The message from Stripe was short.

“Your account has been closed due to policy violations.”

At first, I thought it was a mistake.

Then I refreshed the page.

Then I checked my email again.

Then I realized something uncomfortable.

Everything I had built over the last two years had just stopped working in a single morning.

No warning I could fix.

No negotiation.

Just silence where income used to be.

And what made it worse was that I didn’t just lose money.

I lost the system that was feeding my life.

My Starting Point

I didn’t start as a founder or a marketer.