Melinda French Gates Reveals All: Life-Changing Lessons on Transitions, Trusting Your Inner Voice & Choosing Yourself! (Even if itβs for the first time ever or the first time in a long time!)
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Who is Melinda French Gates and what is her background?
Melinda French Gates, named by Forbes as one of the most powerful women in the world, is here today, and she is revealing all life-changing lessons on how to hear your own inner voice.
I had a boyfriend in college that really was not a positive relationship for me at all, and he cared a lot about how I looked and said a lot of things about it to me. And that really is not okay. It really is not. And I eventually obviously got out of that relationship, but it took me too long and I inculcated too many of those messages. Boy, when you take that down, that perfectionism around weight and body image, you wanna talk about, you take that down, whew, you have so much more mind space. It's an anxiety that's in there, right? I had to work with several different nutritionists and I did some work in therapy, but God, when I took that down, it was like, whew, okay, that feels better. How to trust yourself.
How did Melinda French Gates find and trust her inner voice?
I started to do what I call learn my way back to myself. Somewhere along the way, I started to lose my voice. Society tells women, you can't be this, you can't do that, or maybe you're not enough, or somebody speaks over you in a meeting. Was there any part of you that had stopped using your voice in some way? For sure. If I'm also telling my three children back then to use their voice in the world and to stand up to a bully on the playground and help somebody else, if I'm saying that to them, I realized I needed to be role modeling it too. and how to choose yourself. I have to coach myself, quite honestly. I don't enjoy big social gatherings. They drain me, right? I can have doubt going into those, and so I actually have to push myself to do it. I definitely have doubt before I enter like a big, say you're going into a ballroom and it's 300 people at tables, you know, and I'm like, ah.
Well, if we're ever in the same ballroom, I'm very happy to hide in the bathroom with you. Okay, good.
And anytime. That is where you will find me, true. I'm really good at that.
even if it's for the first time ever or for the first time in a long time.
I deserve to be where I am in life. Like I've worked really hard to get here and I know myself. And so I don't, if people don't like me or they don't like what I'm saying, I'm kind of at the point in life where I'm like, take it or leave it. Like if I'm not your cup of tea, that's okay.
I am so excited for you, for me, for women everywhere right now, because this conversation is just that incredible. I'm literally jumping out of my chair right now. coming up in this incredible episode.
I know some people, I walk in the room, they're like, oh, they instantly think, you know, billionaire. Well, I don't think of myself that way. But what can I do about that? That's what they put on me. But if I'm my true, open-hearted, authentic self, maybe they'll get a chance to rethink what they think of me, right?
Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. She's the founder of Pivotal Ventures, focused on accelerating social progress by removing barriers that hold people back. She also co-founded the Gates Foundation alongside her former husband, Bill Gates. Melinda's brand new book, The Next Day, Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward is out now. Make sure you pick up your copy right now. It is so good. And in the book, Melinda reflects for the first time on the most significant transitions in her life, from becoming a parent, she's now a mom of three, to the death of a dear friend, to departing the Gates Foundation, to deciding to end her marriage, something over half of us have gone through.
Just when you're getting uncomfortable, actually lean forward and do the thing that your doubt is kind of telling you not to do, because that's where courage is.
What lessons about self-worth and transitions does Melinda share from her book 'The Next Day'?
I felt like I needed to be kind of dressed head to toe and look perfect all the time. And now like I'm perfectly comfortable going out, maybe too comfortable some days with, you know, not having washed my hair for four days and it's in a ponytail and I'm still going to go out and walk to the store, you know, and I am who I am.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Melinda French Gates and what is her background?
0:17β1:22
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How did Melinda French Gates find and trust her inner voice?
1:22β5:03
3
What challenges did Melinda face in balancing multiple roles as a woman?
5:03β10:47
4
How can women overcome self-doubt and imposter syndrome?
10:47β13:53
5
What does it mean to 'lean forward' when facing doubt?
13:53β16:39
6
How does being an introvert affect Melindaβs approach to social situations?
16:39
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What lessons about self-worth and transitions does Melinda share from her book 'The Next Day'?
0:00β2:28
8
Why is choosing yourself important, according to Melinda French Gates?
2:28β39:33
Speakers
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