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Meghan Markle is blocking out the negativity.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, spoke at the TIME100 Summit in New York City on Wednesday, April 23, opening up to Time CEO Jessica Sibley about making herself vulnerable to public critique – whether that’s by returning to Instagram, fielding feedback about her As ever product line or reading reviews of her new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan.
Meghan said she’s drawn inspiration from a Tina Fey quote, in which the actress and producer quipped, “If you ever start to feel good about yourself, they have this thing called the internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you.”
The entrepreneur and mother of two said when it comes to outside criticism, she’s “made a very, very conscious effort to create boundaries for myself and for my mental health, for my well-being and certainly to role model that as well for my children.”
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Meghan said, becoming a mom helped her fine-tune that inner filter, in order to demonstrate it for her kids, 5-year-old son, Prince Archie, and 3-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet.
“I’m conscious of not just raising very strong and confident young woman, but also having a son,” she remarked. “I think it’s just as paramount of importance for young men to be raised with a confidence and sense of self that is going to empower the women around them too.”
“It starts with whatever is going on internally,” she added. “When I am able to not even just tune out whatever that noise is, [but] to really not give it any credence, that has become so much a part of my day-to-day life.”
The Duchess of Sussex admitted that this can sometimes make her “late on the boat” on current events.
“Things will get brought to my attention on a need-to-know basis outside of that,” she reflected. “That’s part of what I find to bring me peace. It also helps me have very, very strategic focus on the intention of the products, the creative, the producer work that we’re doing that I want to bring to the table.”
That peace and motivation have allowed Meghan to embark on yet another empowering venture: her new podcast, Confessions of Female Founder.
“They are so under-resourced and under-supported. That is very, very important to me,” she said of chatting with other female bosses and creatives on her show.
Meghan even offered her own confession on stage at the event.
“A confession for you today that I can very comfortably say is that I’m the happiest I’ve ever been,” she said. “To have a partner and a husband who is so supportive and have healthy kids who are so joyful…I never would have imagined at this point I would feel so happy and grateful, and I really do.”