In the latest episode of Meghan's podcast, she interviewed Jamie Kern Lima, the founder of "IT cosmetics" which was sold to L'Oreal for USD 1.2Billion dollars. Yes, that's "Billion". Jamie spent years trying to get her products on QVC, onto store shelves but it was a real struggle. At one point, she needed a business loan and was turn down by 22 banks!!! The mental strength to keep going even after she was told "no" hundreds of times is really impressive.
Can you imagine if Meghan was turned down by 22 banks, and the kind of story the Daily Fail will write?
Many start-ups struggle in the first few years, but they have the luxury of toiling in the dark. Not every failure is front page news, or blasted on social media. Compare to other companies, the early struggles of As ever is not unusual and definitely blown out of proportion.
As an actress, Meghan was told "no" hundreds and thousands of times. This is not an experience that anyone from the royal family can relate! After all, people bow down to them since they were born!! Meghan has demonstrated that she can persevere in the face of adversity. They have really underestimated her!
Meghan
turned down two families, her own and the in-laws,
turned down one entire country that she didn't stay for the extra year to qualify for citizenship,
and turned down rationale and listening to advice from hired staff that decided to run to the hills rather than working with her.
Jamie Kern Lima, on the other hand, is a self-made entrepreneur that took the time to reach toward a master's degree in business administration from Columbia Business School. She has done every job to survive from bagging groceries at a store to have a parallel life to Meghan's in TV shows and then TV news.
But moved on to create her own job and company despite every bank rejection. And perseverance paid off when given the opportunity to sell her products at QVC.
She didn't marry up to a rich jet setter guy and decided how to use him as platform to create a job to keep her occupied. She created herself as a businessperson on her own and from the bottom up. I'm sorry to let you know that, for me, Meghan and her homemade jams and previous modeling and acting jobs can't compare to Jamie Kern Lima's strong will to persevere despite every bank closing door to her ideas.
One struggled and succeeded, the other prints her name with the acronym HRH, part of a branding goal and part as an act of showing superiority even though that title was acquired via marriage to a now non-working UK royal.
I looked it up. The match was intended to benefit "Sentebale", but got negative news because of accusations that Harry was selling this to Netflix. Plus, the controversy between Meghan and the Sentebale chairwoman.
It is such a pity, they could have handled the whole case so much better. They have to understand doing work for charity is a noble thing, but it has to be separated doing commercial business to earn money. Why is that so difficult to understand?
Prince Harry scored a goal in a charity polo match as his wife, Meghan, and cameras for a Netflix miniseries looked on.
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Harry crossed the line without thinking on the consequences. The lady CEO from the charity was right, in term of taxes a non-profit charity event can't be recycled into a Netflix show that will solely put the money into Harry's piggy bank as part of the 100 million Netflix deals. Mainly because Harry is with one royal foot on a non-profit and the other one is on a pile of money from Netflix.
Per her explanation, the original Polo event was cancelled when the venue owner found out Harry was bringing Netflix cameras into the charity event. Thus, that venue owner won't receive payment from Harry nor Netflix for their property being on a TV show and even worst, then the expenses they gave the charity could not be later claim into the tax form as a charitable contribution, since Netflix used same event for profit.
And not to mention she did bring up a big issue, people need to consent to be filmed for a TV show-for-profit, Harry invited the TV crew in and a tennis celebrity as the most normal thing to do.
Poor planning, no communication and a lot of indifference toward everyone involved that put that event together for Harry to be grandstanding on a stage, his favorite place lately.