An audience with Melinda Gates: Empowerment, careers and society

5 Live's Laura Whitmore meets Melinda Gates - one of the world’s most powerful women.

She’s a former general manager at Microsoft, co chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropist who has helped award grants worth more than 50 billion US dollars to organisations and individuals in 139 countries.

We invited an audience of women along to speak to her - all with their own inspirational stories.

They spoke about careers, equality, family, society, charity work and much more.