Meghan Markle's latest attempt at a new podcast appears to have fallen flat after slipping out of the Spotify 100 list both in the US and the UK.
The Duchess of Sussex's Confessions of a Female Founder podcast also failed to make it to Apple's Top 200 chart, despite being only three episodes in.
Instead, a series called Sleep Cove, helping listeners with sleep patterns, meditation and hypnosis, proved to be more popular among listeners, reaching 79 on Spotify's UK chart, Mail Online reports.
Confessions of a Female Founder podcast is the latest creation from Meghan's media firm Lemonada Media.
It follows in the footsteps of her previous podcast Archetypes - produced by Meghan and her husband Prince Harry’s Archewell organisation. It failed to make a lasting impression and led to Spotify not renewing the couple’s £25million contract in 2025.
The Duchess of Sussex is said to have previously made overtures to A-list stars such as Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to appear on her new podcast and it is allegedly already in crisis talks after three episodes.
A source told Mail Online: "No one's picking up the phone... The show is not landing.
"There's no Taylor Swift. No Beyoncé. Not even a Hailey Bieber. And when you're pitching female empowerment, that's a problem. It speaks volumes for her pulling power. She's not happy about her lack of appeal."
Instead, the podcast's debut episode saw the Duchess chat with Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, while the second episode featured an interview with Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code.
A source further claims Meghan and production staff "dialled all the big names" to join her for "honest conversations with women who've built from the ground up", but these went unanswered, according to Radar.
The latest episode of her podcast sees Meghan chatting to her friend and hair colourist Kadi Lee, whose business she is herself an investor in. During the interview, the duchess discussed the trademark problems she encountered with her lifestyle brand As Ever.
Discussing the brand's name, she said: "I had secured As Ever as a name in 2022, and then as everything started to evolve last year, and bringing in a partner the size that it was, and it was just so interesting.
"Because you remember, I said, 'I like American Riviera as an umbrella,' and then be able to have verticals beneath it. And maybe have the 'Orchard' really small. But when that's not feasible… suddenly it became this word salad. I didn't love that so much.'
"I was like, 'OK, well let's go back to the thing that I've always loved. Let's use the name that I protected for a reason that had been sort of under wraps'.
"And then we were able to focus in the quiet and put our heads down and build on something that no one was sniffing around to even see about.
"It was just really, really helpful to have that quiet period which you would know after spending so many years working on something, building it and the pivots that you had to take with it."
