Wake Up with Marci – While Waking Up to Your Best Self
Starting your Saturdays watching Wake Up with Marci might be entertaining, but more importantly, the show is also a wake-up call to get people to start learning how to live their best lives. With a new book about to be released, Marci Hopkins is indeed making it her mission to inspire others to overcome whatever obstacles they may be facing. After all, she has had to combat many of her own.
Marci now uses her platform as host of Wake Up with Marci to share her own journey of healing in order to help others. Before being welcomed into peoples’ homes every weekend, this passionate television personality began her career behind the camera working in on-air promotions for FX Network in Los Angeles. While she always had a creative side, she didn’t know where it would lead her. “It was a dream of mine to be on camera, but I was afraid,” explains Marci. After taking on the next chapter of her life as a wife and mother and moving to New Jersey, she decided to fulfill her desire of getting back into entertainment – this time at 40 – and in front of the camera.
While the stars started to seem like they were aligning, success also came with a dark side. “I had started modeling with a major agency in New York and also went to acting auditions. I was too insecure in front of the camera and ended up drinking a lot during this time. I really used wine as my liquid courage to cope with how I felt I was doing with my auditions. I really hit rock bottom and that’s when I stopped drinking – and stopped my work in front of the camera. I decided to take a break when I started my 12-step program.”
After getting sober and hosting Coffee with Marci, a social media talk show, Marci realized she had found something she was really good at it and wanted to do it more.
In 2017, Marci made it onto television when Wake Up with Marci officially premiered for the first time. With a clear head and feeling spiritually connected from her 12-step program, Marci, who believes “we are guided and have signs from the other side”, now welcomes a range of influential and celebrity guests to her show on a regular basis. Her ultimate goal? To pull out the story that will educate or inspire the audience. Let’s just say that when it comes to getting guests to talk, they do. A lot.
Though she says that everyone has touched and taught her in some way, Patricia Heaton felt especially inspired by Marci and felt compelled to share her own story. “Patricia came onto set with a
baseball hat on. We were just talking like we were old girlfriends. She was so open with me about how she had ended up with so much time on her hands that she noticed her drinking had started elevating. She finally made the realization that she had so much life left to do – and she wanted to do it. She put down the glass, wrote a book and is now also trying to help others.”
Marci’s own memoir, Chaos to Clarity, being launched this May – with pre-orders beginning February 12th – does what Marci does best – helps others to help themselves. Whether it’s breaking bad habits or patterns, the book is meant to be a guide for healing from your past and making amends in relationships.
She also says that while sharing her story has been difficult to relive, it has been a cathartic experience at the same time. “When I was growing up, you had to hide your feelings and shame, but in reality, we are all touched with addiction, grief and mental health issues, and if we don’t talk about these things there is no way to heal from them. I went to therapy for years over sexual abuse and trauma but that didn’t help me get to the core of my issues. I had to heal internally, and the 12-step program helped me to recognize that. It was only then that I stopped living in a victim role which so many of us do because it’s so easy.”
This busy host, who is also a mom to two teenagers as well as a wife who is about to celebrate 20 years of marriage, finds time for herself by working out with a personal trainer and eating right. She also loves traveling and taking in a show on Broadway. The family’s favorite outing, however, is escape rooms! She highly recommends the scavenger hunt at Grand Central Station.
Marci’s dedication to making a difference even extends to helping orphans in Uganda and is already on the road to starting her own foundation. With her show in talks to go national, a new book and the launch of a storage unit for cars called Carssentials, Marci has big plans – and with her passion, she always makes anything possible!
Make sure to catch Wake Up with Marci Saturday mornings at 10am EST on the CBS owned WLNY-TV 10/55 in the Tri-State area and HULU Live.
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