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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Rosseinsky

Bottling your essence: Meghan Markle and the death of self-help speak

Is your “bucket” feeling “depleted”? Perhaps you’re thinking about how, exactly, you might “re-org yourself” (sounds like it would be rather painful, and probably require the advice of a qualified physiotherapist). Or perhaps you’re simply “taking stock in your actual stock”. Maybe, like me, you’re wondering exactly what any of this mushy jumble of vaguely inspirational word-puree actually means.

Welcome to Confessions of a Female Founder, the new podcast from Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, that manages to reach new frontiers in bewildering self-help speak. All of the head-scratching concepts and phrases I’ve just mentioned can be found in the opening episode, in which Meghan, fresh from sprinkling edible flowers over stuff on her Netflix show, speaks with her friend Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and former CEO of dating app Bumble.

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