810 Life Beyond the Script with Joan Lunden
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On today's episode, I'm sitting down with iconic journalist and former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden to discuss her brand-new memoir, Life Beyond the Script. She shares the accidentally radical moments that defined her career—from becoming Sacramento's first weather girl with zero experience to being the first woman to bring a baby on set and advocate for breastfeeding on national television.
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| 1:07.7 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. I had the great honor and good pleasure of interviewing Joan London. So amazing, has done so much for women in entertainment on her brand new book called Life Beyond the Script. And it's really a beautiful |
| 1:30.0 | memoir. I just, I got it not long before I needed to interview her. So I had done research before, |
| 1:35.1 | of course, but I started reading it. It is so good. So if you happen to not know who Joan London |
| 1:42.3 | is, she was the host of Good Morning America for 17 years. She was the host of Good Morning America for 17 years. |
| 1:47.8 | She's done many other television shows. |
| 1:49.8 | She's written 11 books. |
| 1:50.7 | She's got seven kids. |
| 1:51.5 | But she's really an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, television host, motivational speaker. |
| 1:58.7 | But she's really a true trailblazer in so many ways. When she was on Good Morning |
| 2:04.7 | America, she actually brought her baby who actually happens to be a friend of mine. Jamie Hess. |
| 2:11.2 | It's funny that I was on Jamie's podcast. And a bunch of years ago, that's how we actually met. |
| 2:18.2 | But anyway, and, you know, she bringing your baby to work because you were breastfeeding during a time when you couldn't even say the words breastfeeding on the air was really revolutionary. |
| 2:29.7 | It was radical at that time. |
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