French Melinda Gates says she did not expect to write a book on transformations. But during the past few years, she passed divorce (from her ex -husband, Microsoft Founder of Bill Gates), Leaving an institution 75 billion dollars The two were founded again in 2000, and reached 60 years. Her new book, the next dayDive into each of these huge changes – and more.

“It should not be of my life without moving in all kinds of transformations,” French Gates writes at the introduction to the book. ))

In a recent interview with luckAl -Mohsen explained that the idea of ​​the book was born from the letter of its start at Stanford University last year, which focused on managing life and turns transformations.

“I realized, my God, I have a lot to say about the transformations,” says France Gates. “So I have just started moving forward and doing a book.”

Unusual French gates are explicit in the next day.

“I loved Bell,” she writes in a chapter entitled “Distributing your inner voice”, which details The end of her marriage is approximately 30 years old. “Not only that, but I appreciated our family life deeply – and I felt a tremendous responsibility towards the basis that we started together. Were I to have all of this? Were I to give up the future that we imagined for a long time?”

French gates tell Fortune that she was fully aware of the effects of their ripples that their divorce will have, personally and professionally. For this reason, in May 2021, before publicly announced their division, the former couple made an important phone call – nothing but that Warren Buffett, their friend and useful. (Over the years, Puffett gave more than $ 39 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, including the donations he made after the couple decided to divorce.)

“I mean, he has done this tremendous investment in the institution,” Gates said, “I mean, this is the tremendous investment in the institution,” France said.

the next day It is the second French book Gates, the first of which is a large biography. It also includes chapters on French gates to become a mother and a close friend of her life early. But the improved says that she felt obligated to write about her divorce.

“I felt it was important to include it, because people knew that I went through it,” she says. “And if I am talking about transformations and not writing about it, this seems deceitful, right?”

Axis from Gates to Pivotal

Last year, French Gates started another prominent division. In June 2024, she moved away from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with its charitable efforts focus on Pivotal, an organization that started in 2015 Which aims to enhance women and families through investment, partnerships and advocacy. (The Foundation was renamed as the Gates Foundation after the resignation of the French gates.)

French Gates said that her “northern star” in Pivotal raises women and girls. But as she learned to roll with punches in her personal life, she said that the strategy of how this goal requires an open mind instead of a specific ideology – a point that ignites it in the book.

“The world for women is changing, so I need a lot of flexibility to know,” Where do I make investments, where to put the grants, where to use my voice, “I explained in the interview, referring to both geopolitical and economic transformations.

Another point of French gates in the book is that moving to a full -time focus on the axis is the first time in its charitable career that it fully controlled on how to use the organization’s resources. She said this is the other as a leader in some unexpected ways.

“I think I often ask,” Am I wrong here? What do not see? What should I see? She said. ”I would like to be more likely to be at risk, then I felt that I could be essentially, and this was not anyone else’s mistake in the institution. This was me. “

The French gates, which have long been known for their polished and privacy, became more comfortable while at risk in other ways as well. One of the most surprising disclosures in the book is its openness to its recent conflicts with panic attacks.

“I really didn’t know whether this was real, and I never expected it to happen,” says France Gates. “But as soon as that happened, the more you start talking to friends about this topic, the more you start realizing more people and then realizing.”

French gates say that the panic attacks were the way of her body in an attempt to tell her something – an indication that her head and heart were out of alignment. But these days, a little constant uncertainty does not seem to expel her internal voice from beating.

The French Gates also writes at the end of her book: “I still did not reach the other side. But this journey renewed my belief that even in our most difficult days, somewhere in us, a new start is quietly formed.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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