Meghan Markle has confirmed that, at least for now, there will not be a season 2 of her podcast with Lemonada Media, “Confessions of a Female Founder.”
The Duchess of Sussex announced the deal with Lemonada in 2024, and the podcast’s eight-episode arc—plus a bonus episode with Ms. Tina Knowles—premiered April 8 and wrapped June 3. Meghan told Emma Grede on Grede’s own podcast, “Aspire with Emma Grede,” on June 17 that launching her podcast while founding her own lifestyle brand, As Ever, “was perfect synergy. Think about the timing of that.”
The promotional image for Meghan Markle’s “Confessions of a Female Founder” podcast.
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Meghan added in the episode Tuesday—only her second podcast interview on a show that wasn’t her own, following her appearance in April on friend Jamie Kern Lima’s eponymous show—that she felt fortunate to find Lemonada and loved that they were a female founded company. She also congratulated them on their recent acquisition, telling Grede she was “proud of them.”
Meghan said she knew “Confessions of a Female Founder” was “in a safe place” to have conversations she wanted to have with guests like Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, SPANX founder Sara Blakely, and IT Cosmetics founder Kern Lima, among others.
“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,” Meghan told Grede. “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.”
Meghan Markle in Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’.
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Meghan Markle.
Meghan said that while she loved “that there is so much excitement and desire for another season,” she added, “I need to focus on my business.” When Grede interjected that it was all “too much,” Meghan said, “People seem to forget that very rarely do people see everything that’s happening behind the scenes.”
“I show a small glimpse of that,” she added, mentioning that, in addition to launching As Ever, she was also editing and promoting her Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, which premiered its first season in March and will debut season 2 later this year.
“At a certain point, the only thing I want spread thin is my jam,” she joked to Grede, referring to As Ever’s signature product.
“I realized I’m using this [the podcast] opportunity to share, and I love that, but I also need to use this opportunity to listen,” Meghan continued. “I have very valuable insight from women who have been through this before, and if I’m not going to take the cue that we are teaching people, what’s the point?”
Giving a little hope infusion, Meghan added, “Does it mean it won’t come back? No, but I would love to bring the show back when I’m at a different end of my founder journey.”
“A different time will be so exciting just to be able to compare and contrast,” she said, adding, “I know people want another one, [but] I just made a choice to say, ‘It’s a really good time to put all of my energy into the thing that I’m building.’”
Meghan Markle in Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’.
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Meghan also added that her family—husband Prince Harry and their kids Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet—played into her decision, telling Grede that, when it comes to her kids, “I don’t want to miss a moment with my children.”
“With all of the projects I had going at the same time, and how the valuation I put on time with my family is so high—it matters so much to both my husband and I—and I just wouldn’t trade that for anything,” Meghan said. “I think it’s really important to have that conversation with yourself, especially if you’re ambitious, to say, ‘All of these things are exciting to me. I can do all of them well enough, but can you do all of them exceptionally well? Probably not.’”
Tracy Robbins and Meghan Markle in Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’.
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“Something is not going to get the same love and attention that it needs, so to be able to say, ‘What’s my focus right now?’” Meghan added. “My family, always, and growing As Ever, and to be able to be so committed to those two things fills my cup in a very different way, because there’s for the rest of it,” alluding to the podcast possibly returning sometime in the future.
Meghan and As Ever announced on June 16 that its latest seasonal drop would be available on June 20 after her first product drop—released in April—sold out all eight of its offerings within 45 minutes.
“We’re bringing back your favorites, plus some delicious surprises you won’t want to miss!” the brand announced on Monday.