--- title: Tamron Hall Says Today Show Doesn't Define Her description: Find out what Tamron Hall said about her former role at the 'Today' show. canonical: https://time.com/4712216/tamron-hall-today-show-position-define/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T13:51:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:15.838Z og:title: Tamron Hall Says Her Old Job Won't 'Determine What I Do' og:description: 'It doesn’t define me' og:url: https://time.com/4712216/tamron-hall-today-show-position-define/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90fb6dfb4f9d5ebd/6988bfc47cdbac33d1d57985/tamron-hall-job-determine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 12th Annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tamron Hall Says Her Old Job Won't 'Determine What I Do' twitter:description: 'It doesn’t define me' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90fb6dfb4f9d5ebd/6988bfc47cdbac33d1d57985/tamron-hall-job-determine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tamron Hall Says Her Old Job Won't 'Determine What I Do' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Noam Galai/WireImage) Noam Galai—WireImage by [Natalie Stone / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Natalie Stone / People Contributor Mar 24, 2017 1:51 PM UTC [Tamron Hall](http://people.com/tag/tamron-hall/) won’t allow any job to determine her worth. NBC announced in a statement in February that the [_Today_ show](http://people.com/tv/katie-couric-on-megyn-kelly-having-to-adjust-to-the-early-mornings-at-the-today-show/) anchor, who served 10 years at the network, [would be leaving NBC News and MSNBC](http://people.com/tv/tamron-hall-leaves-nbc-news-msnbc-today-show/) when her contract expired at the end of February, just days after learning she’d be losing her 9 a.m. time slot because of the incoming former Fox News star [Megyn Kelly](http://people.com/tag/megyn-kelly/), joining the show in September. Hall, 46, also released a statement via the network after her departure was announced: “The last 10 years have been beyond anything I could have imagined, and I’m grateful. I’m also very excited about the next chapter. To all my great colleagues, I will miss you and I will be rooting for you.” Following her exit from the network, Hall said she received two different types of calls from people inquiring about her departure. “Some would call and say, ‘Oh my God, are you OK?’ And I was like, ‘What happened? Who died?’ and then there were other people who said, ‘What’s next?’ ” she said at the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council’s Summit Salute on Thursday, according to [_Page Six_](http://pagesix.com/2017/03/23/tamron-hall-my-job-at-today-didnt-define-me/). But Hall said that she doesn’t “want a friend who calls me saying, ‘Oh my God.’ ” “It’s a job. It doesn’t define me. It doesn’t determine what I do … how I treat people. I’m going to always look you in your face and say, ‘Thank you’ and ‘Please’ — and if you make me mad, a good cuss word — but in the end, a title can’t define you,” said Hall, _Page Six_ reports. The former _Today_ show anchor added: “When your card no longer says anything beneath it, but your name, are you still you? Can you still savor the victory — the moment that you were able to take that dream? I never imagined that I would be on the _Today_ show.” After she left the network, a source close to the situation [told PEOPLE that Hall](http://people.com/tv/tamron-hall-why-she-walked-away-from-today-show/), who was offered millions to stay, “wasn’t going to settle for sitting on the sidelines.” “Tamron’s a woman of integrity,” said the anchor’s good friend, TV writer-producer Mara Brock Akil, who used Hall as the muse for [Gabrielle Union](http://people.com/celebrity/gabrielle-union-talks-happy-marriage-dwyane-wade/)’s career-driven character on the hit BET show [_Being Mary Jane._](http://people.com/tv/being-mary-janes-lisa-vidal-opens-up-about-breast-cancer-diagnosis-my-mammogram-showed-nothing/) “And she’s writing her own story.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4712216/tamron-hall-today-show-position-define/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4712216/tamron-hall-today-show-position-define/"},"headline":"Tamron Hall Says Her Old Job Won't 'Determine What I Do'","datePublished":"2017-03-24T13:51:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:15.838Z","description":"'It doesn’t define me'","url":"https://time.com/4712216/tamron-hall-today-show-position-define/","keywords":["motto","career","identity","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90fb6dfb4f9d5ebd/6988bfc47cdbac33d1d57985/tamron-hall-job-determine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Natalie Stone / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90fb6dfb4f9d5ebd/6988bfc47cdbac33d1d57985/tamron-hall-job-determine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"12th Annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball","caption":"12th Annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball","creditText":"Noam Galai—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4712216/tamron-hall-today-show-position-define/","name":"Tamron Hall Says Her Old Job Won't 'Determine What I Do'"}}]}] ```