Hoda Kotb Reveals She's Working to Make Her Next Big Career Move This Spring: 'I'm in the Building Process'

Mar. 15, 2025

Hoda Kotb on November 29, 2023 on NBC’s Today Show.Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty

Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty

BeforeHoda Kotbsays farewell totheTodayshow,she’s revealing what may be next for her!

Kotb, 60, appeared on the Monday, Jan. 6 episode ofThe Kelly Clarkson Show, and hostKelly Clarksoncheekily asked the renowned journalist about her future plans.

“I have to say though, ma’am, as soon as they told me you were not doingThe Today Show,I was like, ‘So what’s that bitch doing?’ " Clarkson, 42, joked. “I was like, ‘Because there’s no way you’re not doing anything.’ You’re me, you like problems, you like working.”

“I like things, I do,” Kotb began. “So, I kind of got hooked in the wellness space, like a couple of years ago. I started doing stuff that I thought seemed woo woo and weird, and then all of a sudden as I was doing it, I was like, ‘Wait, I feel calmer, I feel better.’ ”

“Woo woo makes you feel good,” Clarkson declared, and Kotb quickly repeated the statement in agreement.

“We can get together, do things that I love, and when you’re done, it’s not like going to Mexico with your girls, which is fun, but this is something that when you leave, you’ll go like, ‘Oh my gosh. I feel transformed. I feel different,’ ” she told Clarkson. “So I’m in the building process of that.”

Hoda Kotb on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Jan. 6, 2024.The Kelly Clarkson Show/instagram

The Kelly Clarkson Show/instagram

“That’s so healthy to be the voice for that and build a community for that, because I need — a lot of us need — to be better at that. I’m like, ‘Go, go, go, go.’ A lot of us are. We exhaust ourselves and we’re not good at knowing how to be still or slow down,” Clarkson said.

Kotb said her new project would launch in the spring and promised to tell Clarkson all about it when the time comes.

“Don’t tell me about it, invite me,” Clarkson joked, but Kotb assured her that Clarkson is coming.

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, November 14, 2024.Nathan Congleton/NBC/Getty

Nathan Congleton/NBC/Getty

Meanwhile, to kick off Kotb’s final week dubbed a“Hoda-bration”atToday, the anchor wasreunited with 70 of her former Tri Delta sorority sistersfrom Virginia Tech.

Later in the broadcast, herToday with Hoda & Jennaco-host,Jenna Bush Hager, teamed up with one of Kotb’s favorite authors, Charlie Mackesy, author ofThe Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse,andgifted her a special painting.

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Kotb’s final episode ofTodayandToday with Hoda and Jennawill air on Friday, Jan. 10. TheTodayshow airs weekdays on NBC (beginning at 7 a.m. ET).

source: people.com