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Not listened to the first in Meghan's podcast series, a conversation with the founder of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Heard, but the Mail has collated all the press reviews so far, with links. The Guardian, Telegraph and i-Paper are unanimous: the podcast is cloyingly dreadful.

The reviews for Meghan Markle's latest podcast are in! Two stars for Confessions of a Female Founder https://mol.im/a/14584193 via https://dailym.ai/android

For the love of god @LipglossAlly Since this morning (UK time) 4 posters have had posts deleted
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Please stop going on about screenshots and threatening to post them - you are sounding like you are stalking/bullying someone. Perhaps reflect on your own posting behaviour as evidenced by mods deleting your posts.

7 actually!

We had a senior member of staff do a presentation of few months to roomful of 40 or more posters, men and women, including a head of service. She started off by announcing that she was perimenopausal, and might forget her words.

Oh how hard we all cringed...!

You can't mix 'business' with 'girl talk' and expect to be taken seriously!

Is this the podcast? Blimey.

The fact she can drag herself away to Nigeria, Colombia, NYC etc rather exposes it as fallacious. I know Diana insisted William accompany them to Australia for a tour when he was really little and there was a song and dance about it, but I think she actually dug her heels in and refused to be away from him for an extended period.

Money where her mouth was, rather than performative parenting to look good.

@wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting I wouldn't announce that at the start of a presentation necessarily, however, I've been more open recently about how the menopause has impacted on the way I work - I used to have an amazing memory and now don't and find I need to take way more notes than ever before and when I am stumbling, I acknowledge the difficulties of the menopause publicly. Studies have suggested that up to 10% of women leave work because of their symptoms so I'm more comfortable to speak out - I'm CEO of a charity and kinda feel a responsibility to speak from my more privileged (relative!) position.

Indeed.

And I think it is right that the workplace has adjusted to acknowledge women's bloody (literally) stupid reproductive system.

I think putting together a podcast that has as guests very successful women, and then not delving into the trajectories of their careers and buinesses is false advertising. And I think this series is not doing justice to its guests' achievements. More fool them, then for agreeing to be involved; but, if they are being viewed as representative of serious women, by being dragged down to the intellectual level at which MM operates, they are doing businesswomen a disservice.

Like Polo did for the sport's world image.

(Did today's podcast come with a miscarriage TW, by the way?)

Agreed.

I guess I was hoping that it would be mostly business with a touch of girl talk. I listen to a podcast where the hosts interviews guests generally academics or authors and at the end, she will ask some get to know you questions, fun facts. I quite like that and the host is knowledgeable and charming. I was hoping it would be more like that not girl talk from the outset.

I said in a previous thread that people like Harry are the reason we now do EDI training. By the end of this podcast I fear it will be, people like Meghan are the reason women aren't taken seriously in business.

More fool them, then for agreeing to be involved; but, if they are being viewed as representative of serious women, by being dragged down to the intellectual level at which MM operates, they are doing businesswomen a disservice.

Archewell’s annual accounts for 2022 show a grant of $65,000 to Girls Who Code, so this could well have been in the nature of a quid pro quo.

Didn't she leave her kids to go abroad for tennis matches or something when they were very little?
I have not been blessed with children sadly, so can't speak from experience, but those of you can, is that a normal motherly thing to do?

I've listened to a bit of MM's podcast with Reshma Saujani. The opening gambit is that they met at a Kensington Palace event, and when MM asks RS why she was there, she says because you (Meghan) are an "amazing human". This seems to be a pre-requisite of being on this podcast.

Oh god, I am cringing!

Where is the vomit emoji when you need it !

I've been on one of the other recent threads about the strange (non astronaut) mission this week. The whole thing, from most of the participants and Oprah emoting to the general dumbed down, antifeminist, all for self promotion crassness of it all put me very much in mind of how Meghan operates. Word salad, photo ops, memememe and my specialness, with no substance and very little style of any note.

Meghan needs to realise that this sort of over the top language isn't helping her be taken seriously. It's cringe worthy.

We all have different tolerances I think. Some may be ok with it (not me). I think most of us would baulk at leaving our tiny children several times zones away.

MM says about miscarriage (comparing it to business) that "...you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be OK at a certain point to let something go, something go that you planned to love for a long time."

As someone who has miscarried, I find the terminology alone - "the thing", "something" - impossible to relate to. Let alone the notion of "detachment" and "planning" to love.

She just sounds so fucked up on so many levels every time she makes some grand speech.

Apart from the fact that it is a crass and insensitive way to talk about the loss of a baby, its word salady nonsensical bollocks

I am not even going to tell you how long ago my miscarriage was but I have never forgotten . That little one is still in my heart even if I don't talk about them now. It took me 20 years to even cry properly about that little lost one. Detach from the thing.....words fail me. I think that wording probably came from the desire to shoehorn her own experience onto the discussion but it was clumsy at best to say the least.

As someone who hasn't had a miscarriage, I felt it wasn't my place to comment, but I found her words oddly chosen.

You don't HAVE to follow any form of response or grief. You don't have to detach. I know people who have and people who haven't.

They seem to leave their kids in different countries quite often. They left Archie in Canada while they came to the UK to sort Megxit.

Shes's very good at detaching very ruthlessly though from all of her close relationships eg NP her bestie from school, her first husband, her father, every single member of her extended family (Raglands), her talent agent, her BFF JM, her chef boyfriend - no doubt loads of other staff and colleagues who she has hounded out of their livelihoods and others who have just sloped off. Do we think the new PR person who started last month is still working for them?

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Bingo!