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Melinda French Gates Reveals All (Pt 3): Life-Changing Lessons on How to Do Hard Things, Navigate Change & Find Yourself Again

2025/4/22
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Melinda French Gates: 我相信直觉,即使离开一段关系很难,但它让我更加忠于自我。变革是不可避免的,我们不应该抗拒,而应该像水一样适应变化,找到新的方向。我们需要在生活中寻找那些能够给予我们正确视角的人,帮助我们度过难关。结束一些事情,才能为新的机遇腾出空间。在面对公众批评时,我会考虑信息来源,并区分诚实的批评和恶意攻击。我目前的工作状态很好,可以为女性和其他群体带来改变,所以我不会从政。尽管变化迅速,但我对我们国家的未来仍然乐观,因为社区层面的合作依然存在。人工智能对社会的影响尚不明确,既有益处也有风险。想要学会信任自己,就应该寻求能够说实话的朋友。 Jamie Kern Lima: (访谈引导,提出问题,并对Melinda的回答进行回应和总结)

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Melinda French Gates discusses the importance of trusting your intuition, even when facing difficult decisions like ending her marriage. She uses the powerful metaphor of water versus waves to illustrate how to navigate change and embrace uncertainty.
  • Trusting your inner voice is crucial, even if it's difficult.
  • Change is inevitable; we are not waves, but water, adapting and flowing.
  • Surrounding yourself with supportive truth-tellers is essential during transitions.

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Get ready to gain the confidence and courage to do hard things, navigate change and find yourself again! Even if you’ve lost touch with your own voice and don’t even remember who you truly are right now. The real, wise, beautiful YOU is still in there, and you can tap back into the truth of who you are. And when you do, it will set you free! if you are ready to ignite your courage to make a transition in your life, or navigate through a hard one you didn’t plan for…and find yourself again…this incredible conversation with Melinda French Gates is for you today!

 

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 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 today here), it’s so good, 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 3, to the death of a dear friend, to departing the Gates

Foundation, to deciding to end her marriage, this book is filled with the most inspiring and insightful lessons on loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping yourself and others navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty and so much more!

 

Through Melinda’s decades of high-impact investments, philanthropy, partnerships, and advocacy, she’s not only impacted and saved millions of lives in the US and around the world, she’s also become one of the most iconic and celebrated women of our time. It is such an honor to join Melinda and YOU in this incredible conversation!  

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome to The Jamie Kern Lima Show 

3:50 "You're Not The Wave, You're The Water"

13:20 How to Handle Critics and Haters

17:30 Melinda's #1 Piece of Advice on How to Trust Yourself

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