Hoda Kotb Announces Her Next Career Move Following “Today” Retirement

The count is down to just days for Hoda Kotb before she retires from the Today Show and leaves her career behind. The long-time host will exit the television world, but she’s not going to quit working entirely. As a guest on the Kelly Clarkson Show, the American Idol alum pressed Hoda for a bit of intel about what’s coming next.

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Kelly joked she didn’t believe Hoda was just going to stop working. “I was like, because there’s no way you’re not doing anything. You’re me; you like problems, you like working.”

She told Kelly, “I like things, I do. So I kind of got hooked in the wellness space, like a couple of years ago,” she explained. “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.”

She said she plans to start a wellness app and a company with a podcast and retreat focused on making a better you.

“And when you are 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. So I’m in the building process of that,” Hoda Kotb said of the career shift.

Kelly loved Koda’s idea and said she would definitely be down for this kind of community “‘Cause a lot of us need to be better at that, ’cause we’re—I’m a go, go, go, go,” she said. “We exhaust ourselves, and we’re not good at knowing how to be still or slow down.”

Kelly shared a clip on Instagram and fans can’t wait. One wrote, “Talk about Inspiration. I love stuff like that. I know it may sound crazy. But it truly does Inspire me. Can’t give up. Won’t give up. I WILL SUCCEED. Because of individuals like you. Don’t ever stop doing what you LOVE. AND THAT’S REAL TALK.”

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