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Amy Newmark: ...Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Joining us on this episode is bestselling author Amy Newmark, who’s been the editor in chief and publisher of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series for the past 14 years. The latest book in the series is “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness”.  

 

Amy’s website is amynewmark.com and if you would like to share your story or poem with millions of people around the world, go to chickensoup.com and click on Submit Your Story.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

0:11.9

I'm Laura Owens.

0:13.0

And I'm Jan Black.

0:14.1

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books have become extremely popular in the last 30 years,

0:19.1

with more than 300 titles published.

0:21.9

Joining us on this episode is bestselling author Amy Newmark, who's been the editor-in-chief

0:26.6

and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series for the past 14 years.

0:31.2

Amy has edited 182 books in the series, the latest of which is called Chicken Soup for the Soul,

0:38.1

Your Ten Keys to Happiness.

0:40.4

Now, we'll find out more about that and about the unlikely career path that got Amy to where she is today.

0:45.7

So, Amy, thank you so much for joining us.

0:48.4

I've been looking forward to this so much.

0:50.7

So thank you for having me on.

0:52.4

Tell us how you came to be publisher and editor in chief

0:56.7

of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and why you wanted the job. Ah, well, it is an unusual

1:03.8

story because I've had so many different careers. But all of my prior careers were really

1:09.1

very business oriented. I was a telecom consultant. I was a Wall Street analyst covering the telecom and technology industries. I ran a hedge fund. I was on the board of directors of a bunch of different publicly traded technology companies. I was an executive at a telecom startup. So I did a lot of

1:31.7

things, but always in the world that I say only really has two emotions, fear and greed. I don't

1:37.7

know if you've heard that Wall Street thing, but it's that on Wall Street, there are really only two

1:42.6

emotions, fear and greed.

1:47.6

So now I'm doing this with every kind of emotion.

1:48.8

How did this happen?

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