June 3, 2025

Confessions of a Female Founder recap - Meghan Markle Closes Out Podcast with Tina Knowles, Teases Business Dreams with Daughter Lilibet

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In the final episode (of season 1?) of Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan Markle sits down with Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, for a heartfelt conversation about motherhood, entrepreneurship, and legacy. Meghan reveals she dreams of launching a business with daughter Princess Lilibet, reflects on the sell-out success of her lifestyle brand As Ever, and opens up about the emotional toll of building something from scratch. Tina shares wisdom from her own career journey, and the two discuss friends like Tyler Perry,

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Callaroga Shark Media head Loo and welcome to Palace Intrigue Game,

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your host Mark Francis well Sadly, the Duchess of Sussex's

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closed the curtain on her podcast series Confessions of a

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Female Founder, with today's episode featuring Tina Knowles, mother to

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global icon Beyonce. The two women spoke candidly about business, motherhood, identity,

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and legacy, with Megan even revealing she envisions going into

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business with her daughter, Princess Lilibert one day. I wonder

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if one day I'll be in business with Lily and

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we'll be building something. Megan said during the interview. Yeah,

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that's the best, Knowles replied. The recording took place on

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May fifth, the day before Prince Archie's sixth birthday and

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just days before Princess Lilibert turns four. The timing of

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the episode, with its reflections on motherhood and intergenerational empowerment,

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was not lost. Meghan and Tina's conversation ranged from practical

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business challenges to emotional reflections. The Duchess spoke at length

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about the challenges behind her own lifestyle brand as Ever,

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which launched in April and sold out its first batch

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of jams, honeys and herbal teas within forty five minutes,

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Meghan told us for me at the moment, with as ever,

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it was great. We planned, we planned for a year,

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and then everything sells out in forty five minutes, which yes, amazing,

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great news. Then what do you do then, Knowles asked.

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Megan replied, and then you say, okay, we planned as

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best as we could. Are we going to replenish and

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sell out again in an hour? Or is that annoying

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as a customer and looking at it saying just pause,

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that happened. Let's wait until we are completely stable and

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we have everything we need. Knowles nodded in agreement, reflecting

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on her own experience of building businesses from the ground up.

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You start your business and then you find yourself, she said.

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It gives you confidence that you didn't have before. Meghan

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added that scarcity mentality at the beginning be a hook

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for people, not dissimilar to a sneaker drop. But when

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you're talking about products, I don't want you to eat

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that jam once every six months. I want that to

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be on your shelf all the time. The Duchess also

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spoke movingly about the emotional toll of launching her brand.

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They see all the flashy stuff and they see the product,

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but that end again, those behind the scenes moments. How

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many tears they've shared. The conversation touched on shared memories

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and influences. Tina Knowles reminisced about her first salon, Headliners,

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which she opened in nineteen ninety in Houston, after becoming

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fed up with spending hours at other salons. Megan responded,

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I remember me with all my hair growing up. Oh

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my gosh, and my mum would have to drop me

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off at the hair salon and I would sit there

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for three to four hours for them to press and

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curl my hair. And that was at the age of thirteen.

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Megan praised Noles as a fashion designer, beauty entrepreneur, cultural

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icon who has spent decades celebrating an elevating black style.

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Alongside her daughters. She added, I'm so happy to be

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sitting down with you, so glad you reached out. The

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Duchess also spoke warmly about Beyonce's longtime publicist, a Vet,

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saying I loved seeing a Vet there. Referring to Beyonce's concert,

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I wrote a letter after I went to Bee's concert

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a couple of years ago. She said the kindest things,

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and they just wanted her to know how much it

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meant to me. The pair also discussed Tayler Perry, who

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famously provided Megan and Harriet safe haven in Los Angeles

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when they left their royal roles in twenty twenty. And

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Tyler talks about you all. He loves you, Noels said,

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Began replied, yes, well, he's a good friend to have.

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He's the most extraordinary soundboard. It's interesting for us to

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be sitting down talking about business because he is that

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person that when I have questions about business, or just

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when you feel like you're off the path, I need

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to check in with Tyler. Confessions of a Female Founder

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with Meghan was number seventy four business podcast Apple Podcast

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charts according to your website pod follow at eight a m.

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The Crown left off, and we really appreciate your support

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with that. Comedian Tim Dillon discussed Megan with Fox News Digital, saying,

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I think it's just that she came to prominence at

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a time when there was a real cultural cachet to

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being a victim, and I thought it was a very

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funny way to be a victim, and she found a

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way to be a victim while living in a castle,

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and I always found that very funny. I think she's

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a great comedic actress. I think there was a real

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currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence

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and she became a victim living in a castle, mar

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to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought

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that was very funny. It's hard to pull off. She

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did it to her credit. You know, most people that

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you know were putting out that they were victims during

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that era were, to their credit, not members of the

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royal family. Dylan added, Harry seems like he's kind of

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been led around and he kind of doesn't know what's

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going on. It's probably all an adventure for him. Right

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This was a bonus episode. The regular episode went out

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of the normal time earlier today. We'll be back in

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the morning and they have it. I feel like email

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