Deep Dive with Melinda French Gates on Transitions

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kelly sits down with global philanthropist, women's advocate and friend Melinda French Gates to dive into her new book The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward and chat about what Melinda calls "the clearing" – that awkward space between ending one thing and figuring out what's next. They cover everything from pushing back against Catholic school rules as a kid to making tough calls about work, family and marriage. It's a warm, honest conversation about finding your way through life's biggest transitions and coming out stronger on the other side. 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	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about
0:10.2	transitions and relationships and how to navigate the clearing, that space between what was
0:16.2	and what might yet be. My guest is global philanthropist and women's rights advocate, Melinda French Gates,
0:24.2	who opens up with me about panic attacks, therapy, singlehood, and empty nesting.
0:29.9	Melinda has written a new book called The Next Day, Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward,
0:35.3	from questioning authority as a young Catholic
0:38.0	to navigating big decisions about family, career, and marriage,
0:43.0	Melinda shares how these moments have shaped her perspective
0:45.8	on what really matters.
0:48.4	Here is my conversation with Melinda French Gates.
0:54.3	Hi, friend.
0:55.8	Hi, I'm so glad we get to do this.
0:58.4	I know it. I know it. I wish I was sitting right next to you instead of looking at your
1:01.4	2D version, but nonetheless, that day will come. This book to me seems like a little bit of a
1:09.7	gentle nudge to not sleepwalk through your life and or to not
1:15.0	be paralyzed by the potential of hard changes ahead. So I thought it might be fun to start with
1:25.0	Ray French, a man who I love. I love the story of Ray French in here.
1:30.8	Your parents like mine, long-time Catholics. But your parents, interestingly, are not unthinkingly
1:38.2	obedient. Like, your dad had a real moment of pushback. For sure. And I think that's one of the biggest gifts they gave me as a child.
1:50.3	And in my high school years was it was okay, even though we were a Catholic, a deeply Catholic family,
1:57.0	it was okay to question the authority of the human part, the human side of the church.
2:04.6	So I tell a story in this book that makes me still kind of laugh and smile and chuckle every
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