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

Whereas attending QVC’s Q50 Age of Risk summit in Santa Monica on Wednesday, Might 14, Kotb advised 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 just lately retired from her submit, after 17 years within the place and 25 years with NBC general.

“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 residence,” she continued. “I do some work. I am engaged on a brand new firm. After which after that, I decide them up after college, barbecue some salmon on the grill, night-night at 9:00.”

When TooFab requested whether or not she would take into account being again on TV, maybe in a late evening place, Kotb mentioned it could be previous her mattress time. “Oh, woman. I am unable to keep up that late. Like, that is all. I am accomplished by 9,” she added.

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

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

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

“I bought my youngsters in my 50s, my job in my 50s. After we discuss in regards to the age of risk, my blessings got here in my 50s. I do not suppose I used to be even born earlier than then,” she continued. “This seems like such a brand new period for me. So after they known as this the Age of Risk, I used to be like, ‘Completely.’ And I believe anybody who thinks, my 40s, I am not, I have not met someone, 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 constructive outlook on life.

“I attempt to have a mindset that opens me as much as good issues. In my telephone, I’ve a immediate that claims, ‘Good issues hold occurring to me.’ So on a nasty day a few weeks in the past, my daughter was sick, we missed this, every thing was crummy, youngsters had been preventing, blah, blah, blah. I bought within the automotive and I used to be driving and I mentioned to myself, ‘Good issues hold occurring to me as a result of … my flight was on time. Good issues hold occurring to me as a result of … my daughter slept via the evening.'”

She added {that a} easy change in your mind will enable you to see “prospects opening up.”

“If you happen to say every thing’s unhealthy, you are in all probability proper,” she added.

Information that Kotb was leaving Right this moment got here as a shock to followers.

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

“I believe I am doing this, like, repotting factor,” mentioned Kotb, 60. ” 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 occurring?’ However you already know 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 lovely get together on the Right this moment Present, and I appeared out on the sea of all of the individuals who got here, and delightful indicators and so many nicely 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.”