Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan

What I enjoy most about M’s style is that she listens to her guests and lets them talk and tell their stories. So many podcasters over talk their guests and don’t listen.

I’ve listened from beginning to end each episode and appreciate all the advice and inspiration provided. Meghan’s voice is lovely and it is clear her guests feels safe being in her space.

Original, fresh, authentic. Megan Sussex brings a much-needed crispness to the podcast communication space and her discussions are as joyful as they are diverse.

This has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts - I eagerly look forward to it each week! I’m not a founder, but I am a female leader in my organization and these interviews inspire me, ground me, and always leave me with “a-ha” moments and a takeaway, whether that be in my professional life, personal life, or mom life. Looking forward to Season 2!

I listened to a few episodes. I really wanted to learn from the founders through interesting conversations. Unfortunately, the intellectual quality of the podcast just doesn’t pass the bar. Let me make one thing clear here. Meghan hasn’t yet founded ANY successful venture. Yet, she feels the need to constantly talk about herself and her experiences on how to “make it”. Please stop, just stop. Instead of probing for additional insights from her amazing guests, Meghan manages to weave in personal stories about the hardships she faced with “packaging” and “selling out in 45 minutes”. Give me a break. Look, it is clear that she isn’t genuinely interested in her guests or their stories or their hardships. Instead, she prefers the sound of her own voice spewing syrupy and banal inspirational cliches. Meghan doesn’t have the street cred of having survived hardship or poverty to deliver compelling guidance to anyone. Her lack of self awareness is off the charts. Fake it till you make it, I guess. In order to act “relatable”, and I mean act in the literal sense, what we have here is a woman in her 40s who channels an uncomfortable teenage girl who resorts to forced inauthentic laughter and contrived camaraderie in order to fit in. Sorry hon, this should be about drive, perseverance, mental toughness, tenacity, and survival. The teenage cutesy thing she does and the awkward sultry voice (Saturday night radio DJ for slow jams) are so out of context here. The cutesy persona is so inappropriate for a woman her age. She just can’t be taken seriously. Sorry Meghan, as much as you’d like it to be, this isn’t about you, it’s about your guests. The show is, in my view, a transparent attempt at recasting a new image of who she “really is”, ergo the constant desperate plugs to make it about her, her life, and her “struggles”. It’s is a branding campaign, not a deep dive into lives of high-achieving entrepreneurs. Read the room. None of this is landing. People see right through it. Overall, the podcasts feel contrived, forced, and inauthentic despite the incessant platitudes of “authenticity” “showing up” and “being in the moment”. That said I wish the best for her and hope she discovers true authenticity in this one precious life we have the privilege of living.