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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.
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4.5 • 184 Ratings
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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 25 years of Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Tips and advice on Mondays and Wednesdays, and interviews with fascinating writers and influencers on Friend Fridays. It's Chicken Soup for the Soul to go!
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How Pets Do Christmas
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 new holiday book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. We get a lot of stories from people about how their pets do Christmas. You know if you have a dog or a cat you’re probably adding a gift for your four legged friend to your holiday shopping list, because everyone in the family gets to enjoy the holidays. And cats and dogs really do love the decorations, the special foods, and the gifts they receive. And Christmas trees – they really do love Christmas trees, sometimes TOO much.
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Bestselling Novelist Brad Meltzer Discusses His Work, Book Banning, and Children's Books Among Other Things
Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest, New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer. Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lightning Rod,The Escape Artist, and eleven other bestselling thrillers. He also writes non-fiction books like The Nazi Conspiracy, about a secret plot to kill FDR, Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of WWII – and the Ordinary People Change the World kids book series.
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Comfort from Beyond During the Holidays
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 new holiday book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. Of course, the holidays are the time of year when we feel the loss of loved ones pretty hard, thinking back to the last holidays we spent with them and the traditions they were part of. Jamie Cahill gave us a story about this, regarding her grandmother, who loved Christmas and shared many traditions with her grandchildren and then her great-grandchildren, Jamie’s three kids. The kids would snuggle in their great-grandmother’s lap as she read them the same Christmas stories she had read to Jamie.
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Six Ways to Find the Humor in Everyday Life
Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a few stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Well That Was Funny. If laughter is the best medicine, this book is your prescription. I’ve been sharing stories from the book for the last couple of months, and today will be the last episode about this book, so we’re going out with a bang, with six stories today, about six ways to find the humor in everyday life.
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Five Pieces of Life-Changing Advice that Are Sure to Resonate with You
Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share several stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Advice that Changed My Life. You know I’ve been talking about this book for the last couple of months as I’m really excited about the great advice it contains. I’ve already implemented some of that advice myself, and today I want to share five pieces of life changing advice that are sure to resonate with you, taken from five stories in the collection.
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Technology Snafus
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: Well THAT Was Funny. We’ve gathered some great storytellers in this book, to document the mishaps and misadventures of everyday life. One of the topics that came up a lot in the stories was technology, and specifically technology snafus.
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Customer Reviews
I love ChickenSoup for the soul
I love chicken soup for the soul it has helped me through a lot throughout my last few years it has been a stressful my parents got divorced and my grandma died in the same week it had helped so much thank you Amy
Inspirational
Unlike most of today's negative media, Amy shines a much needed spotlight on positive and uplifting stories - nourishment for your soul!
Just the right length
I like how these are short pieces that I can listen to when I have a few spare minutes. Even though they’re short, they’re filled with a lot of wisdom and often humor.