Meghan Markle Shares Advice Prince Harry Gives Her When She Gets Overwhelmed

In the second episode of her new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan Markle lays bare the highs and lows of motherhood—from scrolling through her phone to look at photos of kids Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet because she just can’t get enough of them to being up all night with them when they’re sick and sometimes needing a break from it all.

In the April 15 episode of the show, the Duchess of Sussex spoke with Girls Who Code and Moms First founder Reshma Saujani; the two women first met when Meghan was still a working royal and when Girls Who Code was expanding to the U.K.

“It was my pleasure to reconnect with her and dig into the real talk about building, balancing, and breaking through (with babies, no less),” Meghan wrote on her Instagram Story. “How’s that for some alliteration?”

In the episode, Meghan opened up about being a mom, calling it her “favorite title. Love it. I love being a mom. Oh my gosh. I love being a mom so much. It’s my favorite thing.”

But, she admitted, it’s not always easy. As she recorded the episode with Saujani, one kid had RSV and the other had the flu. “I hear a little pitter-patter of feet upstairs from school, you know, cough syrup all night and rubbing the back and this and you go, and we still find a way to show up for both,” Meghan said, referring to motherhood and work. She added that it was imperative that women “just be honest in the journey of it and say yeah, today I’m going to show up for you, but I’m showing up for you in my sweatshirt today because I’ve been up all night with my babies.”

“But I’m still going to be able to show up for both, because both matter and both are what keep my cup full,” she continued.

She called this the ability to be “confident enough to tell the truth about what’s going on,” adding “because you can’t give grace to someone in the same way if you just have no sense of it.”

But sometimes, Meghan admitted, “I just need a break. I just need a minute. I just need a minute.” She also referenced that she was prone to “scroll through pictures endlessly on my phone” of the kids, and referred to Prince Harry when she added, “Then my husband’s like, ‘My love, can you just give yourself a minute? Why don’t you go work out? Why don’t you go take a bath?’”

“I’m like, ‘I know, but I just want to cuddle,’” Meghan continued of finding it hard to separate herself from motherhood. “It’s the parenting paradigm where it is so full on, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

In another vulnerable moment, Meghan asked Saujani about her experience of a miscarriage when building Girls Who Code; Meghan has also publicly revealed in the past that she had a miscarriage between the birth of Archie in 2019 and the birth of Lilibet in 2021.

“I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced,” she said. “And I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for, and to be able to be okay at a certain point, to let something go, something go that you planned to love for a long time.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Meghan shared what she’s learning from “successful women that I’m speaking with” across the eight episodes of the podcast, and shared on the show that “behind every successful woman is self-awareness.”

“There comes a point where each of these women on their journeys has such a tremendous sense of self-awareness and the desire to dig deeper that is unflappable,” Meghan added.

Episodes of Confessions of a Female Founder drop every Tuesday.

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