Jenna Bush Hager is teaming up as soon as once more with Hoda Kotb, simply not on the small display screen.
Bush Hager’s podcast, Open E-book with Jenna, returns for a 3rd season on Thursday, September 18. “I’m so excited for our new season of our podcast Open E-book with Jenna as a result of it’s such a ripe time for superior dialog,” the TV persona advised Immediately.com in an interview revealed on Tuesday, September 16. “We now have an important lineup of writers, musicians, and thought leaders who we’re going to speak to about all the pieces. I can’t wait.”
Following Thursday’s premiere episode with visitor Zac Brown, Kotb will sit down with Bush Hager for a dialog on the podcast’s September 23 episode. Different introduced company embrace Tembi Locke (October 2) and Malala Yousafzai (October 16).
“Similar to a very good e book, these conversations will depart you feeling impressed and entertained,” Bush Hager stated. “I’ve at all times been an open e book, sharing all of who I’m — my life, my household, and my love of storytelling. Right here, we’re all open books.”
Kotb has not appeared on Bush Hager’s Open E-book podcast since its launch in 2023. Bush Hager, in the meantime, has been a visitor on two episodes of Kotb’s Making Area podcast, which debuted in 2021.
On Open E-book with Jenna, Bush Hager and her superstar company speak about all the pieces from their favourite novels to their private {and professional} ups and downs. “Every week, she’s joined by a visitor who shares candid tales about their life, present tasks, and divulges how a favourite learn or a primary e book could have influenced their path,” the podcast’s official description reads.
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Kotb’s Open E-book podcast episode comes shortly after she returned to Immediately for a particular look on September 9. In the course of the episode, Kotb highlighted New York Metropolis instructor Reyes Andon for uplifting his college students to take cost in his bodily schooling class. Kotb performed sports activities with the instructor’s class out on the 30 Rockefeller Heart plaza earlier than reuniting along with her Immediately colleagues inside Studio 1A.
“Every thing’s nice. My youngsters are in third grade and 1st grade. I now get up at 5:30 [a.m.],” she stated of life post-Immediately. “I really feel actually good. My little enterprise is doing its factor. I’ve received a brand new e book. It’s only a totally different life, but it surely’s humorous how simply you will discover your self beginning one thing new.”
Kotb added, “I miss you guys like loopy. I miss everyone. Being right here made my coronary heart harm a bit bit.”
Bush Hager advised her former fourth hour of Immediately cohost that she “can at all times come again,” in addition to known as her out for not repeatedly tuning in to Immediately With Jenna & Associates. “It’s been going actually, rather well,” Kotb stated of the present, to which Bush Hager jokingly replied, “You fake you’ve been watching.”
Bush Hager has continued to guide the fourth hour of Immediately, now titled Immediately With Jenna & Associates, with superstar visitor hosts since Kotb exited the NBC morning present in January.
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