The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

By Melinda French Gates

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Self-Help

In The Next Day (2025), philanthropist Melinda French Gates reflects on the major transitions of her life, from early career at Microsoft and parenthood to her divorce and her 2024 departure from the Gates Foundation. Drawing on her own experiences and those of people she has met through her work, she writes about uncertainty, loss and reinvention, and what she has learned about moving forward when life changes, with reflections on friendship, community and finding purpose.