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The Mike Litton Experience

Diana Wentworth: From “Chicken Soup for the Soul” to Love Letters That Heal the World

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

🌟 In this inspiring episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with legendary author, speaker, and visionary Diana Wentworth — co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook, founder of the world-renowned Inside Edge community, and creator of the global Love Letters movement. At 84, Diana continues to redefine purpose and […]

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0:00.0

I found myself almost engaged to a very eligible bachelor and suddenly knowing that that was not going to be a good thing because he didn't, I was arm candy to him.

0:15.2

He didn't get me, you know, on a deep level.

0:18.9

He didn't have a capacity for intimacy.

0:21.4

And I knew that I would have that in my life.

0:24.6

So I broke up with him and then very magically traveled to Hong Kong,

0:30.6

knew to go stand down in the hotel lobby early one morning.

0:34.1

And my future husband walked off the elevator and we were engaged in three days.

0:38.9

We had all sorts of people on our show.

0:41.9

Richard Simmons was our first.

0:43.9

Yes.

0:44.8

It was terrifying, but we always out kind of on the cutting edge of discovering who we are,

0:52.6

you know, what we wanted to express in the world. And we had a wonderful

0:56.3

career in entertaining. Was Richard Simmons as much fun as he looked like he was? He was so funny.

1:04.0

I just loved him. He scared me to death. You know, it's our first show, our first taping. And he's

1:10.8

telling us that we will not succeed unless we fight with each other.

1:14.1

We were invited by a group of really well-known people to go into the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.

1:24.1

That was interesting.

1:25.4

That was terrifying.

1:27.3

Yeah, kind of.

1:28.5

We went with Barbara, Marx Hubbard, Dennis Weaver, Mike Farrell from Mash, the Real Patch Adams,

1:38.8

Swami Satchettinanda.

1:40.6

I mean, these people were going into the Soviet Union, and they were going to be meeting with

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