On the show, Hoda Kotb told Jenna Bush Hager that Stan Sandroni from Greenville, Mississippi took a chance on her and helped her get her start in her career (via Today). Before that, though, the broadcast journalist was turned down, time after time, just like Sophia Cheong. A week ago, Cheong, a full stack engineer at HOMEE, Inc., said that she endured more than 350 rejections and 40 interviews before getting a job. The news, which she shared to LinkedIn, now has thousands of comments and reactions, and the story made it to "Today with Hoda & Jenna."

"You just need one person to say you can do it," Kotb said on the topic.

Hager then shared the person who made the difference in her career, saying it was Kotb herself. "I know that sounds cheesy, and I almost didn't say it," she told her co-anchor. "But I was here for years, doing a lot of different things, and I worked really hard, and I had producers say, 'Well, you're a correspondent. That's where you are.' And that was good. That was what I wanted to be."

Hager got emotional as she shared her story. "I wanted to tell stories," she explained to Kotb. "You asked me to fill in with you, and I'll never forget it, so my one is you."