Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Your Learning and Tech Journey [499]

Today's episode is a reminder that the best tool isn't the most popular—it's the one that works for you and your brain aka learning style.  

The conversation doesn't stop there.  Listen in for an empowering discussion on professional growth, client relationships, and celebrating the diversity in how we all learn and connect.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to today's podcast episode. I missed you guys. It's been about a week and a half since I have posted an episode. Life's been a little crazy, but I wanted to make sure that I showed up today because I think it's important and I always want to make sure I have something to say before I show up too. So, anyhow, this whole topic comes from a conversation that I've been having all evening with my inner circle and we were talking about platforms and all-in-one platforms and I told them about this one that I heard of that had like a $497 lifetime deal, and then I happened to go look it up and it was $97 lifetime.

Speaker 1: 0:52

Okay, first of all, this whole podcast is not to tell you to go buy anything. Okay, it's not what it's about. But it is about like everybody has something, I believe, that works with their brain. And this is true because I'll never forget I don't like five years ago I had a client who all we were allowed to use was Trello, and I hated Trello. Trello did not work with my brain. Trello reminded me of a I'm gonna date myself, but maybe you guys have seen like the bulletin boards at like an old mom-and-pop grocery store and there's like all these things pinned all over it and there's no rhyme or reason. You've got some take one here. You've got business cars, you've got lost a dog, you've got all this stuff and it's just like it's like a mess and there's no organization to it. And that's whenever I have used Trello. That is what it looks like to me, and so when someone introduced me to Asana, I loved Asana. Asana is exactly pretty much the same thing. Yes, there are different features, but it's pretty much the same thing as Trello. Right Years ago I used to use MailChimp and I love MailChimp because I was used to it, right, and it was the thing.

Speaker 1: 2:12

It doesn't mean it was the only platform to use. It doesn't mean it was the best. It was free, which was another very good incentive. But when they started charging and I saw FloDesk, I was like, let me check out FloDesk. Now I have used because of my clients and running ads and all these things. I have used MailChimp and FloDesk and I've used Active Campaign and I've used ConvertKit and I've used Mailer Lite and I've used all these platforms and to me, I will still grab, like I would, number one, the first option I will always pick as FloDesk. If I had to pick a second, it would probably MailChimp, but it's just because I've gotten used to it. Right Again, none of these platforms are right or wrong and some of them are different price points.

Speaker 1: 2:55

Some of them can handle more, some of them are more robust. None of them are more right for me or more wrong for you or anything like that. It's just that. What do I prefer? What works really well for me, what works with my brain?

Speaker 1: 3:10

You know, when I was using FG funnels, I had somebody who did all my funnels and it was not happening fast enough, and it was not her fault. I moved very fast. I don't want to wait on people. And I also had a WordPress website. Once again, they were willing to do all my funnels and everything.

Speaker 1: 3:36

And I was like, I've just got to make a decision, like, do I really want to wait on somebody or want to figure this out on my own? And I made the tough decision that you know I'm going to give myself two whole days, a full weekend, and I'm going to try to figure this platform out. If I can't figure it out, then I will go with something else. But I'm like I'm talking eight hour days, like so 16 hours investing in learning a platform, because I do believe that every platform has like a learning curve, right and so I took two days and figured it out and I was like, okay, this is not as hard Now. When I first went in, it was huge learning curve, but by the time I was done I felt, okay, I feel comfortable with this, I know this.

Speaker 1: 4:14

And today, two and a half years later, I have clients that don't. They're not facing me, like I'm behind their computer. We're having a one on one in person and they're like, how do I do this? And I'm like, yeah, go here, here, here. And she's like you just know that by heart, like, yep, I do, because I just utilized it right and I've done it enough to know.

Speaker 1: 4:34

And I want you to know that that is also the truth about their platforms, tools, software. That's why there are many right, there are so many, because different ones work better for our brains or they look better to our eyes, or somebody taught us that we admired and we and we picked up on the learning. So all of that is different. But the thing is is that also mentors and teachers and experts there's so many and there can be so many, because everybody is attracted to something different. Everyone is attracting to, attracted to a different personality, to a different learning style, to a different way that people explain things. And you know also, maybe somebody who came in my world when I first started teaching thought I sucked. Some people may come in today and think I suck, I don't know, but maybe thought I sucked. But today I've changed so much because I know like I'm so much more confident in what I'm doing. I've evolved so much. Right Now, today they may be like oh my God, this works so well for me.

Speaker 1: 5:43

And so I think we get to first of all, not be hard on ourselves. If somebody loves like, tells you that they love this person, it's amazing. But you just don't get it. Because there are people that I love on social media. I love, I'm obsessed with their content, I love it all. But then I've done some of their trainings.

Speaker 1: 6:08

I mean like I'm just not learning well with this teaching style. It's not. It's not that I don't like them, it's not that I disagree with them, it's just they can't hold my attention, and I think that's really important, right? If you can't hold my attention, I'm not going to learn, and I love learning. I love learning, and so I want you to think about that for a second. I want you to think about this in a couple of different ways, right? Like, maybe you've purchased something from somebody before you didn't like it, so therefore you're never purchasing anything again. Okay, and that scenario, maybe that didn't work out for you, but it was a reason, right, it doesn't mean it's you, it doesn't mean it's necessarily the person. It was, maybe the way that the material was presented or the way it was talked about, or the formatting, or something, right?

Speaker 1: 7:01

And the other thing I want you to know is that also, a lot of times in our businesses, we think that things are so saturated. But no, it's not, because now and again, all these platforms are not identical, but they all do similar things. We no longer just have Trello and Asana, we have what? Clickup, and I can't even think of all the names of these things Mondaycom, and I think what is? It? Is Microsoft Teams, one of them too. Like, there's so many, right, there's so many. And there's so many for a reason because there is room for everyone. Right, there's room for everyone. And I think that we get to remember that. We get to remember that for ourselves, right, when something didn't work out, or maybe made a purchase and we didn't learn, or we didn't learn what we thought we should have, or maybe we just didn't implement so we blamed it on ourselves, I don't know right.

Speaker 1: 8:00

But also, when it comes to us showing up in a Maybe we feel like there's a lot of competition, but is there really? No, there's not a lot of competition, because once people see exactly how you do what you do and why you do what you do, and they see you in action especially if you're a digital market or or a course creator or a mentor or an expert they're gonna realize right away yes, I love this or don't love this, and it's okay either way. The thing is is that we, when we are creating programs, we are creating containers. We are creating things like that. It is our job as the expert. It is our job to create a container that create success. It is the end users Job to do the work that creates a success. Right, we can't create success for people. We can give them the path they get to decide what that looks like and how much work they're gonna put in and how much how consistent they're gonna be.

Speaker 1: 9:02

And this, this goes for everything, not just like Growing a business, but getting healthy and getting in shape and, you know, working on your mindset and becoming more confident in all of these things, and so I just wanted to. I thought this was an interesting conversation. I thought it was interesting that we had so many different platforms and everybody has a different love for their platforms, and that's okay. But even though you have a strong conviction and love for the things that you use and the things that you Pay for and the mentors that you use, it doesn't mean that that's everybody's gonna fill the same way and everybody doesn't have to fill the same way. That doesn't lessen your experience and it doesn't lessen your love for the product, the service, the course, whatever right. And the same thing is true when people come to you.

Speaker 1: 9:59

So I hope this helped you, hope this served you, and remember we're all attracted to different people for a different reason. We all Learn different ways, and just because you know you don't learn well with what way one person teaches something doesn't mean that that's the way it'll be across the board. And that also goes for you, your clients. They're gonna love you and they're gonna want more from you. And those that leave, it's okay. It's okay. It's rarely personal and that feels really good.