Jennifer Gates: ...you have to cultivate confidence in yourself

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is accomplished show jumper Jennifer Gates, one of the top Under 25 riders in the US, President of Evergate Stables, medical student, and daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We sat down with Jenn to find out more about how she copes with the ups and downs of such a challenging sport and how she balances medical school with riding at a top level.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. We're very proud that Nobody Told Me is a media partner with the 2020 Palm Beach Masters series,
0:22.6	which features the world's best show jumping riders and horses competing in three world-class
0:28.1	events, the World Cup, Nations Cup, and Palm Beach Open.
0:32.1	We've been talking with some of the riders who've trained for years to compete at this level,
0:36.5	learning about what motivates them
0:38.1	and how they deal with disappointment and success. And joining us on this episode is one such
0:43.5	rider, accomplished show jumper Jennifer Gates, one of the top under 25 riders in the U.S.,
0:49.1	president of Evergate Stables, medical student and daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda
0:55.4	Gates Foundation.
0:56.7	We sat down with Jen to find out more about how she copes with the ups and downs of such a
1:01.2	challenging sport and how she balances medical school with riding at such a top level.
1:06.3	Jen, tell us first of all how you got into riding.
1:09.0	Yes.
1:09.6	So I got into riding when I was about six years old.
1:12.8	I was trying a bunch of different sports and activities, tap dancing, basketball.
1:17.1	Was not really good at any of them.
1:18.9	My parents would tell you.
1:20.0	And I said that I wanted to learn how to ride horses.
1:22.3	So we found a barn about 45 minutes from our house, and I started doing lessons there.
1:26.5	We started with grooming, tacking up, all of that stuff.
1:29.6	And then about six months later, they had tried to let me canner two or three times and I fell
1:34.7	off every time.
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