Meghan talks about ‘getting her hands dirty’ and admits ‘I don’t have time to cook every day’ in new podcast episode

MEGHAN Markle spoke about getting her "hands dirty" and admitted she doesn't "have time to cook everyday".

The Duchess of Sussex sat down with Heather Hasson, the founder of FIGS, in the latest episode of her podcast.

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Heather started off selling scrubs outside hospitals for cash at 7am and 7pm but has since grown into a billion-dollar medical apparel brand.

The businesswoman has crafted an eye-watering £18million in revenue on scrubs.

In the sixth Confessions of a Female Founder episode, Meghan, 43, said: "It can get messy and the best founders are not afraid to get their hands dirty.

"And I don't mean play dirty. I mean, when it's 'clean up on aisle five' time, you are the first person there with a mop."

While talking about her own brand, As Ever, and how she tries to live her daily life, the mum-of-two added: "The whole point for me, and you'll probably speak to this too, is when you see something that is an easy solve in the everyday, that's not complicated, that's not fussy, how do you get your hands involved?'

"I see vegetables and I see takeout — because I don't have time to cook every day — and I go, 'Alright, but how do I still make this flattering and beautiful and present well and something that people find appetising?'"

The Duchess also revealed more about her time in school as a theatre major.

She admitted she "can't sew", despite having to learn it as part of her course.

"I was a theatre major and part of the program was that you couldn't just do the acting," Meghan told her listeners.

"You had to do soup-to-nuts every part of what a production would entail, which I actually think is incredible training for when you're running a team, because you appreciate what the sound person does and what the lighting person does.

"Wardrobe department and sewing were part of it too, so I am comfortable with a sewing machine."

During the episode, the As Ever founder highlighted several times how she has been consumed with "wearing so many hats" while creating her business.

She added: "The types of minutia that at the onset you kinda have to be across every single granular detail.

"For me, I don't know how to not have love in the details.

"But at what point do you go okay, that was the beginning and you've grown to a company, that you have to entrust."

The Duchess concluded the episode by saying she is committed to "outplaying and over delivering on expectations".

This has been a common theme running throughout the podcast episodes.

In the first ever drop, the mum-of-two sat down with her friend, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, 35.

Meghan shared: “Let's be honest, launching a business, it can be so overwhelming. 

“Even with the best of teams, it'll keep you up at night because every single decision, every micro detail, in that moment, it feels monumental. 

“For example, a month ago, I was absolutely consumed with packaging, boxes. It's all I could think about. And I would sit there doing the unboxing in my head. Is there tissue paper?

“What about the packing peanuts, but they're biodegradable, and where does the sticker go? “And hold on, what size is the box gonna be?

“And then I'm sitting there and I'm like, does any of this actually matter? Of course it matters. “It matters at the beginning, but how much does it matter?”

Meghan sells £11 jars of jam and £22 limited edition honey.

Shoppers can also sample her £9 teas, including lemon ginger, peppermint and hibiscus.

These were sold out alongside £12 flower sprinkles - promoted in endless shots throughout her Netflix show With Love, Meghan.

The mum-of-two also stocks £11 shortbread and crepe mixes.

Meanwhile, in last week's podcast episode Meghan revealed she turned to a "super woo-woo" ancient Indian doctor while pregnant with Archie and Lilibet.

The 43-year-old spoke to businesswoman Hannah Mendoza, the instant latte brand Clevr Blends co-founder.

Meghan prided herself in the podcast episode for being Hannah's very first investor back in 2020.

The pair discussed the healing benefits of foods and how Hannah used adaptogenic properties to create groundbreaking new coffee products.

But the Duchess admitted mushrooms often had other "connotations" and could be seen as "a little psychedelic and woo-woo".

On the podcast, Meghan told her guest: "I think a lot of people when they hear mushrooms, they go 'OK, she's talking about being hippie-dippy, grounded in all these things'.

"If you aren't familiar with adaptogens, you can go to this place of 'Oh, it's feeling a little psychedelic and super woo-woo'."

Adaptogens are active ingredients found in some plants and mushrooms.

They may help reduce the effects of stress on your body.

They’re not the same as hallucinogenic or “magic” mushrooms and do not act on the mind or perception.

The Duchess told how she went to an Ayurvedic practitioner during both of her pregnancies.

"So there are these items and ingredients that have been part of our natural ecosystem and dietary system for a long time, whether acknowledged or not, that somehow you say mushrooms, and now people have a connotation attached to it," she said.

"But it's really just a food trend that I believe you were far ahead of in terms of saying, 'Hold on, these have properties that can in some way make you feel differently in a really safe way'.

"During my pregnancies, I had an Ayurvedic doctor and so much of it was about seeing food as medicine."