Confessions of a Female Founder fails to chart this week

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It's not good news for Meghan. The podcast by Meghan is out of the Spotify 100 in the US and the UK. With Apple it's not even in the top 200 chart.

https://podcastcharts.byspotify.com/

I do agree. They look like Gertrude Jekyll to me. I have one (they grow to a short climber) in my tiny patio , and I can honestly say this bed of them is the only thing I can think of where I am envious of Meghan. 😊https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/gertrude-jekyll?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADoLBoR4P9XcTDDY04sJcF0AUd-tx&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzrzABhD8ARIsANlSWNPvtj3K1A5gmA7fshyaQowA69gaK_tE6TIgZZpNrxLTro16PhSY9RIaAgXXEALw_wcB

Honestly I actually sided with them when they wanted to protect their kids privacy. I get that it’s difficult when they’re public figures, which is why I like the way the Wales navigate the kids privacy by issuing their own photos. But the way the Sussexes are now essentially pimping their kids out on social media, teasing enough of them that it sparks interest, is wrong on so many levels and is the type of behaviour that attracts weirdos who might do something dangerous to get a look at them. It should be all or nothing.

Don’t even get me started on showing the whole world Archie in a bath!

We can see right through what they are doing.

I don't know why they don't go the whole hog and just show their faces , I don't think it would be too difficult to pick them out from what's already been shown.
But I'm guessing they either truly think they're protecting them or it's a tease to keep people interested.

I suspect the latter. That’s all she has left to flog and she’s milking it.

Honestly I actually sided with them when they wanted to protect their kids privacy.

That was about the only thing everyone on this board agreed on, although there were a few wise posters who did predict the kids would be unveiled again for another merching opportunity. They were proven right.

What has she actually 'founded' though?

She sells jams, cake mixes and boxed up shite made by someone else in a factory. She does documentaries about plating up food, not actually cooking just how to make it look pretty. Then she flogs other peoples clothes

I don't understand what Meghan thinks she has actually founded? She has nothing authentic to sell except gossip and access to the royal children.

I found myself* thinking about that this morning. I said something like "I don't like that myself" to DH then thought "Why am I clarifying that it's 'me' who doesn't like that?".
Worse though, imo, is using "myself" instead of "me", eg "Could you send that to myself?". Candidates on The Apprentice are particularly bad for that.

*Hopefully the correct use 🤞

She's founded nothing. She's not an entrepreneur, not a woman starting out with nothing. She's a wealthy, privileged royal.

She sells jams, cake mixes and boxed up shite made by someone else in a factory.

She's not even doing that, is she? All out of stock - or is the stuff available again now? It's hardly a shining example of how to launch a business.

Nope all still out of stock. I read somewhere that she is going to do 'seasonal releases', so a few limited products released at various stages throughout the year ?

Yes, the correct use @LaMarschallin ! “Myself” is a reflexive pronoun and should be used when they subject of the verb is applying the verb to themselves eg I wash myself, he dresses himself, we found ourselves and so on. So you can’t tell someone else to apply a verb to you. The verb has to “reflect back” on the subject ie you can say “I give myself permission”, but not “can you give permission to myself”

I always think with Instagram that you are never really getting a natural moment captured.

You are getting a set up moment, planned with someone to photograph it and probably repeated and choreographed takes to get the image you want.
Interspersed with checking and scrolling the images to plan the next one.

Children are just props in the image of a loving family moment.

I think we're going to look back on this insta era of look at my perfect life as deeply cynical and wonder why we ever fell for it.
In fact that's already happening and MM's insta already feels dated, stale and fake.
Nobody believes your life is joyful roses and cool jazz with your perfect children and you look foolish trying to sell it to us.

Well that won’t make her a billionaire!

The only thing she appears to have ‘founded’ is an Instagram account, so basically she runs an Instagram page.

It won’t even earn her the minimum wage 😆

IMO, MM lives in her head. In her head, in her fantasy land, she is an entrepreneur with a product that is saving the world, uplifting our girls, making huge strides for womankind, one pot of raspberry slop at a time. She's saving the world's children from social media evils, whilst merching her own children as examples of the perfect kids, living the perfect life, eating the perfect waffles, which you could have too if you only buy some of her flower sprinkles and uncritically buy into the fantasy about what she is, who she is, and what she is capable of. She's not living anything like an authentic existence or even one based on her own efforts, and the fact is, everyone around her knows it, but is complicit. The people I lay greater responsibility on are all the people around her facilitating this nonsense. Netflix, People Magazine, famous friends like Mindy, her overpaid staff in her "office" and of course her husband - although he lives in his own fantasy world where he's a great aviator, veteran and statesman, so maybe we should cut him some slack.

I did laughing at her account of being with the children, so tiring, she has to have a break from them, then Harry urges her to have a proper break "work out or have a bath"😂
These are people with nannies and housekeepers.

@RandyRedHumpback I think you're right. Otherwise, why tell so many lies? Make up stuff that's easily disproven? Make ridiculous claims about her impact and ability?

As far as I can see it's a trash rumour from trash media, PrettyFlyForaMaiTai ... nothing new there since it happens all the time

Edited to add that FWIW I'm another who admires W&K's habit of issuing their own photos of the kids for just a few occasions (usually birthdays, mothers'fathers day, etc.)
The pro society photogs must be gnashing but it certainly swerves a lot of issues, and you often get a much more natural photo when it's a parent taking it anyway

Your post prompted me to check the As Ever website. Everything is sold out, still. There's not even a note saying when the items will be back on sale. It makes a nonsense of the frantic IG posting. She can't be serious about becoming a billionaire! It wouldn't surprise me if the items never go back on sale. She's done the launch, got lots of attention, and now she's bored.

I think the suddenness of the immense global fame alongside the power rush that comes with being a senior Royal ( people bowing and curtsying to you, being in palaces and castles) sort of ‘broke her brain’ a little.

Many people go off the rails when they are suddenly overwhelmed with fame and / or riches.

Look at all the celebrities who end up with drink and drug problems, all the lottery winners who end up losing all the money really quickly.

You have a woman who had spent almost 20 years chasing fame and recognition. Who has been hustling like mad to get snapped at celebrity events etc. It’s brutally hard work for a beautiful but not stand out young actress in the world of TV and movies.

Then suddenly you are one of the most recognizable women in the world and millions of people are turning on the TV to watch your wedding. It’s a bonkers world to land in. There aren’t many people who wouldn’t be changed by that.

Everyone was mocking waity Katie but it was the most sensible thing they did - seeing the ups and downs of the press attention and the repetitive royal schedule over a ten year period was the best way to build resilience alongside a really stable family life and support. She got to go into it with her eyes truly wide open which Meghan didn’t get.

But she is in her season of joy. So why not constant releases?

@wordlerI think you are right. The RF should never have allowed them to ‘hit the ground running’. However I don’t think it was ever going to work because she’s clearly jealous of Catherine.

Well I think they had enough people suggesting they slow down who had their advice thrown back in their faces, so they probably stopped trying to help 🤷‍♀️

I wrote this on a different thread, but the thread was deleted. We know there's a credibility problem. This podcast could be interesting I suppose. But there are a dime-a-dozen 'women/empowerment' type podcasts. The only reason to listen to one is if the interviewer or the interviewee is fabulous.

Moreover, this credibility crisis extends to everything they do. 'We're leaving the RF, it's outdated, we are making a documentary that will talk about all of it', but actually please make sure you call us the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. In fact, we'll awkwardly insert that into our Netflix show as well- the Sussex bit. I'm fairly certain she wouldn't be able to point to Sussex on a map.

Or, we'll talk about racism at great length, till we won't, and backtrack and call it 'unconscious bias', and say that it's all the media playing it up. In fact when Buckingham Palace reprimanded Susan Hussey, Harry said it was the media making a big deal out of nothing, just a little 'unconscious bias' on her part:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/harry-meghan-back-royal-aide-28904708

This then brings us to the social media thing. So social media is bad for kids say H&M, but it's okay for our kids to be on social media and have a lifelong digital footprint they have no control over....

H&M have run into an institution versus individual problem. The institution always wins. William will hobnob with the great and good, and host State dinners and attend the funeral of the Pope because of who he is. Harry had he stayed in the RF would have attended minor events and been given a front row seat to some of the world's major events. Now he's cast out in Montecito running a small foundation with his wife, that too not very well, with no real global role.