Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

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When the Cat’s a Hero May 23, 2025

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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. And almost all of the cats in our book were rescues of some kind, either from a shelter or as stray cats that found a home. What’s amazing is how often those RESCUED cats become the RESCUERS, and also HEROES.

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A Random Meeting, a Miraculous Family Reunion May 21, 2025

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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 Americans finding long lost relatives through the strangest circumstances via conversations with random people thousands of miles from home.

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When a Dog Person Becomes a Cat Person May 19, 2025

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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. But first, of course, you have to get a cat, and for people who considered themselves to be “dog people” that’s a big first step. So today, I’m sharing a couple of stories about just that, starting with one by Victoria Lorrekovich-Miller.

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A Dog's Purpose May 16, 2025

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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. So one of the themes in this book is how dogs thrive when they have a purpose, a job of some sorts, and that’s what we’re talking about today, with a dog that goes to court every day, and another dog that delivers the mail. They could have led lives of leisure, but they had other ideas.

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Why You Should Listen to Your Dreams May 14, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. We had Wow Wednesdays on the podcast years ago and I don’t know why I stopped, because the stories are really good. After all, we chose them from thousands of submissions for the books they were in. Today I’m sharing a couple of my favorite stories about dreams, ones that were so worth listening to. It’s amazing how often we see stories like this, about dreams that are life-changing.

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My Dog the Social Director May 12, 2025

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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 Dog, which is the best-selling book of dog stories that we published last month. I learned a lot from these stories, including that dogs truly make us better versions of ourselves--and they also help us come out of our shells by introducing us to new people. They actually improve our lives, expanding our circle of friends and acting as our social directors. Sometimes, they dramatically change someone’s life, as was the case for Anne Taylor, who talked about this in her story called “Unleashing Confidence.”

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Forgiveness Is Incredibly Liberating May 09, 2025

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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 “Forgiveness is Incredibly Liberating,” with the subtitle How you can change your life in one second, just by deciding

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Reach Out and Expand Your Circle of Friends May 07, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Have you ever wished you had more friends? Or you’ve moved and you don’t know anyone? I think we all come to that point in our lives. Friends move away, or we grow in different directions, or we start over in a new community, or we get divorced and discover that we just lost half our friends.

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Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone Right into the Air May 05, 2025

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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? It definitely makes you feel like your world is getting smaller, and it’s one of the themes we see all the time in the stories we receive. People feel empowered and energized when they do something different, and especially when they do something scary.

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My Dog the Juvenile Delinquent May 02, 2025

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m sharing stories from our new dog book in an episode called My Dog the Juvenile Delinquent. We spent two years collecting the stories for this book and they are really entertaining, but also pretty inspirational, because they show us how fabulous the dogs in our lives are. Even when they’re being bad, really bad, we brag about just how bad they were!

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