The long -awaited return from Meghan Markle to the air waves was today confirmed with a new podcast called 'Confessions of a Female Founder' that will launch next month.
The Duchess of Sussex signed a deal with Lemonada Media in February 2024 after her Spotify contract ended in 2023 after one series of her first podcast archetypes.
Now her first project has been confirmed with Lemonada and conversations will be discussed with business women and friends who talk about starting a company.
Lemonada described the show as inviting listeners to be a fly on the wall while Meghan sits down for frank conversations with female founders and friends about the success, the struggles and the never -before -to -telling stories about building a company '.
A trailer will be released on March 25 with the first episode on 8 April, and after her new lifestyle show 'With Love, Meghan' it will premiere on Netflix on March 4.
Placing a photo of the coverwork for the new podcast on her Instagram account today, the Duchess said she was 'So excited' to share news about the podcast and to describe the experience as 'absolute eye opening, inspiring … and fun!'
Meghan said: 'I am so excited to share something else with you that I have worked on:' Confessions from a female founder, 'My new podcast with @lemonadamedia!
'I had candid conversations with great women who have changed dreams in realities and have scaled small ideas in mass successful companies.
'They open themselves, share their tips, tricks (and tumbling) and let me pick their brains while I develop my own company, as always. It is absolutely eye-opening, inspiring … and been fun! (Because what is the point if we can't enjoy this wild adventure?) '
The Duchess of Sussex is launching a new podcast called 'Confessions of A Female Founder'
Co-founders of Lemonada Media Jessica Cordova Kramer (left) and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
Meghan's Spotify contract ended in 2023 after one series of her first podcast archetypes
The Duchess also told the deadline in a statement: 'I am so proud of what we create and the frank conversations that I can have with other female founders while we turn out the twists of the turns of building a company.
“Through my friendships and relationships we can dive into the kind of insights that everyone wants to know while they build a company, and that I can tap if I build my own things as always.”
Jessica Cordova Kramer, Lemonada Chief Executive and co-founder, added: “As female founders, StepH and I are grateful to get the chance to build the exact podcast we needed with Meghan when we started Lemonada.”
Lemonada's Chief Creative Officer and co-founder, Stephanie Wittels Wachs, said: 'Meghan is such a warm and hospitable person, and you feel that in her interviews.
'She creates a comfortable space for her guests to put fascinating personal stories on the table and to open herself in a way that they probably do not have not publicly before. Listeners can expect conversations that are much more breaking space than the boardroom. '
Lemonada also said: “While Meghan herself navigates the world of entrepreneurship with the upcoming launch of her brand as always, lets you be inspired by the real, unfiltered stories and lessons that have been drawn from remarkable female founders of your value, to trust your intestines, secure and invest your intestines in yourself.”
The Duchess of Sussex's new show 'With Love, Meghan' was released on Netflix on March 4
It follows Meghan's Archetypes podcast about female stereotypes that ran for only one series and was part of the previous deal of the Sussexes with Spotify that ended in 2023.
Her Netflix show 'With Love, Meghan' was released last week for bad critical assessments, but it was confirmed that he will return for a second series.
The series was pampered by critics, with The Guardian describing it as a 'gormless lifestyle filler' and 'so useless that it might be the sussexes' last TV program', while the Telegraaf the 'insane' and a 'practice in narcissism'.
In the eight-part show, the former packs of actress gave hosting tips and chefs with famous friends, including the Office star Mindy Kaling.
The Duke of Sussex only appears one appearance at the end of the last episode of the first season when he joins Meghan, her mother Doria Ragland and friends for a party brunch in the open air.
Prince Harry appears only one at the end of the last episode of the first season
Meghan said it “feels like a new chapter that I am so excited that I can share and that I can learn from you all ', in what is probably seen as a nod to the limitations she felt within the royal family.
She told People Magazine that her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, visited her on the set, whom she called 'really special because they had not seen me at work until then', and spoke about her and Harry with a daily 'snieuw capital', where they discussed their day.
“My husband met me when I (the former lifestyle website) had the TIG, and I see this spark in his eyes when he sees me doing what I did when he met for the first time,” she said. “It's almost a honeymoon again.”
The Duchess also launched her lifestyle brand last week as always, with her website that revealed her first products: Raspberry Jam and the flower sprayers that she promotes during the show.
With love, Meghan was launched on Netflix on March 4 – with a second season now on the road
The Sussexes, who signed a $ 100 million deal (£ 80 million) with Netflix in 2020, have previously postponed the controversial Harry & Meghan documentary, who has accusations against the royal family and Sport Show Polo.
The second season of With Love, Meghan comes in the fall and has already finished filming, according to Netflix.
Meghan signed the podcast deal with Lemonada Media in February last year after she and Prince Harry separated with Spotify.
At that time it was announced that she would organize a new podcast series for the company and archetypes established by women distributed to all platforms.
“I am proud to be able to share now that I am a member with the brilliant team in Lemonada to continue my love for podcasting,” Meghan said in a statement at the time.
Lemonada produces shows around sex, mourning and LGBTQ problems to 'make life less'.
The company was launched in 2019 by co-founders Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs who had a band after they had lost their brothers on overdoses.
The couple now works with a large number of celebrities from Sarah Silverman to Julia Louis-Dreyfus and has large backers, including Stephanie Hannon, who served as Chief Technology Officer for the Presidential Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign.
Wittels Wachs said in an interview from 2022 that they realized that 'people are struggling and really feel alone. The mission for Lemonada was born. Our desire to make the difficult things easier '.
One of the most popular shows in Lemonada is wiser than me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who spent 29 consecutive days at the top of the Apple Podcast hit lists.
In the podcast she sits down with Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Amy Tan, Diane von Furstenberg, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz 'to be trained in how to live a complete and meaningful life. “
The Netflix show is seen as a Make-Or-Break moment for the Duke and Duchess
Another podcast, Trans, follows a group of transgender people who navigate through their daily lives. Also on Lemonada, Ricki, who visits the iconic talk show from the 90s, is again visiting, the Ricki Lake Show, organized by Ricki himself.
In the meantime, Burn -Out, organized by Connor Franta, looks at “how society has reached a burning point and what we can do – really, actually do – to break the cycle.”
Before Lemonada, Cordova Kramer worked as a Wall Street lawyer and then taught for America, while Wittels Wachs worked as a theater director and writer.
The Duchess deal with Lemonada came a year after Meghan and Harry ended their $ 20 million deal with Spotify, three years after it was signed.
Spotify and the audio production company of Sussexes Archewell Audio have issued a joint statement stating that they 'mutually agreed to separate and are proud of the series that we have made together'.
A top Spotify -Podcast director then called Harry and Meghan 'F *** ING Grifters' after they had only produced one series for the company.
Archetypes, the original Spotify show of Meghan, had about a million listening per episode and debuted as the number 1 Podcast of Spotify in 47 countries around the world when it was launched in August 2022.
The series investigated the labels that try to stop women and included guests such as Mariah Carey, Jameela Jamil and Pamela Adlon.
The series won a People's Choice Award for the Pop Podcast of 2022 and Meghan won the best entertainment podcast -Gastheer at the Gracie Awards.
