The reviews are coming in for Meghan's podcast 'Confessions of a Female Founder'ions of a

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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

I would have thought we would have heard about the postpartum preeclampsia she and Harry in his book when he wrote about the birth, it would already have been known about - why discuss it now ? Doesn't add up. The fact so many untruths have been uncovered IF it was true, she won't be believed in many cases.
If it was true she could do so much good in raising awareness of this, instead of over produced 'cooking' shows.

I think when people bring up Andrew, it's not necessarily to say he’s doing the same things, but more to question how differently the criticism plays out. It feels like the outrage isn’t always consistent.

I agree with this to a point. People who criticise Andrew’s long documented sense of entitlement and overweening self importance (as seen in his army career, his trade envoy role and his refusal to just accept his public role is over) seem completely unable to recognise the very same traits in Harry. His law suits over tax-payer funded security, his proven spinning false stories to the press to make himself look better, his publicly going after the chair of a charity he founded because she dared to criticise its governance…what is there to choose between them, really. And yet Harry’s supporters won’t have a bar of it….

When The Guardian slags of the work of a black left wing woman you know it really is crap.
To be honest though I’m very grateful to MM for giving me some light relief with her self obsessed entitled nonsense in these otherwise depressing times.
Long may she continue along her edible flower strewn path to ridicule.

It's interesting that the supportive comments are almost entirely "why are you criticising" rather than positive comments about the podcasts.
That says that either people aren't bothering to listen or there is little positive feedback at all.

He wants IPP status, which means the USA will have to provide and pay for his security. No one in NYC believes the car chase story, especially since the three of them weren't wearing seat belts. He is not my prince. I don't want to waste my tax dollars on a rich man who isn't even an American.

Isn't it nice to know that William carries on with public appearances even though they aren't all over the news. Sounds like William is showing up and doing good.

Interesting that some of those supporting them in the RAVEC case, As Ever and the podcast seemingly have nothing to say about the Sentebale debacle and treatment of SC, let alone African Parks.

If they have, I've certainly missed it.

I'm sure you will be releived if I spare you acres of verbiage so I will !

It's not that rare, though, is it? I had it, a friend of mine had it, and when I was in hospital with it I certainly wasn't the only one. In fact I've just googled, it affects around 2-8% of pregnancies worldwide.

I won’t be listening to it but I have heard it’s just more of the same gushy, how wonderful, amazing, incredible Meghan is that all her other output has, which puts me off.

Maybe she didn't want to me tio it. Just like Kate doesn't want to me tion her type of cancer or helsth issues.

People can open up and discuss things when they are ready to. Who is a young to tell someone when the right time is.

Woukd you have a pop at your close ones if they went through something but only spoke about years later? Would you say oh why are you brining it up now and not at x time when you should have.

I feel Kate - as our future queen, having cancer is completely different to Meghan - with a track history of untruths and questionable behaviour is very different. Yes I agree she could have kept it quiet - but why not cover it in their Netflix story or her first podcast with spotify. It really comes across as attention seeking to me - but that's only my opinion - everyone is entitled to one.

If the Oprah interview had been wholly accurate - believing her would not be as difficult - but that ship has sailed.

Bridges have been burned and reputations permanently ruined.

Omg that's brilliant!

Ooft it’s brutal 😂

I can assure you that I haven’t been “dispatched” by anyone to post thanks and that I am perfectly capable of doing so off my own bat!

It’s becoming such a lazy trope on these threads insisting that anyone who posts in favour of Meghan is (a) trying to derail and (b) has to be a member of some club or group. There are many different people posting here you know, for all sorts of different reasons! So, respectfully, why don’t you get some new material?

Also, I was responding to comments that were criticising H & M for leaving, such as Bontonbonbon’s comment below.

Just because someone outwardly has the “world handed to them on a plate” doesn’t mean that they are comfortable in that particular situation and that’s ok. It’s an over-reaction to interpret that as a v-sign to the whole of the uk!

For clarity, I certainly will not be listening to the podcast as I have better things to do with my time. But I don’t understand what is so heinous about her creating one! And again why posters are starting threads about it!

For clarity, I certainly will not be listening to the podcast as I have better things to do with my time. But I don’t understand what is so heinous about her creating one!

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with her creating a podcast either! Good luck to her. It’s good to see the attention given to a small, women-founded platform ike Lemonada, too.

The bit I take issue with is that apparently people - reviewers and people on MN - aren’t allowed to have an opinion about it.

Also, just in reponse to @Nominative I believe Meghan was saying she had suffered from postpartum pre-eclampsia - i.e. she experienced it after she had given birth, not before. That is rare, and very serious, as the “cure” for pre-eclampsia is delivery of the baby. If you develop it after childbirth then it’s much more difficult to manage (it’s what Lady Sybil died of in Downton Abbey - she had a seizure after giving birth).

And her jam isn't our jam 😂

Spot on !

Meghan's problem is that she has had so many omissions in her truth, exaggerations , implications and suggestions that many people tend to raise their eyebrows now and think it's not entirely true. She's the girl who cried wolf.

I keep trying to imagine MM at the interviews stage of The Apprentice, with her business plan for selling over priced, tiny sized white label 'spread' at exhorbitant prices. Imagine Clauds face when he gets to the edible flowers....

I've just listened to the first half of the podcast (and will listen to the other half later on when I have some more kitchen jobs to do).
I'm not a big fan of the podcast genre in general - soooo much unexpurgated waffling, someone bring back all the editors please - but for one reason or another have been listening to quite a few on different topics recently so I feel qualified to say ...
.. . on the evidence of Episode 1 this is an okay podcast.

It's very "California" with all its talk of self-love etc and clearly set in an A list stratosphere where you invite people you've never met over for dinner and they come (the origin story of the friendship of MM and the interviewee who is the founder of Bumble). But as other PPs have said I shouldn't think I am the target audience.
IMO MM is not a bad interviewer in a sort of "Hello magazine for business" type of way (what I mean by this is that whilst she asks good questions she isn't "scrutinising" her interviewee or trying to "hold her to account" like a journalist might). As far as I've got with the episode I think she gets a decent amount out of her interviewee in her own style, although the insights so far are mostly what it feels like to have a bunch of horrible people who've never met you bullying you via social media.
So I will see what I learn about how to become a billionaire tech business founder of a dating app by the end.

Would I give it more than the Guardian reviewers 2 out of 5 (so far)? Maybe a 3. The podcast is more to my personal taste than the TV show which I've now watched maybe 3 episodes of.

I have listened to the podcast, and I find it really interesting. I enjoyed the talks around the trepidations that come with starting a business, obsessing over the finished product. Most importantly, the topic around the privilege of working from home while raising a young family. I can totally relate and realise that not everyone has these perks.
I also appreciated that they talked about preeclampsia as anything related to women's health especially when it comes to pregnancy is still seen as "icky" in certain instances.

I am looking forward to the next episode.
As for the naysayers, they will never stop. They will never choose to simply disengage from someone they supposedly dislike so much. The podcast will be review- bombed and then rinse and repeat. It is expected at this point.

She seems more at ease and confident compared to Archetypes( which I also enjoyed).

This woman seems to have totally filtered out the noise and she just keeps on keeping on. She won't stop no matter what. She won't give up. She won't be discouraged or silenced or bullied into a corner. She will keep focusing on making money and what brings her joy whilst enjoying her family and the community she has built. Remarkable.

Yeah people can make all the unhinged threads that they want, at this point they can't really touch her peace.

I have a friend who (many years ago) suffered from it when her first child
was born. She was extremely poorly and in the ITU for a few days. Her second pregnancy was very closely monitored. So it is somewhat surprising that we were not previously aware that Meghan had suffered from this. Unless she means her blood pressure just went up a bit after she gave birth 🤷‍♀️

Re the Guardian's "sycophantic" headline, there's a brilliant line in Cruella (the live action one with Glenn Close) where Cruella says to her minion "What kind of sycophant ARE YOU?" and he says "what kind of sycophant would you like me to be?" 😂

I think it’s strange because Harry is the father of both children
If she had it in her first pregnancy- then I’m sure we would have heard - but she was discharged quickly from hospital
If her first pregnancy didn’t precipitate a problem with pre eclampsia and Harry was still the father - then I think pre eclampsia is unlikely in the second.
Very old medical knowledge- I’d really like someone to educate me otherwise

Either way, I’m absolutely sure we’d have known about it before now if she really had pre eclampsia that Drs were worried about

I actually don’t care if that makes me seem mean. I dislike anyone appropriating medical conditions without realising how serious they actually are.