From power heels to potting soil, Confessions of a Female Founder has become Meghan Markle’s treasure chest of wisdom, filled with golden nuggets of advice and surprising facts. One week it is Whitney Wolfe Herd, sharing the blueprint for digital empires. Another, it is Reshma Saujani on slow-burn success. Then came branding lessons with Kadi Lee, followed by Jamie Kern Lima’s impossible made real. But in episode seven, Meghan Markle flipped the script—hinting at a secret from her past that is far smaller, messier, and more relatable than expected.

Somewhere between her sunshine-filled lifestyle brand and all those curated Instagram-worthy moments, Meghan Markle has dropped a breadcrumb trail. A cluttered closet, a $200 splurge she almost skipped, and a now-iconic audition—it is all in there. And just when it seems like her story has given all it can, she opens the door to a space most never knew existed.

On her Confessions of a Female Founder podcast (May 20) as reported by The Independent, Meghan Markle shared an honest throwback to her pre-Suits days — living in a “little house” where “the closet door was within the bathroom.” Chatting with beauty brand founder Cassandra Thurswell, she described the setup in detail- a path through the bedroom, past the shower and sink, to a tiny closet tucked beside the toilet. “This was really early days,” she reminisced, when there were constant auditions and wardrobe choices were agonizingly few.

She laughed about nearly skipping a $200 splurge on “black patent leather Louboutin wedge flats” — until Thurswell insisted they would be worth it. Turns out, she wore them to her “final audition for Suits,” landing the career-making role of Rachel Zane. Markle now calls the show “the Goldilocks of my acting career… just right.” From bathroom closets to a life bursting at the seams—best possible sense—Markle has been opening up more about the surprises, struggles, and joys that now fill her world.

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In episode 7 of Confessions of a Female Founder, the Duchess of Sussex also opened up about her early motherhood ambitions with a touch of charm. She had pictured herself “giving a speech with a baby on my hip,” envisioning bringing confidence to her new-mom reality. However, as she revealed, the journey with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet “was not the way I envisioned it,” riddled with surprising turns that reshaped her whole idea of what being a mother would be like.

The Duchess also likened building a business to gardening, saying that, “some seasons are for blooming” while “others are for planting seeds.” She went on to explain that “most of the work, especially early on, it’s tending to the soil,” which forms “the foundation” for growth. The metaphor ideally describing her journey - both her motherhood and career—where patience and love do all the heavy lifting.

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