She’ll be fine eventually ... if y’all don’t mind shouting her out every now and then. I think it would make her feel good.”

The beloved journalist is stepping back from her career to focus more on raising her two daughters, whom she adopted in 2017 and 2019.

Hoda Kotb, a fixture at NBC for more than two decades, says she will leave her morning perch on the “Today” show early next year, telling staffers “it’s time.” In a memo to her team — and later in an emotional on-air reveal Thursday — Kotb said her 60th birthday this summer helped trigger the departure: “I saw it all so clearly: my broadcast career has been beyond meaningful,