Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about 9/11, as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the United States and the loss of thousands of lives. I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating the Spirit of America, our way of participating in the 250th birthday of the U.S. These stories are about the aftermath of 9/11, one from a resident of the town in Pennsylvania where one of the Washington bound airplanes was crashlanded by the brave passengers onboard, and the other by a 9/11 widow whose husband was on one of the flights from Boston.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m sharing a couple of stories from one of our latest audiobooks about how you can use your dreams as a kind of GPS for your life. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon & Schuster audiobook version of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. It’s copyright 2026 by Chicken Soup for the Soul, and available now in all the places you go to listen to audiobooks.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from our new dog book: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Dog Ever. This new collection celebrates everything dog, from dogs that are mischievous to dogs that are surprisingly good, from dogs that are hilarious to dogs that are heroes, and from dogs that are natural therapists to dogs that bring people together. Sometime, these dogs don’t just belong to one family, but to a whole neighborhood, even when their official humans don’t know it. That’s what happened to Joy Marie Morris. And she didn’t find out until she went home from work early one day, only to discover that her Malamute, Panda Bear, was missing.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from our new dog book: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Dog Ever. No matter what, everyone’s dog is the best dog ever, right? So our new collection of dog stories celebrates everything dog, from dogs that are mischievous to dogs that are surprisingly good, from dogs that are natural therapists to dogs that bring people together, from dogs that are hilarious to dogs that are heroes. And always, dogs are our best friends, and become integral parts of their families. We also focus our stories on dogs that are rescued from shelters or from being strays, and we also make sure to include stories about people adopting elderly dogs, and pit bulls, and black dogs, because those are the types of dogs that are often left behind in shelters, often to uncertain fates.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday, which is when I find awe-inspiring or surprising stories to share with you. Today I’ve got a couple of cool stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. The stories in this book show you how you can use your dreams and premonitions as a kind of GPS for your life. While you’re sleeping, and you’re not distracted by all the sights and sounds of the day, you can actually pay attention to your subconscious and it might reveal helpful things. Or you can believe that your dreams and premonitions are of divine origin, and we have many stories in the book that seem to fall into that category too, as they defy rational explanations! One of my favorite categories of dream stories is when someone learns something from a dream, something they would never have learned during their waking hours.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from a new book: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Dog Ever. No matter what, everyone’s dog is the best dog ever, right? So our new collection of dog stories celebrates everything dog, from dogs that are mischievous to dogs that are surprisingly good, from dogs that are natural therapists to dogs that bring people together, from dogs that are hilarious to dogs that are heroes. And always, dogs are our best friends, and become integral parts of their families. We also focus our stories on dogs that are rescued from shelters or from being strays, and we also make sure to include stories about people adopting elderly dogs, and pit bulls, and black dogs, because those are the types of dogs that are often left behind in shelters, often to uncertain fates.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your daily dose of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today is Halloween, and I’ve been saving one of my favorite stories all year to tell you today. It’s from Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can’t Believe My Dog Did That! and the story is called “Trick or Treat.”

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I always try to share awe-inspiring or surprising stories with you on Wednesdays, and I have a whole new collection of them in a fun book we just published called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope, Faith & Miracles. We see a lot of stories about truly miraculous life-saving events that are really hard to explain, so I’m going to share a couple of those with you today.

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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: Let It Go, which is our latest best-selling self-help book. I didn’t really understand the power of forgiveness to change my life until I started doing this editor-in-chief job at Chicken Soup for the Soul 18 years ago. I always thought that the word “forgiveness” meant that you were excusing the person who hurt you, saying that it was okay. But it turns out that “forgiveness” doesn’t mean that. What it actually means is that you have decided not to keep reliving all the negative feelings associated with whatever bad thing happened to you. You may even come to understand WHY it happened and what drove the other person to act that way, which enables you to NOT take it personally. Because it was never really about you. It was about themselves.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to add another element to our podcast – excerpts from our new audiobooks. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the new 2026 Simon & Schuster audiobook version of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Cat, edited by me and copyright 2023 by Chicken Soup for the Soul, and available now in all the places you go to listen to audiobooks.

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