Mother's Day has always been important and a big big day for me but journey, 53 years on this planet and meeting so many wonderful people

and so many wonderful women who Shepard, who guide, who love, who comfort, and who never walked into a hospital and walked out with a baby of

their own, but they mother.

Welcome to your mama's kitchen, the podcast that explores how the kitchens we grew up and

his kids shape who we become as adults. I'm Michelle Norris. Today we're joined by the wonderful journalist

and television host Tamron Hall. Her self-titled talk show has been on the air

for five seasons winning her two Emmys and just recently getting renewed for its sixth

season. If you've ever watched her show it's no surprise why audiences love her.

She has a bright energy that draws people in, including her

big name guests, but she also has a knack for tackling hard news subjects like

incarceration and women's rights abroad in an informative and yet very

approachable way. This most definitely came from her extensive background in journalism,

from reporting at MS NBC to hosting News Nation with

Tamron Hall, Deadline, and the Today Show. In our chat we learned something

about her family's core strength and the way they tend to stand up for their

beliefs from her grandfather staring down the Ku Klux Klan from the front porch to her decision to start her own show when management decided to pull

her off the air in her dream job at the Today show. Tamron is one tough cookie.

And in recent years, she's also proven herself to be a pretty capable home cook

She's launching her own cook book this year. It's called a confident cook

Confidence is good in the kitchen. But before she became the glamorous fashionable TV personality we see today,

Tamron was a country girl from a small town in rural Texas, raised in a shotgun house

by her mother, her grandfather, and a community of women she considered to be mother figures.

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