah and Christmas, so I thought I’d share two stories about that with you today. 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 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/adchoices

Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest for Friend Friday, Susan Heim, who is an author, editor, and library marketer specializing in parenting, Christian and women’s issues. She is a longtime editor for Chicken Soup for the Soul and has authored several parenting and Chicken Soup for the Soul books, including the Devotional Stories series. Her articles have appeared in many magazines and websites. Susan is the mother of 4 sons, including a set of twins.  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 going to continue sharing stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Christmas. We have lots of Thanksgiving stories in this book, and I’m going to share a couple with you today—stories that will help you find your own thankfulness in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. 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 going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful Wacky Family. These hilarious stories about other people’s relatives will make you laugh out loud and they’ll focus you on your own wacky, but wonderful, relatives and all your own family stories. So today’s stories are about a couple of families sitting around doing tastings—in one case they’re tasting hot peppers, and in the other they’re tasting pickles. And the pickle story happens to be about my own family! 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 going to share a couple of stories from one of our latest bestsellers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable. This book contains true stories of answered prayers, angels, breathtaking coincidences, miraculous healing, and messages from heaven and they show us that miracles are all around us if we open our eyes. Miracles, divine intervention, amazing coincidences and unexplainable, but welcome, surprises happen every day for people from all walks of life. Today’s stories are about two mothers whose prayers for their children seemed to make a very big difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we’re talking about Christmas and how you can hit the streets and share that Christmas joy, with two stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Christmas. Sometimes that means just plain following a charitable impulse that comes over you, as happened with the two contributors whose stories we’re featuring today. 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 going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful Wacky Family. These hilarious stories about other people’s relatives will make you laugh out loud. And I’m sure you think your own family has its own share of wacky, but wonderful, relatives. So today’s stories are about moms—and how moms always know best. And we’re going to start with a story that made me laugh out loud from Joshua Mark. 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 going to share five ways you can lead a happy life of kindness, compassion and paying it forward, with five stories from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Kindness Matters. You know there’s a lot of conversation these days about getting back to kindness in our society. Scientific studies have shown that “doing good” is not only beneficial for the recipient of the good deed, but also for the person doing it, making that person happier and healthier. So, here are five ways you can make kindness part of how you live your life. 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 going to continue sharing stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness. This is a collection of stories that illustrate what I believe are the ten keys to happiness based on my reading of tens of thousands of personal revealing stories from our writers. I’ve already talked about the power of gratitude to change your life on this podcast, and today I want to talk about the power of forgiveness, because I believe that without learning how to use forgiveness you can’t be truly happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to share a couple of stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Too Funny! This is a collection of hilarious stories that are bringing sunshine into our readers’ days and we’ve gotten a lot of very positive feedback from them. No one is safe in these true stories— from spouses to parents to children to colleagues to friends and even pets. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today, with a couple of doggone funny stories. 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 going to share a couple of stories from a really fun book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable. The stories in this book are about all kinds of miracles and unexplainable situations, and today I want to share two amazing stories about relationships that are mysteriously but quite obviously meant to be—one a romance, and one a relationship between two families that spans decades and continents and just keeps reappearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we’re talking about the holidays, and how moms know best when it comes to getting everyone together. Because that can be a challenge. Grown kids have their own spouses and family obligations and not everyone can figure out how to be together for Thanksgiving or Hanukkah or Christmas. I know it’s very tough in my own family, with four grown children and multiple parents, especially after divorces. So today I’m going to share two stories that I love from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Christmas about a couple of clever moms who figured out how to get all the kids together for 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 I’m going to share a couple of stories from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable. These true stories of answered prayers, angels, breathtaking coincidences, miraculous healing, and messages from heaven show us that miracles are all around us if we open our eyes. Miracles, divine intervention, amazing coincidences and unexplainable, but welcome, surprises happen every day for people from all walks of life. Today we’re going to talk about lost and found miracles, because sometimes you just can’t explain how someone could get so lucky and find a lost object under the most surprising circumstances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest for Friend Friday, Chris Woolsey, who is the senior director of communications at Crackle Plus and Redbox, which are parts of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. Today we’re going to talk about how to watch TV shows and movies for free on Chicken Soup for the Soul’s many streaming services. 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 going to start with you Five Ways to Harness the Power of Gratitude to Improve Your Life. These are all drawn from the stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Attitude of Gratitude, a book that we think is so important because counting your blessings is probably the most important key to happiness. It helps us focus on what we have instead of what we lack. So here are five stories that will help you develop your own gratitude practice. 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 going to continue sharing stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Christmas. I know it’s only October, but I’m already making my Christmas plans and starting to amass a collection of gifts for our extended family. So I thought today I’d talk about Christmas cards since those are things that we tend to do a little ahead of the season. Plus why not jumpstart your holiday spirit. Thanksgiving isn’t that far off now.  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 going to start sharing stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness. This book is a passion project for me and the synthesis of everything I’ve learned in 14 years as editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul, reading tens of thousands of stories from people who bare their souls and talk about what works and what doesn’t work in their lives. I’m excited to share some great examples of what DOES work in this new collection, with ten chapters of ten stories each that cover what I see as the ten keys to happiness. You can read these stories and pick up some great ideas for your own life. And what’s cool is that you can make a big change in your life by just adopting what you’ve learned in one story. You don’t have to do more than that to feel the difference. 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 book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Kindness Matters. This book has been a big hit for us. People are craving these feel-good stories about people being NICE to each other. And what I thought was cool about today’s stories is that they’re about kids performing acts of kindness, solely because they want to, and not because they were told to or it would look good on their college applications. 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 going to start sharing stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness. This book is a product of my 14 years as editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul, during which time I’ve read tens of thousands of personal revealing stories from thousands of people. It’s been a deep dive into what makes people tick. I’m a pretty analytical person, so I’ve been noticing certain recurring themes in all those stories. And that’s how I’ve come up with what I believe are the ten most important keys to happiness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices