Meghan Markle reveals the song that always plays in her head as she lands in LA

Meghan Markle Shares the song that perfectly captures her deep connection to her home state in California.

On the fifth episode of her Lemonada Media Podcast, Confessions of a female founderThe Durtugine of Sussex sat down with Hannah Mendoza, founder of Clevr Blends, the herbal, Superfood Latte brand As Meghan is an investor.

During their conversation, the duo reflected on their entrepreneurial journeys and shared their deep connection to California – and the songs that capture what the state means to them.

“When my plane touched at salmon, I listened to ‘Party in USA’ by Miley Cyrus, in my headphones,” said Mendoza.

Meghan then shared: “When my plan touched on salmon and I went back and forth when I was filming (Costumes) In Toronto for a long time … I would always hear Joni Mitchell’s “California, I come home” every time in my head, and I would just go, “I’m home!”

Although Meghan was born and raised in California, she now calls Montecito home, where she lives with Prince Harry and their children, Prince Sarker And princess LiliBet.

From his decision to invest in Clevr mixtures years ago, Meghan said, “The most fun thing about it is that I had never invested in anything before … You saw me when I was very pregnant and my friend sent this gift basket filled with an assortment of products he thought I would like to … One of the things in this big basket was this (Clevr.

“It’s so bizarre because I didn’t have a portfolio at that time. I didn’t have a list of female founders I invested in. It was the first and truly organic experience of looking at something and saying, ‘I want to support this’. I looked at a lot of Shark tank at that time. And I said: ‘This is not Shark Tank. Think of this as Dolphin Tank. This is very friendly water. “”

Meghan is also the one who turned Oprah Winfrey to Mendoza’s brand.

“I want this (Clevr mixtures) to succeed, but I also want to authentically share it, just as you authentically show up … I remember I called you and said:” I just want to share it with my wonderful neighbor, Miss Oprah Winfrey. “It was a turmeric latte that I loved the most, the golden latte,” she said.

Mendoza then shared: “There is a small count of how many people are on our site. Three people look at our site. And then it just started climbing and climbing and climbing. And there were five thousand, ten thousand people on our site, within a thirty seconds … I see the Instagram tag: ‘Oprah tagged you in a post.’ I fell off my chair. ”

Of his own brand, as always, who sold out their first run in March, said Meghan: “When I think of big milestones for my own company, as always … Netflix comes as my business partner is huge. Just having a global power center that believed in me, and the website selling out in the first 45 minutes of launch – everything we had, every bit, every bit that we had, every bit we had, every bit, every bit we had.

“It told me that customers – people – believed in me and this vision. That’s all you really want as a founder. It will be your evidence points that the late nights and midnight mints are worth it.”

Meghan has also relied on her close friends who are founder when she got her business from the ground.

“The security of the awareness stream with someone who understands it … It is part of that sisterhood and the understanding of,” okay, every day will not be the same. Some days will be harder to show up as your best and shiny self, ”she said.

“Maybe on that day something really painful happened in your real life, but for your team it is not so you show up. You can’t,” she added.

Meghan recently got the tables when she sat down for her first podcast interview ever. Appear on Jamie Kern Lima -ShowA podcast hosted by the founder of IT Cosmetics, on Monday April 28, opened Meghan about his life with Harry and their children.

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“It’s not something to be taken for granted when you have a partner, a spouse, who is just so behind you,” she said. “H, that man loves me so much. See what we have built? We have a beautiful life, we have two healthy, beautiful children.”

“I always think about it as the end of Super Mario Bros. When you get to the last, last level and they go, “beat the dragon, save the princess.” I’m like, it’s my husband, ”said the Duke of Sussex.

“He will constantly do what he can to make sure our family is safe and protected, and we are uplifted and still takes time for date nights.”