Michele Leone

Listen as the couple interviews Viola Davis and Julius Tennon. Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue attend The Paley Center For Media Presents: Annual Benefit Dinner Honoring Tim Armstrong on May 15, 2013 in New York.TODAY Illustration / Getty Images March 4, 2021, 5:09 AM UTC By Michele Leone Actress Marlo Thomas and her husband of 40 years, legendary talk show host Phil Donahue, are teaming up in a new podcast called "Double Date," where the two interview celebrity couples about relationships.

Gabby Salinas isn't your ordinary politician. Before running for the Tennessee State Senate, she survived cancer three times, worked in chemical biology to discover new drugs to treat diseases like the ones that threatened her own life, and suffered through the loss of her father and younger sister. And she's only 30 years old. Marlo Thomas, the national outreach director for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, stopped by TODAY recently to discuss Salinas' inspiring story.