Meghan markle makes five-word dig about royal life in latest podcast episode

THE PENULTIMATE EPISODE OF THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX'S PODCAST, CONFESSIONS OF A FEMALE FOUNDER, HAS DROPPED, WHERE SHE SPOKE ABOUT THE PRESSURES OF MOTHERHOOD 'IN THE SPOTLIGHT'

WITH KITSCH FOUNDER CASSANDRA THURSWELL 10:59, 20 May 2025Updated 11:00, 20 May 2025 Just a few hours after celebrating her seven-year wedding anniversary, Meghan Markle has dropped the

penultimate episode of her new podcast series, Confessions of a Female Founder. The Duchess of Sussex, who runs her lifestyle business As Ever, sat down with Cassandra Thurswell for the

seventh episode of her business-focused series. Thurswell founded Kitsch, a highly successful international company that makes eco-friendly haircare and beauty accessories. The two

businesswomen discussed the struggles of balancing their parenting duties with growing their business, and Cassandra admitted that until her daughter was seven years old, she struggled with

managing her role as a mother and as a CEO, struggling with significant "post-partum anxiety" at first. "I had my daughter, I thought everything was going to be just so

easy," Cassandra explained, "I would continue to just go on as my normal self, breastfeed at the office and do all these things, and I had a real reality check. "I had some

really intense post-partum anxiety, my husband really had to step in, and this was when we were really growing quickly, and it was such a crippling growth period for me...it wasn't

until she was seven years old that I was like 'I'm okay'." Meghan then later shared her own experience of becoming a mother, to Prince Archie in 2019 and Princess Lilibet

in 2021, and how it differed from the expectations she had beforehand, seemingly nodding to the pressures that came with life in the royal spotlight. "I will say for myself, especially

when they are baby babies," Meghan said. Article continues below "And yes the crying - before I was a mom, and I've always wanted to be a mom, but before I was a mom, I was

'Oh gosh, I'm going to give a speech with a baby on my hip. I had a whole vision...and you fast forward - granted I had a lot of external things happening at the time I had both

pregnancies and both babies - but it was not the way I envisioned it." The two women also discussed in detail how Cassandra managed to make such a profitable business entirely by

'bootstrapping' - using the founder's money and profits from the business to grow it, instead of taking any capital from investors. The new episode comes shortly after Meghan

shared a sweet memory board collage on her Instagram account, with many never-before-seen snaps of the Sussex family, to mark seven years of her marriage to Prince Harry - including some

seriously sweet photos of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. She captioned the post, "Seven years of marriage. A lifetime of stories. Thanks to all of you (whether by our side, or from

afar) who have loved and supported us throughout our love story - we appreciate you. Happy anniversary!" Confessions of a Female Founder is an eight-part series that sees Meghan - who

has recently launched two new business ventures, lifestyle brand As Ever, and Netflix series With Love, Meghan - get some insider tips and tricks from successful female businesswomen on how

they "scaled small ideas into successful companies". Produced by Lemonada Media, the series has featured "fly on the wall" conversations with entrepreneurs like Whitney

Wolfe Herd, who founded the dating app Bumble, and Reshma Sajauni, who founded Girls Who Code. Confessions of Female Founder has received a pretty mixed response, with one critic slamming

the series as "sycophantic" and another saying it was made up of "45 minutes of platitudes". However, the first episode did make the Top 10 overall podcast charts and

took the number one spot amongst business podcasts - though it has since dropped off. The series has seen Meghan make a number of candid confessions of her own, including that she suffered

from pre-eclampsia, a "rare and scary" condition after one of her pregnancies. She also opened up in the second episode about going through a miscarriage in 2020, telling her

guest, ""I'll bring this up if you are comfortable talking about it... I have spoken about the miscarriage we experienced. And I think in some parallel way, when you have to

learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be OK at a certain point to let something go, something go that you plan to love for a long

time." It's Meghan's second foray into the podcasting world, with her first series Archetypes cancelled by Spotify after one 12-episode season. Archetypes was first released

in 2022, and saw Meghan, along with A-list pals and guests like Serena Williams, Mindy Kaling, and Mariah Carey, break down labels that often have been levied at women, like

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