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Open Book with Jenna

Open Book with Jenna

By: TODAY Jenna Bush Hager
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 TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager is an open book and is known for sharing all of who she is. Now Jenna will bring intimate, inspiring and entertaining conversations with celebrities, experts, friends, authors, and book lovers to a wider audience in her new podcast, Open Book with Jenna. Each week, she’s joined by a guest who shares candid stories about their life, current projects, and reveals how a favorite read or a first book may have influenced their path. Join Jenna as she continues her mission to connect people, create meaningful conversations, and share her love of storytelling.2023 NBCUniversal Media LLC, all rights reserved Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Kristin Hannah on Telling the Forgotten Stories of Women (September 2025)

    Kristin Hannah on Telling the Forgotten Stories of Women (September 2025)
    Apr 23 2026

    Kristin Hannah is the bestselling author of more than 20 novels, including The Nightingale, The Four Winds and The Women, and has built her career around telling the often overlooked stories of women in history. In this conversation from September 2025, Hannah sits down with Jenna to reflect on the books that shaped her, the path that led her from practicing law to becoming a novelist and the deep research behind her historical fiction. Plus, she opens up about why The Women took more than 20 years to write and what continues to draw her to stories of resilience, sacrifice and womanhood.


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    44 mins
  • Sheinelle Jones Opens Up About Motherhood, Loss & Her Book 7 Years in the Making

    Sheinelle Jones Opens Up About Motherhood, Loss & Her Book 7 Years in the Making
    Apr 16 2026

    In this heartfelt Open Book conversation, Sheinelle Jones opens up to Jenna Bush Hager about her deeply personal journey behind her book, “Through Mom’s Eyes", a passion project years in the making. From lessons learned interviewing inspiring mothers to navigating grief, single motherhood, and discovering new strength, Sheinelle shares powerful reflections on love, loss, and resilience with a few lighthearted parenting moments mixed in.


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    40 mins
  • Kate DiCamillo on Imagination, Resilience and the Stories That Stay With Us (November 2023)

    Kate DiCamillo on Imagination, Resilience and the Stories That Stay With Us (November 2023)
    Apr 9 2026

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    47 mins
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