Joan Lunden Shares What’s Beyond the Script
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
I interviewed the one and only Joan Lunden live in front of an audience for this very special discussion about her career as a longtime GMA anchor, her women’s health advocacy, the loss of her father at a young age, her marriage and second marriage, and so much more. What a thrill! Check out her latest memoir Joan: Life Beyond the Script.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Oh my gosh, I loved interviewing Joan London about her book, Joan, Life Beyond |
| 0:50.8 | the script. We did this interview live in front of an audience. She couldn't have been |
| 0:56.2 | more delightful. Her daughter turns out I knew her daughter and she had interviewed me for her |
| 1:01.9 | own podcast along with Megan Murphy. Anyway, it's just a small world and Jones' career from her time |
| 1:08.2 | at Good Morning America to now has just been amazing what she has accomplished |
| 1:12.4 | and her backstory is even more amazing. How she lost her father when she was young in a plane |
| 1:17.5 | crash, how she fled essentially to Mexico and did college over there, lived there for a long |
| 1:24.3 | time, the way she clawed her way up and became sort of an unlikely anchor, |
| 1:30.1 | starting as Weather Girl and becoming who she became of 20 years on GMA. |
| 1:35.5 | And also all the amazing stuff since then. |
| 1:38.2 | Fun facts, she has seven children now, seven on her second marriage. |
| 1:43.6 | And also, she was an original mom fluencer, |
| 1:47.2 | if you will, and really changed the workplace for women. If you didn't know any of that, |
| 1:52.1 | you will learn it in her book, and we talked about that in the show. Joan has written many |
| 1:56.2 | other books, including, Why Did I Come Into This Room, A Candid Conversation about Aging, had I |
| 2:00.6 | known, a memoir of survival aging, had I known, |
| 2:01.0 | a memoir of survival, chicken soup for the soul family caregiving, and even good morning, |
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