Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark

Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest for Friend Friday, Susan Heim, who is an author, editor, and library marketer specializing in parenting, Christian and women’s issues. She is a longtime editor for Chicken Soup for the Soul and has authored several parenting and Chicken Soup for the Soul books, including the Devotional Stories series. Her articles have appeared in many magazines and websites. Susan is the mother of 4 sons, including a set of twins. 

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to continue sharing stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Christmas. We have lots of Thanksgiving stories in this book, and I’m going to share a couple with you today—stories that will help you find your own thankfulness in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful Wacky Family. These hilarious stories about other people’s relatives will make you laugh out loud and they’ll focus you on your own wacky, but wonderful, relatives and all your own family stories. So today’s stories are about a couple of families sitting around doing tastings—in one case they’re tasting hot peppers, and in the other they’re tasting pickles. And the pickle story happens to be about my own family!

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories from one of our latest bestsellers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable. This book contains true stories of answered prayers, angels, breathtaking coincidences, miraculous healing, and messages from heaven and they show us that miracles are all around us if we open our eyes. Miracles, divine intervention, amazing coincidences and unexplainable, but welcome, surprises happen every day for people from all walks of life. Today’s stories are about two mothers whose prayers for their children seemed to make a very big difference.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we’re talking about Christmas and how you can hit the streets and share that Christmas joy, with two stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Christmas. Sometimes that means just plain following a charitable impulse that comes over you, as happened with the two contributors whose stories we’re featuring today.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful Wacky Family. These hilarious stories about other people’s relatives will make you laugh out loud. And I’m sure you think your own family has its own share of wacky, but wonderful, relatives. So today’s stories are about moms—and how moms always know best. And we’re going to start with a story that made me laugh out loud from Joshua Mark.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share five ways you can lead a happy life of kindness, compassion and paying it forward, with five stories from our bestselling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Kindness Matters. You know there’s a lot of conversation these days about getting back to kindness in our society. Scientific studies have shown that “doing good” is not only beneficial for the recipient of the good deed, but also for the person doing it, making that person happier and healthier. So, here are five ways you can make kindness part of how you live your life.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to continue sharing stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness. This is a collection of stories that illustrate what I believe are the ten keys to happiness based on my reading of tens of thousands of personal revealing stories from our writers. I’ve already talked about the power of gratitude to change your life on this podcast, and today I want to talk about the power of forgiveness, because I believe that without learning how to use forgiveness you can’t be truly happy.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to share a couple of stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Too Funny! This is a collection of hilarious stories that are bringing sunshine into our readers’ days and we’ve gotten a lot of very positive feedback from them. No one is safe in these true stories— from spouses to parents to children to colleagues to friends and even pets. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today, with a couple of doggone funny stories.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories from a really fun book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable. The stories in this book are about all kinds of miracles and unexplainable situations, and today I want to share two amazing stories about relationships that are mysteriously but quite obviously meant to be—one a romance, and one a relationship between two families that spans decades and continents and just keeps reappearing.

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