Hello there. Did you know that you can hear all of the things that my guests might have failed to divulge in the main episode by joining us in our subscriber community failing with friends? It's where you will hear really riveting pieces of information like Olivia Atwood's dream date location or Miranda Hart's advice on performing bodily functions in front of your

partner. Just follow the link in the podcast notes and we will see you there.

Hello and welcome to How to Fail with me, Elizabeth Day.

This is the podcast that believes failure can be a nudge from the universe into a different kind of beginning.

I kept pushing it away, but at some point I had to turn towards it, and I just knew it, and I knew it in my soul. And so I had to learn

to say to them just because I can doesn't mean I should. We essentially knew the day we shipped

the software that it was a dud.

Thanks to Dove, we've got an absolutely iconic guest coming on How to Fail on Monday, July the 7th, in partnership with the really exciting Dove Self-Eesteem Project.

The Dove Self-Esteen Project is an amazing initiative, supported by science-backed methodology that we can all

introduce into our lives to help us improve our relationship with our bodies. To find more body

confidence building exercises and a supporting workbook, you can go to Dove.com forward slash Y2K,

that's W-H-Y-2K. And keep your eyes and ears peeled on Monday, July

the 7th, for our very special Dove episode with an iconic guest who I know you're all going to love.

Melinda French Gates was born in Dallas, Texas, the second of four children. Her father,

Raymond, was an Apollo space engineer who taught his young daughter to code. Her mother,

Elaine, instilled in her a belief in the power of education. French Gates excelled at school

and university, where she studied computer science and economics and completed an MBA.

In 1987, she joined a tech startup called Microsoft, rising through the ranks to become manager

of information products and marrying the boss in 1994. His name was Bill Gates. Together, the couple founded and co-chaired the Gates Foundation,

where for more than two decades, she set the direction and priorities of the world's largest

philanthropic organisation. Today, a divorced French Gates heads up pivotal, which works to

advance women's power and influence in the US

...