Melinda French Gates

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

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The Tamsen Show · Melinda French Gates: Inside Her $600 Million Mission for Women's Health · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

So in my book, The Next Day, I talk about big transitions in life because we all go through them, right?

We launch our kids to college if we have kids.

We start our first career.

We might finish university.

We go through this transition in life, menopause, and we need each other.

So I talk about in the book how I have gathered a circle of friends around me and kept those friends over long periods of time.

I talk about reaching, taking quiet time, which works for me in the morning.

Some people go out and jog or do something different, but I like quiet time and I like to reach for authors who have written about transition times or difficult times.

There are words to me, there's words of wisdom there and also some soothing.

I say to her, it can be so much more vibrant than you think.

It can be better than you even imagine.

I'm sure when you left your career, it was scary, right?

Petrifying.

Exactly.

Some of these transitions feel like you're standing on a cliff and you're going to jump, right?

And I think what I say to people is that in those times, it does take courage and it can be terrifying.

But what happens on the other side is the growth is what happens in the in-between.

And it's the growth that you do during that time, even if it's hard and painful, it's what carries you through.

And then you have this big, wide opening on the other side.

And a lot of it you just don't know is even coming.

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