The secret to Meghan Markle lies in exactly two things.

Meghan Markle is a polarising figure.

Although she and Prince Harry have many staunch supporters, most royalists haven't exactly been on board with the Sussexes; not since they stepped back from their official royal duties in 2020.

Despite the noise, the 43-year-old has been forging her own path for five years, signing a multi-million-dollar deal with Netflix and releasing a divisive lifestyle show called With Love, Meghan.

Along with the show, Meghan also launched a lifestyle brand As Ever, originally called American Riviera Orchard, in 2024. The limited release of products like jam, honey, herbal teas, and cookie mixes sold out within an hour. 

She has also been named one of the most influential women in the world in rankings such as TIME Magazine's Most Influential People, The Financial Times' 25 Most Influential Women, Variety's Power of Women, and British Vogue's Vogue 25.

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Now, the Duchess of Sussex has spoken about being an entrepreneur, while under relentless public scrutiny. Turns out, her secret lies in exactly two things: she doesn't have imposter syndrome, and she doesn't believe in failure. 

"I've always had a very entrepreneurial spirit," Meghan told the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast. "But, equally, I enjoy being in a position of having a strong team around me."

The mum-of-two added that she is a "very curious person."

"I love learning something new all the time. I don't feel imposter syndrome; I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be right now."

Meghan went on to say that she knows her knowledge gaps, and will ask for help when she needs.

"Even if you're making it up as you go along, which I think most people are, imposter syndrome is when you're posturing as though you know everything. You don't need to posture as though you know everything, it is perfectly okay for me as the founder and the owner of this company to say, 'Sorry, what does that mean? Can you help me understand that?

"I think it's a really great truth to take as a leader to show that, 'Yes, I know what I know, but I'm also so excited to have people on this team that know more about certain avenues than I do, because we're learning from each other'."

Later in the episode, Meghan said she never thinks about failing.

"Is anything actually a failure ultimately? Because you're going to learn from it no matter what happens," she said.

"I feel confident in what I've been dreaming up for so long, I feel confident in the partner that I have, and I feel really proud of the team that I have, so [failure] is not an option."

The duchess clarified that there are moments she feels scared, but during these times she will always repeat the same mantra.

"My faith is greater than my fear," she said, adding that she would have been happy selling her homemade jams at a farmers' market, rather than on a global scale.

"Someone else's sense of what [failure] looks like is not necessarily what mine . But I don't see the possibility of failure, not when you can learn from everything that you've done."

Meghan's perspective on imposter syndrome and failure is something she is trying to instil in her children, Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, whom she shares with Prince Harry.

Meghan shares two children with Prince Harry, Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4. Credit: Instagram/@meghan.

For this reason, she is very intentional about the language she uses.

"I think words matter … and I don't think that it's helpful to indulge some of the language that is going to be self-limiting. I don't think that that helps anyone grow," the duchess said.

While she went through a "chapter of self-doubt as an auditioning actor", Meghan's mindset has changed over time.

"As I've gotten older, certainly in my 40s and as a mum, you want to set the example for what your children are going to think about themselves, and you can't have imposter syndrome around," she said.

"You have to be so authentically the role model and the example of competence, self-forgiveness, kindness, fun, all of those things you can't fake that you want to model for them. So all of that really shifted in the past six years of becoming a mum for me."

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