Hoda Kotb Reveals Post-Today Routine & Why Her 50s Were Her Favorite Decade

Whereas attending QVC’s Q50 Age of Chance summit in Santa Monica on Wednesday, Could 14, Kotb instructed TooFab completely how she is spending her days since retiring … and teased her future.

“I rise up at 4 as a substitute of three, sleeping in. I do know, I am so refreshed,” Kotb joked, referring to how early she needed to get up for her earlier position as a breakfast tv anchor on TODAY. Kotb solely lately retired from her submit, after 17 years within the place and 25 years with NBC total.

“And I do my morning routine that I love to do. I do an train routine and meditation and stuff. I get my youngsters up. I stroll them to high school. I come dwelling,” she continued. “I do some work. I am engaged on a brand new firm. After which after that, I choose them up after faculty, barbecue some salmon on the grill, night-night at 9:00.”

When TooFab requested whether or not she would contemplate being again on TV, maybe in a late night time place, Kotb mentioned it could be previous her mattress time. “Oh, woman. You already know I am unable to keep up that late. Like, that is all. I am carried out by 9,” she added.

She didn’t, nonetheless, rule out the concept of daytime tv after we introduced it up. “Daytime, maybe,” she replied with amusing.

The 60-year-old journalist additionally opened up about how inspiring it’s to be part of QVC’s celebration of ladies over 50.

“They all the time say 50 is the brand new 30. Fifty is the last decade the place I feel issues are limitless. Wish to me, my 50s had been my favourite decade of all,” she recalled.

“I received my youngsters in my 50s, my job in my 50s. After we discuss concerning the age of chance, my blessings got here in my 50s. I do not suppose I used to be even born earlier than then,” she continued. “This looks like such a brand new period for me. So once they known as this the Age of Chance, I used to be like, ‘Completely.’ And I feel anybody who thinks, my 40s, I am not, I have not met any person, I haven’t got a household. So what? It is coming, and it is coming proper on time.”

The journalist shares daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman.

She additionally revealed how she retains such a optimistic outlook on life.

“I attempt to have a mindset that opens me as much as good issues. In my cellphone, I’ve a immediate that claims, ‘Good issues preserve taking place to me.’ So on a foul day a few weeks in the past, my daughter was sick, we missed this, every thing was crummy, youngsters had been combating, blah, blah, blah. I received within the automobile and I used to be driving and I mentioned to myself, ‘Good issues preserve taking place to me as a result of … my flight was on time. Good issues preserve taking place to me as a result of … my daughter slept by means of the night time.'”

She added {that a} easy swap in your mind will assist you see “prospects opening up.”

“For those who say every thing’s unhealthy, you are in all probability proper,” she added.

Information that Kotb was leaving At this time got here as a shock to followers.

Whereas showing on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon, the longtime morning present anchor recalled the second she realized it was time to shut this chapter of her profession.

“I feel I am doing this, like, repotting factor,” mentioned Kotb, 60. “You already know if you pull your self up by the roots, and also you’re form of dangling, and you are like, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing? What’s taking place?’ However you’re going to land in fertile floor.”

“After I turned 60, one thing bizarre occurred, man,” she added. “I turned 60, and we had this stunning get together on the At this time Present, and I appeared out on the sea of all of the individuals who got here, and exquisite indicators and so many properly needs and I knew in my coronary heart like, ‘That is it, man. That is what the mountaintop should really feel like.’ Like I might by no means had that feeling earlier than.”