At 3:30 a.m., while most of Manhattan is still asleep, Ainsley Earhardt is already beginning a day that millions will wake up to.
By 6:00 a.m., she’s glowing on Fox & Friends.
By 9:30, her workday is nearly done — a rhythm she has mastered at 48, balancing career, motherhood, heartbreak, and healing.
And every morning, like clockwork, her phone lights up with the same greeting:
“Sunshine!”
It’s the voice of Sean Hannity, cable news giant… and now, her fiancé.
He says she “wakes America up every day” — but as this intimate profile reveals, she’s had to lift herself up, too.
A Life Shaped by Loss — and the Faith That Carried Her Through
A Life Shaped by Loss — and the Faith That Carried Her ThroughSettled inside her elegant Park Avenue home — warm florals, soft light, cozy textures — Ainsley opens up about her darkest chapters:
• the grief of losing her beloved mother 
• a painful divorce that left her a single mom
• navigating private heartbreak in a very public world
“Even in the bad times, I saw God… He carried me through,” she says quietly.
Her daughter Hayden, now 9, became her anchor.
Her career soared.
But her personal world felt shattered.
How Sean Hannity Became the Unexpected Second Chapter
What began as workplace friendship slowly transformed, long before either admitted it.
Ainsley didn’t even know Sean had gone through his own quiet divorce.
They bonded over the wounds they shared — the kind you don’t see on television.
In 2020, Hannity asked her out.
But first… they asked their boss.
“I’m crazy about this guy,” she remembers saying.
They took it slow. Quiet. Carefully.
And then — just two days before Christmas last year — Sean led her into their church in Palm Beach, lit with candles and Christmas lights.
He walked to the altar.
Dropped to one knee.
And asked her to marry him. 
Ainsley says the moment felt “surreal… redeemed… like God giving us love again.”
A Love Built on Independence — and Two Very Different Lives
A Love Built on Independence — and Two Very Different Lives
They don’t live together full-time.
And that’s exactly how they want it.
• Ainsley: in New York Monday–Thursday
• Sean: full-time in Palm Beach
• Fridays: she picks up Hayden and they fly to Florida for a low-key weekend of family brunches and quiet moments
There will be a prenup — “not romantic,” she admits, “but divorce happens.”
And the wedding? Small. Private. Just their children as witnesses.
“When you love someone, you make it work.”
Motherhood, Memories & the Woman Who Shaped Her
Motherhood, Memories & the Woman Who Shaped HerHer mother Dale — a teacher, a romantic, a fighter — remains Ainsley’s greatest influence.
After a stroke, Dale needed round-the-clock care for five years.
The Earhardt siblings took turns caring for her.
When Dale died in 2022, Ainsley went to work the next Monday.
“She would have wanted me to.”
Classic movies, theater, dreams, Kleenex — all memories she still carries.
All pieces of the woman who made her strong enough to survive everything that followed.
From Small-Town Dreams to Fox News Stardom
From Small-Town Dreams to Fox News Stardom
Ainsley wasn’t born into privilege.
Her father worked three jobs.
Her mother rarely took a sick day.
She waited tables, worked local news — terrified, she says — until Fox brought her to New York at 29.
“Journalists ask questions. You learn.”
Learn she did.
Rise she did.
And rebuild she did.
“Life Is Chaotic… But I’m Loving Every Second”
“Life Is Chaotic… But I’m Loving Every Second”She’s honest about the scars.
Honest about the second chance.
Honest about the faith that kept her moving when everything else went still.
“Nobody plans for divorce. Nobody plans for grief. But look at what God can restore.”
Today, the woman who wakes up America has found light again — in her daughter, in her faith, and in the man who calls her Sunshine every single morning. 
