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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex She said she didn’t realize that ambition could be considered a “terrible” trait in a woman until she started dating her future husband, Prince Harry.
Meghan launched her new podcast, “The Archetypes,” which “dives into labels that try to hold women back,” with an episode about “misconceptions of ambition with Serena Williams. ”
After she started to remember her experience with press successfully Procter & Gamble changed a sexist advertisement for dish soap at the age of 11, and spoke with Williams about “that dirty word when it comes to women – ambition.”
“I never remember personally feeling the negative connotation behind the word ‘ambition’ until I started dating my now-husband. The Duchess, who is an executive producer on the podcast, said the podcast is a co-production between Archewell Audio in Sussex, Gimlet and Spotify.
“So, since I’ve been feeling the negativity behind it, it’s really hard to feel it. I can’t ignore it, either, in the millions of girls and women who are getting smaller – much smaller – on a regular basis.”
Meghan started dating Prince Harry on 2016. they met in blind date It was set up by a mutual friend in July of that year, and by November Harry had issued a statement demanding that he stop the abuse and harassment, often racist and racist, against his girlfriend.
Meghan spoke in her podcast about the “pain” of mischaracterization, adding that if a guy is ambitious, he’s “too much celebrated,” but in a school classroom, “if a little girl is ambitious or raises her hand more, what’s she called bossy.”
Williams, who Meghan said “embodies the spirit of ambition”, agreed with that view and said “I hope we can teach our girls to keep their hands up and not be afraid.”
Earlier this month, the tennis star announce She “will evolve away from tennis” after this year’s US Open to focus on “other things that interest me.”
The 23-time Grand Slam champion said on the podcast, “My whole life has been one thing, so now I can focus on Serena Ventures, which is something I’m excited about.”
She also said that she wanted to “expand” her family: “I’ve been fortunate enough to play tennis well, but I think the best thing for me is being a mother. I think I can be really good at that.”
The tennis legend went on to talk about how difficult decision making and advertising was, revealing, “I was in Switzerland and I was just sitting in the hotel at the desk, just writing and typing and writing and thinking and then crying and sitting in front of my computer with tears running down my face as I wrote these words and I come back to these memories “.
“Sometimes being ambitious in women also seems to indicate that you’re not afraid of anything,” Megan said. “But as I heard Serena say, of course, the fears remain. I lived with them. The fear of making that last decision.”
“So while Serena will soon be closing her class in professional tennis, she hasn’t shut the door in the face of her ambition. She will continue to do great things. Being the greatest of times off the court. Being ambitious, and I think that’s a beautiful thing,” the Duchess added.
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