Orman: Time to move on from CNBC show

Suze Orman, who hosts a personal finance show on CNBC, writes on LinkedIn about her decision to end the program after 13 years.

Orman writes, “It didn’t matter to me that as the years went by, many of the questions — OK, nearly all of the questions — I had heard before. I could feel that each question was vitally important to the person asking it, so I listened and responded as if it was the first time I had ever answered that question. My intention was to always make the caller feel important and respected. Sometimes people asked me if my on-set enthusiasm was an act. Anything but! The show was an incredible platform to share my passion and love for the one topic most people hate to talk about — money!

“About a year ago, something started to change. I woke up one morning, and I knew that it was time to end the Suze Orman Show. There was no external trigger; just a feeling that I had shifted, not the workplace.

“Could I have ignored that feeling and just keep on keeping on? Sure. But that would have been so disrespectful. To myself, and most of all to the viewers. I never wanted to give less than 100 percent. And let’s face it, if you stay on for the wrong reasons, your eventual exit will likely not be on your own terms. I wasn’t going to fall into that trap.

“On February 20th, 2014, KT (my spouse, Kathy Travis) and I walked into the office of CNBC President Mark Hoffman and we told him it was time to wind down my show. Was it hard to do? You bet it was. Over the last year my mind kept saying, ‘Suze, just keep doing what you have always done. Don’t change now; stay with what you know.’ But my heart knew it was time for me to go. By taking the initiative to recognize I needed to move on, I have had the great experience of leaving without regret or acrimony.”