In this episode of Boss Files,

We are a global community, and we need to talk about being a global community and about lifting everyone up.

Melinda Gates.

She and her husband Bill Gates have dedicated billions of dollars and so much of their time through the Gates Foundation to saving lives,

following the core belief that all lives have equal value. You know their work to eradicate malaria and polio.

But when Melinda Gates turned 50, she dedicated her life's work to women and girls,

empowering them, advancing them, and working towards their equality.

If you believe in women, you fund things for women.

You fund family planning.

You fund women's health.

The power is in the money.

Here's my conversation with Melinda Gates

at CNN's American Opportunity Breakfast in New York.

So you decided at age 50, this is what I'm going to do.

And your thought process was, how do I want to leave the world?

I've read a lot about that.

But what I want to know is the personal decision behind it.

Your kids, your mother of three, and your dad.

Your dad was remarkable for women in science at a time that that wasn't the norm.

Yeah, I think there's something about turning 50, I'll say at least for me, that you start to really think about, your kids start to get a little bit older, you start to think about,

you know, what is it, what do I want for this back, what I call the back half of life? And what is it I want

to leave behind? And by the time I turned age 50, I've been traveling for the foundation for over

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