Are you ready to experience BE YOU live and in person? Join Jill for the five-year anniversary of Be YOU - a special in person event celebrating 300 episodes of the podcast - on Saturday, October 25th from 1–5 p.m. in Fort Wayne, Indiana. You'll get to connect and network with 200 amazing women! The community you didn't know you had and didn't realize you needed. Wait till you meet these women.

You'll get to sit back and let Jill pour into you and you'll leave with more clarity, confidence and a remembrance of how gifted and glorious you are. Tickets are selling fast at jillherman.com/beyou

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Listen in this week as Jill shares the unexpected origins of the podcast which is now ranked in the top 100 podcasts in the highly competitive "Entrepreneurship" category on Apple Podcasts!

Jill highlights how her podcast is considered a "spiritual" podcast, with an underlying current of connecting to one's inner truth and intuition, despite discussing topics like competing as women and dealing with trauma. She reflects on her very engaged, "sticky" audience that listens from start to finish each week, recognizing that Be YOU listeners have very much become a community.

Jill also reflects on how she used to obsess over download numbers and metrics until realizing that focusing on those who aren't listening takes away from fully appreciating those who are. She now instead measures the podcast's success by how much joy, inspiration and transformation it brings to her listeners! She also gets vulnerable, sharing that there are times when she doesn't feel fully energized or present for an episode, but she chooses to show up authentically rather than strive for perfection. You can also expect to hear Jill further discuss her upcoming Be YOU live event, sharing some of the lessons that she is learning through the planning process, even when things don't go as expected!

Show Notes:

[01:35] - Jill shares how she launched Be YOU by intuition, later realizing that she had unknowingly manifested it. [03:58] - Be YOU hit Apple's top 100, proving its global reach! [07:18] - Jill reflects on why she stopped tracking downloads, valuing loyal listeners' consistency. [10:14] - Hear how Jill shifted focus from absent listeners to cherishing those who listen. [12:22] - Success now means joy in creating and the podcast's impact on listeners' lives. [15:40] - Jill explains how she reframed her lifelong "I'm the only one" wound with compassion and grace. [18:36] - True healing comes from loving people and projects as they are, not expectations. [21:16] - Jill discusses how self-criticism and control stem from childhood wounds, but compassion can soften both. [23:57] - Jill argues that accepting painful experiences as lessons creates growth rather than complacency. [26:58] - Jill reframes her high standards as a superpower and rejects gendered labels like "picky." [30:05] - Jill expects accountability with kindness, noting an important difference between high standards and toxic perfectionism. [31:36] - Jill promises that the upcoming event will foster safety, healing, and true connection among women.

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