Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

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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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 unusual 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 user manual for your life. It’s amazing how much information you can get from your dreams, information that can vastly improve your life during your waking hours. And premonitions, or that little voice you sometimes hear in your head warning you about something… well, we get so many stories about how those premonitions or little voices have saved people’s lives. I’m going to share two of those with you today.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m continuing to share stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Care for the Caregiver. The stories in this book provide support and tips and plenty of humor for people who are involved in caregiving for family members with dementia, whether Alzheimer’s or one of the other kinds. These stories are incredibly helpful to someone who is starting to navigate the caregiving journey and they are also helpful and supportive for old pros. The dementia caregiving journey lasts for years, and everyone can benefit from the wise words and the humorous anecdotes shared by people who have been there, done that.

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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, the one that we made for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Care for the Caregiver. 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: Care for the Caregiver. 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 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 dreams about love—about their soul mate—and then their dream actually comes true in the future. Often they had never met that person and just imagined him or her. Or, the dream might seem impossible, an idea that everyone would laugh at.

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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 Chicken Soup for the Soul: Care for the Caregiver. The stories in this book provide support and tips and plenty of humor for people who are involved in caregiving for family members with dementia, whether it’s Alzheimer’s or one of the other kinds. These stories are incredibly helpful to someone who is starting to navigate the caregiving journey, and they are also helpful and supportive for people who have been doing it for years, because it DOES go on for years. Everyone can benefit from the wise words and the humorous anecdotes shared by people who have been there, done that, and maybe are still in the middle of doing it.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark, and I’m excited today to introduce you to our latest coloring book for kids and adults. This one is called the My Very Good, Very Bad Cat Coloring Book. It’s our second coloring book about cats and it’s a full-fledged, super-high-quality adult coloring book that ALSO contains 37 full-length Chicken Soup for the Soul stories! We looked at all the popular high-end coloring books on the market and we made ours the same as those – with high quality paper, perforated pages so you can frame them, and art that has the just amount of complexity for coloring. Then we added in those 37 stories, and 37 coloring pages with images that go with the stories. You can find the coloring book at all the online merchants as well as in some big box stores that have coloring book sections, including Kroger and Meijer.

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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 Simon & Schuster audiobook version of Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can’t Stop Laughing, edited by me and 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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