Watch his hands a little closer next time, because that shoe was not cold. Dull red on a shoe is still around 1000 to 1200 degrees, which is plenty soft enough to move by hand with tongs and nippers. That is the whole trick of a farrier's setup: you do not need to bring it up to a bright orange heat that will scale and burn the steel, and you don't need an anvil for small tweaks. Your 125 lb anvil and a real forge heat will still be there for anything bigger than a heel tweak. Try bending a truly cold shoe like that and you will just kink or crack it.

Waited four whole days for a brand to ship product without a single back and forth about the script? That part blows my mind more than the fifteen bucks, since every bigger agency I have worked with wants three rounds of edits before anything goes live. Sounds like the small labels just want the post up and trust you to do your thing. Two thousand followers is tiny, but paying upfront and staying out of the way counts for a lot.