Find Your Allies Fast with philanthropist Melinda French Gates

One of the reasons we make decisions out of fear is I don't want to be uncomfortable. Totally. Nobody wants to be uncomfortable. Like people stay in bad relationships for fear of just not having a relationship. Oh, that's definitely true.

I've seen a lot of that. Every single one of us has gone through some sort of difficult transition. Whether we lost a job by our choice or theirs, whether we moved somewhere new by our choice or the choice of someone else, we often feel lost and powerless and sometimes it challenges our very identity. And that's exactly what happened to Melinda French Gates. She has gone through transition after transition, and some of them were pretty damn big.

You may know Melinda from her work with the Gates Foundation. She's the author of a new book called The Next Day. And she explores what transition means. And it turns out in these times of feeling powerless, we actually have more control than we think we do, because we can control who we surround ourselves with as we go through the transition. This is a bit of optimism.

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