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Hoda Kotb looks back on when she told her former Today cohosts that she was leaving in an exclusive excerpt from her new book Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life

"I was preparing myself to speak the truth out loud, and I think that that was very scary," she tells PEOPLE

Jump and Find Joy is available now, wherever books are sold

Hoda Kotb knows a thing or two about never giving up. She also — miraculously, simultaneously — knows exactly when the job is done.

These principles, wrapped up in Kotb's perfect brand of optimism, drive her latest book Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life , available now. The book, which is filled with anecdotes from Kotb's own life and career as well as words of advice from fellow changemak

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