Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

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The Many Benefits of Volunteering Later in Life Mar 12, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re looking at the many benefits of volunteering, especially later in life. If you are enjoying your retirement years, or you know someone who’s retired but needs a little extra spark in their life, these stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Age Is Just a Number will inspire anyone to look at volunteering as a means to finding joy.

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Pruning the People in the Garden of Your Life Mar 10, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m going to share a piece of advice that seems to shock a lot of people—that you’re allowed to CHOOSE your friends, and if they’re no longer working for you—UNchoose them. Our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time, covers the many ways that people reclaim a bit of their calendar for themselves, creating more balance in their lives. And one of the ways to reclaim that time and make more space for “me time” is by making sure that you’re only spending time with people who add VALUE to your life. That can mean assessing the time you spend with friends, and even relatives. Because you need to zealously look out for own emotional health and not let people sap away whatever energy you have. You want to save that energy for yourself and the people who are most important to you.

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Messages from Heaven and Bonds That Continue Mar 08, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I want to talk about that miraculous thing that sometimes happens, which is a continuing connection with someone who has passed on. We see these stories all the time and they always amaze me. Sometimes you can come up with a scientific explanation for why they happen… and sometimes you can’t.

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Sometimes Those Cats and Dogs Become the Best of Friends Mar 05, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Cats. Today we’re talking about the magic of cats for their dog family members, not their human ones. Because even though we’ve all heard the stories about dogs and cats that don’t get along, we see lots of stories where cats take their intuition, their natural ability to be therapists, their kindness—and work their magic on the dogs they live with, much to everyone’s surprise.

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When Our Dogs Appear in Our Dreams Mar 03, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. We’ve been talking a lot about dogs and cats on the podcast because we have new books out on those topics, but we also have a new book about dreams. So today will be a bit of a crossover episode, with stories about dreams that involve dogs and the magical way these dogs manifested to our writers.

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Sometimes It’s Amazing How Smart Dogs Are Mar 01, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Dogs. If you have a dog you’ve probably been spending a lot more time together, and your appreciation for your dog’s loyalty and intuition has probably increased. We learn so much from our dogs, don’t we? If we rescued them, they rescue us back. They show us how to be better humans. And they teach us so much about resilience, and fortitude, and loyalty. And then sometimes they’re so surprisingly smart, which is what I’m going to talk about today in two stories from our new collection of dog stories.

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It’s Not Too Late to Bring the Romance Back Feb 26, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. You know, our book about how age is just a number has been a big hit, and it’s partly because it shows that it’s never too late to do most things, and that includes romance. It’s never too late to bring the romance back into a tried and true old relationship. So today I’m going to share two stories about how couples revived and maintained the spark in their decades-old marriages.

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When That Me Time Sneaks Up on You Feb 24, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today it’s from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time. This is a collection of stories about making that all important time for yourself, and personal care, and finding the right equilibrium and work/life balance. Me time is different for everyone. For some people it means an hour a day for exercising, for others it means reading or taking a class or meditating. For some people, it means seeing a friend and for others it means seeing nobody. And today, I’m going to talk about how you can figure out what kind of me time will work for you, and how sometimes that truth is staring you in the face and you don’t even realize it.

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Lost and Found: Miraculous Connections Bring Parents and Children Together Again Feb 22, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’ve got two amazing stories to share with you today—two miraculous tales of family members separated for decades finding each other again. One involves sisters separated from their birth family by adoption, and another involves a daughter finding her father purely by happenstance, decades after the last time she saw him. And you won’t believe how it happened.

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FRIEND FRIDAY - Zibby Owens, Book-fluencer, on Interviewing All the Authors You Ever Wanted to Meet, Plus Her New Quarantine Anthology Feb 19, 2021

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a special Friend Friday episode today. You’re going to meet Zibby Owens, who has become one of the most well-known book reviewers in the country over the last couple of years. You may have seen her recommending books on Good Morning America, or you may have listened to or watched her on her award-winning podcast, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. She’s been called New York City’s most powerful “book-fluencer” and she seems to get an interview with every bestselling author these days.

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