Chicken Soup For The Soul With Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday. Today I’m excited to be talking with Dr. Mike Dow, who I like to call America’s go-to therapist. You may have seen him as an expert on The Doctors and the Dr. Oz show, and he also coauthored a Chicken Soup for the Soul book with me called Think, Act & Be Happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some instant inspiration for you from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I want to talk about one of my favorite topics, and that is how mothers are so often right even when their kids are skeptical. I think kids finally figure this out when they’re in their twenties—that mom is usually right. So we featured lots of stories about that in our new book for mothers and grandmothers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Moms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with some instant inspiration for you from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I want to talk about mothers as role models, because when you’re in the trenches raising your kids—or even later, when they’re grown but you’re still trying to give them advice, which is sometimes unwanted—you wonder if you’re getting through. Did you make a difference? Did the kids even listen to you? Well, the answer is yes, as we saw in dozens of stories in our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Moms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today we’re hearing from Joan Lunden, who has a new book out that combines humor with great advice. It’s called Why Did I Come Into This Room? And the subtitle is A Candid Conversation about Aging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles, with today’s stories being about miraculous healing, the kind of cases that doctors call one in a million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles, stories about miraculous connections that occurred that helped one woman find love and another find a branch of her family that she never knew existed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today I’m talking to Deborah Norville, who is my coauthor on a new Chicken Soup for the Soul book coming out on September 24th called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy. Today we’re going to talk about how you can use positive thinking, mindfulness, gratitude, and a host of other strategies to create the best possible life for you and yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m sharing two stories from our latest bestselling cat book about Life Lessons from the Cat. We created this new collection because we do learn so many lessons from our cats… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels All Around. This book offers glimpses into the lives of regular people who find themselves in extraordinary, unexplainable situations. From miraculous connections and answered prayers, to divine intervention and inexplicable healing, to angels and messages from heaven, these stories prove that miracles can happen, every day, to people from all walks of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Today I’m talking to Mark & Maggie Damon, who were kind enough to share their amazing and miraculous love story in our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. We’re going to talk about that story, which I promise you will give you goose bumps, and also about Mark’s latest hit movie, Last Full Measure, which is that amazing movie that came out a couple of months ago about an unrecognized Vietnam War hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. I think today’s stories will give you goose bumps, as they deal with something so important, and so emotional… and that is a couple of long overdue reunions between mothers and children who were separated because of substance abuse issues. The first story I’m going to share with you contains the most amazing coincidence, one that connected a mother and daughter over thousands of miles and many decades without either of them even knowing that it was happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles—two stories of amazing, miraculous, hard-to-explain coincidences. These are just of two of the 101 stories in this new book that will open your eyes to the possibilities—the possibilities that sometimes amazing things occur even in our everyday lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today your inspiration is from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons from the Cat. Today I’m sharing two stories about the uncanny ability of cats to act as natural therapists for their humans. They’re small animals, and often thought of as aloof, but when they want to, these little animals can be a huge help, often benefiting their humans even more than other humans can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I bring you inspiration from our new book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels All Around. This new collection of stories offers glimpses into the lives of regular people who find themselves in extraordinary, unexplainable situations. From miraculous connections and answered prayers, to divine intervention and inexplicable healing, to angels and messages from heaven, these stories prove that miracles can happen, every day, to people from all walks of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I want to share a couple of stories about how your dog can be the key to a better social life. This is one of the many themes from our bestselling book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons from the Dog. We always think that we rescued them, but in fact they usually rescue us, because of the way they serve as role models for making us the best humans we can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark and it’s Friend Friday on the Chicken Soup for the Soul podcast. Our guest today is Carol Andrews, who wrote a story about miraculous healing that appears in our new Believe in Miracles book. Carol is going to talk about that miracle, plus share her wisdom as an executive coach and TV personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. If you’ve lost something valuable, even if it’s been lost for years, these stories will give you hope that it might just turn up, the way it did for our writers. You won’t believe how it happened, but it did. So I’ll just dive in and start with a story by Andrea Lebedovych Bilaniuk in which she tells us about what happened to her father’s wedding band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing two stories from our new bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Miracles. We’re going to talk about miraculous life-saving coincidences and I think you’ll get goose bumps from these stories about two women who most certainly avoided death through the luckiest breaks, ones that almost didn’t happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with a little Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration for you, and today I want to share a couple of stories about how even the biggest, bravest dogs can be afraid of some things. And with the Fourth of July fireworks almost upon us, and all those summer thunderstorms, I thought it would be fun to see how other people’s dogs react. We have several funny stories about this in our new bestseller about the Life Lessons we learn from our Dogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your daily dose of Chicken Soup for the Soul inspiration. It’s summer and it’s time to get yourself on your feet and outside. If you’ve been thinking about getting into a regular routine of running or walking, I have the stories to motivate you today, from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Running for Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices