Score: 2.5

Fiona Sturges • Financial Times • Apr 13, 2025

"...should you wish to glean something useful about, say, training or staffing or the business plan that led to Wolfe Herd becoming a billionaire at 31, you won’t find it here. Instead, it’s all platitudes about authenticity, gratitude and how time is precious and being a working parent is hard. I choked involuntarily when Wolf Herd said becoming a billionaire “robbed me of my real wealth: the ability to connect with myself”. It’s early days for Confessions of a Female Founder and teething problems are to be expected. But for this series to outlive its predecessor, its host might want to dial back the therapy-speak and ask some serious questions."

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Score: 5

Kate Hassett • Marie Claire • Apr 9, 2025

"Markle’s ability to converse and extract meaningful insight from Herd was apparent throughout, as she continued to offer examples of how she managed to overcome that time in her life and move into the next phase of her career. Focusing on the highs and lows of building a business shouldn’t just be a conversation about numbers and strategy. It could be argued that what benefits people most is hearing about all the mundane details or misfortune experienced along the way. What this podcast does well is provide a platform for those details to be worked through in a way that offers comfort to those who might be feeling like they’re facing an impossible task – and is that really so bad? "

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Score: 2

Rachel Aroesti • The Guardian • Apr 8, 2025

"It's a bit much...The vibe is predictably fawning but, on a technical level, Meghan is a decent interviewer, especially compared with some celebrity podcasters: she keeps the conversation on track and is conscientious with her follow-up questions. Yet even when her guests do open up...Meghan very rarely reciprocates. You can understand why she’s guarded – but the problem is that personal disclosure fuels parasocial relationships, which are podcasting’s primary draw. Maybe this really is Meghan’s natural speaking style, but it’s one that to British ears sounds just a tad disingenuous. Confessions of a Female Founder is far from a gladiatorial grilling and it’s hardly a manual of specific, constructive business advice; it’s simply an effusive chinwag between two like-minded pals that may as well have taken place behind a deluxe set of closed doors. …"

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Score: 2

India Block • The Standard UK • Apr 8, 2025

"If it sounds like I’m joining the Meghan hate train, I’m not. She’s a generous and competent interviewer, playing up her anxieties and being the right amount of complementary and deferential to keep her guest relaxed and talking. She’s also funny. Is this the best format for Meghan? It’s clearly the one she wants, the one she feels fits her brand best. It’s also for her American audience — the most popular US podcasts are follow this format, with a well-known host interviewing the guest of the week. In the UK, we tend to prefer duos having more of a chat. I’d love her to crack out the rosé and have a proper gossip with Gwenny or get Harry involved. But then that behaviour may not be befitting of a female founder."

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Score: 2

Charlie Gowans-Eglinton • The Times UK • Apr 8, 2025

"I am poised, ready to jot down the wisdom that will doubtless awaken the entrepreneur within and make me my first million. I have been listening for 8 minutes and 48 seconds before Whitney (I will call her Whitney, since we are doing “girl talk”) speaks about business for — I timed it — 17 seconds before Meghan chimes in again. Time has flown by, and now there are only ten minutes left to deliver the Ted talk that will inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs, but as we’ve resolved the packaging issue we can squeeze in a bit on this self-made billionaire. “Imagine if they had given us a bottle of rosé for this conversation,” Whitney quips, but hits the nail on the head: if only I’d thought to open one myself."

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Score: 2

Chris Bennion • Telegraph UK • Apr 8, 2025

"We get some fleeting glimpses into Meghan’s life, including a brief mention of the postpartum preeclampsia that both women suffered from, but other than that there is little sense that Meghan lives in the real world. When she discusses the benefits of prioritising her children over work, or how she never wants to miss drop-off or pick-up, it’s as if she believes the rest of us are making the wrong choices. Apart from the surface-level waffle, the thing that will strike you is Meghan’s. Distractingly odd. Staccato. Delivery. With a very UNusual, EMPHasis on. Various words. In the actual conversation with Wolfe Herd, she is more relaxed and natural, but never adds much more than fulsome agreement and gentle tap-ins for her guest."

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Score: 2

Sarah Carson • inews • Apr 8, 2025

"I would have loved to hear more detail about those challenges rather than so many vague allusions..little is revealed of the boldness ...As the conversation concludes, the women agree that the only thing separating it from one of their usual lunches is a “glass of rosé”. Which confirms that the intention – the “why of it all” – was not to deliver real insight into female entrepreneurs but to yet again offer a glimpse at what it’s like to be gal pals with Meghan Markle. No matter the packaging – an inane Netflix series or “raspberry spread” or edible flowers – the product is always Meghan herself."

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Score: 1

James Marriot • The Times UK • Apr 8, 2025

"Meghan takes up a remarkable amount of airtime on the podcast, given that she sells jam as a hobby and her guest is the billionaire founder of a global technology company. She is constantly congratulating herself on her attention to detail, evidently imagining she is a Steve Jobs-style visionary perfectionist. “…"

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