Meghan opens up about ‘feeling rattled’ when stepping out of limelight & confronts business flops on new podcast

MEGHAN Markle has opened up about "feeling rattled" when stepping out of the limelight on her new podcast.

American lawyer and politician Reshma Saujani featured on the latest episode of Confessions of a Female Founder.

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The Duchess of Sussex, 43, talked with Saujani, who is the founder of Girls Who Code, about her political career.

She ran as a Democratic candidate for Public Advocate in 2013 coming third in the primary.

Saujani explained: "I think we think as women that when we try something, especially something that we want so bad, and it doesn't work out that it will break us.

"And we won't be able to wake up the next day. We won't be able to continue on.

"I think there is a sense that failure will cripple you."

Meghan interjected: "Right that it will break you as oppose to break you open for the possibility of more.

"When it breaks open it leaves space and growth for so much more love, growth and resilience to pour in."

Saujani also talked about stepping away from her non-profit organisation.

She said: "When you don't have power you're not important anymore.

"Being able to let it go and give somebody else that light knowing it was actually going to diminish my power... but that was the point."

Meghan replied: "That is a lot of growth. That takes people a tremendous amount of time to settle into being able to do that and to not feel rattled when the phone's not ringing, to not feel rattled when you've stepped out the light so to speak.

"But as you step out of the light you're actually stepping into your own light in a different way and creating space for someone else to be in the light, which is probably the larger purpose of all of us being here."

She also touched upon how they both experienced miscarriages.

Meghan explained: "I'll bring this up if you are comfortable talking about it.

"I know you've spoken publicly about as you were doing Girl's That Code, all the personal things that were happening for you at that time.

"And the miscarriages that you've experienced. I've spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced.

"And I think in some parallel way when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for.

"And to be able to be okay at a certain point to let something go that you plan to love for a long time."

In 2020, Meghan Markle wrote a piece for the New York Times detailing her tragic miscarriage.

She said she lost her baby in July 2020, a year after son Archie was born.

In the article, she described the feeling as "an almost unbearable grief."

"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," Meghan wrote after feeling sharp cramps in her body.

"I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right," she wrote.

"Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears.

"Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we'd heal."

She went on to describe how she watched "my husband's heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine."

Episode one, which aired on April 8, was an interview with Whitney Wolfe Herde, who is the founder of Bumble and co-founder of Tinder. 

But the episode failed to impress, with critics saying it offered "no substance".

The Mail revealed how it only reached the top 19 on Spotify's US charts.

The new series follows Meghan's £18million podcast payout for Archetypes.

Spotify's chief previously called her and Harry "f***ing grifters" for only producing 31 episodes.