Hoda Kotb Reveals Submit-At this time Routine & Why Her 50s Had been Her Favourite Decade

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

“I rise up at 4 as an alternative 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 function as a breakfast tv anchor on TODAY. Kotb solely lately retired from her publish, 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 highschool. I come residence,” she continued. “I do some work. I am engaged on a brand new firm. After which after that, I choose them up after college, 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 evening place, Kotb stated it could be previous her mattress time. “Oh, lady. You recognize I am unable to keep up that late. Like, that is all. I am finished by 9,” she added.

She didn’t, nevertheless, rule out the thought 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 ladies over 50.

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

“I acquired my children in my 50s, my job in my 50s. Once we speak in regards to 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 appears like such a brand new period for me. So after 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 never 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 maintain taking place to me.’ So on a foul day a few weeks in the past, my daughter was sick, we missed this, all the things was crummy, children have been preventing, blah, blah, blah. I acquired within the automobile and I used to be driving and I stated to myself, ‘Good issues maintain taking place to me as a result of … my flight was on time. Good issues maintain taking place to me as a result of … my daughter slept by the evening.'”

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

“In the event you say all the things’s unhealthy, you are most likely 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,” stated Kotb, 60. “You recognize whenever you pull your self up by the roots, and also you’re sort 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.”

“Once I turned 60, one thing bizarre occurred, man,” she added. “I turned 60, and we had this stunning social gathering on the At this time Present, and I seemed out on the sea of all of the individuals who got here, and exquisite 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.”