The Download Podcast, with Jill Marshall
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.
The Download Podcast, with Jill Marshall
The Intuitive Bluff: When My Teacher Archetype Emerged
Jill Marshall reveals how her Teacher archetype arrived fully formed in her first training job, showing how intuitive bluff and future selves guide us into our true paths.
What if your future self could lend you her courage?
What if your archetype arrived before you were ready?
In this episode of The Download, Jill Marshall shares the surprising story of her first ever training job: a two-day presentation skills course she had no formal experience to teach, but which she delivered with 10/10 feedback. This was not faking it till she made it. It was an intuitive bluff: borrowing confidence from her future self and allowing her Teacher archetype to step forward fully formed.
Jill reflects on the mystery of archetypes, how they arrive, how they crumble under silence or fear, and how they reform in deeper, more authentic ways. Along the way she weaves in insights from Carl Jung, Robert Ohotto, and Maya Angelou, inviting you to see where your own archetypes might already be waiting to emerge.
✨ A mix of story, psychology and archetypal wisdom, all pointing to one truth: if the calling is there, the capacity is already seeded.
Episode Highlights
- The audacity of teaching what you had never done (and nailing it)
- Intuitive bluffing vs faking it till you make it
- When archetypes crumble and why that can be an initiation
- The invisible curriculum: skills you do not know you already carry
- Borrowing courage from your future self
00:00 Welcome to the Download Podcast
00:39 The Arrival of the Teacher Archetype
01:15 First Steps into Training
03:52 The Intuitive Bluff
13:18 The Invisible Curriculum
15:32 Embracing Your Archetype
17:16 Conclusion and Call to Action
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• Witches to Warriors: Fighting the Silencing of Women and Girls (International Women’s Day special)
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• The Quickening: Waiting, Transformation and the Threshold of Change
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Find out more about Jill’s best-selling fiction and storyworlds on girlpowerpublishing.com.
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