Hoda
Kotb
is
ready
for
her
new
normal.
Nearly
two
weeks
after
the
longtime
Today
cohost
announced
she
will
be
leaving
the
morning
show
early
next
year,
the
journalist
shed
new
light
on
her
decision
to
walk
away
after
more
than
16
years.
“I
think
I’m
doing
this
like
repotting
thing,”
Hoda
told
Jimmy
Fallon
during
an
Oct.
7
appearance
on
The
Tonight
Show.
“You
know
when
you
pull
yourself
up
by
the
roots
and
you’re
kind
of
dangling
and
you’re
like,
‘Oh
my
God,
what
am
I
doing?
What’s
happening?’
But
you
know
you’re
going
to
land
in
fertile
ground.”
While
Hoda’s
Sept.
26
announcement
might
have
surprised
Today
fans,
she
revealed
the
exact
moment
she
knew
she
needed
to
leave
occurred
earlier
this
summer.
“When
I
turned
60,
something
weird
happened,
man,”
she
explained.
“I
turned
60
and
we
had
this
beautiful
party
at
the
Today
show
and
I
looked
out
at
the
sea
of
all
the
people
who
came
and
beautiful
signs
and
so
many
well
wishes
and
I
knew
in
my
heart
like, ‘This
is
it,
man.’
This
is
what
the
mountaintop
must
feel
like.
Like
I’d
never
had
that
feeling
before.”
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