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

Whereas attending QVC’s Q50 Age of Chance summit in Santa Monica on Wednesday, Might 14, Kotb informed 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 not too long ago 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 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 understand I can not keep up that late. Like, that is all. I am completed 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 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 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. Once we speak in regards to the age of risk, my blessings got here in my 50s. I do not assume I used to be even born earlier than then,” she continued. “This looks like such a brand new period for me. So after they referred to as this the Age of Chance, I used to be like, ‘Completely.’ And I believe anybody who thinks, my 40s, I am not, I have never met any individual, 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 telephone, 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, all the pieces was crummy, youngsters had been combating, blah, blah, blah. I bought within the automotive 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 change in your mind will aid you see “prospects opening up.”

“If you happen to say all the pieces’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 believe I am doing this, like, repotting factor,” mentioned Kotb, 60. “You understand while 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 realize 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 social gathering 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 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 would by no means had that feeling earlier than.”