Motivational Speaker - Joan Lunden - Total Access Speakers Bureau

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Joan Lunden left "Good Morning America" in 1997 after 17 years as its co-host to work on various private projects and, as she says, sleep in late, and have breakfast with her family. One of television's most versatile reporters, she had become the longest-running co-host on early morning television.

Joan had also become one of the most visible women in the country since joining "Good Morning America" in the fall of 1976 as a consumer reporter. In a tribute to her longstanding popularity, an Entertainment Weekly magazine national viewer poll named her "television's favorite morning anchor."

Ms. Lunden continued to expand her horizons at ABC, hosting three prime-time specials in a series produced under her New Life Entertainment production banner. "Behind Closed Doors With Joan Lunden," broadcast in April 1994 and February and October 1995, took viewers on an exclusive journey to places never before seen on television, including the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Betty Ford Clinic and the Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST).

Multi-talented, she has endeared herself to viewers across the country as the consummate working mother and has continually surprised her audience with her daredevil antics. She climbed and rappelled Alaska's famed Mendenhall Glacier, bungee-jumped off a 143-foot bridge, and parapented off a 2,000-foot mountain during a "Good Morning America" trip to New Zealand. She navigated the whitewater rapids of a Georgia river when the show traveled to Atlanta for two days of special broadcasts in November 1994. She has also been at the controls of an F-18 jet and soared with the elite Air Force Thunderbirds, as well as flown in a T-34 Navy flight training plane. In another adventure, she climbed The Tetons. She is also an avid equestrian, jumping thoroughbred horses, and has gone to bat with the Chicago Cubs at spring training.