She continued, “I believed that with everything in me.”

Hoda Kotb refused to give up

Kotb toldE!

Not that there weren’t some doubts along the way.

Hoda Kotb smiling

When Kotb got her big break withDatelinein the late 90s, there were times when herconfidencein her abilities waned.

“I took a pay cut to come to NBC,” she admitted.

“I took less because I thought, ‘Wow, could I do this job?

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Do I have what it takes?

There’s also all the rejection she faced before breaking into the industry.