Joanne LaMarca Mathisen, executive producer of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, got her start at NBC as a page in 1987.
We are all works in progress; even the successful women you see owning it on Instagram faced stumbling blocks along the way and continue to work hard to stay at the top of their game. In this series, we're sitting down with the people that inspire us to find out: How'd they do it? And what is success really like? This isJoanne LaMarca Mathisen, the executive producer of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, got her start at NBC as part of its famous page program back in 1987.
I'll never forget my first Grammy Awards, which was at Radio City . We did red carpet and it was pouring. We would shoot and I would take the tape and I'd run it back over to 30 Rock in the pouring rain. We were all dressed up. I was soaked. I thought, all my friends think I'm at the Grammys and how glamorous it is, and I'm really running tapes back and forth from 30 Rock to Radio City.
I have been a huge Cher fan since I was about 5 years old. We had Cher on the show one day with Kathie Lee and Hoda and they called me on the show with them. We were live. And I thought,"Oh, my God, the little 5-year-old me would never have dreamt that I would be on national television standing next to Cher."
My advice would be work when they're young, because they don't need you as much as you need them when they're young. As they get older, they don't think they need you, but they do. When they're younger, they have babysitters who cater to their every whim when you can't. When they're older, they're kind of on their own.If you have the luxury of being able to take a break, and that's where your heart is, that's where you should be.
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