Brooke Baldwin

@brooke_baldwin

“Strong back, soft front, wild ♥️” Artist / Director 🎬 / Journalist / Author @huddlethebook Host, THE TRUST on @netflix 📍LA/NY
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<<DEEP BREATH>> I did a thing… I went on this @hoffmanprocess podcast… And I told the truth. Thank you Sharon for making me feel so safe. 🎙️ Drop a comment below and tell me how my story resonates with your own. There’s more to come from me, y’all. ✨✨✨ LINK TO HOFFMAN PODCAST IN BIO #truth #soul #excavation #onlywayoutisthrough #hoffman
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Thank you @goodmorningamerica for having me on!!! I’M BAAAAAAACK. 📺 🫶🏽 Our show THE TRUST on @netflix is streaming NOW. #bettingonmyself Showrunner 🌟 @davidwfriedman Co-creators: @bennewmark @dannewmark Style: @leon_gray @shpshowroom Makeup: @yolitheartist Hair: @beckinbeautyxo_ ❤️ support: @peter_landesman
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2 months ago
Someone queue “Tattoo” by Jordin Sparks ✨🖋️
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You may know @brooke_baldwin from her time on @cnn , or, more recently, as the host of the @netflix hit reality show “The Trust: A Game of Greed.” Like Emily, Brooke was taught that achieving success requires blood, sweat, and tears (literally). But as she’s grown (and pivoted) - her mindset has changed. In this candid convo, Brooke talks with Emily about hustling early in her career, the highs (and lows) of leaving behind a dream career, and getting her first tattoo. Listen now wherever you get podcasts 🎧
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Let them eat cake! 🍰 And boy oh boy did we last night… (Confetti cake 🌈 brings me JOY. What’s your fave slice?) 📷: sweet-tooth partner in crime @janbennee #cake #confetti #confetticake #joy #sweettooth
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9 days ago
Rainbows, spring training ⚾️ and award-winning pizza! Thank you Phoenix. Thank you @peter_landesman for getting me back in a ballpark after a childhood spent rooting for the Braves. It was our first spring training 🌵 ⚾️ experience. And my GOODNESS does baseball evoke a lot — the crack of the bat, that leathery whiff of a glove, the ump yelling that gutteral “striiiiike!,” the peanuts (why do peanuts taste so much better this way?!) and these young men hoping to get a chance at the big leagues… Pure nostalgia and goodness. Baseball, I missed you. I’m so glad to be back. ⚾️ #baseball #springtraining #whitesox #giants #cubs #rangers #phoenix #mesa #camelback
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10 days ago
Oscars weekend! 🏆 And the MOST beautiful brunch at Barry D and @therealdvf ’s house. Kept my phone tucked away except for a photo of the hostess with the mostess… and my hot date… BTW cannot wait to see the upcoming doc on DVF by my new friend @sharmeenobaidchinoy and the brilliant women at Hulu: Beth and Belisa. 🎥 💪🏽 #oscars #brunch #hollywood #beverlyhills
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18 days ago
Tossin’ this on the grid. Thanks for all your DMs. Had no idea how much this would resonate. Perhaps I should post my ruminations more… Point is: THANKING the younger men and women versions of ourselves… who make us who we are today. ✨ (Shout out to the brilliant @purposefulpixie , one of the teachers at @theclass . Y’all, it’s been body movement practices like The Class and @forward__space that helped me unlock so much of who I am today. 🙏🏽 🪩) #youngerself #gratitude #444
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22 days ago
FIRST TATTOO!!! I’d never been a tattoo person. The idea of something being inked on me permanently just never spoke to me. Then I crushed an item off my bucket list ten years ago… and first flirted with the idea of ink. I got talked out of it. Read: I *allowed* myself to get talked out of it. Self-silencing. Ugh. Ten years later… at age 44 (the year I’ve changed eeeeeverything in my life), I feel I’ve finally found my VOICE. And that includes a permanent inked voice on my body. I got a little teary ➡️➡️➡️ SWIPE — not because of the pain, but because of this first ritual, my connection to myself, my soul. I was just so calm… which told me I waited til the time was right for me. 444… deeply ✨significant ✨numerical sequence for me. First two 4’s in black (my age) and the third 4 in a washed out grey = time isn’t linear. THANK YOU @evantattoo for being so talented and gentle and loving (and letting me ask you a gazillion questions #shocker 🤓) and to @debbyhymowitz , my inked sister, who told me exactly where to go. And to @peter_landesman for never pushing but watching me decide when my time was right… and for holding my hand. ❤️ #tattoo #first #ink #444
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I BOW TO THIS WOMAN. 💋 @therealdvf defines what a “woman’s woman” should be. Her life (including her own mother’s survival in the concentration camps), career, iconic wrap dress (still have my very first one), dedication to family, sexiness at ANY AGE… is extraordinary. #dvf #incharge #fairygodmother #goals
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Literally one of THE BEST humans I know 💕 (Also @forward__space beanie #ftw 🪩)
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Evening stroll. Too often we don’t take the time. 🌅 The Universe always delivers. By taking these 20 minutes, I stumbled into a new neighbor — this most adorable, pint-sized pug puppy @heylittlenemo (I’m not ready yet for another of my own… but I am that crazy lady on the street: “PUG!!”). We soaked in this most spectacular, goosebump-inducing cotton candy sunset. And we did the thing I like to do sometimes when life feels tricky: “3 things you’re most grateful for today.” All on a simple walk around the neighborhood.🥹 Take the time. Breathe. Look up. I feel like a total cheese ball but… I love awe.✨ #eyeswideopen #thelittlethings #grateful #pug
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1 month ago
This DRESS needs its own post. ✨🔥✨ Thank you @naeemkhannyc for loaning me this insanely beautiful piece of art to slide onto my body for our show’s finale. (The beads, the weight, the time it took to get me in and out… just ask @leon_gray 🫠) DELICIOUS. Also a giant shoutout to @netflix for choosing me to help steer this new show… to @dannewmark and @bennewmark for dreaming up this concept 🧠… to our intrepid showrunner @davidwfriedman (and former fellow news nerd 🤓) for turning this concept into a highly binge-able reality AND making this so damn FUN for me — and of course, thank you @dj.knox.s for the killer hair (always a hair straightener on hand!) and makeup. WE DID IT. 📺 🏆 👗 🌅 #dress #naeemkhan #delicious #netflix #thatsawrap
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There are times in life when I pinch myself. Hanging w my friend, activist, father, artist, community leader @killermike and his wife @shaybigga *the night before* the Grammys… was one of those moments. “IT’S A SWEEP, ATLANTA!” We met ten years ago when I first interviewed him on CNN (swipe ➡️ right to watch a clip). When my last day rolled around, completing 20+ years as a Journalist, I got asked: “Who do you want as your last big guest on your show?” Without hesitating: “Killer Mike.” Mike and I are from very different parts of Atlanta with completely different upbringings… we talked about it on and off TV. But it’s what he said in that original interview that stays with me to this day: “Get out of your comfort zone, engage with people who don’t look like you.” I know Mike and Shay had an insane few days… SWEEPING 🧹 the Grammys, that arrest (“I am FINE!” is what he texted me…) to their youngest Pony Boy getting his long awaited kidney transplant. All in 48 hours. BLESS. Here’s what I feel compelled to say as a privileged white woman: had a Grammy winner been arrested that same night who looked like me… the headlines would be different, the outrage would be different. I know Mike is focused on his wins and his family — but I HATE that this happened to one of the most extraordinary human beings I know. And this sh*t needs to be called out. Last thing I’ll say, when I was talking to Mike about his latest album (which won “best rap album of the year”), he told me he’d never been so vulnerable. I asked him what precipitated his vulnerability… and he said “finally telling the TRUTH.” Here’s to the TRUTH. All ways and always. Sending love to Pony, Mike and Shay. ❤️🧹🏆🏆🏆 📸: @the1point8
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Anyone else feel sometimes you just need to hit something? 🥊 Maybe it’s rooted in anger… maybe more accurately, it’s rooted in GRIEF. I think for me lately it’s been my looking back at my life — now that I finally feel safe, held, home — and grieving former versions of myself, the self-betrayal, the self-evacuation. (Guilty ☑️ Guilty ☑️) So I donned boxing gloves for the first time this week and smacked the sh*t outta that punching bag. I’m finding I’m not mad at anyone else… but myself. I had lunch w rock n’ roll royalty/my friend Pat Benatar this week and told her all of this. She knew EXACTLY what I was talking about and said: “Once you accept your accountability in your own life, *then* you are free… and that’s where the real power begins.” LFG. ✨✨✨
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2 months ago
FINALE day!!! Here’s my dear friend and stylist @leon_gray helping rank our favorite outfits from the show. What was your favorite look? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ That finale dress… ☠️☠️☠️ LOVE YOU @naeemkhannyc @reiss @halston @rivetutility @argent
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I GOT TACKLED!!! TO. THE. GROUND. This is what happened when I saw the cast for the first time last night… since we wrapped The Trust last March. 🎥 Lemme state the obvious: these are not actors… they’re real folks living their lives out loud on @netflix . And as a student of humanity with a real curiosity around why we make the decisions we make, I so appreciate these men and women taking a risk, leaving their lives (families, jobs, students…) back home to spend a few weeks shooting a show they’re not entirely sure what it’s about in front of millions of people. (WOULD Y’ALL DO THAT?? I’m not so sure I’d be raising my hand) I spent a decent amount of time with these people on set when they were tested, upset or showing up for themselves in ways they never had before. Their diversity of thought, age, life experience, ethnicity, opinions, insecurities and self-confidence was so important. I know all of you watching (myself included) have cast members who resonate with you more than others… I just wanted to offer up a huge THANK YOU for Winnie, Brian, Mama Jay, Gaspare, Tolú, Simone, Bryce, Julie, Juelz, Lindsay and Jake. WHAT A RIDE. And the finale is yet to come…!!! #netflix #thetrust
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2 months ago
Oh hiiiiiiii. Y’all still catching up on episodes 1-4 or are you binging 4-7? @netflix 🕵️‍♀️: Beware reading comments below from fans — they include some spoilers! #netflix #thetrust #gif #sofun
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Wanna know what it was really like shooting The Trust on @netflix ? My good friend and fellow TV producer @onmyrocker asks me ALL THE THINGS. New episodes dropping Wednesday, Jan 17!!! #netflix #thetrust
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I couldn’t let this most magical week end… without thanking my partner, my best friend, my ❤️ for showing the eff up for me. Make no mistake: I am so proud of MYSELF for finding the courage to pivot careers, being patient for longer than I was comfortable, stumbling into a little divine 🍀 and having a tremendous amount of self-belief. But. BUT. I am able to let my light TRULY shine these days in huge part thanks to this beautiful man. Thank you Peter for flying across the country, waking up at zero-dark-thirty ahead of my GMA appearance, holding my hand in the car ahead of my ending a nearly three year hiatus from TV and then sneaking in this tiny-but-mighty peck on the cheek ahead of my re-emergence. Y’all, find yourself someone who is confident enough in his/herself that they can genuinely bask in YOUR JOY. What a gift. Never taking this for granted. 🦄🦄🦄 #joy #partnership #grateful #foundmyunicorn
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Lemme set the scene: It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m parked on Sunset Blvd with @peter_landesman because a little birdie told me we have a billboard for my new @netflix show called THE TRUST. I had to see it to believe it! You’ll my reaction… wait for it. It may seem silly cuz I hosted my own national news show for more than 10 years… but this hits different. THIS is the beginning of a few new projects of mine. Some fun, some more serious. It’s taken patience, perseverance and a little luck. (Did I mention PATIENCE?! lol.) This video makes me smile every time I watch. Feel free to laugh at/with me. May we all take leaps, bet on ourselves and (in my case) be THAT GIRL staring up at a friggin’ billboard. 🥹 THE TRUST, first 4 episodes drop Jan 10. 💚 #proud #billboard #sunsetblvd #pivot #geekingout
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THIS. 💐 These words by @maiapoetry articulate something I *so* profoundly feel. So many versions of myself: the child inside of me (shout out to all my @hoffmanprocess peeps), my 20-something year old hustlin’ career self, my intellectual self, my physical body self, my cnn self, my post-cnn-wtf-am-I-gonna-do-next-with-my-life self, my “holy sh*t @netlflix just called — I get to smile on TV again” self, the self that thought I’d never in a million years get divorced, my self that helped nurture that previous self — not shame it but celebrate it, my deeply spiritual self, my even more boundaried self who’s leaned in (but in some cases drawn hard lines) with friends and family members, my 40-something-self who’s found new love and loadsssss of new expression after years of self-muzzling (a line I wrote recently: “Now that I’ve found my voice, I can’t unfind it.”), my Southern self, my NYC self, my new west coast self, my self now who’s ready to take all my hustlin’, hard work and journeying and just BE… just ARRIVE. As my wise friend Rachael says… “I am multiple.” I honor ALL those women from my past. My front porch is lined with flowers. I hope yours is too. 💐 💐💐
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