I can’t get over the cringe of MM putting herself out there as a female founder. Naming a podcast “Confessions of…”, as though she has secrets from being a founder that need to be revealed. She’s not a founder AT ALL, let alone a noteworthy one. She’s just play acting, going toe to toe with real ones. You have to wonder at her grasp of reality. I don’t think she has much. Probably how she’s still going despite the massive negativity she gets daily, online and in print, from all quarters including the ones she respects. Her capacity for believing in her own bullshit is endless.
I suspect that the main way MM rubs people up the wrong way, be they staff or family members or PR agents or potential business partners or any of the myriad people we’ve heard of over the years, is that - like Confessions Of - she conducts herself in front of them as though she knows better than them about their areas of expertise. She was going to be more royal than the royals. She was going to be the best philanthropist. She was going to champion women like nobody else. She was going to do royal tours better than any royal ever even though she’s barely royal herself. She was going to “partner” with Flamingo Estates, “collaborate with” QE2 because don’t you know she’s just as good as them. She will embody Montecito like nobody else, especially not those who have lived there for generations. She’s the most entrepreneurial of all the entrepreneurs, so much so that she will tell them under the guise of interviews exactly how great an entrepreneur she is without hearing what they have to say. It’s like lying on your CV as an actress: sure I can ride a horse, give me the role! I’ll figure it out when I get there, and if it’s a disaster I’ll move onto the next role.
I think women like that Jamie Lima lady, her gal pals, Delfina married to Harry’s polo pal etc, are either of low self esteem/willing to diminish their fire, or are desperate for some
royal dust and gossip. It’s also possible that actually Meghan could be a really good friend and lots of fun - but at these stage there’s so much baggage you’d really have to work at that friendship.
She’s a fraudster, a dissembler, a trickster with her oh-so-careful language. She’s a hustler straight out of a Dickens novel. So basic.