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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill.

And this is Hello Monday, a show where I investigate the changing nature of work

and how that work is changing us.

When you become a public figure, your identity is swiftly, suddenly compressed into one immutable

image.

You must somehow control it, or else it will control you. Some people like say

the Kardashians they live to capitalize on this. For others it's an uncomfortable

reality.

Melinda Gates realized the weight of that reality

when she was dating a very young Bill Gates.

Say when we go to a restaurant, if he was running late

and I would sit down at the table,

the way the waitress or waiter might approach me when I was alone versus when he arrived was completely different.

For two decades, Melinda worked hard to keep a low profile.

She enrolled her kids in school under her maiden name. She spoke

out rarely. And when she did begin to give interviews, she talked almost exclusively

about her philanthropic work. This is still mostly the case. But more recently Melinda is

finding her voice. She's doing her own investing. She has just published a

memoir, The Moment of Lift, and perhaps most most powerfully Melinda is sharing more about her own life

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