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I experienced something terrifying just this moment. It may sound dramatic, but in this tech-revolving world we’ve all been here. Embarrassedly, the first time I felt this heart dropping phenomenon was when I was scammed for my first fly-ride unicorn ever on adopt me. This was a solid eight years ago and I still remember the guilty sleepless nights I spent over how things could have gone differently. But what happened today could never eclipse that..


I was logging onto Spotify for Creators to check my posting schedule and upload a new episode on The Future Mogul Podcast and I was met with “Upload Your First Episode!”; that exclamation mark was like salt to the wound. My legs felt weak, and ironically I was just about to speak with a new guest on the podcast right that moment and I had to try my best to pull it all together. 


How could one message completely and utterly derail three years of dedication and hard work just like that? The world felt cruel, unfair. I would have cried if I was being honest. 


I trudged through that interview in complete devastation, under the guise of a cheerful host. I ended the call and frantically began searching for solutions, trying to understand what happened. I first opened spotify on my phone…my episodes were still there—just not on the dashboard. Phew, for now at least. I felt helpless and couldn’t find any concrete reason for this discrepancy online so I reached out to customer support and literally got no help there just minutes and minutes of anxious waiting. Finally I did the thing I was putting off—reddit. I searched for the podcast subreddit and lo and behold the first post posted 2 hours ago was asking whether spotify for creators was shut down, and let me tell you I never felt as relieved as I did. 


Okay enough of all that melodrama. Do you guys realise how much our worth is defined by something external?---how one single tech issue, metric, can have someone’s whole life crumbling down? In my case it was three years of hard work and networking and interviews that felt like it had gone to dust, but so many times in the world do we have cases where people’s whole savings disappear in a ponzi scheme or have a single mishap bring everything someone has built, down. 


If I had to be honest, as toxic as it sounds, I love when life throws me these temporary curveballs, key word temporary. These moments force you to step out of the cyclical norm that our lives run in and reinforce how much certain things we get acclimatized to and take for granted. At that moment I would've given anything to get my podcast back, but it never struck me till today. I supposed this goes for people and pretty much anything in life—momentary respite reveals true worth.

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