Something I love so much about the Duchess of Sussex’s “2025 Era of Joy” is that she’s not giving her haters time to breathe. It’s hilarious. The moment her critics think they’ve got a foothold and they’re about to spend the next week screaming about a Netflix show, bam, she’s posting cute Instagrams and talking about her As Ever brand launch. Everyone was geared up to talk about Meghan’s curated ShopMy page (which she dropped yesterday) and BAM, here’s the trailer for her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder.
Meghan Markle is getting ready to share her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. The Duchess of Sussex and As ever founder teamed up with Lemonada Media for her latest foray into podcasting, and PEOPLE is exclusively sharing the trailer.
“I’m Meghan, and this is Confessions of a Female Founder, a show where I chat with female entrepreneurs and friends about the sleepless nights, the lessons learned and the laser focus that got them to where they are today,” she says in the preview released on March 25. “We’re diving into the highs — and the lows – and the kind of advice that turns small ideas into billion-dollar businesses. And of course, we’re going to get some girl talk!”
The snippet was interspersed with audio from the show, where respective guests spoke about their own successes and struggles.
“It just started climbing and climbing, and there was 5,000, 10,000 people on our website,” one shares, while another remembers feeling, “I’m broke, and no one is calling me.” Another looks back at the turning point of, “I knew in that moment that I’d rather stand for something than sell a whole ton of product and stand for nothing.”
The Duchess of Sussex hinted that business isn’t the only topic on the table, however, and asked one guest about their relationship status. “Are you saying you’re not single now? Have I missed something in the past couple weeks? What’s happening?” Meghan asks, which made them both laugh.
“And through it all, I’m building a business of my own, and getting all sorts of practical advice along the way that I’m very excited to share with you. So join me for Confessions of a Female Founder from Lemonada Media, which by the way, is also female-founded. Launching April 8, wherever you get your podcasts,” she says in the preview. “Let’s do this, ladies.”
At the end of the trailer, Meghan says, “This is not Shark Tank, think of this as ‘dolphin tank.’ These are very friendly waters, it’s all going to be good,” referring to ABC’s hit business pitch show in the same playful way that she has in the past.
Meghan confirms in the trailer that the pod will drop on April 8th. I think it will be like Archetypes, in that we’re getting one podcast episode a week. COAFF has eight episodes and I would imagine this is the “first season.” Y’all might think I’m crazy, but one of those voices sounded like Khloe Kardashian? Is Meghan interviewing Khloe?? Khloe is a female founder – she co-founded Good American, the size-inclusive mostly-denim fashion brand.
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— Anna 🌸 (@anna_itsonlyme) March 25, 2025
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She is so soothing to listen to – I’m excited for this
She has a great voice.. I’m excited to see what this podcast is all about..
She could honestly narrate stories for meditation videos. I love those but it’s very difficult to find videos read by women.
Very nice. It’s what I thought it would be — business talk with some personal stuff. I’m excited to listen.
Aaaaahhhh I’m so excited for this!!
I think we all knew this was going to happen – that she was going to just drop a lot of things at once because that seems to be how she operates – but I’m still so excited and surprised at HOW MUCH she is dropping. In the past year she has filmed two seasons of a Netflix show, is almost ready to launch her product line, recorded a podcast, and that’s just what we know about at this point.
Also very excited. I expect this to be great.
I love women talking business. Really love that idea for Meghan. She is really out out. No time for her haters to breath from all their rage sessions 😂😂
One of the voices sounded like Khloe, but she said she was broke, so probably not 😂
Yup we need more women in business conversations.
My Insta is showing this awkward interview of some motor sports British journo randomly interviewing the AMD CEO and asked if she spoke English and she said she did and she was with AMD (omitted the CEO bit) and that they were sponsors and he had no clue who she was and he kept saying how her lanyard was showing she basically had access everywhere. 🥴
Definitely heard a Kardashian voice! I’m not mad at it, they have started some very successful businesses.
I agree. Plus, it seems Meghan and Doria are friendly with them.
I’m not interested in their reality show, but yeah, I’d be curious to hear what they had to say about their businesses.
It would not surprise me to learn Meghan is an investor in Lemonada Media. I certainly believe she is an investor in ShopMyPage. In any event, I am just happy to see her resume her full life. Looking forward to the Podcast.
I enjoyed the trailer. I’ll be listening.
OMG, I had no idea those good american jeans were khloe kardashian! I have a pair, and they really are great
The more interesting business woman to me is Emma Grede, who is a Black woman and the CEO and co-founder of Good American (with Khloe) AND SKIMS (with Kim) AND a co-founder of Safely, a chemical free cleaning product company.
Aww. I’m so excited. Meghan say bye to Spotify and hi to lemonada and I’m so here for it.
Ugh. Khloe Klandashian? That’s unfortunate. I’ll just skip that day.
At this point in my life I don’t think any of this will be relevant to me, but I’ll certainly listen to it. I have to laugh at all the screaming, crying and throwing up – before, it was about how Meghan hasn’t produced anything, she’s such a loser, nobody wants to work with her – and now, every day they’re getting a slap in the face.
Tee hee…I love how you worded that, @Eurydice
I thought the first voice was the Clever(?) coffee brand that Meghan invests in
I can’t wait to give it a listen. Go Meg!!!
I didn’t think the any of the voices sounded Kardashian-like, and it would be extremely disingenuous to platform a Kardashian claiming to be “broke” at any point in time. Not that Khloe wouldn’t be an interesting interview.
Meghan’s voice and delivery is amazing. Get her in animated voiceovers! She just has SO much personality and warmth.
that voice sounded a little like Jennifer Gardner to me
I agree with you, I didn’t recognize any of them and would feel weird if that was the case, to be honest.
Can’t wait for the episodes to drop ; hopefully we will have as ever to shop at the same time to enjoy flower sprinkled treats while listening.
The only voice I recognized was the founder of ClevrBlends. She’s definitely one of the people I wanted Meghan to interview.
@Sun
It doesn’t matter if the company is growing or going bankrupt. Both situations are interesting to outsiders. When everything is going well, it’s ok, but how do you cope when you’ve failed and only suffered losses? It’s worth listening to.
And the Kardashian family, although they’re not my cup of tea, I don’t even know how many there are, is an example of the American dream, from zero to billionaire, which they built themselves, despite having no education, not being intellectual eagles, not hearing about them reading books, being trashy to the point of pain, and yet building a financial empire. Why would Meghan deliberately ignore them. She may have a different concept and different guests, but she certainly won’t ignore them because she doesn’t like them or something. After all, the Kardashians are already the wwwscape of America – whether anyone likes it or not.
Thanks Meghan! Another nod to her time living in Canada by having the song Crabbuckit by k-os as the song in the background.
This sounds very interesting, and I hope she does do the weekly release. I enjoyed that the most about Archetypes in this time of streaming when everything comes out at once I feel like sometimes I don’t get a chance to savor specific episodes.
Also it’s hilarious that Spotify shared the trailer. I still believe that the people who were working in the trenches at Spotify appreciated working with them and we’re sad to see them go.
This is more my style of Meghan content. Glad she has another podcast coming out. Generally not into business oriented podcasts but curious to see how she frames it, who she talks to. Hope she really gets into how she’s developing her business since we’ve only heard a bunch of tabloid stuff.
Interesting song choice! K-os, a Canadian singer and his song Crabbuckit, about how people try to claw you back down when you are set on rising up!
That’s definitely a Kardashian, I wanted to say Kim but now that you’ve said Khloe it might be her.
I lol’d at the “Dolphin Tank” line, which I heard in the trailer without having read the People excerpt.
I couldn’t recognize any guest’s voice from the trailer ( but that’s on me). I do know that Meghan’s podcast is airing weekly for 8 wks, it was reported by Deadline & Lemonada when they announced “Confessions of A Female Founder”. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Sp0ttify & Amazon Prime.
Is it just sound, or will it also have video of the conversation?