About Diana
Passionate, that's me.
About Life.
My life. Your life.
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I've devoured thousands of books, interviewing their authors, and connecting with the writers' passion to elicit knowledge, like alchemy. The connection inspires fresh thoughts, which ignite new dreams, and a positive, fueled force for the future. And I am driven to share all that I learn!
This is the way I've been since I was a kid. My original drive -- to be a journalist. I was designed to seek out the truth, and communicate it in an informative, entertaining, even inspiring manner. That search for knowledge still is what drives me. Upbeat, energetic, curious and I love what I do.
I am a News Anchor and Reporter. I am an Interviewer for radio, TV, print, the web. I am a mom. I am TV Book Reviewer, Media Trainer, Radio/TV Host. I am a dancer. I am a Speaker, and Emcee, a Podcaster. An Author, a Writer. I play with my two black cats, Jasmine and Jet. I do Voice-Overs and appear On-Camera. I have amazing friends who are traffic reporters, intuitives, physical trainers, poets, construction workers, authors, stockbrokers, realtors, publicists, web-designers, architects, athletic types and socialites, radio and TV people, women who whisper to ghosts and men who inspire thousands from the stage.
Originally inspired I was, by the deep romantic love -- musical and healing and magical -- I observed as a toddler between my grandparents on the Upper West Side in New York. My grandmother was born in Peru, moving to NYC and later heading the ER in one hospital for decades; my grandfather left his native Sydney, Australia with his Stradivarius at age thirteen to play for royalty around the world, meeting her serendipitously in NYC. His original songs for her Mi Viejo Amor (My Old Love) and Estrellita (Little Star) are still heard in elevators.
I am an award-winning broadcast journalist -- from New York City originally, and was graduated with High Honors with a BS in Journalism and Communication at the University of Florida. Then, I heeded the call to move West, living in Iowa City after New York City, then Portland, Seattle and LA.
As you dance around my web pages -- and, yes, dance is another of my passions -- you will find your mind enticed, entertained, inspired, your mood altered. Hope so!
My deepest passion is interviewing -- I love asking questions! The results are on AP Radio Network, Barnes and Noble dot com, myriad radio and TV stations, in the Costco Connection, the Portland Tribune, and in several anthologies. And here!I want your discovery to be like Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole, like Peter Pan flying to Neverland where no one ever grows old, like Tuesdays with Morrie, like Running with Scissors, like Book Lust.
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A few of my favorite author comments:
Richard Carlson, Best-selling Author of the "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" books:
"You're one of the best personalities in the business and one of the best interviewers in the world."
Bill Maher, Author and TV Personality:
"You are very good at what you do! Thank you for a wonderful interview and all you do."
Tess Gerritsen, Best-selling Author of medical thrillers:
"Diana Jordan is pure high energy and an amazing force of nature. Being interviewed by her is like a double-shot of espresso. Not only does she jazz you up, she forces you to think."
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I fall in love easily. Spring back quickly. Love jokes, but can't seem to remember a punch line. Can't sit still. Do chane turns around the living room into the kitchen to the big ball I sit on instead of a chair. And I love quotes. The first one that nudged me out of the box when I was a kid was Robert Barrett Browning's "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" And a few years ago, Anais Nin's wonderful words rocked me totally out of whatever shell I was still in:
"And then the day came when the risk to remain tight inside the bud was greater than the risk to blossom."
And so I did. I balance precipitously on the Now, trying to avoid the rear-view mirror, while designing my perfect world. Join me!