{"id":3720,"date":"2025-09-23T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:36:21","slug":"ive-spent-my-whole-life-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"‘I’ve spent my whole life waiting’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Leaping boldly is as embedded in Hoda Kotb<\/a>\u2019s DNA as smiling, loving music and wearing stacks of friendship bracelets.<\/p>\n

In 1998 she bounced from her New Orleans anchor desk for a local CBS affiliate to NBC News\u2019 “Dateline.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI was barely hanging on,\u201d Kotb, 61, says. \u201cI used to go up to correspondents and ask them like, \u2018Can you help me? I don’t know how to do this or that.\u2019 And it was probably years of feeling insecure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kotb pressed on anyway. She began hosting the fourth hour of \u201cToday\u201d<\/a> in 2007, emboldened by a battle with breast cancer to ask for the promotion. Kotb began coanchoring the \u201cToday\u201d show alongside Savannah Guthrie<\/a> in 2018. But last September, Kotb made the shocking announcement she was leaving the “Today” show.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved it, but I didn’t need it,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted it, but I didn’t have to have it. … There were so many things I wanted to try, but couldn’t, didn’t have time, wasn’t able, busy.\u201d She decided in her 60s, she\u2019d \u201cbe a beginner again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kotb launched her wellness company Joy 101<\/a> in May, which offers an app and hosts virtual and in-person events. \u201cBy the way, being an entrepreneur is hard, OK?\u201d she says. \u201cBeing a CEO of a company is hard. Nobody told me!\u201d but \u201cit’s such fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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