⁠Is Meghan Markle taking a break from Confessions of a Female Founder podcast? The Duchess of Sussex shares her plans 

Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan Markle's most recent podcast, concluded its brief nine-week run on June 3, 2025. The show has vanished from the top podcast lists, despite its well-publicized debut and early popularity. The sharp decline has sparked speculation about whether Meghan is abandoning podcasting once more, which has been a recurrent theme in her audio endeavors.

On April 8, 2025, Confessions of a Female Founder made its premiere under Lemonada Media, a podcast firm formed by women that had earlier announced a collaboration with Meghan Markle upon her departure from Spotify. By April 12 and 13, the first episode, which featured Whitney Wolfe Herd, the creator of Bumble, shot the series to No. 2 on Apple Podcasts. Girls Who Code's Reshma Saujani appeared in the second episode, which temporarily kept the program in the top five, peaking at No. 5 by April 15.

But the momentum was short-lived.

Newsweek claims that on April 12, the program had fallen out of the top 100 on Spotify, made a brief comeback to No. 21 on April 14, remained there until June 7, and then vanished once more. By April 26, Meghan Markle's program had dropped out of the top 200 on Apple, and it never made it back to the top six.

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When will the Confessions of a Female Founder podcast return? The Duchess shares her plan

On the Tuesday, June 17 edition of Emma Grede's podcast, Aspire With Emma Grede, Meghan Markle informed entrepreneur Emma that she is now using all of the lessons she learned while creating the podcast.

She had the likes of Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles, and many more to learn from as much as possible. Meghan Markle said,

“I love that there’s so much excitement and desire for a second season, but I need to focus on my business.”

While referencing her lifestyle show, she said,

“It’s still ongoing while also doing the podcast, while also building my business. At a certain point, the only thing I want spread thin is my jam!”

Meghan Markle intends to return when she's fully ready and her business has taken off properly.

She added:

“I would love to bring the show back when I am at a different end of my founder journey. When I’ve gone through Q4 and say, ‘Here are my proof points … wow, what a year it’s been.’ Or even longer than that. I think a different time will be so exciting to compare and contrast. I know people want another one. 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.’”

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Meghan Markle is getting outperformed by her biggest critics

During its brief run on the charts, Confessions of a Female Founder was overshadowed by competing programs that featured outspoken critics of the Sussexes. The list includes plenty of critics, starting with

Tucker Carlson, who runs the podcast With The Tucker Carlson Show, is usually in Spotify's top 10. He once said that Piers Morgan's termination for questioning Meghan's claim of suicidal thoughts "was the most insane thing I've ever seen."

Later on, in a January 2025 interview with Piers Morgan. The former Fox News host said that Markle "does not represent Black people in the United States."

Then Candace Owens, host of Candace, also outperformed Meghan Markle's podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, as she remained in the top ten, ranking consistently in the ninth or tenth place, while Meghan Markle's show was in the 21st position.

She chastised the Sussexes, telling Newsweek:

"I agree with the general public sentiment that Meghan and Harry are inauthentic ambulance chasers."

After Meghan Markle and Harry visited a wildfire scene in Los Angeles.

Joe Rogan is another figure who has been topping the Spotify charts, and he's been there consistently on multiple platforms. In the year 2022, Harry and Meghan, through their spokesperson, released a statement about "expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all-too-real consequences of Covid-19 misinformation on its platform."

Which many saw as a subtle jab at Rogan. Later, in his 2024 Netflix special Burn the Boats, he made fun of them by making jokes about taking mushrooms with Harry and raising concerns about the safety of vaccines. Rogan said,

"I'm going to hover over him and say, 'Are you sure vaccines are safe? B****, you're not a scientist!'"

Even while their rankings were marginally lower during Confessions' peak weeks, conservative pundits Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly, who frequently appeared on podcast charts, also outlasted the show in terms of relevancy and consistency.

In an interview with Piers Morgan in 2023, Shapiro criticized Harry's memoir as being full of "arrogant self-delusion." He said,

"They're just the worst. I actually read Prince Harry's awful memoir and the number of things that are obviously not true, and the absolute self-delusion, and arrogant self-delusion..."

Using evidence from former press secretary Jason Knauf, Kelly accused Meghan of bullying palace employees, a charge Meghan Markle has vehemently refuted. She addressed Prince Harry:

"Your wife's a bully. Her former press communications person who worked for both you and your brother, Jason Knauf, is on the record about the bullying she committed against people who were younger than or were less powerful than she was within the palace, who she made cry all the time."

Link Lauren, a former Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aide, released a podcast called Spot On. It surpassed Meghan's in the beginning when it debuted at No. 5 on Apple on May 13, but by mid-June, it had fallen to No. 159. Lauren was quite critical of Meghan Markle's public persona and also mocked her Netflix show. Lauren said,

"Meghan Markle the Duchess of Scamalot just dropped the trailer for her new Netflix show and let me just say it was one of the most out of touch things I've seen in a while."

Lauren added:

"Most Americans right now, most people in the world, are struggling to put food on the table, they're struggling to pay their rent, to pay their mortgage. Who wants to watch an ex-duchess traipse around her mansion picking flowers?"

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