Hoda Kotb Reveals Publish-Right now Routine & Why Her 50s Had been Her Favourite Decade

Whereas attending QVC’s Q50 Age of Risk summit in Santa Monica on Wednesday, Could 14, Kotb informed TooFab solely 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 total.

“And I do my morning routine that I love to do. I do an train routine and meditation and stuff. I get my children up. I stroll them to high school. I come house,” 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 think about being again on TV, maybe in a late evening place, Kotb mentioned it could be previous her mattress time. “Oh, woman. You already know I can not keep up that late. Like, that is all. I am completed by 9,” she added.

She didn’t, nonetheless, rule out the concept of daytime tv once 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 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. Prefer to me, my 50s have been my favourite decade of all,” she recalled.

“I bought my children in my 50s, my job in my 50s. Once we discuss concerning 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 looks like such a brand new period for me. So once they referred to as this the Age of Risk, I used to be like, ‘Completely.’ And I feel anybody who thinks, my 40s, I am not, I have never met anyone, 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 taking place to me.’ So on a foul day a few weeks in the past, my daughter was sick, we missed this, the whole lot was crummy, children have been combating, blah, blah, blah. I bought within the automotive and I used to be driving and I mentioned to myself, ‘Good issues hold taking place to me as a result of … my flight was on time. Good issues hold taking place to me as a result of … my daughter slept via the evening.'”

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

“When you say the whole lot’s unhealthy, you are in all probability proper,” she added.

Information that Kotb was leaving Right now 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 whenever you pull your self up by the roots, and also you’re type of dangling, and you are like, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing? What’s taking place?’ However you already know you’re going to land in fertile floor.”

“Once I turned 60, one thing bizarre occurred, man,” she added. “I turned 60, and we had this lovely celebration on the Right now Present, and I seemed 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.”