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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