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 that
• The moments that mattered more than virality: creative breakthroughs, energetic healing, synchronicities, and emotional resonance
• Stories from communications, publishing and industry that reveal how deeply we’ve been trained to chase measurable outcomes
• Why creative integrity, connection, and intention leave a deeper legacy than algorithms ever will

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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