The Download Podcast, with Jill Marshall

Jill Marshall | Novelist & Storyworld Creator
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Exploring patterns, archetypes, and stories that reveal who we are — and who we can become. Bestselling novelist and storyworld creator Jill Marshall hosts The Download, a podcast where fiction, intuition and philosophy meet. Drawing on her books and cross-media storyworlds, Jill explores the archetypes, synchronicities, and hidden currents that shape both our personal lives and our collective stories. Each episode invites you to see creativity not just as art, but as a mirror of truth, a prophetic force, and a pathway to self-development.  Join Jill each week for downloads that illuminate the hidden patterns in story — and in you. 

Episodes

  1. It's a Wrap: A Year of The Download

    JAN 7

    It's a Wrap: A Year of The Download

    About Time — Episode 52 | Season One Finale A year. 52 episodes. One step ahead. In this milestone episode of The Download, Jill Marshall marks the end of Season One and the completion of a full year of weekly publishing - a creative commitment that became far more than a podcast. This episode is a reflection on showing up before you’re ready, building a creative playground without chasing metrics, and discovering what happens when you let intuition, curiosity, and craft lead the way. Jill reflects on what the past year has taught her about creativity, voice, time, technology, and trust - including how AI has supported (and occasionally misled) the process, and why perfection was never the point. As the season closes, the conversation turns to time itself - not just the linear kind measured in weeks and episodes, but Kairos: the moment when everything aligns and something new is ready to emerge. Season One ends here.  But The Download isn’t finished - it’s evolving. ✨ If you’ve listened along this year, thank you.  ✨ If you’re new, this is the perfect place to begin. In this episode: Why “shipping before perfect” changed everythingThe power of making the main thing the main thingCreativity as a playground, not a performanceReclaiming voice, confidence, and joy through weekly practiceWhat AI can (and can’t) do for creative workWhy time isn’t always linear — and what Kairos really meansWhat’s next for The Download in Season TwoTimestamps 00:00 Welcome to The Download  00:34 One year in — reflections on 52 episodes  01:19 Why shipping before perfect matters  01:48 Making the main thing the main thing  02:28 Inspiration and creative courage  04:38 Sharing, connection, and creative fulfilment  07:34 Playing with AI and technology  11:22 What podcasting taught me  14:44 Time, Kairos, and alignment  16:17 Wrapping Season One — and what comes next ✨ That’s a wrap on Season One of The Download. 52 episodes, a year of intuition, creativity, reflection, and following the thread one step at a time. If you’re new here, Season One is a collection of stories, insights, and moments that explore intuition in everyday life - from small synchronicities to life-changing Kairos moments. You’re very welcome to dip back into earlier episodes and follow the trail wherever it leads. Season Two will return - changed, expanded, and evolving. Thank you for listening, reflecting, and being part of this first year. Message Us! Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com. Find The Download Podcast on YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and LinkedIn

    18 min
  2. A Thousand Twinkling Eyes: The Year That Looked Back

    12/31/2025

    A Thousand Twinkling Eyes: The Year That Looked Back

    What if the year did not just pass you by, but quietly looked back at you? What if it noticed the moments that never made the highlight reel or the end-of-year review? In this end-of-year episode of The Download, Jill shares a moment of heightened perception beneath a tree on Christmas Eve, where sunlight flickering through the leaves appeared like a thousand twinkling eyes - Indian goddess eyes, faerie eyes - and carried a powerful feeling of being seen. That moment becomes the doorway into a deeper reflection on symbolism, spiritual experience and the quiet ways meaning shows up in our lives. Drawing on Jungian psychology, mythic storytelling and timeless human relationships with trees, from the Bodhi tree of the Buddha to modern creative inspiration, this episode explores why lived experience so often comes before explanation and why symbols speak for us and to us where language falls short. Rather than offering a traditional year-in-review or achievement-based retrospective, this episode invites a different kind of reflection, one that honours glimmers over goals, presence over productivity and the moments where light got through. It explores the unseen stories that rarely make it into highlight reels, the acts of care and connection that happened offstage and the small, luminous moments that pass in the blink of an eye. With 2025 marking the completion of a nine-year cycle in numerology and the Chinese Year of the Snake, Jill offers a gentle framework for reviewing not just the past year but the themes and highlights of the last nine, not as a scorecard but as a guidance card. It's a way of noticing what you are ready to release with relief, what you are grateful for and what you want to carry forward with intention. This is an episode for anyone who is tired of ‘Thank God that’s over’ thinking and curious about how reflection, gratitude and symbolic meaning can shape the year ahead. In this episode A Christmas Eve moment beneath a tree and a feeling of being seenTrees and nature as witnesses, symbols and sources of spiritual insightJung, Campbell and why symbolism mattersWhy experience comes before explanationThe stories that never make the highlight reelA new way to reflect on the year without scorecards or KPIs2025 as the closing of a nine year cycle and Year of the SnakeGlimmers, gratitude and a jar of firefliesTimestamps 00:00 A thousand twinkling eyes 01:30 Trees, presence and spiritual symbolism 03:45 Jung, myth and the language of symbols 06:10 Glimmers not goals, rethinking year-end reflection 08:40 The unseen stories that shaped the year 10:30 2025 and the closing of a nine year cycle 12:45 A guidance card for the year ahead 14:30 Final reflections, being seen and seeing clearly Message Us! Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com. Find The Download Podcast on YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and LinkedIn

    13 min
  3. Meaningful Results: Measuring Beyond the Metrics

    12/17/2025

    Meaningful Results: Measuring Beyond the Metrics

    What if your most meaningful successes can’t be counted? In this 'milestone' 50th episode of The Download with Jill Marshall, we celebrate nearly a year of showing up, creating, healing, and sharing — not through charts or rankings, but through felt impact. Jill Marshall, author, mentor and strategist, invites you into a soulful exploration of success without the spreadsheet. She challenges the cultural obsession with downloads, followers and optics, and asks a deeper question: ✨ “If the work changed you — or reached even one person who needed it — isn’t that a meaningful result?” In this reflective, gently provocative episode, Jill shares: What it really takes for a podcast to survive to 50 episodes (very few do)Why she’s 'failed' at almost every traditional podcast metric — and why she’s totally fine with thatThe moments that mattered more than virality: creative breakthroughs, energetic healing, synchronicities, and emotional resonanceStories from communications, publishing and industry that reveal how deeply we’ve been trained to chase measurable outcomesWhy creative integrity, connection, and intention leave a deeper legacy than algorithms ever willThis is an episode for creators, thinkers, leaders, and anyone feeling burnt out on the endless chase for “more.”  It’s an invitation to redefine success — on your own terms. ⏱️ Episode Timeline 00:00 – Welcome to The Download 00:34 – Celebrating 50 episodes (and the realities of podcast survival) 01:10 – Why traditional success metrics don’t tell the real story 02:03 – The surprising truth about podcasting “success” 03:35 – What meaningful results actually look and feel like 04:25 – How we became addicted to measurement 06:51 – The power — and cost — of creative integrity 08:54 – Shifting focus from virality to resonance 11:52 – The real impact that charts can’t capture 13:44 – Closing reflections and an invitation to redefine your own success Related episodes: The Quickening: Waiting, Transformation and the Threshold of Change Cold Feet Creations: Comparing and Competing in the Creative Arts Message Us! Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com. Find The Download Podcast on YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and LinkedIn

    15 min
  4. The Feeling of Healing: Past Triggers, Traumas and Old Stories

    12/10/2025

    The Feeling of Healing: Past Triggers, Traumas and Old Stories

    What Healing Really Feels Like (Hint: It's Not Dramatic) What if the strongest sign of emotional and energetic healing is that you feel ... nothing? No drama, no spike of emotion, no old charge. Just calm. In this episode Jill Marshall explores the quiet, surprising truth of real transformation. She unpacks why we cling to wounds, how triggers show us where energy is still trapped, and what shifts when the emotional charge finally dissolves. Expect grounded psychology, soulful insight and a fresh look at who you become once old patterns stop running the show. If you're wondering whether you're actually healing or just coping, this episode will help you recognise the subtle signs that you're further along than you think. Tune in for a calm, clear, powerful download on what healing feels like from the inside out. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to The Download with Jill Marshall  00:36 The unexpected feeling of healing  02:21 A personal healing milestone  04:43 Understanding triggers and the energetic charge  11:13 Wounds, archetypes and old identities  14:53 Why true healing feels subtle  17:31 Reflecting on your own healing  18:40 An invitation to explore your own feeling of healing  19:47 Closing reflections and next steps Mentioned episodes: Imprint, Wound, Archetype: three layers we carry and can heal The Shadow Knows: when downloads reveal what we've hidden “The wound releases you the moment you choose peace over the familiar pain.”  Message Us! Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com. Find The Download Podcast on YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and LinkedIn

    20 min
  5. Dream, Dwell, Deliver: Six Months in Progress Mode

    12/03/2025

    Dream, Dwell, Deliver: Six Months in Progress Mode

    December is a month of thresholds, reflection and new beginnings. In this episode, Jill Marshall announces her six-month Creative Residency and shares how she is dedicating serious, focused time to her own creative work. Drawing inspiration from Brendon Burchard’s Progress Mode podcast, Jill reflects not only on his storytelling but also on his insight that if we devoted six months entirely to our own purposeful creative work, rather than everyone else’s priorities, we could achieve real change. Jill explores the power of authentic storytelling, the difference between buzzword ‘storytelling’ and real narrative, and the transformative potential of structured creative residencies. She shares her experience hosting residencies for children’s writers, the ways residencies have nurtured major works, and how even a self-directed residency — without funding or a dedicated space — can provide focus, clarity and freedom. She also outlines her plans for the next six months: writing a psychological, women-focussed novel, recording audiobooks, adapting novels for screen, launching new projects, reshaping her podcast, and honouring her own creative ‘downloads’. Whether you are a writer, artist or simply seeking time to focus on your most important work, this episode is a call to step fully into your creativity and commit to what matters. Key Takeaways: Why December is the perfect month to start anewHow Brendon Burchard’s six-month focus insight inspired a personal residencyThe difference between buzzword ‘storytelling’ and authentic narrativeThe power and importance of residencies in fostering creativityExamples of residencies that have nurtured major worksStrategies for creating your own self-directed, structured creative spaceA roadmap for Jill’s six-month creative goals and projectsA heartfelt invitation to honour your own creative downloadsTimestamps: 00:00 - Welcome to The Download 00:26 - The Magic of December 01:16 - Announcing My Creative Residency 02:20 - Inspiration from Brendon Burchard’s Progress Mode 04:35 - The Power of True Storytelling and Six-Month Focus 09:34 - Why Creative Residencies Matter 12:13 - My Creative Goals for the Next Six Months 14:24 - Final Thoughts & Invitation Listen and subscribe to The Download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite platform to follow Jill’s Creative Residency journey and get inspired to honour your own creative downloads. Message Us! Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com. Find The Download Podcast on YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and LinkedIn

    16 min
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Exploring patterns, archetypes, and stories that reveal who we are — and who we can become. Bestselling novelist and storyworld creator Jill Marshall hosts The Download, a podcast where fiction, intuition and philosophy meet. Drawing on her books and cross-media storyworlds, Jill explores the archetypes, synchronicities, and hidden currents that shape both our personal lives and our collective stories. Each episode invites you to see creativity not just as art, but as a mirror of truth, a prophetic force, and a pathway to self-development.  Join Jill each week for downloads that illuminate the hidden patterns in story — and in you. 

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  • Creator
    Jill Marshall | Novelist & Storyworld Creator
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Download Podcast, with Jill Marshall