Episodes

  • Meet Liz Palmer, Chicken Soup for the Soul Writer and Senior Pageant Titleholder

    Meet Liz Palmer, Chicken Soup for the Soul Writer and Senior Pageant Titleholder
    Jul 18 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and it’s Friend Friday, which means I’m chatting with someone interesting from the Chicken Soup for the Soul world. Today I’d like to introduce you to Liz Palmer, who wrote an inspirational story for our latest book about cats, and also has such an interesting background that I wanted you to meet her. This is pretty amazing. Liz is an athlete and coach, but here is what blew me away. She was Ms. Nevada Senior America for 2022 and Ms. California Senior America for 2024. And she was 3rd runner up to Ms. Senior America in each year - 2022 and 2024, for the whole country. And talk about athletics, too. Liz is the current American record holder in the 60-meter hurdles for women over 50. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    16 mins
  • When the Cat Is a Neat Freak

    When the Cat Is a Neat Freak
    Jul 16 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and it’s Wow Wednesday, when I share stories that are a bit surprising or miraculous or just plain weird. Since we’ve been reviewing some of the stories in our new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from My Cat, I thought it would be fun to share with you today a couple of stories about some very unusual cats, total neat freaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 mins
  • Take Back Your Power

    Take Back Your Power
    Jul 14 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and we have a new book I’m very passionate about. It’s all about how Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. This is such an important truth for us all to embrace. I’m sure you’ve been through plenty of things where you have NOT put yourself first, where you didn’t even put yourself on your to-do list AT ALL. And that’s not good. It’s bad for you and it’s bad for all the people you take care of too. Because you’re no good to them if you’re frazzled and exhausted and starting to get resentful because your needs are not being addressed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    10 mins
  • Me Versus the Male Directors of a Private Club: I just wanted to play tennis Saturday morning

    Me Versus the Male Directors of a Private Club: I just wanted to play tennis Saturday morning
    Jul 11 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. Today I’m going to share with you one of my most popular pieces on Medium. If you don’t know what Medium is, it’s a place where writers can get their short pieces published, either by themselves, or in someone else’s publication. I started getting published on Medium in April, mostly in two publications which feature interesting stories and great writing. This story appeared in a publication called The Narrative Arc, and it’s called Me versus the Male Directors of a Private Club and it talks about what I had to do to be able to play tennis on Saturday mornings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 mins
  • What an Amazing Coincidence

    What an Amazing Coincidence
    Jul 9 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul. We are having so much fun with our latest book about miracles--because the stories are so surprising, and they are for EVERYONE, not just people who are religious. We have the most amazing coincidences in this book and I love sharing them on the podcast, so today I’m going to do it again, starting with a story from one of our regular writers, Tara Flowers, about the miraculous things that happened to her at a funeral that she didn’t want to attend for someone she didn’t know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 mins
  • Was It Luck or Was It a Miracle?

    Was It Luck or Was It a Miracle?
    Jul 7 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m sharing a couple of stories about really cool coincidences from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven. I’m not a religious person but I love making these books because so many of the stories we get are truly miraculous, no matter what your beliefs, and they just go to show that wonderful things can happen when we least expect them. Like the first story in the book – and by the way I always put one of my absolute favorites first in every book. This story by Christy Hoss is about a place that is already miraculous, and that’s Disneyland, but what happened to Christy’s family was particularly inspiring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    10 mins
  • What I Learned from the Cat

    What I Learned from the Cat
    Jul 4 2025
    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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    9 mins
  • American Ingenuity at Its Best During this Patriotic Week

    American Ingenuity at Its Best During this Patriotic Week
    Jul 2 2025
    Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday and it’s also Fourth of July week. And we just had Flag Day three weeks ago. So I thought I’d focus today on American ingenuity at Its Best During this Patriotic Week – with two stories from a book we made a few summers ago called Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    11 mins