I Choose … Just Say Yes! with Joan Lunden
90210MG
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Joan Lunden dominated your morning for 17 years on Good Morning America. But what happens when the camera stops rolling and the 'full sprint' finally slows down? The legendary journalist joins Jennie to discuss her new memoir, Joan: Life Beyond the Script, raising seven kids (including twins after 50) and the unexpected diagnosis that finally allowed her to carry on her father's legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.5 | You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to I Choose Me, a podcast about the choices we make to redefine what it means to evolve, reinvent, and thrive. |
| 0:23.1 | Few women epitomize these qualities better than Joan London, a trailblazing broadcast journalist |
| 0:29.9 | who co-hosted Good Morning America for 17 years. |
| 0:34.8 | Joan helped transform the show into the highest rated morning program in the country, |
| 0:39.9 | and over the course of her career, has authored multiple best-selling books and mothered seven |
| 0:46.4 | children, including two sets of twins after turning 50. She writes in her new book, Joan, |
| 0:52.9 | Life Beyond the Script, that she's hardwired to go, go, |
| 0:57.5 | clearly. But she is putting aside busyness as a badge of honor to be productive with much more |
| 1:04.2 | peace. Want to know who you can become without the hustle? Take a listen to my wonderful friend, |
| 1:11.5 | Joan London. |
| 1:16.7 | Hi. It's so great to see you again after all these years. I remember. Oh my God, |
| 1:21.5 | after all these years. Remember when you came to visit the set of 9021010 in 1992? |
| 1:28.7 | As I get ready for every interview, I don't go into anything not prepared. So like I'm looking to see all the things you're doing now. And I thought, when did I do that? When was I there? So I go on to YouTube and put Good Morning |
| 1:33.3 | America on the set of Beverly Hills 90210. Up pops the entire show. It was so good. I watched it all. |
| 1:41.3 | The entire show. And I'm like seeing and I remember I was sitting next to Charlie and you were right next to me. |
| 1:47.3 | And I said, so I need to ask you, Jenny, your character and Charlie's like, how are you going to ask this diplomatically? |
| 1:57.4 | I said, just kind of keeps things juicy, spicy. |
| 2:01.2 | Yeah. We went off on things juicy, spicy. Yeah. |
| 2:01.7 | We went off on the whole, like the whole talk of sex and teens. |
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