Making Space with Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb

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Booking Overview

This is a weekly interview podcast focused on resilience, personal challenges, hope, and meaningful life stories, typically featuring high-profile entertainers, advocates, authors, and other public figures. PR agencies could credibly pitch celebrity clients, memoirists, health or mental-health advocates, and leaders with compelling lived experience tied to a substantial new project; booking is very difficult given the show's access to prominent national figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 163

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 5.0M followers

Contact Information

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Host

Hoda Kotb - Hoda Kotb is a television journalist, author, and longtime NBC TODAY personality known for interviewing public figures and sharing human-interest stories.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
High-profile entertainers, authors, advocates, and public figures with a substantial personal story of resilience or transformation, often connected to a memoir, health initiative, advocacy campaign, or other meaningful project.
Required Achievements:  
Recognized entertainment or media career, Published memoir or major personal project, Public advocacy in health, mental health, identity, or social issues, National visibility and a compelling lived-experience narrative

Recent Guest Discussions

Halle Berry - Menopause, Women's Health, Aging, Sexual Wellness, And Her Advocacy And Product Partnership Focused On Destigmatizing Intimate Health.

Laverne Cox - Shame, Childhood Trauma, Generational Trauma, Self-love, Forgiveness, And Personal Transformation.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler - Living With Multiple Sclerosis, Motherhood, Childhood Trauma, EMDR Therapy, Honesty, And Releasing The Pressure To Appear Fine.

Recent Topics

Resilience, Mental Health, Women's Health, Trauma, Self Love

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Making Space with Hoda Kotb
:

Mark Nepo on How the Words You Choose Shape the Life You Live

July 22, 2026

Most people spend their lives trying not to feel broken, but poet and spiritual philosopher Mark Nepo believes that breaking is actually where life begins. In this deeply moving conversation from Making Space, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening sits down with Hoda Kotb to pull back the curtain on how we can stay open, even when we are hurting, overwhelmed, or just trying to get through the day. Mark reflects on the wisdom he gained from his own life threatening can...

Halle Berry on Reclaiming Her Sex Life, Destigmatizing Menopause, and Embracing Turning 60

July 15, 2026

At 59 years old, Halle Berry is stepping into her most authentic chapter yet, and she’s not asking for permission. In this candid conversation with Hoda Kotb on Making Space, the Oscar-winning actress and director pulls back the curtain on the "invisible" stage of aging, the realities of menopause, and why she is done managing everyone else's expectations. Halle opens up about her passion project, and why she’s fighting to destigmatize women’s health in a society that often overlooks women on...

Laverne Cox on Overcoming Shame, Breaking Generational Trauma and the Journey to Self-Love

July 08, 2026

Before she was a trailblazing icon, Laverne Cox was a little girl in Mobile, Alabama, fighting to survive in a world that told her she didn't belong. In this vulnerable conversation with Hoda Kotb, Laverne reflects on the untold story behind her memoir, Transcendent, and the long path to embracing her authentic self. Laverne pulls back the curtain on the survival mechanisms she developed as a child to endure trauma, including the years she spent "disassociating" just to make it through the da...

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