Hi, everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week,

a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found

enormously helpful as they went about daily life. And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am

so often wowed by something I see in the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday, we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card. A thing to share with the people that you love around the

country who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see

and talk to on a more regular basis. This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the Good of the Order.

This week's for the Good of the order, like last week, is a little different.

We're sharing another new episode from the occasional series I've been doing with

Christy Turlington Burns called About Your Mother.

And today's guest is my friend and a personal hero, honestly, Melinda French Gates.

In the fall of 2021, Melinda was a guest on my PBS show. Tell me more.

The link is in the show notes. And since then, we've done a few other events together, besides having

some great meals and heart to hearts. She is the real deal. Her book, The Moment of Lift, is, to my mind, the answer if you care about the most highly leveraged solutions to what ails the world.

And of course, she has already committed $2 billion to expand women's power and influence, and I have a feeling that's just the beginning.

Christy, Turlington Burns and I launched this series about your mother to bring attention to

maternal health and the really essential work of every mother counts.

The nonprofit Christie started almost 15 years ago, which is devoted to protecting and

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