from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford. and hoda kotb. from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. try day friday, june 24th. that is "broken drum" by cash cash. that's what i need. who are these groups? i love their names. a great show to kick off your weekend. >> we like her so much. and her growing family. >> we'll also catch up with tina knowles. beyonce's mom. is

bringing aalong her significant other. >> her new husband. and getting very, very sweet honor next week down in new orleans. so, we're happy for her. if you're looking for a way to make cash cash from home you're going to meet three women who turned their passions into paychecks by blogging. they've got some advice to get you started, too. >> our girl lilianna keeps our summer style in check with lucks for less. >> joy is over there in the kitchen. >> she is making junk food. >> give your mom our love. did you guys know. now we find out. we would have done it. >> maybe not. >> june 24th is take your dog to work day. >> all these benefits to bringing your dog. anyway, they say,

companies encourage it because it does so many great things for its employees. >> they say it it increases productivity. i can't believe that. >> i think it does the opposite. if i had blake here -- >> with bambino. >> what would you be doing? >> just playing with them and eating something that was left around. >> i think i would get zero done. they do say that dogs make a workplace, it's happier for everyone else. >> it is. absolutely. you want to feel old? >> how old do you want to feel at this moment? >> how old is the macarena? >> we know. >> 20 years old. >> one of the most popular songs. you know the dance moves. this is it right here. at every wedding they played it. at almost every celebration they played it. should we try it. i don't even rememb

>> let's have them come on out. >> so, how do you do it? >> start it. >> i'm already frightened. ♪ >> now which way. >> straight. ♪ >> we were just here. >> my back side is not good. >> all right. that's great. >> i love the macarena. >> memory lane, baby. >> thank you for all you do. >> can you we get paid. it's not enough, of course. >> that was really fun. is it ever okay to quit on the spot? >> if you've ever been angry in the workplace and some days you want to say to your

according to "wall street journal" a lot more people or employees who are doing it these days. they say that they are frustrated. the employees are young and they get hot headed and blow a gasket and they say good-bye. i think it's a terrible idea when you're mad in the moment because everyone has been mad at work and had a terrible day. the boss has treated you poorly and then i think you regret it. you have to take a second. it does show how mature you are. can you stand it? like a terrible, terrible, horrible day. and then show back up to work the next day? if it's a terrible situation. >> if you're being abused or harassed. >> that's one thing. we think it's a no no. >> i think it's all part of the me culture. i'm entitled. where is mine. all of that, you know. it's an ugly thing. i don't think you ever do that. you burn bridges you're going to be sorry because one day comes back to you. >> think about any decision you

ticked off and think about how bad it went. >> because at that moment when you lose your mind. >> it doesn't seem to be respect for authority in our culture. >> yeah. >> i think a lot of people just get hot headed. >> if somebody is abusing you, get out of there. when is the last time you were asked to be in a wedding or attend a wedding? so, think about this, how much do you think it costs for you to be part of a wedding? so, they did, they crunched all the numbers and they did it nationwide. so for the average for the person asked to be in a wedding is $500. >> this is not somebody in a wedding, just invited. your dress, your suits, your gifts and travel. i don't go out and buy a new dress just because it's a wedding if you're a guest. >> i never do. >> that's the biggest expense. >> but you do. >> i think frugality is a lovely thing. it's smart. if it looks good on

dress and then you've got the gift for the engagement party and the bridal shower and the wedding and all that stuff. and now they say, what do you think is the average amount someone should pay for a wedding gift? >> there's a lot going on over there. >> well, according to our study -- >> you guys just got busted. don't try to run. >> 94 bucks. number one is destination wedding. >> but for a wedding gift, $94. i think that -- >> you know what we didn't talk about the other day. maybe we did and i'm really losing it. by the way, my bruise is so much better. i found something that worked. makeup. remember, we were going to talk about the bride who then asked everybody one of her attendants to pitch in on her and

her dress. >> her wedding dress. >> a $10,000 wedding dress. >> this was written up in one of the papers where, yeah, she wanted a $10,000 dress and she wanted all of her bridesmaids to kick in in addition to buying their own dress and getting there. >> is that crazy? >> i'd rethink the friend at that point. >> i would definitely do that, too. apparently this adorable little video on instagram. a french bull dog named daisy. >> look at daisy kissing. >> almost instantly they became friends. it happens all the time. >> he's licking the water off the fish. >> it's the only fish he kisses. >> he's thirsty. no, no, no. >> that is the sweetest. >> the dog is thirsty. >> hoda, have a little romance in your heart. that is so sweet. you know what time it is, hoda. time for friday funny.

lots of kids are home this week since school is out and these are in honor of them. what do you call a cheese that's not yours? nacho cheese. what does a nosy pepper do? it gets jalapeno up in your business. why did a skeleton go tokc the dance? he had no body to go with. how do oceans say hello? they don't, they just wave. that's what we're going to do, just wave good-bye right now. remember, blake lively coming up and we have beyonce's mom, tina knowles. and we have joy and lilianna. right after this. we have everything. >> it's a big show. big show.

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blake lively got her first big break in "the sisterhood of the traveling pants." but blake became a household name ruling the upper east side as serena vander on the six seasons of tv's "gossip girl." >> far away from the big apple in "the shallows" blake's character is on a surfing trip in paradise. or so she thinks.

>> modesty. just asking her because i watched this movie. now that you're watching it all done and they have the music. all of that, does it scare you and you said -- >> oh, i said it's scary for different reasons. watching yourself in a bikini for an hour and a half. >> if i looked like you in a bikini, i would watch that movie all night long. >> come on. >> i feel good that i got to work out and get in shape, but it's mortifying. you know when you call and you hear yourself on your voicemail. that's not what i sound like. but physically, its are very confusing. >> you had to learn to

>> number one surfer in the world with my surf double. my mom was like, they will think it is you. >> you are basically trying to reconnect with your mom. i won't give too much away. this beach is very, very special to you. but you don't know that you're in shark water. >> i am on his feeding ground which is important to notice because this isn't necessarily shark behavior. they don't go out and hunt human beings. but i swim up on to a whale carcass which is his feast which is a bad place to be. >> you use it to your advantage. she's also a medstudent. you learn those kinds of things. >> what made you want to do a movie like this? your husband did kind of a scary type movie before. >> an isolation film. just him in a coffin the entire time and i know how rewarding that experience is because it's absolutely terrifying to carry a movie by yourself and

thought i would never do that which is why i need to do it. >> face your fear. >> yeah, exactly. >> did you notice, we made you shark cupcakes because you're the baking queen. >> you are asking if i noticed because i keep looking. >> do you want a shark or a fin. which one dayou want? >>. >> we will eat with you. >> hoda will eat chocolate with you? >> you don't like shochocolate? >> i don't like sweet stuff. >> you like salty sweet stuff, though. >> cheers. >> see, by the way, you don't want a little bite? >> no thank you. >> i love to watch hoda eat. >> these are good. >> does your little one have a sweet tooth? >> she sure does. but she eats anything. it's incredible. wae were on an airplane the other day

she walk hot dogs? i said, no, she'll take what we're eating. >> ryan was with us recently and he bragged about something and we want to make sure he was not lying to us. because we don't like to be lied to. >> let's watch. >> do you like changing the diapers and the stuff you have to do at midnight. >> i like the dirty work. there was a diaper so bad i thought we had to move to another town. >> it is true, we moved because of that diaper. >> but is it true that he loves the dirty work? >> he does love the dirty work. he's so fun about it. we were changing diapers and he said you have to get rid of it. no, not the diaper, the child. >> that's one of the things you fell in love. >> he is your best friend. >> he is my best friend and just the best father in the whole world. >> wre so happy for you

you're both such great people and likable. >> you know what i'm talking about. >> i know what you're talking about. "the shallows" opens nationwide today. coming up, joy bauer turns your favorite junk food into nutritious joy food after this. . >>. coming up, junk food turned into delicious joy food. into de.

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mother of the queen herself, beyonce. >> she receives the first ever inspiring award during the 2016 essence festival in new orleans next week. >> focusing on empowering women and focused as a pioneer in the entertainment industry. way to go, girl. that's a big deal. >> the first ever. >> yeah, i'm really excited about it. >> what did it mean to you when they reached out to you and said, we're going to give this to you? >> well, the essence festival has been such a part of my history. i had a hair magazine back in the '80s and we had booths there and we premiered ms. tina, my clothing line there. a place i took my girls because it's new orleans. great food, great empowerment and all these powerful women getting together. so, for me, it's almost surreal. i'm really honored to do it. i think it's one of the best things for

go down and enjoy the festival. >> so, speaking of powerful women. how about your daughter. i went to her concert. >> do you go to all of them or do you pick a couple? >> i do maybe two to three weeks into the tour so that i could make sure that everything is okay. she's okay and then i kind of go to certain cities. >> do you know all the words? >> of course. >> it's really amazing. >> we heard beyonce give a speech when she won the big fashion award not too long ago and she spoke about you and your mother. just what the strength of the women that came before her mean to her. and i watched in the audience and wiped a tear away. what was it that struck such a chord with you? >> well, just to see, you know, to think about my mom and what she instilled in me and how she took nothing and always turned it into something. it was just amazing. i mean, she's an

i've tried to pass it on to my daughters. now they have access to all the beautiful clohes, but back in the day, you know, nobody would give me clothes. but we took lemons and made them into lemonade. >> you became a warrior. >> at 5 years old, i had ta. >> to survive. >> it was interesting when you described how your parent had to barter their services at the school so that you could get the education and you had to just fight for it. >> then you made her grammy dress, wedding dress, all her first dresses. >> she was so sweet to let me do that. you know, she came back later one day and she said, you know, when my daughter gets married, i'll let her pick out her own dress. oh, wait. maybe she wasn't so excited about it at the time. >> speaking of sweethearts. we're looking at sweet right here. >> different kind of sweet. i thought you meant blue

this wonderful man. you have known him for a long time. >> 30 years. >> come stand next to your girl. you've been married a little over a year now. >> a year in april. >> how happy are you? >> oh, my god, i'm really happy. we're still honeymooning. >> you are? >> tell us about it. >> it's been great because we always had a lot in common and we're opening a theater together and we're going to do a lot of nonprofit things. richard is an amazing acting teacher and he has thousands of students that we help and, so, it's going to be great to put those things together. >> yeah. different kind of warrior. god bless you both. thanks so much for being with us. >> you guys, thank you so, so much. we'll be back with much more after your local news. more after your local news. this is 100% useful for a 100% fresh mouth.

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we are back on this friday, and if you're a stay-at-home mom, or you're looking to make some money instead of that 9:00 to 5:00 gig. >> we're talking to moms who wrote about how they live. how smart. >> blogging is not only a way of life, it became a career. i talked to some families and they gave some tips o how you can do it, too. >> each of these ladies have found success in the most unlikely of places: on-line blogging. >> i became

and prior to that i was a business consultant, so i was still looking for that creative outlet, and i was looking for a way to own something that was mine that i could build that i could watch for. >> i just remember being interested in on-line journals. then i began to see there were women out there actually creating businesses from these web sites. that's truly when my mind shifted. let me see how i can work this, i want to stay home with my children, i want to navigate my own career path. >> what do you blog about? >> a fashion for moms, and it grew to fitness, really anything that was relatable to my life. i might wake up one morning and blog about the chicken soup i made last night for my children. >> how do you cash in on the business of blogging? >> basically sponsored posts. brands will reach out

>> the power of recommendation mom to mom is golden. >> vera and audrey joined forces after connecting at a blogging conference in 2009. >> the first projects vera and i did together, we wanted to combine projects and blogging together. it was almost like a giant expo type of thing. >> there was a point for both of you where your blogs started taking off in such a way that you became the main breadwinner for your families. >> i seizuurpassed my husband's salary in 2007, and we looked eecat each other and said, i think we need to switch roles. you need to be the stay at home dad and i need to be the provider. >> this single mom blogs about 30 hours a week as a way to supplement her income. >> it was a perfect way for me to actually being with my daughter, work the hours i want

>> you can make a decent amount of money doing this. in the five figures? >> oh, yeah. definitely. >> the key to success? working with brands they truly believe in. >> if people knew the amount of things you and i have turned down, they would be probably shocked. we owe it not only to our reeders bree readers to be real and authentic. >> do you feel you're the ceo? >> i'm the ceo, the cfo and the marketing team all at once. and the social media coordinator. >> that's fantastic. >> for everything we know about these things, i had no clue that this was the kind of money that you could make. >> she was saying the last lady put her kids through college? >> she has made the money to put her kids through college. and the first two gals, vera and audrey, making in the six figures. they work all the time. they work hard. they call themselves hustlers because all three women are working really hard. it's not a hobby. >> all three ofhe

what should they be blogging about? >> it's important to blog about your passion, what you care about. this is a big job, it's all the time, and if you're not blogging about what you love and care about -- they're going to start getting offers from brands, do this, do that, and if you say yes to everything, soon you lose your self-respect -- >> and your credibility. >> exactly. >> when they say brands are calling you, they notice you and say, we have a product and want to put it on your site? >> hundreds of thousands of visitors on a daily basis for moms looking for tips and advice. so the brands have reached out and said, will you promote this product? will you review this stroller? will you talk about this trip to a resort? >> i loved that when linda said i'm the ceo, the cfo, the marketing team -- you run it like a business. if you go into it with a business mindset, it will have

the same results. >> a localit of us don't have a business background. >> do you call them if they're not knocking on your door and say, hey, look, i have this site? >> you can't wait. you can call them and say, i'm taking my family on a trip to such and such a place. can we write about it on my blog? this is about social media. it's an on-line journal now. tweeting, facebook, pinterest, instagram, everywhere. you have to love social media and you have to be ready to be on all of them all the time. you're never off. >> what's last? >> you have to have an authentic voice. you want to be able to talk to your best friend every day. that's the way you have to be if you're going to do this. you have to talk about good things and bad, personal stuff. you can have some

and funny. be that friend. if you're going to do this, put yourself out there. >> so many women make money blogging, but what does it take to be one of these three women? >> if you're thinking it's going to be a fun pastime, it's work. there are opportunities but you have to buy into how much work it is. >> that was really great. thank you very much. lilliana shows you how to look gorgeous in gingham for $50 or less. healthy sandwiches and joy food coming up right after this. . this is nice. does it come in a california king? getting roid rage. hemorrhoid. these are the worst, right? i'm gonna buy them. boom. i'll take them. impulse buy. ommmmmmmmmmm. presenting the american express blue cash everyday card with cash back on purchases. it's all happening. and no annual fee. here we go! cash back on purchases.

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you are going to need a lot of napkins for this one, because joy bauer is about to turn your junk food into joy food! >> we were challenged to come up with two junk food favorites. sloppy jos and chili mac. >> when you get a regular sloppy joe and this first product comes from pratik from los angeles. i'm so glad he sent this in. we're going to use easy ingredients. we have olive oil and some lentils. the lentils will swap in for the fatty meat, a little maple syrup instead of

sauce, tomato paste. so here i have sauteing just a half of a chopped onion and a green bell pepper. i would say about 7 minutes. you want to get it nice and soft. we're going to start chucking things in now. this is one cup of cooked lentils. this is some tomato sauce. this is going to be tomato paste. you're going to put in a little bit of maple syrup because we want that sweetness. >> i want something that doesn't have a lot of calories. >> it's going to keep it nice and low. that's a little oregano, and some garlic. instead of doing it on a starchy bun, year going to do some cool. we're going to make zucchini boats. take your zucchini, slice it in

it out like this. >> the whole way. >> all the way down. swap it over, then we're going to put in our filling, which is really yummy. >> then cook it up? >> we put it in the oven at 375 for 25 minutes. a little messy, but how about this, only 82 calories per zucchini boat. >> that's delicious. that is delicious. >> oh, my god! >> that's fantastic. i'm shocked. >> we went from 630 calories to 82 for both. so you could have seconds, thirds, fourths. >> and this big mac. >> this is from april. she challenged me to make over a big mac which is typically 540 calories. we're going to make the veggie mcjoy. instead of a big mac we'll call it a mcjoy. we've got

little bit of garlic salt. let's make believe these g garbanzo beans are nice and mashed. this is one and a half cups of red cooked quinoa. >> i can't believe this is going to be a big mac. >> whe have a little bit of bred crumbs, a little mustard. >> we got to try it. >> when you do this, it's going to come out like meatloaf, right? we're going to shape them into our patties and then we're going to build them. while i build them, this one doesn't have onion for you, this one is for you, hoda. let me show you the special sauce here for a moment. you see the orange special sauce? all that is is light mayo mixed with ketchup. that's it. we went from 540

calories, and there's no meat. is that yummy? >> it really is. >> do you like it? 340 calories for the whole entire thing. >> it's really good, joy. >> how do you do that, joy? coming up, lilliana shows you how to work your gingham style. >> right after this. >> i can't believe you did that. >> and they're pretty, right? >> gingham style. ♪ style. ♪ to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. but what if you could turn things around? what if you could... love your numbers? discover once-daily invokana®. it's the #1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c. a pill taken just once in the morning, invokana® is used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar

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wow, you look lovely. >> i know, a lot going on. affordable, just like our segment today. today is all about gingham. this is a trend you saw on the designer runway. oscar

this is our outfit from chic wish. if you notice the gingham on her, it's two pieces, but it's a bigger gingham. very modern and very cool. if you look up oscar de l de la renta, it's an exact replica, and it's a crop tank with a skirt. very cute. she looks beautiful. the next one, we have this multi-colored gingham. traditionally you see it white and red, white and black. this is an adorable dress. it's $49.90, and they mixed in a few other colors which gives it a casual, fun feel. an easy way to wear the trend. >> great neckline, too. >> here, last but not least, we have a very classic gingham with ay

this is a trench coat style dress. this is from gojane.com. it's only $32. looks like a million bucks. you can tie it around the waist so it's super flattering. and i love it with a white shoe that just has a single strap. super delicate. >> where would you wear all this stuff? >> i think summertime is the perfect time. a bridal shower, a baby shower. if you're going to church, it's a beautiful thing to wear there. >> how adorable is this gingham compact? charming charlie. they're getting creative. and you can tie this behind your back for a fun summer pop. club monica has so much gingham right now. they have they're adorable headbands if you're working out and want to tie your hair back, or if you're lounging at a pool in a cool swimsuit.

>> it is. >> yours has a little -- >> it's a square quality, but it's off the shoulder. >> what about your shoes? we love you! >> love it, we'll be back in just a moment. >> but first this is "today" on nbc. >> you guys made me feel so

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news 4 midday begins with breaking news. right now on news 4 midday we're tracking developments in two big stories. >> britain's vote to leave the european union is having a ripp ripple effect across the world and we're learning sentence for a former fairfax county police officer. breaking news now, a former fairfax police officer was just sentenced for shooting and killing an unarmed man. >> this morning a judge accepted adam torres' plea deal. news 4 is outside of fairfax county courthouse to break down why that is.