Cat created and hosted NBC’s long-running series Talk Stoop—the celebrity interview show filmed on her Brooklyn front steps. Yes, the one with the bulldog that dominated NYC TaxiTV and USA Daytime in the 20teens. Over nine years, she hosted hundreds of guests, racked up four Emmys, launched countless adventures—and had so much fun.

Then she got fired. From her own show. That she created. On her own stoop.

No fun.

Cat is a real addict. A true aholic. She can get hooked on anything—substances, work, rage. She was so furious after losing her job that she vowed never to go back to journalism. With no other marketable skills and no idea what to do next, she entered an epic dark night of the soul. The darkest.

Looking for light, her family moved to the beach in Coney Island. There, Cat finally got serious about her own sobriety and began bringing recovery meetings to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and men. That work inspired her to found the nonprofit The Restorative Housing Organization. She loves it. But once a journalist, always a journalist.

So when she weirdly got name-checked on Hacks last season, she took it as a sign.
Then she heard her old friend, musician Steve Earle, talking openly about his sobriety on a radio show —a thing she didn’t know people were even allowed to do. She realized she wanted to be the one talking to Steve Earle about sobriety on a show. And Soberness was born in September 2024.

Lots of recovering addicts talk about how grateful they are to the disease of addiction.
Cat is not one of them. She hates it. It’s a thief and an asshole.
But she is deeply grateful for the freedom sobriety has given her—freedom from all kinds of f**kery, mostly her own.

Now she wants to hear about yours.
Because once a journalist…