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:
This 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
Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com.
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