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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And luckily, luckily she was the only one that saw me that way.
Like my math teacher saw the potential, and boy, was my math teacher phenomenal for me, you know, or my English teacher.
And again, I say this often to people now.
I've seen, you know, using my own experience, the difference –
One person can make in someone else's life.
Absolutely.
And, you know, there's a saying, I think, in the meditation and spiritual community that, you know, our brains are like Teflon and Velcro.
The beautiful things people say are the inspiring things.
They're kind of like Teflon.
If you get a compliment, you kind of like let it go.
But the Velcro is like the sticky ones, the ones that aren't so nice.
Those stick, and you've got to work through those, right?
And I certainly have some of those in my life, too.
Well, I was lucky enough to form the Gates Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
And I traveled for over 25 years to so many different countries in Africa and Southeast Asia.
And what I came to see is we don't focus on women's health.
We just – as a world, like if you – I started to look at the data about women and women's lives and what do we collect, you know, because the foundation we often worked off of data.
And I realized the data on women's health was very sparse.
We knew a little bit about their reproductive health and we knew a little bit about their maternal mortality at the time they gave birth or died in childbirth.
But we knew very little.
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