Winter 2026

For seventeen years, Americans woke up every weekday morning to listen to Joan Lunden deliver the news on Good Morning America. We heard her interview Gerald and Betty Ford, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, George and Barbara Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

We traveled with her to Sarajevo and Calgary for the Winter Olympics and to London for the wedding of Charles and Diana. We watched in awe her derring-do as she rappelled off Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier and paraglided off a 2,000-foot mountain in New Zealand. And we followed as she broke long-held taboos by bringing her newborn to work so she could breastfeed between segments and allowed herself to be photographed bald for the cover of People when she was receiving treatment for breast cancer.

Now, at the age of 75, Joan Lunden looks back at the barriers she’s broken, the challenges she’s faced, the resilience she found, her transitions, reinventions and advocacy work in Joan: Life Beyond the Script.

The trailblazing journalist and writer joins us to discuss grabbing a seat at the microphone in a business dominated by older men, aging on her own terms, life after GMA and her advocacy work for senior care and breast cancer awareness.

Since leaving GMA, Lunden has hosted, guest-hosted and been a special correspondent for CBS, A&E, DirectTV and PBS. The author of 15 books, she is currently the spokesperson for A Place for Mom, the senior care referral service.

Lunden will be in conversation with Molly Jong-Fast, Contributing Writer at The New York Times, MS NOW political analyst, host of the Fast Politics podcast and author of The New York Times bestseller How to Lose Your Mother.