Podcast review Meghan turns interviewer in sycophantic chinwag

Remember the girlboss? She burst onto the zeitgeist in the 2010s, riding the era's nebulous wave of female empowerment and proving that women could become incredibly rich by helming capitalist empires - just like men.

- Rachel Aroesti

Remember the girlboss? She burst onto the zeitgeist in the 2010s, riding the era's nebulous wave of female empowerment and proving that women could become incredibly rich by helming capitalist empires - just like men. Branding-wise, she had some issues, beginning with that infantile moniker and peaking with a series of toxic workplace scandals. This - combined with the fact that celebrating corporate greed took on an even more nauseating hue post-pandemic - means we haven't heard from her for quite a while.

Yet this new podcast from the Duchess of Sussex is alive with the spirit of the girlboss. Confessions of a Female Founder sees the ex-royal quiz ladies on how they made their fortunes: starting with Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and CEO of the dating app Bumble, who became the world's youngest female billionaire in 2021.

Meghan has a vested interest in such success stories: hot on the heels of her Netflix series,