How to Reinvent Your Life Starting Today

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Dec 8, 2025

Hoda Kotb, a beloved NBC co-anchor and bestselling author, shares her transformative journey of reinvention. She discusses how to recognize when it's time to pause and reassess life’s direction, illustrating her own experiences—from overcoming cancer to becoming a mother later in life. Hoda emphasizes the importance of voicing suppressed dreams and persistently overcoming rejection. Listeners will learn actionable steps like daily journaling and embracing the beginner mindset, proving that it's never too late to create a fulfilling new chapter.

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INSIGHT

You Can Stop The Train

Your present circumstances are not your destiny; you can stop the train and reevaluate at any age.
Recognize when "good enough" becomes a limiter and allow yourself to want more with abundance in mind.

ADVICE

Make A Time Pie To See Priorities

Map your life by cutting paper pieces sized to how much time and energy each area takes.
Rearrange pieces until your priorities reflect how you truly want to spend your life.

ANECDOTE

Speaking A Buried Desire Opened Doors

Hoda buried her desire for motherhood until a friend asked why she'd never voiced it, which prompted her to speak it aloud.
Saying it unlocked a chain of events that led to adopting her daughters in her fifties.

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If you’ve been feeling the itch for something more in life: a new chapter, a new dream, a new version of yourself – this episode is your green light.

It is a guide to how you can transform your life at any moment.

Today, Mel sits down with her friend Hoda Kotb. Hoda, more than anyone else, will prove to you that reinvention is something you CAN do.

In her twenties and thirties, she climbed the ranks in newsrooms across the country and refused to quit until she landed one of the most coveted jobs in the world, a co-anchor of the Today Show.

In her forties she became a breast cancer survivor, in her fifties she adopted her daughters and became a mother for the first time, and at sixty, she walked away from the peak of her career to launch a brand-new business with no prior experience.

Every single time life whispered, “It’s too late for you,” Hoda said, “No, it’s not. Watch me.”

The wisdom she is sharing, directly with you, will prove that it's not too late – you can reinvent your life.

She is going to walk you step by step through how she did it, over and over again.

She will teach you how to:

-“Stop the train” of your life, zoom out, and honestly ask, “Is this actually enough for me?”

-Find the courage to give voice to the quiet dream you’ve buried because you’re afraid it won’t happen

-Keep going when other people say you're not good enough

-Reframe fear, rejection, and “no” using Hoda’s wild early-career story (27 rejections and ONE person who changed everything)

-Truly start to believe that you do deserve more

If you feel stuck in your job, your relationship, your routine, or just in a version of yourself you’ve outgrown, this episode is your permission slip and your playbook.

This is your sign. This is your moment.

Let Hoda show you what’s possible.

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If you liked the episode, check out this one next with Dr. Martha Beck: How to Find Your Purpose & Design the Life You Want

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