Chicken Soup For The Soul With Amy Newmark

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re going to talk about how you can become more productive by building down time into every workday. Our special Friend Friday guest is my friend and newly minted Chicken Soup for the Soul author, Cosmo DeNicola. 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 about when getting that all important me time really means we time, because making sure you have we time with your spouse or your friends can be just as important as the traditional me time that we’re always trying to put aside for ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we’re talking about the miracle of finding love, and I truly mean finding love in a miraculous, I-can’t-believe-that-happened way. Sometimes it seems like people were just meant to find each other, based on the amazing coincidences that bring them together. And that’s why these stories appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles & Divine Intervention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest for Friend Friday, Mae Frances Sarratt. Mae wrote a fascinating and historically significant story about her life for our summer bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now; Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. So, I’ve been sharing some of the very funny stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Read, Laugh, Repeat. This book is a collection of some of the funniest stories we’ve published in our 28-year history. We’ve got stories about Domestic Disasters, Marriage, Dogs and Cats Doing Crazy Things, Embarrassing Moments, Weird Family Members, Senior Moments, Holiday Hiccups, and Kids. And I put together today’s episode with six laugh-out-loud stories that I hope will bring some sunshine into your day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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: Navigating Eldercare & Dementia. This new collection of stories contains the emotional support and practical tips that you need as you navigate the world of eldercare, especially when Alzheimer’s or other dementias are part of it. You’ll feel less alone and more empowered in your new role after you read these stories. And today I want to talk about one of the difficult choices that families make, which is whether to move their loved ones into a group home such as an assisted living apartment building or a memory care unit. We want to make sure that our listeners know this is a very viable option, and not something to feel guilty about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re looking at the many benefits of volunteering, especially later in life. If you are enjoying your retirement years, or you know someone who’s retired but needs a little extra spark in their life, these stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Age Is Just a Number will inspire anyone to look at volunteering as a means to finding joy. 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 going to share a piece of advice that seems to shock a lot of people—that you’re allowed to CHOOSE your friends, and if they’re no longer working for you—UNchoose them. Our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time, covers the many ways that people reclaim a bit of their calendar for themselves, creating more balance in their lives. And one of the ways to reclaim that time and make more space for “me time” is by making sure that you’re only spending time with people who add VALUE to your life. That can mean assessing the time you spend with friends, and even relatives. Because you need to zealously look out for own emotional health and not let people sap away whatever energy you have. You want to save that energy for yourself and the people who are most important to you. 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 want to talk about that miraculous thing that sometimes happens, which is a continuing connection with someone who has passed on. We see these stories all the time and they always amaze me. Sometimes you can come up with a scientific explanation for why they happen… and sometimes you can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. And today we’re talking about Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now; Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope. And it’s not just stories—we have a dozen powerful poems in this collection as well. Today we’re going to hear Stephanie Gates read her poem from the book. It’s called “I Am Not Safe” and this is something we need to talk about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. And today is going to be fun because I’m going to share a couple of stories from our new humor collection–Chicken Soup for the Soul: Read, Laugh, Repeat—and to make it even more fun, these are holiday stories and I’m always up Christmas stories in the middle of the summer. So let’s start with a story by Janell Michael, who decided to create one of those meaningful, homemade gifts when her children were 19 and 17 and she was feeling overwhelmed by how soon they would truly be on their own. She wanted to do something for Christmas that would show them how much she loved them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today’s inspiration comes from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Eldercare & Dementia, which contains the emotional support and practical tips that you need as you navigate the world of eldercare, especially when Alzheimer’s or other dementias are part of it. You’ll feel less alone and more empowered in your new role after you read these stories. And it’s not all about dementia either. Today I’m sharing two stories about elderly family members who just needed a purpose and were completely re-energized when, by accident, that purpose came along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. You know, our book about how age is just a number has been a big hit, and it’s partly because it shows that it’s never too late to do most things, and that includes romance. It’s never too late to bring the romance back into a tried and true old relationship. So today I’m going to share two stories about how couples revived and maintained the spark in their decades-old marriages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today it’s from our latest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time. This is a collection of stories about making that all important time for yourself, and personal care, and finding the right equilibrium and work/life balance. Me time is different for everyone. For some people it means an hour a day for exercising, for others it means reading or taking a class or meditating. For some people, it means seeing a friend and for others it means seeing nobody. And today, I’m going to talk about how you can figure out what kind of me time will work for you, and how sometimes that truth is staring you in the face and you don’t even realize it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’ve got two amazing stories to share with you today—two miraculous tales of family members separated for decades finding each other again. One involves sisters separated from their birth family by adoption, and another involves a daughter finding her father purely by happenstance, decades after the last time she saw him. And you won’t believe how it happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey it’s Amy Newmark with a special episode today featuring two fabulous poets from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now; Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope. In addition to the 101 stories, we have 12 poems, and today you’re going to hear from two of the poets, who will perform their poems for you and talk about this new book and what it means to them to have this platform for sharing their experiences as Black women.  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 want to share some great stories that will encourage you to be you, not some other person who you think you should be. I’m going to talk about six stories that will help you be true to yourself, from one of our new books--Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You. Because, women—and men--are tired of being told who they should be. They’re starting to take back the power, figuring out who they want to be and how to get there. That’s why Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You was created, to be a source of affirmation and inspiration for people of all ages as they figure out how to be the best versions of themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m starting a new topic today, with stories from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Eldercare & Dementia. This new collection really supports family caregivers, and we need lots of support, because it’s tough becoming the caregiver for an impaired spouse or parent. These stories will make you feel less alone and more empowered in your new role. I think one of most important things you can do if your family member has dementia is to learn to let go of your reality. You have to accept that your loved one has a new reality. There’s no point trying to correct an incorrect memory—you just go with it. Because what difference does it make anyway? Your role is to keep the conversation going, even if it’s not based on the true facts or history as you know them. And your role also is to live in the moment, learning how to sit back and enjoy the little things, which might just mean that you and your loved one spend half an hour discussing a

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’ve got a fun new book to talk about today, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles & Divine Intervention. This book is filled with stories about miraculous, amazing events and I want to share two of them with you today – two miraculous coincidences that tied together the generations in two families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re going to talk about getting physical. And by that I mean getting fit, doing sports, and getting out there in nature. I’m sharing two stories from our new book about how age is just a number, and these stories that prove that it’s never too late to find your sport and get back in shape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices