Lester Holt will host an all new Dateline podcast, Before & After with Lester Holt, beginning Monday, September 14th.

The six-episode series features deeply personal interviews with those whose lives were transformed in an instant by violence, survival, loss, injustice or an unexpected turn of fate. The conversations explore what it takes to endure the unimaginable, rebuild a life, and find meaning and purpose in the aftermath. The first episode, featuring Colin Kaepernick, debuts September 14. A preview of the interview will be available on NBCNews.com.

Holt will also speak with Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Scofield, Gabby Giffords, Adrianne Haslet and more.

Premium subscribers can listen early beginning Monday, September 7th.

This is Holt’s second original podcast, following last year’s chart-topping series, The Last Appeal. Dateline original podcasts have seen more than 43 million downloads in 2026. Dateline’s podcast portfolio includes The Thing About Pam, Mommy Doomsday, Deadly Mirage, Trace of Suspicion, Mortal Sin, Something About Cari, 13 Alibis, The Girl in the Blue Mustang, Dateline: Missing in America, among others.

Before & After with Lester Holt is a production of Dateline and NBC News and is produced by Dan Slepian and Liz Brown Kuriloff. Paul Ryan is executive producer and Liz Cole is senior executive producer of Dateline.