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, Ric Keller, four term Congressman, attorney, and now… a Chicken Soup for the Soul contributor.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration and advice come from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving, Loss and Healing. These 101 inspirational, compassionate, and empowering stories will help you cope with loss, regain your strength, and find joy in life again. And they’ll give you some great ideas for your own healing, or an idea you can pass along to someone you know. Today’s great advice from this book concerns how you can stay close to your loved one as you mourn, by working on a joint project.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to start sharing stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Too Funny! This is our third collection of funny stories—we’ve done one each spring since the pandemic started and they’ve been very popular. No one is safe in these true stories— from spouses to parents to children to colleagues to friends. And the funniest stories are the ones about the writers’ own mishaps and most embarrassing moments, which is what we’re going to talk about today.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today’s inspiration and advice come from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will. This collection of empowering stories is about resilience, positive thinking, and overcoming obstacles. It will provide you with some role models and some great advice for navigating your own way through life’s challenges. One of those challenges is losing someone you love, and today’s stories are from a widower and a widow who share with us how they found an activity after death that made them feel a lot closer to their late spouse.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration and advice comes from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will. I really love the two stories I’m going to share with you today because they show the power of sharing food to bring people together, and maybe will even give you an idea for how you can share some holiday cheer with friends or neighbors.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. And today I’m going to do our last episode about our new dog book, My Hilarious, Heroic, Human Dog. There truly is something magical about dogs—their natural joy, resilience, and protectiveness are so often combined with affection, intuition, courage, and just plain smarts. And that’s why we keep putting out collections of dog stories. Dogs keep us company, act as our therapists, provide unconditional love, and share in the ups and downs of our lives. Our dogs make us better people. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. If we’re sad, they comfort us. If we need to have more fun, they show us how. They are our protectors, our role models, and our best friends. Here are six truths about the effects dogs have on our lives, taken from six of the 101 stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Hilarious, Heroic, Human Dog

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration and advice come from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving, Loss and Healing. These 101 inspirational, compassionate, and empowering stories will help you cope with loss, regain your strength, and find joy in life again. And they’ll also help you understand how to help someone who is going through the grieving process, or how to accept help yourself from the people around you. And that help can come in the form of a few key words, wise words that shift your perspective and make the all the difference.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we’re talking about when the kind words of a stranger make all the difference, as related in two stories from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Kindness Matters. You know how you sometimes think about saying something encouraging or supportive to a stranger but then you stop yourself because you think you might be interfering? Or your advice might not be wanted? Well, these stories make it clear that it’s okay to lean in and say those kind words and help that stranger.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration comes to you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Angels. This bestselling collection of stories is filled with amazing coincidences, divine intervention, and all kinds of surprising, spiritual events. Our writers share stories about mysterious guardians and helpers who touch their lives and today I want to share with you six stories of angels and miracles from the book.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I want to share six stories from our book about clever, curious, caring cats and talk about the effects cats have on our lives. Because they do have an impact. Somehow, they brighten our days, act as our therapists, and become our best friends—without saying a word. They’re surprisingly clever, comically curious, and truly caring, too. They show us how to live in the moment, find our inner strength, and be the best versions of our human selves. If we rescued them, from a shelter or our back yards, they rescue us back. And their playfulness and antics make us smile, even on our darkest days. 

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