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.

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Meghan Markle has welcomed her close friend Jamie Kern Lima as her next guest during episode four of her podcast series, Confessions of a Female Founder. Released on Tuesday, the Duchess sat down with co-founder of It Cosmetics and L'Oreal's first female CEO and her "rocking chair friend" Jamie to speak about the importance of resilience and trusting your instincts.

The vocal fry dialed up to 11 in the JLK podcast has lacerated my brain. No more of these two, please!!!!

JLK sounded like an adult trying to talk like a toddler.

It really does show that Meghan must be struggling to find guests.

Maybe Meghan used an outtake of Jamie as the voice of Lily! 😂

I came here to say the same @Profhilodisaster , her voice is so babyish, is it put on? It sounds almost like the same voice of Lili in the video.

why is Meghans face 20 shades darker than her arms and hands.

Snap @RandyRedHumpback

Absolutely. I think particularly furious that she had to stay behind and not say goodbye to QEII or be able to support her husband as Harry had a shit fit that Meghan wasn't wanted at Balmoral.

Harry's account of the incident in Spare was painful. At no point in the conversation did he recognise or acknowledge that his father had lost his Mum and was now taking on a huge responsibility. It was all about him and Meghan.

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Catherine was never going to Balmoral as the children had just started back at school. But I agree with you about Harry's own account of the events on the day the Queen died. He's written himself as a sanctimonious, self-absorbed, pompous prick.

I do think Meghan is sort of stuck between her best and her worst. Just an opinion. She seems to have unlimited self belief and self confidence, I wish I had a fraction of it. & I am sure that gets her through a lot. But equally , that self belief and confidence seems to stop her stopping and thinking about criticism and thinking about whether that criticism might be helpful to her. That said at the moment she seems to be able to bulldoze her way through to things she wants so why would she change? So two podcasts where the critical reviews have been excoriating and the listening numbers have fallen off a cliff ( it would seem)

I do wish someone would interview her , or indeed Harry , who isn't going to just blow smoke up them and make them answer some proper questions. But I know that won't happen - Meghan still has enough clout I reckon to dictate the sorts of interviews she has. Eg the hairdresser on the Reitmann shoot did I believe say she retracted everything about M because M now had friends in high places and she was fearful of her job. I may be wrong - but there seem to be allegations of bullying which M has never had to face. NDAs , whatever. Or it didn't happen. I'm not saying either way but if I were she I would not want those allegations hanging around.

The cosmetics woman is like a business version of Drew Barrymore. If I hadn’t read who she was I’d never have believed she was capable of running a company. I wonder if all the wonderful mother stuff said by Meghan is to make up for the interview where she said when she’s away she gets whoever is with the kids to show them a video of her reading a story.

I agree @BasiliskStare confidence and self belief are great but unless you also have humility and self awareness, it just makes you an insufferable , big headed bore.

I do wish someone would interview her , or indeed Harry , who isn't going to just blow smoke up them and make them answer some proper questions.

I'd pay to see that but as you say it's never going to happen.

We've seen Harold's reaction to being caught on the back foot by relatively mild probing 🙄

I'm still putting my faith in investigative journalism but it's wearing thin 🙁

Surely not !!! 😳

I don't understand why Meghan decided to upstage her own podcast with another podcast with the same woman. The timing couldn't have been coincidence

That is truly shocking that he agreed to it with his Grandmother and now we have this !

Maybe it was the only way she could get her on her own podcast? It does seem a silly thing to do, at least spread out the episodes

It's utterly ridiculous isn't it?

I wonder if she hasn’t got anyone else lined up, it would make sense to interview someone different and then Jamie wotsit a few episodes later.

there seem to be allegations of bullying which M has never had to face. NDAs , whatever. Or it didn't happen. I'm not saying either way but if I were she I would not want those allegations hanging around

Neither would I, @BasiliskStare, but it's a difficult one now things are increasingly failing

NDAs or not, any biteback around the allegations could easily lead to people speaking up - via "sources" if necessary - so on the whole she may be better off leaving this alone

Looking at their go to tabloids, it is just a pr push that happens to be just in time for the anniversary. Even to the point she has had jam being delivered today in the UK. The scheduled podcast was never going to be enough. One mag has even gone with Meghans wedding picture. If it quacks like a duck, I think the good thing is William and Catherine do not seem to give two shits. The trip is getting lots of likes and so far attracting no controversy other than whether skinny jeans are fashionable enough.

It also shows a bit of balance of power here as the other podcast went out first, which I assume is the better option commercially for drawing listeners. So did she have to agree to this as part of negotiations to secure the interview?

The beginning of this article is about the latest episode: https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/828918/meghan-markle-reveals-advice-oprah-winfrey-episode-four-podcast/

She compliments herself almost every time she opens her mouth; I cringe just reading this and I definitely could never say it about myself!

Sharing the advice Oprah gave her, Meghan continued: "Oprah, who I know is a mentor and friend to you, same for me, she was the one who said there are tons of things you could put your name on, but for you and how you like to show up for people, once you figure out how to encapsulate your essence, then you'll know and it was so clear.

"Even as I'm listening to your story, the essence of who you are was about feeling seen, knowing that you're enough, knowing that you're beautiful, despite what anybody would say, and putting that essence in a product that could be shared with millions of people," she added.

How is this woman not bored with herself?

It’s the cringe* isn’t it? I just don’t get it. How could you not be embarrassed about putting a title on a personal gift? Even if you had a title you could use, you just wouldn’t.

*i’m channelling Pam when she says “it’s the drama Mick, I just love it”. Well I’m afraid I’m here for the cringe factor.

"Even as I'm listening to your story, the essence of who you are was about feeling seen, knowing that you're enough, knowing that you're beautiful, despite what anybody would say, and putting that essence in a product that could be shared with millions of people," she added.

Is she talking about flower sprinkles again here? Or jam?

Silly me, I thought she’d gone for products that are cheap to produce and sold with a very high mark up.