Overview

• Meghan Markle released the seventh episode of her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, featuring Cassandra Thurswell, founder of the $87 million brand Kitsch.
• Thurswell shared her journey of bootstrapping her business with $30,000 in savings, emphasizing patience and self-funding over rapid growth.
• The episode delved into the challenges of balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship, with Thurswell discussing her early struggles with post-partum anxiety.
• Markle reflected on her own experiences of motherhood, revealing it differed from her initial expectations due to external pressures during her pregnancies.
• The eight-part series, produced by Lemonada Media, concludes next week and has spotlighted female founders including Whitney Wolfe Herd and Reshma Saujani.