“But I’m Not Good at Technology” and Other Lies Keeping You Stuck [Episode 155]

Molly: Hello my friends. This is going to be a short episode and, but it's just something I need to address in its own episode. 'cause y'all tell me this all the time and it's Molly. I'm just not good at technology and I get all kinds of iterations of this. I get your age, I get, I'm an elderly millennial. Well, so am I.

I am a boomer. I get, I'm just never been good with technology. Technology hates me. And if this sounds like you, please make sure you listen to this episode because I have like a PSA for you here that I think will really help. But before we dive into the episode, I wanted to make sure that you knew that I have a, like you're able to hop on a Zoom call with me for an hour and pick my brain.

Did you know that? So these one hour pick my brain calls. I've been doing them for a while and I just don't promote 'em a whole lot. I don't know why. It's just one of those things I kinda always forget about. I don't wanna forget about it anymore because it's one of my favorite things I do in the business.

So I was just on one, two weeks ago. Yeah. And she, um, I love her, the person I was on with, because she is an implementer for sure. So she implemented one of the post ideas that I gave her and she messaged me hours later, like she posted it right away as soon as we hung up. And she's like, oh my gosh, I've never had anything perform this well before.

She's like, this is insane. Most of the time I end up spending the hour doing like a account audit for you, like for your Instagram account. Like, okay, here's what's missing, here's what you can be doing better. I do these for people who are in holistic marketing hub and for people who aren't. So sometimes even people who are in the hub just want some extra like laser focused, um, coaching.

And then I can also like give them some more specific places they need to focus on inside of the hub. And if you're not a hub student, I can still, you'd be shocked what we can cover in an hour. I don't just answer Instagram related questions, that's why it's called a pick my brain call. Um, I've had people ask me about email marketing strategy and like you name it, but just know that this is available to you and you can book this.

There is gonna be a link in the show notes. Um, I do have limited times available on my calendar, just simply because it's, you know, a one hour call. I do send you the, um, fathom recording afterwards, which is, if you don't know what Fathom is, it's like a really cool AI note taker that has the video and it has all of the transcription and the action items and whatnot.

But you can just go to molly cahill.com/pick my brain. That's all one word. Pick my brain, molly cahill.com/pick my brain, and it'll take you to the link to book it. It's only 2 47 bucks, and I promise you it'll be like. Time well spent. I don't think I've ever had anybody be like, oh man, really wish I hadn't done that, because I can just get you there so much faster.

Because this is my zone of genius, right? Which is going to seg perfectly into this episode today. So here we go.

Hey, welcome to Holistic Marketing Simplified. This podcast boils down to the fact that we wholeheartedly believe that more humans need to know about holistic health solutions. And you didn't go to school to learn how to be a. Full-time content creator and show up on Instagram and do all of this marketing stuff all day, every day.

So let's come hanging out while we chat. All things easy in your marketing and my goal is that you shift your mindset around your marketing from a quote should to a I get to board Dream patients and clients. Yes, please.

Dr Carla Freeman: This is Dr. Carla Freeman, and I'm a chiropractor and a holistic marketing hub student in Phoenix, Arizona, and I love listening to the Holistic Marketing Simplified podcast.

Molly: All right. You know how I said this is my zone of genius? That's why being on a call with me for an hour can give you such good results. That's how I feel about all of y'all. And your stories you tell yourself about not. Being good at technology. Listen, y'all know how to fricking adjust someone's cervical spine without paralyzing them, or you know how to, where to put, you know, tiny needles in to help someone get pregnant.

Or, you know, you can analyze someone's stool testing to be like, this is the problem. You have these, the supplements you like. Y'all are so smart. You are so fricking smart. I can't, like, I'm blown away every day at how smart all of you are. And yet you continue to tell yourself this story that I'm not good at technology.

Now I'm gonna step off my soapbox and stop being preachy because I do this too. We all do. Right? Uh, we, we kind of attach to this, these identities in these stories about ourselves. And I'm not saying that they're not rooted in any truth. So you don't have any evidence to the contrary. I am someone who always tells the story to myself that I am really bad at focusing.

And you know, I just really have a hard time sitting down to focus. Or I'll tell myself that like, oh my gosh, like I'm just so chaotic. I'm so, and then yet, you know, my business surpassed. Over half a million dollars in revenue last year, and I generally only work around 30 hours a week. So it's like, luckily I have an amazing and brilliant business coach.

Lacey Sights, if y'all have not, or if you didn't know this, I'm actually being coached live on her podcast. It's called literally LIT, like is capitalized to literally with Lacey sights, L-A-C-E-Y-S-I-T-E-S. Listen anywhere podcasts are, but you'll actually hear me being coached by a business coach live, and I think you'd find it.

I don't know. I've been listening back to the episodes and I'm like, oh my gosh. It's so funny how even though I have, I've, I've had a coach since like 2020, multiple coaches, health, life, business, I still have these patterns and these stories that I tell myself over and over that, you know, quote, I'm not good at focusing, but I have a lot of evidence that yes, this is true, but I also have a lot of evidence that it's not true.

I am challenging myself this year as one of my, I don't know, don't, I don't like to call it a New Year's resolution, just like something I wanna do of not telling myself that story anymore, and instead looking for the opposite. And I'm challenging you to do the same thing with your, any stories. You, you might not have the, I'm bad at technology story, but so many of you do.

I hear it all the time. Like if I had a quarter for how many times I heard that from y'all, I'd have like, you know, 10. So anyway, just maybe try to stop yourself and every time you think, oh, I'm just not good at technology. Think about in ways you are good at technology. Think about what you do for a living.

You are clearly brilliant and I think that it often, not that I have any certifications to diagnosed your beliefs or whatever, like I'm not a life coach. I'm not a therapist. I have just done a crap ton of it. I have done so much coaching and therapy. Oh my gosh. So maybe you're getting a little trickle, trickle down coaching from me here.

Typically the true fear is rooted even deeper than the quote. I'm not good at technology. It might be, oh my God, I don't wanna show up and then, you know, have trolls telling me that I'm, you know, doing something wrong. Or like I said, it could just be, like I said, a way of keeping you stuck that you don't quite realize.

Or maybe it is just a surface as you thinking. Nope, every time I push a button, whatever. But listen. Your phone is not gonna blow up in your hand. Like I'm pretty sure you're not gonna accidentally post a naked selfie. Like if you're worried about that, maybe you don't have naked selfies. I'll turn on your camera roll.

Do y'all remember though? I have to sidebar this. Do y'all remember back in 2020 when everyone, oh my gosh, shouldn't tell you the story because now you're gonna be like, see Molly, bad things can happen. Do y'all remember in 2020 when everybody was like using Zoom for the first time and there was that YouTube video of that woman?

Who didn't realize that her camera was on in their computer and she's like, takes her computer to the bathroom and pulls her pants down and starts to pee. Oh my God, it was awful. That's not gonna happen with Instagram. Okay. There's a delete button, like you just start pushing buttons. That is how I learned.

I did take three courses. Um, I wanna say that as well. When I first started doing in Instagram for my chiropractor way back in 2018, I took three courses to learn how to do it. But so many people ask me, are there tech tutorials inside a holist holistic marketing hub? And yes, there are. There are like, here's how you make a very basic reel.

But at the end of the day, like I could take the tech tutorials out and like, you're not paying to learn from me what buttons to push. Like you can look it up on YouTube or ask Perplexity or chat GBT or whatever. There's always a way to like figure stuff out. Just by asking, like I said, perplexity has been my go-to ai.

Like just two days ago I had got a new apple mouse and I couldn't figure out how to right click, and I literally asked perplexity, how do I right click? And it gave me step by step. Again, I'm just saying like, don't be afraid to just push buttons, play around with it and try to ditch that story of quote, I'm not good at technology.

And one like, you know, two things can be true at the same time. You're not expected to figure all of this out by yourself. You've heard me now say that I took three courses, three to learn how to do this for my chiropractor. On top of that, I have, I don't even know how many thousands of dollars I've spent in therapy, life coaching, health coaching, business coaching.

I feel like I've gotten to the place I am because I have strategically sought out help from people who have already done the thing I want to do, and they just give you a shortcut. I didn't even mean to plug the hub here, but here we are doing it. That is exactly what is inside holistic marketing hub.

Like I've done this, right? Like you don't have to keep saving random Instagram posts from influencers saying, steal my viral hook. Like I can give you step,

Dr Carla Freeman: my step what to do. '

Molly: cause I've done it right and I've kind of like refined the process. So you know, you can always join Holistic Marketing Hub. You can just go to molly cahill.com.

My website, which I told you, a sweet listener told me this whole time. She thought my name was like K and then the word hill, but it's C-A-H-I-L-L. You'll see a work with me tab at the top. We'll also put the link to the hub in the show notes, but I digress. The main point I wanna get across today is I'm challenging you just like I'm challenging myself to.

Rewrite these limiting beliefs, and y'all are all smart enough that I don't have to explain the neuroscience of this to you. This is not like some rah rah woo woo like be like cheerleader thing. You know what I mean? Like this. It's actually like rooted in neuroscience that we will seek out the things that, you know, we believe to be true, right?

So what if you just start looking at something else? It's your reticular activating system in action. Guys, like y'all know this. My challenge to you. DM me please. This is not a rhetorical ask. Is that how you say that? DM me. Let me know. Does this resonate with you? Are you gonna work on this with me? If so, we can help hold each other accountable.

But thank you so much for being here. I know you have so many podcasts to choose from. And I think this will really help our hope so anyway. Okay, chat soon. Bye. Thank you for listening to Holistic Marketing Simplified, and hey, you know how every podcaster at the very end of their episode asks you to rate and review their podcast?

Well, that's because it's super important. These podcasts take a lot of time and heart and effort to produce, to bring you free information. So in order for me to be able to continue doing that, we need more people to find out about the show. So if you could please just take like two minutes out of your very busy day to leave me a rating and share this on your Instagram Stories and tag at Molly a Cahill, that's C-A-H-I-L-L.

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