"I made myself a schedule because I really wanted to have something going on that day," Hoda Kotb tells PEOPLE about her first day of retirement

Hoda Kotb felt all the emotions during her farewell on the Today show on January 10, but the beloved TV host has “no FOMO” about her years-long run on the daytime talk show. “I have no FOMO, which is so funny because I knew 100 [percent].

Former Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb surprised Al Roker and more during the NBC morning show's Feb. 28 broadcast to spice of the Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans less than two months after her exit.

Hoda Kotb has no regrets about her recent Today show exit. "I have no FOMO, which is so funny because I knew 100 [percent]. I don't have an ounce of it," Kotb, 60, exclusively told Us Weekly at Runway for Recovery's inaugural New York City fashion show at The Lighthouse,

The former co-anchor made a special video appearance on the '3rd Hour of Today' to greet Craig Melvin, Al Roker and Dylan Dreyer as they visited her 'second home' of New Orleans

Hoda Kotb — who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and underwent a mastectomy — opened up to PEOPLE about how she never saw her diagnosis coming as someone who lived a healthy lifestyle.