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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.

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Pursuing

You do know you can edit posts don’t you? It saves keep re quoting yourself

As I said in a previous post, her branding is just so confusing. Is she a feminist or a trad wife? Is she an ingenue or a girl boss? I just think her brand is all over the place and this isn’t the best subject for her to be hosting (hence the mostly negative views). Most reviews are essentially saying she’s chatting shit and doesn’t know what she’s talking about, whilst her guest is doing all the heavy lifting. I wouldn’t want to listen to a history podcast where the host isn’t qualified in history and relies solely on the guest to give us the actual info, if you see what I mean? She would perhaps benefit from having a co-host who does actually know what they’re talking about? Or maybe just do a podcast about something she is qualified in or about herself? That might get her some better ratings and more viewers. I know I would be a regular listening is she was spilling the tea on her relationships etc.

"It’s all a highly individualistic and choice feminism approach to discussing the fundamentals of equality. Do these high-powered wealthy women have staff, does everyone at their companies have generous wages and insurance and parental leave policies? Can all these employees make school pick-up and be “crushing it” in their careers?"

Great Q from the journalist. Are these women walking the talk as employers of women? Surely that's exactly where change can happen in their own companies.

By all accounts MM is not this employer.

Rather as reported by numerous independent investigations amongst her staff and colleagues, by multiple highly credible publications - the corporate environment she oversees for her working mothers is steeped in her bullying, harassment and belittling. So much so that some are hounded from their livelihoods by her, whilst others need professional support to recover from the mental injury suffered.

"Crushing it" - in their careers? Not if you work for MM - more likely "crushed by" your career by her appaling behaviour according to the testimonies of dozens of victims and witnesses.

What’s her personality? I don’t think even Meghan knows what her personality or brand is at the moment? She’s constantly flip flopping and that’s one of the reasons why her projects aren’t going well. It’s one of the main things I keep seeing written about her both online and in the media. She just isn’t authentic despite telling everyone that “this is her authentic self” with every new project. It’s hard to keep up with which incarnation of Meghan we’re being treated to at the moment. Is feminist Meghan? Trad wife Meghan? Girl Boes Meghan? Ingenue Meghan? Meghan the victim? It’s so exhausting!

But it gives us all another chance to reread the post in case anything important passed us by!

Really good point. By many, many accounts she’s an appalling employer. Is it not then massively hypocritical to create a podcast supposedly advocating for women in business? I wonder what the work life balance for her female employees is like?

If we were all being completely honest we know what this podcast is actually about and for !
exactly the same as the last one , it’s purely a pr vehicle for Meghan to talk about herself, the guests are simply there to provide the cue cards and the validation.
and as ever the information is at least 10 years behind.

I would also argue that the reason why we are not seeing that many reviews on this show is because the business model of churning multiple ( negative) reviews on each and every piece of content she puts out, is simply not sustainable.
It makes these publications seem amateurish and unreliable ( see the supposedly respectable Guardian and their 5 reviews on a show filmed overseas which clearly caters to an American audience primarily).

How many times are they going to scream flop, horrible bla bla for (certain)people to actually consume the content and enjoy it.

The more she finds her niche and build her brand, the less interest there will be from a certain section.

This is a really good point to raise. It hasn’t just been a one off complaint when she was still within the royal family. There have been numerous complaints whilst she’s been living and working in the US. It does seem very hypocritical to be promoting women in business or the work place only to essentially bully and harass them within her own work environment.

Thank you . I was beginning to wonder if I had traveled back in time to yesterday !

Has she restocked yet ?

Bingo!

I find it weird that she’s always dropping little snippets about her own personal life (not work life) into these podcasts. This is why I think she should just have her own chatty podcast. She clearly loves to talk about herself and people would listen if she spills the tea, so to speak. Thats why Spare and the Harry & Meghan Netflix doc did so well. People want the goss and it seems that’s all they’re really good at.

Between women gushing about wearing lipstick on rockets and this 45-minute meditation on having-it-all, I feel about as positive towards female empowerment as William Shatner felt about space. It’s a cold dark void ready to suck the life out of you.

I love this. I think India Block deeply resented havng to listen to that podcast 😂

Honestly, my mother and grandmother despair at the current wave of feminism that we are experiencing. It’s like Meghan professing that Harry is a feminist but then Harry not showing support or sympathy when Dr Sophie Chandauka accuses people at Sentebale of misogynism and misogynoirism. I feel like this brand of feminism is all lip service and saying the right buzz words but not actually putting their money where their mouth is.

Yes @PrettyFlyforaMaiTai, that would at least be more authentic!
but unfortunately due to the now obvious inability to speak without word salad nonsense and telling enormous pork pies , I feel this ship has probably already sailed.

I would also add, that for being a niche podcast( mainly target to women who happen to also have an entrepreneurial streak) she seems to have managed to pull decent numbers.

That episode sounds horrifying. Maybe Harry should focus on phone addiction if Meghan is so compelled to scroll that she must be reminded to take some physical activity.

Great point, and adjacent to my post yesterday. This guest and MM met at KP. When asked why she came to be there, she said it was because MM is wonderful or some such. No acknowledgement of the KP staff - women, probably - who organised the event and probably did the research and outreach that resulted in this particular woman being invited. I'm disgusted that neither of them thought to thank the "little people" involved, but that goes hand in hand with bullying behaviour.

I don’t think an interviewer/host has to be an ‘expert’ on the topic. Only the guest has to be imo. The interviewer/host just has to be able to make the podcast flow and be interested which I think she does.

And let's not forget the ethnic workers being paid pennies per item for that luxury handbag line she promoted.

No wonder she sticks to female biology - if she strays into discussing actual business practices she is in dangerous territory on many issues.

I.wonder how much the spread-makers get paid

Exactly. We want to encourage more women in the work place, more women in leading roles and more female founders. We need to think about the ‘little people’ too. From the CEOs right down to the Personal assistants and cleaners who keep things running. Considering she’s meant to be promoting women, it’s disheartening for her not to big up the women who work for her and explaining that they all help work towards her success in business. But again, this all links up with the bullying allegations and how she isn’t very nice to people she sees as below her.

The little snippets and references to her personal life are clap backs. Whilst her supporters can bang on about her "moving on", she will find any way to hark back to what she perceives to have been her "struggles" and "unfair reputation" during her time in the RF and for the last 5 years. She is trying to re-write the narrative. Only her die hard fans will take it all without the much needed pinch of salt to cut through the sugar sweet image she is trying to portray.

I was actually thinking about this myself. Who else is involved in marketing and producing her products. I would love to know if she is taking care of their well being and ensuring they are receiving a fare wage and good working conditions. I would love it if she specifically chose an all female work force to champion women, whilst ensuring brilliant health insurance/maternity pay/fair pay/good working conditions. This is the stuff I would like her to talk about in a podcast about female founders, not about her personal medical history. That should be saved for another type of podcast in my opinion.

I think you do on this type of podcast. But opinions may vary 🤣🥰