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Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Author, editor and publisher Amy Newmark shares inspirational stories from the iconic book series.

Start your days with inspiration and motivation from the best of Chicken Soup for the Soul and editor-in-chief Amy Newmark. There"s nothing like learning from the personal, revealing stories of other people. Amy shares her favorite stories and the wisdom, advice, and easy-to-implement tips that thousands of people have shared in more than 30 years of Chicken Soup for the Soul books. New episodes three times a week. It"s Chicken Soup for the Soul to go!

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9:25

Me Versus the Male Directors of a Private Club: I...

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/07/11

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to share with you one of my most popular pieces on Medium. If you don’t know what Medium is, it’s a place where writers can get their short pieces published, either by themselves, or in someone else’s publication. I started getting published on Medium in April, mostly in two publications which feature interesting stories and great writing. This story appeared in a publication called The Narrative Arc, and it’s called Me

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8:26

What an Amazing Coincidence

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/07/09

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. We are having so much fun with our latest book about miracles--because the stories are so surprising, and they are for EVERYONE, not just people who are religious. We have the most amazing coincidences in this book and I love sharing them on the podcast, so today I’m going to do it again, starting with a story from one of our regular writers, Tara Flowers, about the miraculous things that happened to her at a funeral that she didn’t want to

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9:39

Was It Luck or Was It a Miracle?

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/07/07

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul andtoday I’m sharing a couple of stories about really cool coincidences from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven. I’m not a religious person but I love making these books because so many of the stories we get are truly miraculous, no matter what your beliefs, and they just go to show that wonderful things can happen when we least expect them. Like the first story in the book – and by the way I always put one of

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9:06

What I Learned from the Cat

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/07/04

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 spent two years collecting stories for this book and there is SO MUCH variety in terms of what people learned from their cats – about resilience, and forgiveness, and living in the moment, and just plain being clever.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:50

American Ingenuity at Its Best During this Patriotic...

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/07/02

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday and it’s also Fourth of July week. And we just had Flag Day three weeks ago. So I thought I’d focus today on American ingenuity at Its Best During this Patriotic Week – with two stories from a book we made a few summers ago called Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:53

Me Time with No Guilt

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/30

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and we’re starting a series now on our new book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. 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. And that’s not good. It’s bad for you and it’s bad for all the people you take care of too. Because you’re no good to them if you’re frazzled

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7:05

What a Clever Dog

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/27

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 see a lot of smart dogs, but I think you’ll get a kick out of these two stories today.Learn more about

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11:02

Amazing Life-Saving Coincidences

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/25

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, except that sometimes miracles really do happen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:33

Naughty Cats

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/23

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 better person, taught them how to live in the moment, and other good things like that. Plus, lots of people

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13:27

My Determined, Distraught, and Demented Dad

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/20

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to share with you one of my most popular pieces on Medium. If you don’t know what Medium is, it’s a place where writers can get their short pieces published, either by themselves, or in someone else’s publication. I started getting published on Medium in April, mostly in two publications which feature interesting stories and great writing. This story appeared in a publication called Crow’s Feet, and it’s called “My

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8:09

Miraculous Coincidences, No Religion Required

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/18

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and today I’m going to share a couple of very cool stories about miraculous coincidences with you from our latest Miracles book. If you are under the impression that Chicken Soup for the Soul is a Christian publisher, that is not true. We are for everyone, of every religion or no religion. We publish a book about miracles, angels, etc. almost every year, and some of the stories are by religious people and some are not. What unites these stories is that they make you say wow

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10:46

Why You Should Listen to Your Dreams

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/16

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. You know, we put out a book about miracles and other unexplainable things every year or so, and one of my favorite topics in those books is what people can learn from their dreams. We have a whole chapter about why you should listen to what your dreams are telling you in our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven. We find that people somehow access all kinds of useful knowledge in their dreams, and

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10:48

Time-Share Cats

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/13

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 spent two years collecting stories for this book so there is a huge variety of topics in it, but I have to say that one of my favorite subthemes in any cat book we publish is what I like to call Time-Share Cats. Somehow these clever little furry pets, if you can call them pets –

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10:58

When Mom Is Gone but Still Being Mom

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/11

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. Which means that I’m sharing two really amazing stories – stories about how mothers keep helping their children even after they are no longer around. It’s kind of reassuring for those of us who are mothers – that our influence and advice will persist even when we’re not there to personally deliver the goodies —and it’s reassuring for grown children worried about how they will keep navigating all those adult milestones

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8:29

How to Live in the Present Like a Dog

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/09

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. Not only are these stories entertaining, but since we’re Chicken Soup for the Soul there has to be some inspiration too, and we all know that dogs make their humans better versions of themselves… so here we go, with an extremely valuable lesson that we all learn from our dogs, and that is… HOW TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT

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6:22

Dr. Cat

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/06

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 better person, taught them how to live in the moment, and other good things like that. Plus, lots of people

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8:36

Miracles and Cats

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/04

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. We have a new book out about cats, and it’s amazing how many of the stories in it are about miraculous events revolving around cats, including about weird coincidences, premonitions, and dreams involving finding cats and then coming across those same cats in real life. I’m going to share two stories today about the weird and magical way that some people adopted their cats, new family members that were truly meant to

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8:42

What My Dog Taught Me about Myself

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/06/02

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. We always see how dogs make their humans better versions of themselves, but they also help their humans to get to know themselves better. And that’s why today’s episode is called “What My Dog Taught Me about Myself.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:33

When a Miracle Saves a Driver from Disaster

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/05/30

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Have you ever had a miraculous save from a potential disaster? Maybe even a fatal accident? We get these stories all the time from our writers, and we included some great ones in our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven. You don’t have to be a religious person to enjoy these stories. They’re just plain cool. And I’ll be sharing a lot of them with you over the next couple of months because they make

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9:59

Force Yourself to Try New Things

Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark ·

2025/05/28

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. We’ve been talking all summer about how you can step outside your comfort zone and make your world bigger, and also feel empowered, energized, enthusiastic, and excited. Lots of good e words. We’ve heard about from our writers who tried lots of things that scared them, including parasailing, roller coasters, mud runs, zip lining and more. And today I have a story from you about an Albert Einstein impersonator who describes in fascinating

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