Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Have you ever surprised yourself by doing something because you’re on a mission and then later you just can’t believe that you pulled that off? Sometimes, we just fly right through our comfort zones because we’re so focused on what we’re trying to accomplish. It’s cool when that happens because I feel like it permanently changes you—you never go back all the way to how you were before. You now know that you can things that you didn’t thi...
Mar 26, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Do you ever feel like you’re missing out because you’re starting to resist doing new things? I know I have to fight against that impulse all the time, that impulse to avoid new things even for simple reasons like I don’t know where to park at whatever place I’m thinking of going. It’s really easy to fall into a rut and accidentally let your world become smaller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 24, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. With winter ending, you may be seeing more action in your calendar, and this reminds me that we’ve published a lot of stories from people who realized that OTHER PEOPLE were taking over their calendars and imposing activities on them that they DID NOT WANT TO DO. I don’t know if you’ve ever found yourself saying, “I should do that, or I should see that person, or I should help out at that event” but you really don’t want to. And other pe...
Mar 21, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. With spring on its way, I thought it would be good to talk about nature and why you should go on a nature kick and get out there. I noticed that we started getting a lot more stories about going outside during the pandemic when people were focused on what they could do while at home and they seemed to rediscover the outdoors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 19, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and with spring coming, it’s getting more colorful out there. But what about color in our lives, not just in nature? Today I want to talk about color and boldness and stepping forward to participate more in life. Whether it’s your clothing, your home décor, or the projects that you do, are you having fun with color? What prompts me to ask this is a terrific story that we published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Curvy & Confident. The stor...
Mar 17, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Do you ever think that maybe you should focus a little more on stepping outside your comfort zone and broadening your world? I think we all have the tendency to stop doing new things… because it’s easier. But then we’re surprised when we try doing something new, or going to a new place, or meeting a new person, and we really enjoy it. Saying “yes” is something that we can ALL do, and it only takes a second to just plain decide that you w...
Mar 14, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to share with you my most popular piece 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 on two publications which feature interesting stories and great writing. My most popular story so far appeared on a publication called Crow’s Feet, and it’s called ...
Mar 12, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Do you ever feel like you’re missing out because you’re starting to resist doing new things? I know I have to resist that all the time, even for simple reasons like I don’t know where to park at whatever place I’m thinking of going. It’s really easy to fall into a rut and accidentally let your world become smaller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 10, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and in these unsettling times that means you need a big dose of laughter. We have it for you in the form of our latest book, because if laughter is the best medicine then this is your prescription. I know some people think that Chicken Soup for the Soul is all about self-help or heartwarming stories but no, this is the eighth humor book that we’ve published since I became publisher in 2008. It’s filled with funny stories from 100 differen...
Mar 07, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. There’s a lot going on out there right now and it’s confusing and divisive and no one is sure how it’s all going to work out. So it’s the perfect time for our new humor book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine. Just go ahead and turn off the news, shut down your social media, and return to one of the most basic, and most healthy, skills that we have—and that is humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. Our new co...
Mar 05, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and in these unsettling times that means you need a big dose of laughter. We have it for you in the form of our latest book, because if laughter is the best medicine then this is your prescription. I know some people think that Chicken Soup for the Soul is all about self-help or heartwarming stories but no, this is the eighth humor book that we’ve published since I became publisher in 2008. It’s filled with funny stories from 100 differen...
Mar 03, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. So let me ask you this: Are you stuck in a rut? Do you never try anything new? How does it make you feel? I know I talk about it all the time, but our writers send us thousands of stories every year about how energized and empowered they feel when they start saying Yes instead of No to new things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 28, 2025•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we’re going to talk about getting older and having a great attitude about it. In our first story, Geneva Coleman tells us that she was 55 years old when she decided to reinvent herself. The first thing that went was her hair dye. She went silver—on purpose. And she discovered how much healthier her hair was when she stopped dyeing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 26, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Are you competing to be the favorite grandparent? Grandparenting is so different these days—the unconditional love and mutual admiration between grandchildren and grandparents are still the same, but what’s different for many families is they are so spread out. Sometimes they live in different countries, or hundreds of miles apart, or the grandchildren need to see multiple sets of grandparents because of divorces. So grandparents have to...
Feb 24, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. There’s a lot going on right now and it’s confusing and divisive and no one is sure how it’s all going to work out. So this may be the perfect time for our new humor book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine. I suggest you turn off the news, shut down social media, and return to one of the most basic, and most useful, skills that we have—and that is humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. Our new collection of f...
Feb 21, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and in these unsettling times that means you need a big dose of laughter. We have it for you in the form of our latest book, because if laughter is the best medicine then this is your prescription. I know some people think that Chicken Soup for the Soul is all about self-help or heartwarming stories but no, this is the eighth humor book that we’ve published since I became publisher in 2008. It’s filled with funny stories from 100 differen...
Feb 19, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. There’s a lot going on right now and it’s confusing and divisive and no one is sure how it’s all going to work out. That makes it the perfect time for our new humor book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine. So turn off the news, shut down social media, and return to one of the most basic, and most useful, skills that we have—and that is humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. Our new collection of funny stories...
Feb 17, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: All You Need Is Love. We have a lot of stories about FINDING love in the book, but what about later? How do you keep the love alive? That’s the topic of the stories I’m sharing with you today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 14, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: All You Need Is Love. Love can happen to anyone at any time, and the stories in this book— of dating and romance, second chances, love rekindled, and happiness at any age—will put a smile on your face. And today’s stories, about listening to your dreams, will wow you as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Feb 12, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: All You Need Is Love. You know, the miracle of love can happen when you least expect it—in new relationships and in old ones—at any age and any stage of life. What I love is the stories about destiny, about loves that were meant to be. For example, Lori Chidori Phillips’ story, which is mindblowing in so many ways. We first publishe...
Feb 10, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with today’s Chicken Soup for the Soul for you, and today I’m sharing two stories about how you can truly talk yourself into having a more positive attitude. The amazing thing is that even if you just pretend to be a more positive person, everyone will react to you differently and then before you know it, it will be true. This is proven over and over again in our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy. It’s so simple to implement these practices and...
Feb 07, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about positive thinking because after all, it’s the new year and it’s time for some new perspective. Our new book about 101 ways to think positive will give you lots of great ideas for adopting a new attitude, a new more optimistic approach to the ups and downs of life—and how about this?—motivation to pursue that passion or follow that dream that you’ve been thinking about for a while, maybe even for years. Becaus...
Feb 05, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to talk about one of the two keys to happiness, and that is forgiveness. You know we talk about a lot of different ways to create a happier life for yourself, and the two keys to happiness that I think are absolutely essential are gratitude and forgiveness. What is very cool about forgiveness is that you can use its power to create an instant change in your attitude. All you have to do is decide. Learn more about your ad ...
Feb 03, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and it’s Friend Friday, which means I’m chatting with someone interesting from the Chicken Soup for the Soul world. Today I’d like you to meet Ashonti Ford, who wrote an inspirational story for our latest book about 101 Ways to Think Positive. Ashonti graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in Broadcast Communications, took an unpaid internship at a TV station far, far away, and is now an award-winning journalist who appears on o...
Jan 31, 2025•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about positive thinking because after all, it’s the new year and it’s time for some new perspective. Our new book about 101 ways to think positive will give you lots of great ideas for adopting a new attitude, a new more optimistic approach to the ups and downs of life—and how about this?—motivation to reach out and make new friends, and be open to even the most unlikely people. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Jan 29, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. II don’t know about you but I still feel like it’s New Year’s because I’m still making resolutions. When I think about it, I’m actually making resolutions all year as I try to develop better habits. And one of those habits is to try to remember the good every day and not just focus on what happens to be going wrong at any given time. Making a habit of focusing on good things is a common self-help theme that we see in our stories… because...
Jan 27, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and this month we’re talking about resolutions, and not always the traditional ones like dieting and exercising. There are lots of other possible resolutions that are life-changing, or at least life-improving. So, I’m going to propose some of those to you as well this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 24, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to talk about resolutions. It’s January, time to think about the ways in which we want to improve our habits, our behavior, and how we interact with the world. Everyone knows the old classics—stop smoking, eat less, exercise more, be neater... and we’re going to talk about some of those resolutions this month. But there are lots of other possible resolutions that are life-changing, or at least life-improving. So, I’m ...
Jan 22, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to talk about resolutions. It’s January, time to think about the ways in which we want to improve our habits, our behavior, and how we interact with the world. Everyone knows the old classics—stop smoking, eat less, exercise more, be neater... and we’re going to talk about some of those resolutions this month. But there are lots of other possible resolutions that are life-changing, or at least life-improving. So, I’m ...
Jan 20, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about positive thinking because after all, it’s the new year and it’s time for some new perspective. Our book about 101 ways to think positive will give you lots of great ideas for adopting a new attitude, a new more optimistic approach to the ups and downs of life—and how about this?—motivation to reach out and make new connections. I don’t know about you, but I always feel like I should be working on making new f...
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