He announced it and it finally arrived. After the failure of the first podcast Archwell Audioshipwrecked on the vine in December 2020 due to lack of content, Meghan Markle he tries again and goes back to the microphones to talk about gender stereotypes with archetypesa format that promises to solve the problem of feminism along with some of the most influential voices of the 21st century from the worlds of politics, sports, film, music and society in general. Female voices that, based on personal experience, without filters, will tell the Duchess of Sussex about work, career, family to return to the origins of all those stereotypes that have marked the position of women for centuries and influenced the narrative about them.

Even though Meghan Markle has chosen to stay out of the spotlight by refraining from her role as working royalty, she has never considered turning down the visibility that her position as a “rebel princess” can bring. and here she is again in the role of a speaker to talk about other women who, like her, have achieved success, but above all about herself. And for this he chose a great family friend, Serena Williams, who has admitted in the past to have great respect for Prince Harry to the point of considering him in every way as his personal mentor. Well, just weeks after announcing his retirement, the former No. 1 tennis player accepted Markle’s invitation to talk about The Fallacy of Ambition. This is a great misunderstanding that the concept of ambition brings with it, depending on whether a woman or a man cultivates this quality.

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The former actress says: “For me and my fellow students, the message was clear: we young women were not to limit our future. ambition? However, when Meghan started dating Harry, she began to feel the “negative connotation” of the term. “It seems that for some, female ambition is a really terrible thing,” she continues. This can be seen already at school, when a girl who “shows ambition and raises her hand more” is likely to be branded as a “bully”. A prejudice that is also perpetuated in the working world, where the delusion still exists that “if you are an ambitious woman, you must also be calculating, or selfish, or still aggressive, or careerist.”. And if you’re that strong and brave, then you somehow deserve everything that’s thrown at you.”

There’s no shortage of autobiographical references to Meghan Markle’s life, but the Duchess of Sussex isn’t afraid of indiscretion. If her new podcast has more luck than the previous one with her husband – and hopefully – the patience and curiosity of the public will be rewarded with hitherto unpublished details about her and her golden life, finally told by herself, and not yet “through the prism of the media.”