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Melinda French Gates Reveals All (Pt 2): Life-Changing Lessons on Igniting Your Courage, Hearing Your Intuition & Taking Your Power Back
Thu, 17 Apr 2025
Full Video Available on YouTube @JamieKernLimaOfficial. Are You Ready to believe in YOU?🙌 jamiekernlima.com 👈 Sign up for my FREE Inspirational Newsletter here and you’ll ALSO get special prompt questions to help you grow in your self-worth-building that pair with each episode!🩷 Make sure to click the “Follow” button for the show on your favorite podcast app, so you’ll be the first to get each episode! ____ Get ready to ignite your courage, tune into and hear your intuition, and take your power back! If you feel like you’ve lost yourself…maybe through unhealthy friendships, or a relationships that’s run it’s course and you know it’s time to stop betraying yourself by staying in it, or through a job that is fine but it’s not filling your soul or challenging your true talent and passions, or by people-pleasing your way through the day, so much so, that you don’t even know who you are anymore…this incredible Part 2 episode with Melinda French Gates in for you! Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. She’s the founder of Pivotal Ventures, focused on accelerating social progress by removing barriers that hold people back, she also co-founded the Gates Foundation, alongside former husband Bill Gates. Melinda’s brand new book The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward, is out now, make sure you pick up your copy today here, it’s so good, in the book, Melinda reflects for the first time on the most significant transitions in her life, from becoming a parent, she’s now a mom of 3, to the death of a dear friend, to departing the Gates Foundation, to deciding to end her marriage, this book is filled with the most inspiring and insightful lessons on loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping yourself and others navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty and so much more! Through Melinda’s decades of high-impact investments, philanthropy, partnerships, and advocacy, she’s not only impacted and saved millions of lives in the US and around the world, she’s also become one of the most iconic and celebrated women of our time. It is such an honor to join Melinda and YOU in this incredible Part 2 conversation! And whether you're joining me today for yourself or because someone that you love shared this episode with you, I want to welcome you to the Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast family. And remember this episode is not just for you and me. Please share it with every single person that you know because it can change their life too. Episode Reflection Questions for YOU: Jamie writes prompt questions each episode to spark revelations in your self-worth journey and help you apply the tools and lessons from each episode into your real life right now. Please make sure you’re signed up for Jamie’s free inspirational newsletter jamiekernlima.com 👈 Get my new book WORTHY plus FREE Bonus gifts including a 95+ page Worthy Workbook and more at WorthyBook.com For more resources related to today’s episode, click here https://jamiekernlima.com/show/ for the podcast episode page. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to The Jamie Kern Lima Show 6:20 Knowing For Sure God Exists 11:20 Your Religion And Your Knowing 17:15 Divorce, Values, And Staying True To Yourself 23:45 From Feeling Unworthy to Trusting Yourself 27:45 Don't Rush During Transitions in Your Life 29:45 Panic Attacks & Helping Each Other 33:35 Your Dreams & Signs It’s such an honor to share this podcast together with you. And please note: I am not a licensed therapist, and this podcast is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional. Click Here to Subscribe to the YouTube Channel Follow me here: Instagram TikTok Facebook Website — Sign up for my inspirational newsletter for YOU at: jamiekernlima.com — Looking for my books on Amazon? Here they are! WORTHY Believe IT
How did therapy help Melinda respond to betrayals without betraying herself?
You describe how your inner voice had faded. You say, in the decade or so before my marriage fell apart, therapy made it possible for you to respond to betrayals in your marriage without betraying yourself in return.
It is hard, right? Really hard. And it's hard for everyone involved, including the kids. I felt like we had agreed on our values as a couple going into the marriage. But I got to a point where I didn't feel like I could be fully integrated and live those values in the marriage because there comes a point at which to be true to yourself, you have to do what's right, even though you may not want to.
Melinda, Melinda French Gates, how are you? Can I hug you?
Of course. I've been to Denny's many times with my kids. Have you been to Denny's? Yes, for a long time. But when they were little, they loved Denny's. Did they really? Oh yeah, the pancakes. The pancakes? Yeah.
coming up in this incredible part two episode with Melinda French Gates. She's opening up like never before. You started having dreams of a crumbling foundation.
I had this dream that I was on a cliff and my ex-husband Bill and the kids were also on the edge of the cliff, but my part of the cliff crumbled away and I was dropping down into a pit and they were still on the edge of this cliff together. And I knew, oh, this means I need to separate. and do something else. I need to figure this out, and I'm gonna be alone in figuring this out.
And sharing life-changing lessons on igniting your courage. Panic attacks. So many of us have them, and a lot of us think we're alone in them or we don't share them.
I think more people have them than we realize. I had read about them, and I remember being skeptical, like, mm.
that a real thing like what is that you know i've been anxious before but um but when you have one yeah it is it's so terrifying yeah just terrifying at least for me the whole world falls away and you are just by yourself and just literally that like deer in the headlights like you can't sweaty palms can't think your heart is racing
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