[BONUS] Gates Foundation: Season Wrap-Up with Melinda French Gates

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

To close out season one of the Make Me Care About Podcast, Jen sits down with the co-chair of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates. In the spirit of helping us care about important, but sometimes little known facts, resources and phenomena, in this final episode, Melinda helps Jen wrap the season by discussing why she thinks we should care, and why she herself cares about the topics discussed throughout the first season. She also fills us in on what new initiatives are brewing at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the foundation's future. She discusses a central tenet toward enhancing women’s economic power, and why she believes this is such an important goal for the foundation. Join Jen and Melinda as they discuss: What happens when we start to care about important topics like the ones discussed in this Make Me Care About series How women having true economic power changes everything in their household and in the world Jen’s pick on the episode from this season that had the most impact on her How Melinda’s travels around the world provide crucial perspective on other cultures and ways of life toward helping others thrive You won’t want to miss this fascinating wrap to Season One of the Make Me Care About Podcast with special guest Melinda French Gates. *** Gates Foundation Links Make Me Care About Podcast Series Gates Foundation Resources for this Episode Krystal Payne Deon Woods Bell Chef Pierre Thiam Connect with Jen! Jen’s website Jen’s InstagramJen’s Twitter Jen’s FacebookJen’s YouTube To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, my dear for the love podcast community.
0:03.0	You guys were popping in at a special time this week
0:05.9	to let you in on a very cool project.
0:08.6	I've been a part of this year
0:09.8	and I definitely want you to be a part of it too.
0:12.5	You may have heard of a little organization called
0:15.4	The Gates Foundation.
0:16.7	It's literally out there doing hugely important work
0:21.1	having a deep and profound impact on the world.
0:23.8	And they're excited to share stories
0:26.2	about some of those world-changing initiatives
0:28.5	and most importantly, the innovators behind them.
0:31.4	And I was honored when they asked me to service the host.
0:36.3	For a brand new podcast series,
0:37.9	they are calling, make me care about.
0:40.8	You guys, they rounded up the most interesting people
0:44.2	to actually make us care about all kinds of stuff
0:46.5	we might have never thought of.
0:47.8	Like, for example, poop, okay?
0:50.2	Poop, we have a whole poop show.
0:51.9	I sit down and talk to an expert about
0:53.6	why the thing we're talking about matters.
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