Melinda French Gates

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932 appearances 10 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

Melinda French Gates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 7.

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I'm looking at research.

We're figuring out what

what can be done on a policy level that can change things.

I'm also talking to a lot of other funders about, look, why are you looking at the women's health space?

Are you looking at how we get more females lifted up in the state legislature?

So I'm having, given that I'm in my early 60s, I'm having a lot more philanthropists that as funders come to me and say, how do I get started?

How do I think about this?

So I spend my days in a kind of a mix of ways through all of those things.

Oh, my gosh.

I think... I guess what I would say is, you know...

I'm five years post-divorce.

And what I want people to know, anybody who goes through that, I don't wish divorce on any family, right?

The whole family goes through it.

But what I want to tell you is there's also a whole lot of life on the other side, right?

And there are new openings and new beginnings.

And I have new friends.

And you start to find out who's there for you.

You learn how to have very open and difficult conversations because you need more support from your friends while you're going

through it.

But conversely, it also bonds you, I think, to your friends.

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