The Duchess of Sussex has been nominated for a prestigious podcast award, just months after announcing her show would be taking an indefinite break
Meghan Markle’s podcast has been nominated for an award(Image: Emma Grede/Youtube)
Meghan Markle has been shortlisted for a prestigious award for her podcast, just months after announcing the project would be taking an indefinite break.
The Duchess of Sussex launched her podcast ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ – her second audio project after the Archetypes podcast – earlier this year, in which she hoped to shine a light on female business owners and their experiences in the sector.
Now the show, which is streamed by Lemonada Media, has been shortlisted at the 4th Annual Signal Awards in the Business & Culture category. The production company announced the news on its Instagram page, encouraging people to have their say on the fan-voted award.
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Meghan Markle’s podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, has been nominated for an award(Image: Emma Grede/Youtube)
Meghan’s podcast series, which debuted in April, saw the Duchess chat with fellow female entrepreneurs and pals about the ups and downs of setting up their own business in nine episodes.
Its guests included Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd, Girls Who Code’s Reshma Saujani, Highbrow Hippie’s Kadi Lee, IT Cosmetics’ Jamie Kern Lima, Clevr Blends’ Hannah Mendoza, FIGS’ Heather Hasson, Kitsch’s Cassandra Morales Thurswell, SPANX’s Sara Blakely and Cécred’s Tina Knowles.
The award nomination comes after the podcast was hit with scathing reviews, with the Telegraph giving the series two stars out of five and branding it “insane”, while The Guardian also gave the show two stars out of five, saying it is “stomach-turning” and “a bit much”.
In June this year, Meghan appeared on Emma Grede’s Aspire podcast, and revealed that the show would not be returning anytime soon as she instead focuses on growing her lifestyle brand As Ever.
Meghan acknowledged “that there is so much excitement and desire for another season” of the podcast, but added, “I need to focus on my business. People seem to forget that very rarely do people see everything that’s happening behind the scenes.”
The podcast launched at the same time that Meghan’s lifestyle brand As Ever announced its first product drop, which Meghan said “was perfect synergy”.
Earlier this year, Meghan announced her podcast would be taking an indefinite break (Image: YouTube/Jamie Kern Lima)
She reflected on the busy time in her life as she juggled her multiple businesses, saying: “As I knew I was in this building phase of my business, what an amazing opportunity to pull back the curtain and let people see what’s happening at the start, when all the twists and turns are there.
“For me to have the opportunity to talk to so many female founders who’ve been on that full trajectory—that are on the other side of success, but still at certain chapters in their career and their growth—but to be able to be really candid and vulnerable personally about my learns and stumbles along the way and then to take everyone’s advice—and mine included.”
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