How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

What an appropriate writing prompt to stumble upon. Honestly, for like a year now I have been desperately trying to get this industry to notice me.

Because I have a message, I have a mission. I have something to say that I think is worth saying.

So I have approached many different vendors, affiliates, prominent personalities in this community and the industry, and offered to write for them, to help promote them in exchange for showcasing my work, giving a platform for my message. But I was always met with a lot of fluff.

None of these companies accepted my offers and the ones who asked to hear my story never followed through. And now I don’t know, maybe I should have been more persistent for the people who came to me first but didn’t answer. So maybe that is indeed my own issue with trying to put aside any perceived resentment from that and have a bit more proactive ambition in those scenarios.

But I didn’t. So I have to just be at peace with that.

Finally though, I did get noticed. I had a startup company who shared a lot of my message even if they had to advertise with the kind of terminology that I’m trying to provide an alternative for.

But it was good, I chatted weekly with the co-founder, they gave me my own little section of their websites articles. I got to publish some of my own ideas and I got to expand on some ones that they gave to me. It drove like 14,000 new people to my Instagram page. I thought I had finally gotten my foot in the door.

And then they disappeared. Just straight up ghosted me.

So what did that do? That lit a fire up under my ass. That made me mad and the best way possible. Because it got me to come back to this site. Which I have been sitting on for too long. And it fueled the new mission.

So here I am, completely revamped with new and better content, and a much clearer and more focused vision for what I want to do here.

And I’m writing again. Which is good, because goddammit. I’m a pretty good writer 😁

~Lara