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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

What is so controversial about a lifestyle show, jam, edible flowers and podcasting? What is there to comment? What is it about these latest business endeavours that is so shocking that people can't fully focus their attention on their beloved RF?

Unless you have actually listened to the podcast, what is there to comment? What is there to add to the conversation? You do not like this woman. We get it. You have had hundreds of threads to express your feelings and make it clear. You do not have to infest every single threads allocated to this woman when you have nothing to contribute to the actual subject. That is what people find bizarre.

I personally enjoyed the podcast because I am all about self- improvement and enjoyed hearing from other working women how they balance maternity and work/ businesses. It really resonated with my reality.

What is your take on the actual podcast?

Oh come off it, none of them said anything like what Harry and Meghan said and did!!

You're really making quite the reach here to attempt to compare posters on an anonymous forum talking anonymously about family issues, to this odious pair going on Oprah, his book, the Netflix coverage?? Are you quite ok? If this is the conclusion you have come to, I am concerned for your reasoning faculties!

You are judgemental enough about the other members of the RF just not your sainted Harry and Meghan.

The children won't be working royals for at least another 10 years. That's a long time to be short-staffed! How do you even know if they will be working royals anyway? They may not want to be like your wonderful Harry! I do hope whatever they do they will be more classy and discreet than their ridiculous uncle. And you have sod all idea of the demands on the royal family's time either.

Please tell us you are not serious and are just taking the piss?!

Their whole way of life since they left the RF has been controversial. I wonder how that has escaped your notice? You'd have to be pretty unobservant not to have picked that up.

"Beloved RF" - load of crap. Most posters are fair to all of the family and if there is bad behaviour on the part of any of them, then it's fair game to call that out.

I have not and will not listen to the podcast. I'd sooner stick forks in my eyes. I can't stand all the fluffy, insincere, meaningless word salad she comes out with and I couldn't subject myself to that. I'm more intelligent and I have higher standards tbh. If you're taken in by that and impressed with it, that's on you.

I'm interested to hear what others think of it, mostly the intelligent, reasonable posters who inhabit these threads whose opinions I actually respect.

If you are getting your "self-improvement" from Meghan Markle, your bar must be set very low. I would rather hear from actual working women, who have tangible achievements in life, not some fluff piece produced by a woman only famous because of her marriage who has achieved damn all so far as I can see.

I can't believe this utter dross resonates with anyone's reality but if the shoe fits, I guess...

It's not that deep for me it's god.knows how many yrs ago since the book and the interview. It just doesn't bother me what was said and done all those years ago life and the world has moved on except the Daily Mail and this rf board who keep regurgitating the same old stuff.

They wanted to earn their own money, they wasn't allowed half in and out so they decided okay we will leave. They left. He wanted to give his side, he gave it.

And I'm perfectly fine thanks. Just because I have a different opinion, doesn't mean I'm not okay or having problems with my reasonings. I don't grt concerned about your mental faculties if you have a different opinion. So no need to get personal about me.

Where has the rf indicated they are short staffed and cant handle all the work? They haven't. After all a slimmed down monarchy is what they want so if their children other than George also step away, well it's only fulfilling their goal.

Stop splitting hairs. It doesn't matter how many years ago it was. People have long memories. Plus they can see the consequences of it, how he is estranged, and deservedly so, from his family. It might not bother you but that's because you are utterly determined for whatever strange reason to support and defend this odious pair. Quite what you are getting out of it, I don't know.

He didn't give his side of what happened at all. He lied and made untrue allegations about family members. Nobody needed to know his side. The RF did not publicise their side. And to do all that when his supposedly beloved grandparents were dying is just disgusting.

They wanted to earn their own money because his grifter wife had £ signs in her eyes and all the wealth of the RF wasn't enough for her. Their greed and avarice know no bounds.

Your reasoning in that post is so left of centre that it would lead anyone reading it to have cause for concern.

Of course the RF aren't going to complain about being thin on the ground - they are "never complain never explain" aren't they? Unlike whingey Harry, they are not running crying to complain that they don't have enough people and they didn't get the last sausage.

I just find your take on it all extremely bizarre.

And so what of he is estranged from family. It's his family. His decision. Doesn't affect any of us personally.

So we have different points of views and thoughts on it. It doesn't bother me but it bothers you.

Omg two people have different opinion yet you think it's okay to personally attack me and tell me you think i have issues with my reasonings etc. Clearly you are so bothered by then you now take it out on other people.

At the very least i don't personally come at you just because you think differently.

I'm not "bothered" at all. I am posting idly for entertainment. I just find your perspective very strange, that's all. You are the one who is coming across as "bothered"!

I couldn't give a flying monkeys either that he is estranged, but I will criticise him over the manner in which he did that, because he is a public figure and continues to push himself into the public eye.

Nobody is "coming at you". If you post your opinion on a public forum, then you must expect to have it challenged, and stop taking everything so personally!

Monkey see, monkey do. Don't give it out if you can't take it back.

@Spectre8 I don’t personally care if Harry is estranged from his family, although I have personal experience of that situation and it is very painful
However, I don’t need to have him share to the whole world his take on things, especially when he left the RF for privacy.
Both he and his wife would have more respect if they stopped trading on the back of the RF that they left.
And yes, there are people aligned to the RF who do make money independently and do benefit from their closeness to the Family. Thinking Mike and Zara - but at least they also seem emotionally close to the Family, and it’s actually nice to see personalities interact without actual titles being needed.

Harry and Meghan don’t seem to interact nicely with people unless there’s a benefit to it. And, especially in Meghans case, the niceness of the interaction always seems overblown and kind of hard to believe.

The sad thing is the RF do seem to be changing and modernising- and Meghan/ Harry might have enjoyed it more.

But they have said too many hurtful things for any family to trust them. The RF is too public an institution to risk being burned like this again.

Well all easily avoidable. He wrote a book and did an interview. Neither of which you had to read or watch. Plenty of books and interviews are released all the time. You seem to manage to not be interested in quite alot of them since you dont comment about them.

That is so far from the point!! Reading or watching those doesn't hurt you ore me but they sure as hell must have done his family!!

@wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting Exactly. Interesting for us. I actually felt sorry for Harry, when I read Spare. He came across as an emotionally vulnerable person.
Very very hurtful for the family. Any family.

I personally enjoyed the podcast because I am all about self- improvement and enjoyed hearing from other working women how they balance maternity and work/ businesses.

I enjoyed it too. We always hear from successful businessmen but they don’t seem to mention balancing being a husband or father with their work, because they aren’t held to the same standards that women are. I thought Whitney sounded like she’s managed to work out a good balance of home and work. Meghan did a good job interviewing her and seemed really interested in what she could learn from Whitney. I’ll listen to the next one when it’s out as I like hearing from women.

Do you think Meghan is a successful businesswoman who has balanced work and children?!

You'd do better listening to me!!!

Well Whitney and others aren’t queuing up to come on a podcast you or me are hosting so….😁

Meghan is trying to launch a business currently and if she’s willing to learn from others, good luck to her. She’s had some success in acting previously, now people are willing to go on her podcast, she’s got a business of the ground (I know how hard that is) etc so I’d say she’s successful.

Women tend to have to balance work and children, if they have them, whether they like it or not. Meghan is working and raising children so she’s balancing it all presumably, I’ve no clue how well she’s doing with that, it’s something lots of us struggle with with all the feelings of guilt if you leave your children but also wanting to earn money and have a career. Men don’t get made to feel guilty for wanting success and we hear lots from them. I’m more than happy to hear from successful women that Meghan has on her podcast who have proven themselves in business.

At least one of them is working. Feel sorry for her, she could've done so much better

Charles also did a book and a TV interview, have you held him to the same standards?

@CowboyHatAndBoots maybe Harry is a househusband? And she doesn’t really need to balance childcare and work.
I agree working mothers have a lot to balance. But not so much if there’s someone full time at home.

Maybe, although he has always had his own projects previously so may like to continue to do so in the future. From what Meghan said on the podcast, she tries to be available to her children during her work day if her children want her. From my experience, mothers (and good fathers) are always trying to balance work and home, even if one parent is a SAHP.

I don't do podcasts so haven't listened to Meghan's but I admire her get up and go with all the criticism she gets. I'm a forgive-and-forget sort of person (though I do learn from experiences) so, to me, the Oprah interview and Spare are well in the past and I think H&M deserve the right to move on from their 'misinformation' and spite. Meghan is churning stuff out to make money/stay in the public eye and I'm not going to knock another woman's efforts. Harry? well, his current court case is inadvised and he doesn't seem to have found his way forward yet - spoilt and entitled is not a good look. They are no longer relevant to the UK or the RF (and for Harry to say the UK is his home is laughable!) so I agree that it's very odd there are so many (usually) critical threads on MN about them. But....it's our space and if that's what posters want to talk about....I only skim through them now, my choice.

Not sure if this has already been posted, but here’s the link to the podcast itself. It’s not really my taste—very soothing voice, podcast-friendly flow, with that West Coast, new-agey vibe. I doubt the UK will ever be her core audience, but like Harry, she’s found a pulpit—and she’s using it, together and separately.

That said, credit where it’s due: she’s out there doing something. That’s what life’s about in the end—trying, making things, even screwing up gloriously if you have to.

And you can’t help but wonder—idly, hopelessly—if Charles might’ve loved them both beyond compare. Both passionate, both hard workers, both headstrong in their way. But it wasn’t to be. A human tragedy on more levels than one.

As for Diana… given her open heart, her outsider spirit, it’s easy to imagine her not just accepting Meghan, but truly seeing her—as a daughter-in-law, yes, but maybe more as a kindred soul.

https://lemonadamedia.com/show/confessions-of-a-female-founder-with-meghan/

Thank you @vera99 for your well balanced post. I've listened to some, not all, of the podcast and I do think Meghan has a good interviewing style, she lets the interviewee run with their thoughts.

And I agree with you regarding Diana, I think there would have been a lot of empathy there because, after all, she made that step outside too. She went through it, she dealt with the media as an outsider. I also imagine Charles and Harry are in touch, that's just my opinion.

Punctuation!

But you are bothered enough to keep criticising him though and there are.lots of public figures who do lots of things to criticise them for but you spend alot of time criticising him which means it does bother you more than other people 🤷‍♀️

And when you tell me you think I have issues withnny reasonings you are coming making personal comments about me and coming for me. I don't make personal attacks about you.

I don't do podcasts so haven't listened to Meghan's but I admire her get up and go with all the criticism she gets. I'm a forgive-and-forget sort of person (though I do learn from experiences) so, to me, the Oprah interview and Spare are well in the past and I think H&M deserve the right to move on from their 'misinformation' and spite. Meghan is churning stuff out to make money/stay in the public eye and I'm not going to knock another woman's efforts. Harry? well, his current court case is inadvised and he doesn't seem to have found his way forward yet - spoilt and entitled is not a good look. They are no longer relevant to the UK or the RF (and for Harry to say the UK is his home is laughable!) I agree that it's very odd that there are so many critical threads on MN about them. But....it's our space and if that's what posters want to talk about....I only skim through them now, my choice.

I've listened to the first 15 minutes of the podcast. I enjoy a good podcast and while this isn't really my thing, I thought I would try it.

I think the intro hook is quite odd. First, you have Meghan stresing about packaging which is a bit dull. Then you get to Britney. As a business podcast, I would have expected a bit more of a run down of Britney's impressive CV (Meghan delivers the briefest resume) as opposed to how they met which centres things around Meghan. She also managed to insert her children into the first meeting narrative to emphasise her Mom credentials. I did wonder if she might have used that to tie into Bumble/Tinder which would have been a clever segway, but no alas it veers off into inserting your essence and other Cali talk.

Meghan's voice is quite soothing in this and sounds more polished than Archetypes. But she uses an odd staccato listing thing when she's trying to show that things are busy/hectic and it feels a bit affected.

Overall though it's a bit dull and didn't keep my interest. I'm not massively interested in the friendship/girl talk aspects. It's the kind of podcast I might add to my playlist to help me drift off to sleep (I have a couple of these so no shade there).

Obviously there are adverts at the beginning, so that's where the money is being made. If she gets a lot of traffic, it could be a money spinner, but not in the same way as Spoitify.