May 30, 2025

800,000 downloads for Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan Markle?

800,000 downloads for Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan Markle?

Some eye-raising and likely disappointing numbers for Meghan's second podcast...and is she not realy releasing and more legally fruit spread unitl 2026?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue, and

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I am your host, Mark Francis. Fast Company profiled Meghan

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Elizabeth Siegrin writes, when I sit down to speak with her,

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she says she's recently taken on a new role, that

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of the tooth fairy. Archie, her six year old son

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recently lost his first tooth. Meghan rushed home to ensure

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she could be the one to leave a little money

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in a small dinosaur under his pillow. At two am,

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Archie worked Meghan up excitedly to tell her what had happened.

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I had a lot of business meetings the next morning,

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but I still chose to cuddle with him the rest

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of the night. She says, Those mum moments energized me

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to be a better founder, a better employer, a better boss.

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These are the kinds of work life details that Megan

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likes to get into her podcast. These are the kinds

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of work life details that Megan likes to get into

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her podcast series Confessions of a Female Founder, made with

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the production company Laminade Media, which is also behind podcasts

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by Sarah Silverman and David Ducovny, among others. It has

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had more than eight hundred thousand downloads since it's April launch.

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We asked our podcast industry insider about that number. It

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might sound like a lot, but it's not. Basic Math

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puts it at one hundred thousand an episode for a

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high profile launch like that disaster. Back to Fast Company,

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Who Shared, Megan says that she had been exploring various

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ways of launching a business when Bella Baharia, Netflix's chief

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content officer, approached her. At the time, I had been

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working towards building out my own in house team, Megan says.

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But I had a complete U turn because I completely

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brought into the vision she was sharing, which is where

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content and commerce meet not in a product placement way,

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but rather in an ideological way. In many ways, this

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is a pioneering partnership Netflix. Along with Megan, the Netflix

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team decided that it made sense for as Ever to

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exist on its own without any Netflix branding. This is

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why the line isn't called with Love Megan like the show.

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The brand is in the same universe as the show,

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but they're not the same, Meghan says. Megan also points

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out that Netflix is not just a financial backer. The

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company's consumer packaged goods team works closely with Megan's team

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to manufacture the products. We are on calls daily, working

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through product development skews and inventory. She says. We have

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a full trip tomorrow to look at different manufacturers and

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suppliers as we expand the brand, Megan says she's planning

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to announce new products in the first quarter of twenty

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twenty six. There are some clues about what new items

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might be in the pipeline. Megan's trademark application for a

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brand includes things like cookbooks, table where, cutlery, and serving where.

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I want to really focus on the hospitality angle of

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as ever, but as we take the learnings, we can

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understand what the customers needs are seasonally, she says. Megan

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is now involved in such a wide range of projects,

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she's sure to find some way to tell her story.

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If I had to write a resume, I don't know

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what I would call myself, she says. I think it

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speaks to this chapter many of us find ourselves in

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where none of us are one note, but I believe

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all the notes I am playing a part of the

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same song. In the Daily Mail, Richard Eden writes under

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the headline I can't understand Meghan's marketing godwedy gook, But

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I do know where her business is going wrong. After

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an insider told me I was among those who presumed

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that Megan was using the oldest sales technique in the book,

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deliberately having only a tiny amount of supplies available for

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sale to create the illusion of huge demand. Soon, I

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presumed the range would be replenished with stock that had

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been held back so the company could cash in with

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further sales. More than fifty days later, however, the online

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shelves remain empty and her website is plastered with sand

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little sold out science. Despite reports that her Raspberry Jam

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will return to the shelves imminently, this week, Megan made

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an astonishing announcement. It would apparently be too easy to

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restock her brand. Instead, She's not going to sell anything

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more until next year, perhaps not for another ten months.

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If you can understand Meghan's marketing gobbledy gook the learnings,

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then you are cleverer than me. Royal author Tom Bauer

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tells Okay, Harry is stuck out in California and clinging

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onto his royal status, as is she. Plus Harry's thinking

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of reconciliation, having dumped on the royal family with Spare,

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the Oprah Winfrey interview and the Netflix series. That's just

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totally unrealistic. There is zero chance of reconciliation because there

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is a reconcilable anger on the part of William and Kate.

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There's no doubt that in some conversations Harry has said

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that he might come back. So the real problem is

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that he wants to come back, but they have nowhere

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to live because Frogmore Cottage was taken away from him

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after Spare was published. Also, Meghan doesn't want to come back,

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and there's no way he's going to split off from

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her and his children. Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's younger brother,

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expressed shock and sadness after vandals stept fire to a

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farmhouse at Allthorpe House, the family's historic estate where Diana

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is buried. In a post on social media, Spencer shared

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images of the blaze, thinking Northampton sheer Fire Service for

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their efforts and confirm that no one was inside the

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building of the time. The fire was so severe that

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the farmhouse had to be demolished for safety reasons. The

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fire department, still on site has not determined the cause yet.

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Althorpe House has been the Spencer family home for five

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hundred years and it's where Diana spent her childhood. Her

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final resting place on an island in the middle of

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a lake on the estate is a tranquil and private

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site only accessible to family members. Diana's sons, Prince William

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and Prince Harry have visited the grave, with Harry once

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sharing a poignant moment there with his wife Megan Markle.

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The estate is now overseen by Charles Spencer, with his

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eldest son Louis, said to inherit it due to the

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aristocratic tradition of primogeniture. Despite having three older sisters, Louis

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is next in line to carry on the family legacy

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at Althorpe. Princess Anne visited Cunard's Queen Anne cruise ship

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in Liverpool, marking a special occasion for the cruise lines

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one hundred and eighty fifth anniversary and the ship's arrival

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to join the Liverpool FC Premier League title parade. However,

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the celebrations were overshadowed by a major incident on Water

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Street where a car drove into a crowd after Monday's parade,

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entering forty seven people two of whom suffered serious injuries.

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Amidst the tragedy, Princess Anne was given a tour of

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the Queen Anne and later participated in a moment of

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reflection on board. The Princess stood alongside Cunard President Katie

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McAllister and Liverpool City Council Chief Executive Andrew Lewis as

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they offered their support for those affected by the incident.

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commenting on his handsome killed. Charles has reportedly banned the

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caused significant plumbing issues at the Palace, with the former

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