Meghan Markle news: Duchess reveals why she’s putting her podcast on hiatus | Confessions of a Female Founder

Meghan Markle has revealed why she’s putting her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder on hiatus after one season.

During a recent appearance on the podcast Aspire with Emme Grede the 43-year-old said that she is taking “everyone’s advice, and mine included” and hitting pause on her podcast for now.

“What an amazing opportunity, to pull back the curtain and let people see what’s happening at the start, 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,” she said in the episode which was released on June 17.

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“To be able to be really candid and vulnerable personally about my learns and stumbles along the way,” she added.

Meghan revealed that she’s realised that her priorities have changed.

“And to then take everyone’s advice, and mine included, and to say ‘I love that there’s so much excitement and desire for another season, but I need to focus on my business,” she added.

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The royal explained that people “seem to forget that very rarely do people see everything that’s happening behind the scenes.”

“I could show a small glimpse of that, but equally yes, I wrapped season one of my Netflix series, still had to promote it, still had to be in the edits,” she said.

“For Season 2, we were in pre-production of one season while we were doing post-production of the other, it’s constant.

“I just wrapped edits on Season 2 of With Love, Meghan last week, so it’s still ongoing while also doing a podcast while also building my business,” Meghan said.

She joked at a “certain point, the only thing I want to be spread thin is my jam”.

The Duchess of Sussex launched her lifestyle brand As ever following the release of her Netflix series With Love, Meghan earlier this year. Season two of the Netflix series is set to air later this year.

Meghan launched As ever with eight products which included raspberry spread, tea, and crepe mix, on April 2, the limited range selling out in under an hour.

Her next round of products will be released on June 20 in the US, with As ever stating they will be “bringing back the items you love & some new surprises”.

Season one of Confessions of a Female Founder included Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, Spanx creator Sara Blakely, and Beyonce Knowles’ mother Tina Knowles.

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Meghan said the insights she gained from each conversation included “valuable insight coming from women who have been through this before”.

“So does it mean it won’t come back? No,” Meghan said.

“But I would love to bring the show back when I am at a different end of my founder journey.”

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Meghan also spoke about the challenges of being a working mum. She and her husband Prince Harry share two children – Prince Archie, six, and Princess Lilibet, four.

“Most of the women that I spoke to are working mums,” she said on the podcast.

“And this is such a key age, I don’t want to miss a moment for my children.”

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