Meghan Markle’s latest project has drawn a global audience.
Two days after it dropped,Archetypeswas the number one podcast in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada on Spotify’sinternational charts.
On Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, released thefirst episodeofArchetypes, titling the conversation “The Misconceptions of Ambition” with guestSerena Williams.
There, the friends discussed thedouble standardsociety sets for women who chase their dreams, and Meghan revealed thata fire broke outin sonArchie’s nursery during the Sussex family’s royal tour of Africa in 2019.
Though Archie, then 4 ½ months, was safely in another room with his nanny when a heater in the nursery caught on fire, Meghan said everyone was “shaken,” adding that she andPrince Harryhad to go from one scheduled engagement to another after learning the news.
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She continued, “And even though we were being moved to another place afterwards, we still had to leave him and go do another official engagement.”
Serena replied, “I couldn’t have done that. I would have said, ‘Uh-uh.’ "
Meghan then said in a podcast voiceover, “These human moments behind the scenes, the ones under the surface… they’re everything. Because when we don’t swim in the shallow end, and instead choose to dive into the deep end, that’s when we gain a more nuanced understanding of each other.”
Alluding to what’s to come, the Duchess of Sussex said in apromothat listeners will get to know her on a more genuine level than ever before.
Sitting on a couch in front of a microphone, Meghan said, “People should expect the real me in this, and probably the me that they’ve never gotten to know — certainly not in the past few years, where everything is through the lens of the media as opposed to, ‘Hey, it’s me.’ "
“I’m just excited to be myself and talk and be unfiltered and…yeah, it’s fun,” she added with a smile.
Meghan andPrince Harryfirst announced a “multi-year partnership” betweenSpotify and their production company Archewell Audioin 2020. According to a previously shared press release,Archetypesintends to “investigate the labels that try to hold women back.
Speaking with historians and experts, Meghan will “uncover the origin of these stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape narratives.”
Next week’s guest isMariah Carey.
source: people.com
