I started Instagram in 2016, shortly after I moved to Canada, back when Instagram looked very different and features like Stories didn’t even exist yet . Many of the creators who started around the same time are now at one million followers or more. I’m not , and a big part of that comes down to mistakes I made along the way. I’m sharing those mistakes here so you don’t repeat them, waste years figuring things out the hard way, or feel stuck the way I did for a long time. My