Melinda French Gates Reveals All (Pt 2): Life-Changing Lessons on Igniting Your Courage, Hearing Your Intuition & Taking Your Power Back
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Get ready to ignite your courage, tune into and hear your intuition, and take your power back! If you feel like you’ve lost yourself…maybe through unhealthy friendships, or a relationships that’s run it’s course and you know it’s time to stop betraying yourself by staying in it, or through a job that is fine but it’s not filling your soul or challenging your true talent and passions, or by people-pleasing your way through the day, so much so, that you don’t even know who you are anymore…this incredible Part 2 episode with Melinda French Gates is for you!
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 Part 2 conversation!
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- Have you ever had a moment where you were fully and completely courageous? Have you had a moment like that in the past year or two? How did it feel?
- What fears or concerns might stop you from tapping into your full courage?
- Do you feel like you’re good at tuning into and hearing your own intuition? If not, is this something you want to get in good practice doing?
- When you do hear your own intuition, do you trust it?
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