"In sharing my journey - the setbacks, risks, and victories - I hope to remind you that if there's one bet you should make in life, it's on yourself."
On sale January 26, 2027
From the Emmy Award-winning host of Tamron Hall comes a candid and deeply personal memoir that shares hard-earned lessons about faith, fierceness, and how you can transform life’s greatest challenges into unexpected opportunities
In February 2017, three minutes before going on air, Tamron Hall received a text message that changed her life. After more than three decades of building a career she loved, including a history-making role on the Today show, she learned that the future she had worked so hard to build was no longer hers. It was a painful career setback, but life had already taught her that our hardest moments don’t have to become our defining ones.
With faith in God and herself, as well as the fierce determination to succeed through life’s ups and downs, Hall resolved not simply to endure this downturn but to rise higher than ever. That choice became the beginning of an extraordinary new chapter creating her own daytime talk show, becoming a history-making Daytime Emmy-winning host in her first season, and welcoming her son at 48.
In this warm, wise, and deeply inspiring memoir, Hall draws on a lifetime of personal stories—from her childhood in Texas to early years in Chicago’s newsrooms, to heartbreak and fertility challenges, to growing Tamron Hall into the second longest-running solo syndicated talk show in ABC Disney history—as she shares the lessons she’s learned along the way. Through chapters that feel like conversations with a trusted friend, she empowers readers to:
Own your story even when others try to rewrite it for you.
Stand up to what diminishes you and learn to walk away with dignity and purpose.
Embrace reinvention and the power of new beginning.
Move forward with courage, especially when the path ahead seems impossible.
Whether you’re starting out, rebuilding after disappointment, navigating change, or simply wondering what comes next, BET ON YOURSELF is a reminder that the chapters we never planned can become the ones that change our lives.
Photo: © Kat and Mariel The Tyler Twins
Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall is a two-time Emmy Award-winning creator, executive producer, and host of the syndicated talk show Tamron Hall, as well as a New York Times bestselling author, a journalist, and a mother. In a career spanning more than three decades, she has broken barriers, made history, and built a career defined by thoughtful storytelling, genuine curiosity, and authentic conversation.
Tamron is the author of the Jordan Manning mystery series, the cookbook A Confident Cook, and the instant New York Times bestselling children’s book Harlem Honey. Her journalism has earned numerous honors, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting on domestic violence. She is also a passionate advocate for survivors of domestic violence and partnered with Safe Horizon to establish The Tamron ❤ Renate Fund in memory of her sister, Renate.
Bet on Yourself is her first memoir.
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