Melinda French Gates and Christy Turlington Burns Talking Moms
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this special Go To, Kelly and Christy Turlington Burns sit down with Melinda French Gates to talk about the woman who raised her, Elaine, who taught her to set her own agenda and find a moment every day to really connect with the people who matter most.
Our About Your Mother series raises funds to support safe and respectful pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care in 9 countries through Every Mother Counts, founded in 2010 and led every day since by Christy Turlington Burns. Please join us with a donation here. Maternal health is a human right.
With special thanks to Tracy and David at Laughing Man Studios in Tribeca who support this series with pro bono studio time and superb coffee.
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Check out Kelly's Tell Me More episode featuring Melinda French Gates.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:05.0 | This short segment is what we call for the good of the order. |
| 0:10.8 | It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that, |
| 0:15.0 | 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. |
| 0:26.2 | And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world |
| 0:31.8 | that I want to bring back and hand off to you. |
| 0:34.0 | So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order. |
| 0:39.0 | Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country |
| 0:45.2 | who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to |
| 0:51.4 | on a more regular basis. |
| 0:53.5 | This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order, like last week is a little different. We're sharing another new episode |
| 1:14.8 | from the occasional series I've been doing with Christie Turlington Burns called |
| 1:18.8 | About Your Mother and today's guest is my friend and a personal hero, honestly, |
| 1:23.5 | Melinda French Gates. |
| 1:25.9 | In the fall of 2021, Melinda was a guest on my PBS show, |
| 1:30.0 | tell me more. |
| 1:30.9 | The link is in the show notes. |
| 1:32.3 | And since then, we've done a few other events |
| 1:34.9 | together besides having some great meals and heart to hearts. She is the real deal. |
| 1:42.6 | Her book, The Moment of Lift, |
| 1:45.1 | is to my mind the answer, |
| 1:47.8 | if you care about the most highly leveraged solutions |
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