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  • Take Those Little Breaks

    Take Those Little Breaks
    2026/05/04
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. I’m continuing to share stories with you from our new book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. We all know that we need it, and that self-care is super important, but somehow we all put other things first. So how you do enable yourself to put aside that time that you need, that me time that helps you be the best version of yourself? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    10 分
  • Two Stories about Play Dates with the Grandchildren from Our Latest Audiobook

    Two Stories about Play Dates with the Grandchildren from Our Latest Audiobook
    2026/05/01
    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: Being Grandma, authored and edited by me! It’s copyright 2026 by Chicken Soup for the Soul, and available now in all the places you go to listen to audiobooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    16 分
  • Home Repairs – You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

    Home Repairs – You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
    2026/04/29
    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: I Can’t Stop Laughing. This very funny book has just gone on sale and I expect it to be a bestseller like all our humor books. When people make fun of themselves, relating their most embarrassing moments, or tell stories about their family members, they are usually sharing the stories that are told over and over again in their families, the ones that make people laugh for years to come. And the two stories I’m sharing today made ME laugh over and over again. When I tried to tell them to my husband I couldn’t even get the words out through my laughter. The stories are about home repairs and the completely avoidable disasters that led to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 分
  • When Husbands Go Shopping… Need I Say More?

    When Husbands Go Shopping… Need I Say More?
    2026/04/27
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about when husbands go shopping. Need I say more? These stories are from our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can’t Stop Laughing. This book is a true gift – one you can give yourself or anyone else in your life. Because we all need some comic relief these days, something to distract us from current events, social media, and all the other negative stuff we’re exposed to. The 101 stories in this new collection will you feel good, and they’re all true, related to us by the people who lived through these embarrassing, hilarious, and truly human experiences. No one is safe from our storytellers, from family members to friends to colleagues, and of course, spouses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    10 分
  • When Grandma Goes Rogue

    When Grandma Goes Rogue
    2026/04/24
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m sharing a couple of funny stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma, stories about grandmas going rogue. We have a little bit of everything in this book, stories about becoming a grandmother, getting that special grandmother name, taking the grandkids on adventures, being a regular babysitter, acting like a kid again, learning how to use technology to stay closer to the grandchildren, and a whole lot more. Some of the stories are about youthful grandmas and some are about grandmas who might be their eighties and nineties but don’t give in to age and continue doing exactly what they want to do. That’s what we’re going to talk about today, starting with a story by Laurel Shannon called “Grandma on the Lam.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 分
  • The Naked Truth – It’s Just Family, Right?

    The Naked Truth – It’s Just Family, Right?
    2026/04/22
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m introducing our new humor book. I think this is something like the tenth humor book that we’ve published and they’re always very popular. They’re also so much fun to work on—reading the thousands of submissions and then picking the 101 to be included in the book. I found I was laughing out loud even the third time I read some of these stories. These are all feel-good stories, a welcome interlude during these times and a hilarious alternative to watching or reading the news. They’re all true—and revealing—and revealing is what today’s episode is about: two stories that are about getting naked, by accident, in front of the in-laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 分
  • When Grandma Dives Right in with the Bathroom Humor

    When Grandma Dives Right in with the Bathroom Humor
    2026/04/20
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from our new book about being a grandmother. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma will make a great gift for Mother’s Day or any other occasion. It’s filled with stories written by grandmothers and also by grandchildren and grown children about the grandmothers in their lives. Now, if you have been exposed to small children you know that they all seem to love bathroom humor, so today’s stories are about when grandmas dive right in and get inappropriate along with their grandchildren. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    12 分
  • A Cat with a Purpose

    A Cat with a Purpose
    2026/04/17
    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: What I Learned from My Cat, which is our latest best-selling book of cat stories. We spent two years collecting stories for this book and there is SO MUCH variety in terms of what people learned from their cats – about resilience, and forgiveness, and living in the moment, and just plain being clever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 分