Words that come to mind as I am about to launch this interview!
Are you ready to meet Amy Newmark and hear about her latest book, “Age Is Just a Number, 101 Tales of Humor and Wisdom for Life After 60?”
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Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published more than 170 new books, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today. She is also the author of Simply Happy, a crash course in Chicken Soup for the Soul advice and wisdom that is filled with easy-to-implement, practical tips for enjoying a better life.
Amy is credited with revitalizing the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand, which has been a publishing industry phenomenon since the first book came out in 1993. By compiling inspirational and aspirational true stories curated from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences, Amy has kept the twenty-seven-year-old Chicken Soup for the Soul brand fresh and relevant.
Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University where she majored in Portuguese and minored in French. She then embarked on a three-decade career as a Wall Street analyst, a hedge fund manager, and a corporate executive in the technology field. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Her return to literary pursuits was inevitable, as her honors thesis in college involved traveling throughout Brazil’s impoverished northeast region, collecting stories from regular people. She is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career—from collecting stories “from the people” in Brazil as a twenty-year-old to, three decades later, collecting stories “from the people” for Chicken Soup for the Soul.
When Amy and her husband Bill, the CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul, are not working, they are visiting their four grown children and their grandchildren.
Follow Amy on Twitter @amynewmark. Listen to her free podcast, The Chicken Soup for the Soul Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, the Podcasts app on iPhone, or by using your favorite podcast app on other devices.
2020. We’ve seen all the jokes, memes, and more serious desperation for this year like no other to be behind us. But, what if we were to shift and look at the year through a different lens? That’s what the team at the Ascension Show is doing for you! We find the GRATITUDE, INTEGRITY, AWARENESS, ALTRUISM, INTEGRATION, UNITY and ASCENSION in what seemed like the endless months of 2020. It’s a perspective we suspect you won’t find anywhere else. Each of our anchors walks us through a collective experience where the world came together, rose up, tapped in and worked for the common good. It really happened in 2020. We talk about Crisis=>Stabilization=>Thrive and climbing up The Emotional Ladder. Tears, applause, unicorns. It’s all here in our last show of the year! Join us to take a look at the year we think we know, we look closer and discover the GRATITUDE and JOY that was with us all year long. #InspireALL #HappyNewYear
Anchors: Dr. Denise McDermott, Jennifer Shaffer, Dr. Andrea Best, Beverly Bergmann, Cathleen O’Toole
Guests: Dr. Denise Berger, Matt Sarafa
Executive Producers: Dr. Denise McDermott, Cathleen O’Toole
Associate Producer: Katherine Axiotis
Music:
Vocals: Emily Eddins
Producers: Dr. Denise McDermott, G. Beverly Bergmann, Emily Eddins
It’s been a tough year. One that’s left so many of us to deal with a loss. Whether it’s a major loss, like that of a loved one and we’re reeling — or the quieter kind of loss, of a way of life, socialization, security — we are left to cope all the same. Our Ascension Show team is there with you. We’ve lost too. As Host Jennifer Shaffer tells us, “Don’t try to get over this, just co-exist with it.” Drs. Andrea Best and Denise McDermott will talk about all the losses their seeing with patients in their medical practices. And we’ll also delve into the concept that Loss is Personal. And your loss is, as Dr. Denise always says, “Divinely f**ked up, perfect.” Dr. Best will lead us on a Mindful Moment. And Ascension Medium Jennifer will tap into the New Normal and see how our ancestors can help us deal with loss this time of year.
Anchors: Dr. Denise McDermott, Jennifer Shaffer, Dr. Andrea Best, Cathleen O’Toole
Guests: G. Beverly Bergmann
Executive Producers: Dr. Denise McDermott, Cathleen O’Toole
Associate Producer: Katherine Axiotis
Music:
Vocals: Emily Eddins
Producers: Dr. Denise McDermott, G. Beverly Bergmann, Emily Eddins
David Nieves, one of the founding partners of GPS and Dr. Denise meet again! Are you ready to hear about “The Envision Effect” and the infinite possibilities of health, wealth, education, entertainment and e-commerce through the medium of virtual reality?
David and Dr. Denise also referenced Dr. Joe Dispenza and Dr. Bruce Lipton when discussing epigenetics and the power of the mind that integrated into this exciting “Envision Effect” manifestation interview!
Dr. Denise teams up with journalist Cathleen O’Toole to interview the authors of “Ask!The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny.”Crystal Dwyer Hansen and Mark Victor Hansen, of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series fame, are the husband-wife duo behind a new recipe for using questions to alter one’s course. From, “I ask for love,” to “I ask for the right breaks,” the Hansens believe asking yourself, asking others and asking God elevates your destiny.
In their comprehensive talk, Dr. Denise uncovers deeply personal stories about how Crystal and Mark used low points in their lives to ask themselves probing questions that eventually propelled them through crisis, into stabilization and THRIVE! Dr. Denise and the Hansens muse on everything from questions for the Dali Lama to the 267 questions Mark made sure he got answered before marrying Crystal.It’s an entertaining hour.
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Mark Victor Hansen:
Mark is widely known as an American inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer, author, serial entrepreneur, and member of multiple board of directors. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, with more than 500 million books sold.
In the area of human potential, no one is better known and more respected than Mark Victor Hansen. For more than 44 years, he has focused solely on helping people and organizations reshape their personal vision of what’s possible. His powerful messages of possibility, opportunity, and action have helped create startling and powerful change in thousands of organizations and millions of individuals worldwide.
With his open, honest, endearing charismatic style, Mark captures his audience’s attention as well as their hearts. With his one-of-a-kind technique and masterful story-telling ability, he is one of the most dynamic and compelling speakers of our time.
You may know Mark as “that Chicken Soup for the Soul guy.” Mark and his business partner, Jack Canfield, created what TIME magazine called, “the publishing phenomenon of the decade.” With more than 500 million CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL books sold around the world, and over 100 licensed products in the marketplace, it is one of the most successful publishing franchises in the world today.
The Chicken Soup idea was just one of many that have propelled Mark into the worldwide spotlight as a sought-after keynote speaker, best-selling author, futurist, business leader, and marketing maven. ASK! THE BRIDGE FROM YOUR DREAMS TO YOUR DESTINY and YOU HAVE A BOOK IN YOU! Mark believes it again has lightening in a bottle and it will outsell even the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The author of many books such as ONE Mark Victor Hansen
MINUTE MILLIONAIRE, CRACKING THE MILLIONAIRE CODE, CASH IN A FLASH, THE RICHEST KIDS IN AMERICA, HOW TO MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE, THE MASTER MOTIVATOR, THE POWER OF FOCUS, THE ALADDIN FACTOR, DARE TO WIN, THE MIRACLE OF TITHING and others, Mark Victor Hansen has an extensive library of audio programs, video programs, and enriching articles in the areas of “big thinking”, sales performance, marketing, publishing, and personal and professional development.
His energy and exuberance travels still further through mediums such as television (Oprah, CNN and The Today Show), print (TIME, US News & World Report, USA Today, The New York Times and Entrepreneur) and countless radio and newspaper interviews as he assures every one of the inherent genius in all of us if we choose to access our centers of influence, leverage our strengths and take action. And now, hundreds of podcasts world-wide.
Mark Victor Hansen is the founder of MEGA Book Marketing University, MEGA Speaking Empire, and MEGA Marketing Magic, and Enlightened Millionaire Institute. Each of these annual conferences speaks to the specific needs of those who want to discover, create and launch business empires.
A passionate philanthropist and humanitarian, Mark teaches the principles of the four types of tithing: thinking, time, talent, and treasures. Favored charities are Horatio Alger Scholarships, Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, Operation Smile, OCEANA, the Wyland Foundation, March of Dimes, Covenant House and is currently Co-Chairman (with his beloved wife, Crystal) of Childhelp Global Fundraising Campaign.
In the year 2000, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans honored Mark with the prestigious Horatio Alger Award. Each year, this association honors American leaders who personify the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories written by nineteenth-century American author Horatio Alger, Jr.
As an award winner, Mark Victor Hansen’s extraordinary life achievements stand as a powerful example that the free enterprise system still offers an opportunity to all.
In 2004, Mark was inducted into the Sales & Marketing Executive International’s Hall of Fame, receiving the Ambassador of Free Enterprise award. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Visionary Philanthropist for Youth Award by Covenant House of CA.
In 2000, Northwood University honored him as the Outstanding Business Leader of the Year. In 2002, The University of Toledo presented Mark with an Honorary Ph.D. in Business Administration and established the Mark Victor Hansen Entrepreneurial Excellence Fund, which will help shape the minds of future business leaders and assist in the development of the faculty who will teach them. Additionally, Mark has ten honorary doctorates.
Mark Victor Hansen presents 50 seminars each year, serves as chairman of Mark Victor Hansen & Associates, Inc. He is co-founder and chief visionary officer of Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Inc. and is the president of One Minute Millionaire, LLC.
Mark Victor Hansen is an enthusiastic crusader of what’s possible and is driven to make the world a better place. Mark is Co-Founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Inc. and President of One Minute Millionaire, LLC, and co-owner and founder of Natural Power Concepts see the video: naturalpowerconcepts.com. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Metamorphosisenergy.us and renewable energy and water company with headquarters in Scottsdale, Az. He is Co-Founder of Eco-World Technologies. He is on the board of advisors of Principle Solar, WET—Waste Water Technologies, and Cariloop. Currently, Co-Chairman of one the fastest growing alternative energy companies see: metamorphosisenergy.us. His massive transformative purpose: “To create energy and water independence for everyone, everywhere.”
Crystal Dwyer Hansen
Crystal Dwyer Hansen is an international speaker, researcher, corporate consultant, author, and entrepreneur. Her expertise is in the field of human potential. Through her years spent as a Transformational Life Coach, and Wellness/Nutrition Expert, she has seen people experience profound and lasting transformation in relationships, career, health & wellness, by tapping into their own inner resources. Having personally guided people from seemingly impossible states of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness—to triumph, freedom, and happiness, is what drives Crystal’s conviction that all people have unlimited potential for greatness if they only understand how to access those resources.
Crystal’s research in the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics provides the scientific knowledge she uses to help people use their minds proactively and evolve their consciousness to move themselves out of misery and into a fulfilled and happy life.
Crystal’s personal coaching, speaking, CD and video programs, books, and articles have helped people all over the world. She is a Member of the International Coaching Federation, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, the founder of Crystal Vision Life, Ltd, (crystalvisionlife.com) and Skinny Life™ a wellness company (skinnylife.com). Her book Skinny Life- The Secret to Being Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit, is available Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com. She travels the world with her husband, best-selling author and entrepreneur Mark Victor Hansen, speaking, inspiring, and teaching leadership. Crystal and Mark are releasing a new co-written book called ASK!The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny in Spring of 2020. They are both passionate about the health of our planet and the need to create comprehensively sustainable energy and water solutions. Together they are owners of Natural Power Concepts, a Hawaii based company focused on cleaning up the planet through natural energy devices. They live happily in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona.
He was born in San Juan Puerto Rico. Father of 5. International speaker, Mindset Coach, and Entrepreneur. Build sales channels and tribes of leaders to produce 250 million in 4 years.
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David and Dr. Denise discussed how to be in flow and alchemize suffering to go next level in all areas of one’s life!
Julia and Maddy created Sentiment back in March, after seeing how the pandemic was negatively affecting mental health. They realized that lots of people were having a hard time checking in on themselves regularly, and though this was worsened by the pandemic, it was not a new phenomenon. So, they created Sentiment: a texting community where they send daily texts to remind people to check in on themselves and their loved ones to provide inspiration, motivation and connection.
Julia Sheth was born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California (where she recently met Dr. Denise)! She graduated from the engineering school at Columbia University this past May with a degree in Computer Science, and she is now working as a software engineer at Microsoft.
Maddy Placik grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended Colby College in Maine where she studied Physics and Art, graduating in May 2018. She then continued her studies at Columbia University where she met Julia while also studying Computer Science. Maddy is now working as a Project Manager at American Express in New York City.
“Special thanks to Professor Lydia Chilton for believing in us and helping us along our journey with Sentiment and the Columbia University Virtual Design Challenge and Ignition Grant for inspiring us to create Sentiment and supporting us through the process!” ~xoxo Maddy & Julia
Kristin Sunanta Walker is the CEO of Mental Health News Radio Network and Mental Health Media Network which offers over 90+ podcasts focused on different aspects of mental health. She also created a streaming platform in partnership with Truli to showcase mental health films, her network podcasts, and docuseries. Her network endeavors are about powerful voices in service of others and self, educating people about all facets of mental health including mental illness, addiction, and more. With over 22 million listeners across her platforms, she invites individuals and organizations to share their great works in order to make the terms mental health and mental illness are comfortable, safe, and empowered discussions.
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