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How to Be an In-Demand Speaker on X Spaces
Recorded: July 2, 2025 Duration: 1:05:42Space Recording
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In a dynamic discussion among crypto enthusiasts, speakers emphasized the importance of project launches, strategic partnerships, and personal branding in the evolving landscape of Web3. Key insights included the necessity of community engagement and authenticity for growth, as well as the rising trend of effective space management to foster collaboration and innovation.
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Music Thank you. Music Thank you. Music Thank you. Thank you. Oh Yo! What's good, everybody? What's up? What's up? What's up? It's another day in Twitter space.
I see we got some of my favorite friends up here on the stage as well. We're going to talk about
some great stuff today um glad to have
everybody here thank you tori for helping put this together what's good creon my man marcello
i see lito down in the house my man sam stefanina like there's just so many people that showed up
today appreciate all of you hopefully everything's working good i see some people having connection
issues hopefully that's not a thing right now um i want to give everybody a chance
to kind of say hi say who you are whatnot um marcello go ahead toss it into you brother
let's go yeah man i saw this space i'm like i gotta be there um quick introduction my name
is marcello or marcello head of spaces here at soulbound we are doing a bunch of cool stuff but
mainly we are a streaming platform we've also got a bunch of cool stuff, but mainly we are a streaming platform.
We've also got a bunch of different things around Streamify, Agentify, Gambleify, lots of cool stuff.
TGG coming up very soon, but happy to be here, bro. Thanks for having us.
Yeah, absolutely, brother. Absolutely. I love doing these spaces because this is very educational for people who don't know how to run spaces and whatnot. We're creating clips from these that we'll be able to put into information that we can get out to people that are looking to get into spaces, people who are already hosting spaces but looking to level themselves up, stuff like that. We're just trying to get some tips out there to help people get a little bit better, right? As my man Icy says all the time, a rising tide lifts all ships, right? Let's get it.
All right, I'm going to toss it over to my man. I believe it's Cody behind NXT. Take it over,
brother. GM, GM. How are you, King Snooch, my friend? It's good to see you. It's good to be
here with all these other amazing OG hosts as well. Great topic. Great everything. Yes, this is Cody behind
the Next Moon Project. One of my many personalities that I have here on Twitter. I don't know if I'm
the only one that has multiple, but I do host quite a few different spaces. So the Next Moon
Project is a platform that is really designed to give projects a free opportunity to jump into the voice of Web3 on X.
platform to come in and shill their projects as well as dive into a lot of deep discussions as we
explore web 3 looking for the next moon projects i love it brother and honestly cody you've been
absolutely crushing it you've been out there putting the work in and you know that's one of
the points today i want to talk about um you know as we're getting into you know how to be an in-demand
speaker on x Spaces.
That's one of the things is showing up is 90 percent of it. Right.
I'm going to toss it over to my man Creon. Take it away, brother. Give us a little quick intro.
Hello, everybody. GM. Well, yeah, my name is Creon. I'm just a space host.
But I paused my spaces for over a month now. I'll be back maybe next week or the following one.
It's always great to be on the same stage, you know,
talking about in-demand speakers, and you know it's you guys.
Marcello, King Snooch, we got Cody, everyone else.
I'm happy to be here, and I'm so happy to be with you guys.
Yeah, absolutely love it, brother.
I want to give my man Lo a chance to introduce him but before
he does i just gotta say dude it was so awesome getting to you know touch base with you in new
york city got to hang out with your vibe out man listen to that awesome laugh that you got
absolutely addictive to be around you the vibes are just so great take it away brother give us a
quick intro who is leto hey there what's up it was so good to meet you too Snooch it was a great time I love putting faces to names and you and Vanho were
super nice so I was very appreciative of being able to hang out with both of you that night for
sure um I'm a moderator on the I'm a part of the community team for Cedar Network. I just vibe here on Web3.
And I have a lot of friends in the space, so naturally I'm here all the time.
I'm pretty addicted to Twitter, so thank you for having me.
Absolutely, brother.
You're one of the people out here that I could just talk with you for like a half an hour and just vibe out because you have you have that great personality that you just it's like going to meet somebody at a bar and you just
shit bull bullshit for like two hours straight and before you know it you know you've talked
about everything under the moon so absolutely love you brother warlord i'm going to toss it
over to you man give us a quick introduction and tell us what you're doing in the space um
yeah hello everyone um yeah my name is Warlord.
I'm a head of operations, Sireni and Etepio, right?
And I'm currently a good manager, good lead, sorry, on Flexible.
Yeah, so that's about it.
Excited for this space, actually.
I mean, a lot of familiar faces, right?
A lot of familiar faces from Leto, Crayon, Soundboard, Nextmoon, you know, a lot of familiar faces. So, yeah, excited for the discussion.
So, yeah.
Absolutely, my man.
I do want to give a quick shout out to my man down there, Sam Stefanina, who, in my opinion, between, you know, simplified and gamified,
has been an absolute role model for how
to properly do spaces manage spaces run spaces if you're not following that man you're missing out
on some of the coolest spaces in web3 on twitter i highly suggest everybody in here make sure that
you're following that account turn those notifications on because simplified and
gamified absolute bangers of a show. Love you, brother.
Big shout out.
Can't wait to see you again at the next event.
All right.
So I want to kind of kick this off.
Why the heck is he up here on stage with us?
Come on, man.
He might be busy, man.
And the man's always cooking.
He's busy.
I kind of want to talk about the first segment that I want to go into.
And it's basically what is it that makes a speaker in demand, right? Like what makes them
somebody that people want to bring onto a show, right? The relatability versus
authority, right? Which wins, you know, authenticity over scripting. People connect
with real people, not press releases, right? And you got to know when to lead a room versus
when to compliment the host.
And to lead this off, I kind of want to ask each one of you, and you can kind of dive into this topic a little bit, but I want to ask you to fire this off. Who is your favorite space speaker and
why? I think I'll toss it over to Marcello first. Damn. Okay. Well, I was was gonna answer the other question through this other one
who is my favorite speaker um i don't know i'm gonna have to think about that one
give me i'll come back to that i would say though uh to reflect your previous question
yeah i think you know what makes somebody in demand right i think it's the value that they
bring to the table right the great conversations insights the takes
that they have to bring I think um yeah what do they bring to the conversation I think is huge
and then I think also just the person themselves right I think countless times I've invited people
onto spaces just because I vibe with them or I just love their personality uh they don't have
to necessarily be the biggest expert
in the room, but just because they're an incredible speaker or they're just entertaining or they just
bring some kind of value to the table, I think I've just gravitated towards them and I've invited
them countless times. So I just think, you know, there's different variables here, obviously,
like educationally speaking, what value are they
bringing, but also their personality, right? You could be, like, you could be the smartest person
in the room, but just be an absolute asshole, and I'm like, yeah, I'm not bringing this guy back on,
and I know there's a few, but, yeah, no, at the same time, it's just, yeah, do we vibe? Do they
bring something to the table? Are they funny? Or do they have value to bring?
And I'll definitely bring them on.
As for my favorite speaker, I don't know, man.
I got so many.
I got so many.
It's hard to say.
You're definitely one of them, King Snooch.
I'll tell you that.
I think another one, one that came to mind is Mr. Consul.
I absolutely love Mr. Consul because he's not afraid to like, he's always bringing the spicy takes.
And I think that that's important too. I think a lot of us are yes men in this industry.
And we're all just going to be like, sometimes it's like we're circle jerking the same agreement, the same, the same, the same shit.
And it's like, yo, I just want somebody to like throw something spicy and maybe even disagree politely, obviously.
So I don't know i'm gonna
go with mr console for this one yeah i can agree with you 100 mr console is an absolute legend
he is very very well spoken and he has a lot of heart and passion about wed three and he always
you know puts it all out there on the line so absolutely love that about lo He's genuine, right? You
in your answer and honestly
tend to reach the audience
I, I almost forgot. I can
forgot, but I didn't intro
is absolutely crushing it
has made this possible. I
second, Tori, give us a l
and maybe you can lead off with, I know you maybe can't answer this, but can you say who's your favorite speaker? You really put me on the spot. You asked me to play favorites. Oh, we got a delay. Hold on.
You know, my other, I have another phone running that runs the space and it just loves to get
unmuted. So I hear myself in the background. Sorry, um, sorry guys, a little early for me. Um, but yeah,
building a ex cohost and, um, man,
it's been what a run. Um, we've got tons of like features coming out.
So I know everybody here pretty much knows what we do,
but these spaces have been really great and educational and the content that's
coming out with them is
going to be really awesome. So I really appreciate everybody on this stage right now. Um, and
everybody in the, in the listeners too, we're working on some cool stuff. Um, I, I can't play
favorites, um, but I will call out King Snooch. I think, uh, not only have been an amazing host, but an amazing speaker as well.
There's so many really great speakers that use our platform and so many great speakers that we need on our platform.
But I'm excited to get into this topic. And yeah, everybody on the stage, too, has been a phenomenal speaker.
I listen to you guys all the time. I watch you engage with the
hosts. I watch you do all the things that are kind of necessary to make a space successful. So
yeah, we'll get into it. But yeah, I'll give my flowers to you, Snooch, for this one.
I appreciate that. Love the flowers and appreciate you as well. I wouldn't be where I'm at and I
wouldn't have been on as many spaces as I've been on if it wasn't for Exco.
So much flowers to you as well on that.
I'm going to toss it over to Creon, brother.
I saw all the hands come up all at once, so I don't know whose was first, but we'll get to everybody.
Creon, go ahead.
Who's your favorite person when it comes to speaking on spaces?
All right.
So I have two people on my mind, and I chose them as speakers, you know, not as a host.
Definitely, it's going to be, for all things,
it's going to be you guys here, most of you guys on this stage.
But my favorite speakers are Desert Lynx,
or that's, I actually tied in the comments,
Joel Valenzuela, if you guys, you probably have seen him as well he's pretty in
mind on on spaces as well so I like that guy because he's very uh well spoken as well and
very knowledgeable uh talks about things that he you know he he knows what he's talking about most
of the time um well 100% of the time actually and um uh very supportive and I like him for the kind of space that i'm running so yeah
that's another thing so it's kind of like um based on on the space that i run and then there's um
diala um from abstract um he i think she is the the the community lead for uh for the abstract
angels and um because she is unfiltered you you know, she's very genuine when she speaks.
It doesn't matter, sometimes she's sarcastic,
but it's always fun.
Yeah, so I kind of like the vibe of that person.
Absolutely, brother.
So I got to ask you, you know,
what do you think is, you know,
the key to being an in-demand speaker?
Do you feel like it's being relatable versus being an authority on a space?
Which one's more important?
Yeah, it feels like more like authority because it's –
Do you need to be a know-it-all or do you just need to be relatable?
For me, kind of like authority because trust and reputation is much more important than relatable sometimes to me.
But yeah, relatable is very important.
So kind of like there's like a fine line there.
But reputation and –
It is a great line.
I got to admit, like there is a fine balance.
Yeah, definitely.
But for me, it's always trust and reputation before you can have someone on the space.
For me, it's always trust and reputation before you can have someone on the space.
I mean, at least on the kind of space that I run.
Absolutely, brother. You are ruggeding just a little bit. It's cutting in and out a little bit.
But I want to toss it over to you, Mr. Cody, my friend, I have a question for you. As somebody who I can honestly say,
you have almost mastered knowing when to lead a room versus when to complement a host as a speaker
and as a host, being able to balance that is a tough thing. I want to ask your thoughts on this
and as well, the same question from everybody as well, you know, who is your favorite speaker and why? Well, you know, a squirrel can find a nut every once in a
while. So that's how I feel hosting with what you just said. I, there's a, there's a fine line
between, you know, being able to know when to lead and when to just let, let the conversation
take itself. But, you know, if I have to choose somebody,
I got to wipe the brown off my nose here
because I'm going to say King Snooch
because there's a real difference
between those that come in and are argumentative,
but the ones that actually come in
and are looking for a serious debate, right?
And that's where I view you as snooch is like
seriously you bring a very very uh debatable kind of opposition a lot of times and if anybody i i
think everybody on this panel has been on my spaces at some point and they've heard me say that
you know my spaces are a safe space,
right? We're not here to attack. We're not here to do anything like that. We're here to just kind
of debate things, right? And so you definitely bring that vibe. And there's, I've had to put
out a couple of fistfights in my spaces before. on the same side too is this like uh you know
you've driven a lot of controversy a lot of uh pushback which that makes for a really good
speaker because uh like uh soul baumist uh and and and creon was all saying before, is there's so many yes men out there and just kind of go with
the flow, right? And which is good, but it doesn't make for good entertainment and educational type
of things. Because one of the big things that we have here for me is, you know, I feel that spaces
are a good way to eat. And what I mean by eat, and if you've heard me say this before, is eat stands for building your expertise, building your authority and building your trust and transparency within the space.
by doing the grind, by jumping onto these spaces.
Yeah, you're not going to be the expertise in everything.
But the point is, it's like,
you're going to come at it from a different perspective, right?
I come at it from a UI UX designer perspective,
an entrepreneur, previous builder,
you know, all these kinds of things.
And you've got people that are coming at it
from a gaming perspective.
You've got people that are coming at it from a gaming perspective you've got people that are coming at it from a community mod or community manager point of view it doesn't
matter like we can all tribute to the voice of web 3 through these discussions and that's what
it's really about is all of us adding context and characteristics to that voice that's going to make us stand out and
make us go above and beyond the noise of what's out there. Agree 100%. And, you know, I appreciate
it and appreciate the flowers and love. It goes both ways as well. I always love having you on
as a speaker. Again, you always are super respectful, but at the same time, you get your point across, right? You don't cater to the norm, right? I guess is how I would put it.
I want to toss it over to my man, Lito. I kind of want to comment, give you a compliment at first, that when we met in New York City, you were one of the most genuine people that I've met. Like you just, you came up big hug. You just, we had a great
conversation. Right. So that natural ability to just be yourself, right. Authenticity, right.
The being genuine compared to like the scripting, reading off of a script for a space or, you know,
reading just information. Like, let's say somebody asked a question and you just go to chat GPT and you pull
up the answer and then you read that script. What's your thoughts on that? As a speaker on a
space, right? Doesn't that come across really like pretty shitty that you're just reading from a
script rather than being genuine and just being your own person? That's hilarious. Also, who's
your favorite speaker? Okay. First, that's hilarious that you say that because I didn't
notice that that was something that I guess it's common that people did that uh reading off like a grok or something script
but i was just thinking uh of this and uh i think it's super important to just be yourself and
honestly when i'm meeting new people especially like in outdoors, personal settings, I just like,
beforehand I'm like, Lito, just be yourself,
just be yourself.
Like, and I'm very lucky and fortunate that,
I don't know, I like talking to people
and I like making friends and meeting new people as well.
So like, I don't know, you just really wanna be yourself.
And when people see that,
I think people just really enjoy authenticity.
They really want people to be genuine.
And that kinda ties into like,
that's a trait that really ties into being a speaker on a space. Like, you really want to
make sure you put like your personality behind your takes, you know, in a world of potentially
monotonous people, like you really want to stand out and just make sure that part of that being an
asshole isn't part of that isn't just like part
of you being an asshole like you want to like hope you're a good person you know like um but
and my favorite host dude i have two i guess uh i really enjoy greenity my friend uh mr grenadine he's a great uh host he commonly is asking how you're doing he's a genuinely nice
person um and he just knows how to direct the stage uh you know he asked for like hands to be
raised which is good because some space can just be so chaotic with people talking over each other
you know so i don't know he knows how to run a stage and he's just a genuinely good person.
And I like how you're running today's space as well, Snooch.
So I'm a brown nose, you little Vince,
and put you up there maybe second place.
Stop it, guy.
Yeah, that's it.
You guys are killing me with all the flowers, dude.
I'm just here to kind of guide the conversation.
But yes, I appreciate the flowers. And absolutely, you are one of those people who you're just yourself. You're very genuine. And I appreciate that about you. So I'll throw the flowers back at you. I'm going to toss it over to Warlord. I see your hands up. I got to ask you, you know, who's your favorite space speaker and why?
and why okay yeah 100 100 um yeah my favorite space speakers i would say um chin and like
little just said mr grenaty right because i mean these are people that are very very much relatable
right these are people that you get on the space you already know what you're here for right and
yeah you also have to understand the game to play the game right so in
as much as their space hoots i feel like they would they would do even much better because
they know the game right they'll do even much better as speakers and when you get on spaces
by chin and mr greennessy you already know his value packs even if there is no like topic coming
in they just know how to basically control the conversation.
So everybody there just gets as much value as possible from these spaces.
They're able to control the discussion.
And then, yeah, just make the most out of everyone.
Keep throwing questions.
I'm having a very great and cohesive environment
where no one feels left out
and everything is just positive vibes
because that's what we're here for.
If the vibe is negative,
then we human beings,
we tend not to just get involved.
So they're always here with the positive vibes
and then, yeah, that's what everyone's here for, right?
So, yeah, that's why those two are my faves so far.
Absolutely, my man and i gotta i gotta you know give mr greenity uh a shout out as well like
he absolutely is a great speaker so i agree with you guys on that one i'll definitely love the guy
sweet appreciate everybody on that and you know all those that giving me flowers don't worry about
it you know i i appreciate it but send them out to others you know i just i do this because i'm
passionate about it right um the next topic I kind of
want to dive into is building your voice and style. One of the people who I absolutely love,
who has a really good style is Marcello. I've known you for a long time. We worked together
on Game Talk magazine. Like you're just, you're the type of person that I can go to an Airbnb
and game with for four hours straight, smoking a joint and just vibing out 100 percent and just loving being around a person like you.
Right. You are that type of person that is just you're you're I don't even know the word.
Like, it's just I love being around you. I love spending time with you. I love like hanging with you. You're my bro. Right.
spending time with you. I love like hanging with you. You're my bro, right? One of the things you're
really good about though, is storytelling. And I feel like sometimes those little anecdotes and
stuff, they're better than analytics and stats and data. And because of that, you're able to actually
connect better with audience. What's your thoughts on that? Can you give me a little bit of feedback?
Do you agree? Do you disagree? Yeah, totally, man. I appreciate you throwing me flowers, bro.
I also see Mr. Consuls in the audience.
Brother, I was shouting you out as one of my favorite speakers.
Yeah, no, I think storytelling is huge, right?
I think that's the best way for people to connect.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
People love stats and all this stuff stuff but nobody connects to something more
than stories so yeah man i love i love communicating through my own stories i love spotlighting other
people's stories i think it really it really hits home in a way that uh you can't really do in other
ways right i think at the end of the day people are emotional beings. We're humans, right? And in the wave of AI and all this stuff, I really think I'm a big believer in the emotional side, the humanistic side.
And I think that stories are the vessel to that.
So, yeah, man, I love using stories. I love communicating in that way.
And I think it's super important to do that as that really captures people's attention, right?
I think even when it comes to like, you know, I guess my background is pretty much marketing. But when I
think of like even advertisements, right, I think that the best advertisements are usually stories,
right? Like when you see a McDonald's ad, it's not they're not talking about how good the food
tastes or what what they're putting into food, which, you know, that's a whole other topic.
They're not putting that many good things in there anyway.
But, like, how do they sell it?
It's through the story, right?
It's when you're sitting down and you're seeing, like, the family sitting down with the kids
and having a good time and everybody's smiling.
And it's just, like, that's just one example.
But, yeah, man, I really think stories are huge.
And if there's any way to connect anybody and to lure people in, it's through storytelling.
So, yeah, I'm a big, big believer in that. Absolutely, brother. Love you. And all the
flowers your way. I see Mr. Consul did come up. I'll get to you in a second, Mr. Consul.
But I kind of wanted to touch on another thing. And we've got Sam down to the listeners. And he
brought this up the last time I was on a space with him about his man, Lemms. And I feel like
as a speaker, right, you got to know what your lane is, right?
You got to have like a specific style as we're talking about voice and style, right?
You got to know your lane.
And with Lemz, you know, Sam called him his punching bag, right?
He was there to start off a conversation on a hot topic that, you know, nobody else wanted to raise their hand, right?
So Lemz has his lane.
He's that punching bag, right?
He's the guy who can give that spicy take to get a topic kicked off, right?
And then you have some people who, let's say, we'll call Doug Hype, right? The Hype Man, right?
He can just be that guy who just brings this energy and it's just crazy, wild, and chaotic,
right? And then sometimes you get like the storyteller. Right. I would say my guy I would call out as a storyteller, probably like Sinjin. Right. Sinjin will sit there and just he will go on as long as you'll let him and talk about anything. Right. I love the dude. He's an absolute legend. But knowing your lane. Right. Do you think that's a key element in being a good speaker is picking a specific lane and mastering that lane. I would say I want
to toss this one over to you, Cody. Do you feel that, oh, is Cody gone? Oh, my man, Cody dropped
out. Oh, no. All right. Well, I'll toss this one to you, Mr. Consul, then seeing how you're up here.
Give us a quick, you know, 10 second intro on Mr. Consul, but do you feel like having a specific lane to stay in as a speaker
is important or not? Ooh, where did Cody go? Cody has set me up. Actually, it's Marcelo that
set me up because I thought I'll just sneak in here. I'm a bit late. Let me listen in because the topic we're having is definitely important for those who host spaces and aspire to host spaces.
That's a very interesting topic, my good friend King Snooch. Flowers to you as well.
Thinking on the spot, I want to say no.
But I want to say no.
I understand that it's important to have a style of delivery, that it's important to have a means and mode of communication.
But essentially, it gets boring.
It really gets boring when you stay in your lane.
your lane at times you got to grow expand beyond that lane you got to get off your own lane and
At times, you've got to grow, expand beyond that lane.
into as my good friend marcello was saying into the consumer's lane i think it's very good to be
diverse and versatile having all the skill sets that you can utilize in an effective manner for
a particular scenario that would be my answer i love to switch lanes
especially on the highway like warlord
speaking of my man warlord i'm gonna toss it over to you and appreciate you brother yeah yeah
come on um i mean like like what mr council said i mean, I'm literally just piggybacking off everything he said,
but I completely agree, right?
I'm a big believer in flexibility and versatility, right?
It means you're able to perform in various fields, in various spaces,
regardless of what the scenario is.
I mean, you're able to deliver.
And personally, I'm a big believer of that.
So staying so fine-tuned, right?
I mean, obviously, there's like different scenarios
where you might have to be,
you double down on a particular lane
just for specific scenarios.
But then I'm still a big believer of versatility, right?
Switching lanes.
And then you're able to also attend a lot of spaces, right?
Still be valuable in a lot of areas.
And yeah, still give value as well.
So definitely I would prioritize for something like spaces,
I would prioritize being more versatile
because you're interacting with different people,
different backgrounds, different ideas, different topics, right?
So yeah, definitely a big,
big believer of versatility in this case. I love that you guys are saying this,
because honestly, I thought in my mind, you know, being a specific type of person, you know,
having your lane, being, having, having your, your soul and personality is what really sets
you apart. But you you know you're absolutely right
having a mixed bag to work with gives you more opportunities to speak you don't have to just be
you know a master of one trade like the saying goes you know jack of all trades master of none
i like the idea of being able to you know fit into any conversation which i will say i'm going to
give flowers again to mr console you're absolutely good that. I can invite you to just about any one of my spaces and know that you can be very concise and you can put
your comments in, even if you don't understand the topic. Like let's talk about last week with
a TCG topic. You know, like you didn't understand training card games, but now you do. You came in
there and you were able to add valuable input. I absolutely love the fact that, you know, you can,
and you were able to add valuable input.
I absolutely love the fact that you can switch lanes
on a whim.
So I do wanna get onto the next topic,
but before I do, I just saw,
Lito, you've got your hand up as well.
I'll toss it over to you, brother, before we do.
Yeah, no, I was basically agreeing.
I think it's important, but it's not the end of things to have like a certain style um i
agreeing with you know mr console uh beforehand uh firstly as a gemini sun sign i think that it's
fine to maybe be a storyteller one day or a hype man another you know capable you're given you're
given you're capable of being either, you know,
like if you're usually like a calm conversator who gives great takes or, uh, or their own ideas and thoughts on things, sometimes you shouldn't like be discouraged of giving a hot take, you
know, uh, I am sure that hosts love to have guests or speakers who give thoughts or ideas that may not be aligned with everyone else on the panel because that just helps give the conversation some flow and it helps increase, you know, make it more interesting, the conversation.
So, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely agree with you.
And to be honest, it's got me rethinking a few things that you know
i i always try to be the person who's lighthearted very energetic and i i try to be very educated on
the gaming side of things sometimes i don't know things but i'll be the first to say hey i don't
i don't fully understand this but i try to be very energetic and positive in a sense right unless
it's you know people are talking about meme coins and I'm like, ah, fuck meme coins. I don't want to even do it. But yes, I try to be,
you know, I try, I try to keep my soul, right? Like I try to be who I am. All right. So the next
topic I kind of want to talk about is kind of an important one as a speaker, you know, for some of
us hosts who are spaces hosts, and I wish my man Cody was still here, but maybe he lost signal or lost power. Who knows?
But as a speaker, if you're trying to get on spaces for, you know, maybe through Xcohost,
it's very easy on Xcohost.
You can just, you know, obviously request to be on a space.
But some of these spaces you have to be approved on.
So the question is, how do you approach a host to be a speaker on their space without being annoying, right? Like, for example, Sam Stephanina's space on Simplified.
I wouldn't say that I would DM him like every week being like, hey, Sam, can I be on the show
this week? Hey, Sam, can I be on the show this week? That would get annoying. But the question is, how do I get through to somebody that's a host
if I want to speak on their space without being annoying? Mr. Consul, I want to toss it back over
to you. What do you think is the best approach to do this? I love that you've given me the
opportunity to share a story. Soul Bound knows.
My man, the storyteller.
I knew you wouldn't disappoint.
My good friend, Marcelo,
and I come from way, way back.
This man used to host
absolutely amazing discussions.
I was not invited to be part of the panel
during his discussions marcelo you know this we go way back bro that was uh the iq protocol days
i'm like who the heck is this guy this was pre pre pre uh mr consul uh before he was who he was
today this was before even king sno he was who he was today.
This was before even King Snooch was who he was today.
But yeah, I remember those days, and I apologize for not bringing you on stage.
I just didn't know who you were.
I'm like, I don't want to bring on a scammer or whatever.
You know how it is.
You bring some people on, and they're just like, you're like, ah, crap.
I just ruined the space.
But it was nothing personal, brother.
Now you're always invited.
Now you're one of my favorite speakers. I literally shouted you out on the space here.
So it's crazy how the table turned. Yeah, for sure. It's not personal. This is way before
ex-co-host, in fact. My good friend was hosting really intriguing topics. He had really top-notch
panelists. And I just felt like, what are these panelists saying?
And so I would be in the listener,
just wanting to join in to listen,
but feel very intrigued to want to partake
to the discussion.
You request, you keep requesting,
you get on your knees and pray.
You ask the Lord to bless you this day
because his panels were really hot, right? I knew
for sure. And he said it, it's before Mr. Consul was Mr. Consul. I knew for sure if I get on that
stage, mama, I've made it, right? This is a top notch industry leaders. And to be honest, I think
it really just takes persistence, my friend. You have to be someone who's regular in terms of your profile picture,
in terms of your voice, in terms of your content on X,
for the host to have a bit of trust to take the risk to bring you up.
And that one opportunity you get, you better not mess it up
because that could be your moment to build yourself or absolutely break yourself. That's
what I would say, my good friend. I love it. Honestly, you're hitting on so many great points.
And yeah, I can remember the days of IQ protocol, man. That was a hot minute ago. Absolutely love
that. And I want to toss it over to you, Creon. I want to get your take on this. Yeah, I want to
go back to the point that I mentioned earlier about trust and reputation because that's how I built my um I don't know my
way up to because last year I only have like 270 for following and and if you remember my pfp it
was like um um I wasn't with a mask uh with with a with a with an assault rifle on my hand but it was just like like it's not a real
gun anyways it's for sports right so before that you know I had to like come
to I wanted to speak on spaces that is being run by doctor he is professional
he's a psycho on their therapist and he run good spaces.
So it's not easy for me to go up there.
But once I got there, you know, because I spoke into another space where he's part of
the panel and he heard me speak, I kind of like got his trust you know so it's very important
for you to kind of like just like what mr. console was saying it's very
important for you to kind of like maintain that once you get the chance to
speak on it on a stage you have to be really behave and maintain the branding
of yours and if you can improve your branding and then network properly through
the right channels. That's why Xcode is very important. It's a great tool for you to actually
build that trust and reputation when you're on that platform. But yeah, maintaining that is
kind of difficult and kind of like growing from it um it's it's very challenging
to do so always be on spaces um maintain your brand and your personal brand because it has to
be aligned with whatever you're saying on the space you know you have to especially when you're
small account you're kind of like building um your your brand so just keep on i don't know even if
you don't know the topics
sometimes you can at least like bring up good questions that can add value to
conversation maybe come up with something so that you know the host or
the panelists can come up with great conversation out of your question if it's
not your expertise so yeah I'm gonna like blabbering already but yeah thank
you I like that question absolutely I'm going to toss it over to warlord
but i kind of want to like i realize we're kind of moving pretty quick on the space and i do got
some really important points that i want to get to so i'm going to kind of move on to this next
part of it and see if it ties in with what you wanted to put in on your two cents but it's you
know as you're networking being a speaker for these spaces what is more important you know, as you're networking, being a speaker for these spaces, what is more important?
You know, is it adding value?
I would say yes.
It's not just asking for mic time.
You know, it's not just getting up on the mic, but actually adding actual value to the conversation.
One of the things that I got to say, again, giving shout out to my man, Stephanina down there, is when Sam's running a space, every one of his speakers are adding actual value to the conversation. They're not just asking, you know, hey, throw my hand up so I get on the
on the mic and just get my voice heard so I get followers. They're actually there to add value to
the conversation. And I think that is something that really sets good speakers apart from okay
speakers. Worler, do you agree? Yeah, I mean, 100%. I mean, who wouldn't agree to that?
or do you agree?
Yeah, I mean, 100%.
I mean, who wouldn't agree to that?
While I'm up here, I want to give a shout out to Elex, right?
She's a very good friend of mine.
And I see her in this space.
I see her in most of my spaces.
So yeah, I just want to shout out to her first
before I get on with my take, right?
And yeah, I mean, being able to contribute,
I mean, why are you even up on stage
if you're not able to give value to the conversation, right?
If you're not able to add something, if you're not able to say something of value, right?
And saying something of value for me, right, how I even started getting up on spaces,
being confident enough to host my own spaces as well, it started from just starting small, right?
Get on spaces with friends, people you're're familiar with because the way i see it
right if we are friends i mean the way that you king solomon and little just spoke is because
you guys know each other you're friends so it's like you don't get shy when you're speaking to
your friends so having that mentality that okay yeah you're just speaking to your fellow friends
you're speaking to someone your guys you know i think that just builds so much more confidence than
than thinking of it that okay i'm speaking on a space and everybody's listening to what i'm going
to say so that meant that shift of mentality that okay yeah we are just friends right it's just we
are just like having a normal conversation with your body so that whole idea of mentality and
starting small right is what will actually give you or build
that enough confidence.
So once you get on large spaces, you don't get starstruck, right?
Or you don't get hooked, right?
You're not short of words.
So yeah, and also it comes to building credibility as well.
So that comes to probably your profile.
If you host spaces, any space you attend, make sure to retreat.
And if you've not retreated this space, then, I mean, I don't know what you're doing basically.
So yeah, I think that's just about it. A hundred percent, my man. And kind of ties me right into
the next section I want to talk about is what is it that makes you a host favorite guest, right?
And that's one of the things that Marcello is absolutely great at.
And I'm surprised he hasn't done it on this space yet,
but it's reminding people,
hey, guys, make sure you're following
everybody up on the stage
and make sure you're liking
and retweeting the space to help.
He's always going on with this.
He does it on my spaces and our spaces
and his own space.
He didn't do it today.
I gotta call you out on it, brother.
But yeah, being that guy who's reminding people, hey, let's get this out in front of people. Let's't do it today. I got to call you out on it, brother. But yeah, being that
guy who's reminding people, hey, let's get this out in front of people. Let's make sure that we're
commenting. That's one thing, right? That's huge. And I absolutely love that. A couple other things
that I want to kind of point to that helps educate some of the speakers on getting to be that host
favorite guest is respecting the mic, right? Don't be a hog.
Don't just sit there on the mic rambling on. It absolutely sucks. And as a host, when you have
somebody who talks for five minutes on a conversation that's supposed to only take two
minutes, it screws everything up. You have certain like a good host, sorry. Most good hosts have an actual timeline of how much time they're supposed to spend on each topic.
And when you get somebody who just hogs the mic and takes forever to get their point across, it screws the whole flow up.
And then the other thing is moving the conversation forward. Right. You want to bring good energy to a space.
You want to bring a lot of energy to the conversation, not draining it, not pulling the energy away and being somebody who's monotone and doesn't change the tone of their voice.
And they're just stating stating facts and they're just talking about it.
It pulls the energy right out of a space.
You've got to bring that energy.
Be great.
Be fun.
Be energetic.
And knowing when to speak and when to support, you know, being the Marcello who jumps up and he's like, hey, guys, make sure that we're liking and retweet in space. Knowing when to do that is key.
And I would say the most important point, and I cannot push this enough, is don't pitch yourself unless you're asked.
Don't come up on a space and show yourself or your project or the company you're working for, unless
you're asked to do it.
Like if you're, if it's in the beginning and you're, Hey guy, give me a, give me an introduction
about what you're doing and who you are and what you're building in the space.
That's your opportunity to pitch yourself.
But if you come up like in the middle of the space and you're showing a project that you're
doing, I'm not going to ask you to come back to my show.
I guarantee you that.
Those are some of the key things that I think are so good to becoming a good speaker.
And I kind of want to throw it around the room as we're starting to wrap this up
as to any other tips that any of you have, as far as, you know, Martell, you're a host.
What are some of the tips that you see a guest doing that makes you want to invite them back?
Yeah, I think you really touched on it i mean
i would even give this guy that was your opportunity to do it guys make sure you go out like
make sure you're following everybody on the stage i love you bro um yeah no i think even at that
right if you are going to come on a space mid, you know, midway and start shilling, like there's a way to do it. You could show for like 10 seconds and then jump into your point. Right. I think it's when somebody is on like an eight minute monologue and it's just like, dude, what are we, what are we even doing?
I don't know I I we kind of highlighted it before I think I think it's an art I think it's a skill
being able to like it's something Mr. Consul does very well it's something you do very well too
but just being able to like you know push some buttons without like being uh rude like I know
like we've had some people on our spaces I I won't name anybody. I love everyone anyway.
But I think sometimes some people just, they just want to debate for the sake of debating.
And I just don't get it.
I really don't get it.
And I just think that it just completely ruins the vibe.
It makes things very awkward. And it doesn't, it makes, yeah, man, it just, you're not making anything better here, in my opinion.
I think I love when people bring hot takes. I love when people disagree. I think it's important. it makes yeah man it just you're not making anything better here in my opinion i think
i love when people bring hot takes i love when people disagree i think it's important like i
said i don't want yes men on all my spaces uh i hosted one on info fi uh on the topic of info
fi on friday on game time and it was great lots of disagreements lots of different points but
that's what creates a good discussion the moment i think people start name calling or start getting like personal and triggered and get emotional it's just like
bro like like like slow down like it's not that serious bro um so yeah i think i literally think
it's an art i think it's a skill being able to like disagree with someone and yet still be
respectful and have a good discussion i think that I actually think that makes some of the best spaces.
Like, even, like, shout out to San Stefanina.
When you're hearing Gamified, like, you know,
and you hear Jerry ready to, like, throw some takes,
like, there's a way to do it, right?
And there's a way to have a discussion without, like,
stepping on people's toes.
So I think that sometimes, I think what people do really wrong
is they might not agree with somebody, and it just comes off really off, like really wrong, in my opinion.
So yeah, I think there's a way to do it.
And at the end of the day, we're all, I think at the end of the day, we all want to see this industry move forward, right?
I think of it a lot like, okay, I'm going to go, stick with me here.
okay I'm gonna go stick with me here you know when you get into a fight with your partner
like at the end of the day you're both you're both in it for the same thing the end goal is
the same even if in that moment there might be a short-term disagreement I kind of think of it the
same way with this it's like if at the end of the day we all want to see the industry move forward
we might be coming at it from a different angle but we all have the same mission here so why why be against each other right so anyways i really think that's
important and uh it comes back to icy's line a rising tide lifts all yes right yes exactly but
yeah i want to stop there because i want to give everybody else a chance to speak
yeah i'm gonna toss it over to you creon what's your thoughts
kind of forget my thought bro but but there's something that i remember um Yeah, I'm going to toss it over to you, Creon. What's your thoughts?
I kind of forget my thought, bro.
But there's something that I remember.
Because you're actually one of my favorite people on Spaces, bro.
And I'm going to tell a story.
I know they've thrown you flowers.
But this is something that not everybody's doing. So King Snooge actually provides support to his um fellow host i don't know if he's done
it to you but he's done it to me um he has given me feedback about how i run a space and how i can
like improve it and that is something that i really appreciate about him um so a space is
like collaborative ever of everybody right um and he genuinely provided me feedback because he's
concerned about me and and actually even before that he's been helping me out, you know, how to schedule, how to use Google Calendar.
So that it's kind of like connected to so that you don't miss spaces on XCO, something like that.
He helped me with that.
So he's very like altruistic when it comes to that.
So that is something that I really appreciate about him.
And I kind of like wish that everyone is like that you know um i'm kind of like doing that for some other
people that are kind of like um mentoring um but i'm a shy person it's just that um kind of like
introvert and um maybe i'll be providing like uh what's that unsolicited feedback but if it's
coming from the heart and it's really something that,
that is like genuine, maybe we should start doing that. You know,
if we're concerned about our, our friends here in the space.
And I want to thank you for that.
Absolutely, brother. Appreciate you.
And I'm glad to see you get to the level that you're at now. And yeah,
absolutely. I enjoy helping others, you know, again, like I said,
a rising tide lifts all ships.
Before we get on to the next person, though, I do want to shout out everybody that's down in the listeners.
If you're a host and you host spaces, quick question for you, if you could drop this in the comments.
I'm curious, what do you look for when choosing speakers for your spaces?
If there's anybody down there that hosts spaces and could drop that in the comments,
I'm kind of curious what you look for when you're trying to pick speakers for your spaces.
I kind of know a little bit about Sam, you know, what he looks for in speakers.
But anyway, over to you, Leto.
I kind of want to hear your take on this as well.
Do you have any quick tips or things that you would look for as a host when finding speakers?
A quick take. you would look for as a host when finding speakers?
A quick take.
Your mic doesn't have to sound great,
but make sure it doesn't sound like shit.
Like, don't be in traffic with horns honking
and fucking people yelling.
Like, and don't be an open mic Andy.
Like, mute your mic when you're not speaking
and try to be cutting other speakers off.
That's it.
Ooh, I like that one.
I do got to say though,
like on that note of cutting people off,
there is a certain host
who is absolutely notorious for cutting people off.
But I honestly feel like it's a
niche that he's in where it's so chaotic and so unruly that it's actually pure entertainment.
And I think most people up on the stage, I see Tori's laughing. She knows exactly what I'm
talking about. So is Creon and so does Marcello. But this guy absolutely cuts everybody off. You
can't get a sentence in
without being cut off and it's chaotic as far but it's also entertaining at the same time
myself i just could not deal with that like it drives me absolutely nuts but i digress i'm going
to toss it over to you mr console my man take it away yeah for sure that note, I also find it very difficult when spaces don't have a particular order.
It's open mic, fast to unmute, fast to speak.
Oh, Lord, I just stay somewhat listening because that moment you unmute, you've already interrupted someone.
Can you believe that?
The point Marcelo raised is super crucial.
If you're on my space and you attack another panelist,
you're never coming back.
It's adios.
Firstly, we're going to attack you back in our Discord
because we love to have fun in our community.
But you just get the whole energy, the whole mood to be cringe, right?
You make the panelists feel extremely uncomfortable and you're being looked at as the host as an
individual who lacks moderation skills so that is definitely right at the top
of my list not to repeat what the other panelists have said but when it comes to
being a host and you're not really able and capable to transition
between a particular speaker to the other it's just awkward silence and weirdness right in between
a point person A has raised and person B or topic A and topic B I always find that to be so, so cringe. Someone might have spoken, poured their heart out,
shared a very personal, emotional story,
but all you do is say, okay, next.
Excuse me, right?
At least touch on what they said
or commend what they have mentioned
before you go to the next person.
That's what I would add to this great, great
points that everybody has mentioned.
Absolutely agree 100% and love you, my man. You are one of the speakers that I always
look forward to having a conversation with on my spaces because of that very, very good
point that you got right there. Guys, we're going to wrap this up, but before we do, I
want to give the mic back over to Tori to tell us a little bit about how these spaces
are working, what's their purpose, and what's coming on Xcohost.
What's up, guys?
This was an awesome space and a very, very much needed topic.
This is going to turn into many pieces of content.
So I really, really thank you guys for just dropping your knowledge here.
You have no idea how much a lot of these points are going to help speakers, especially on ex-cohosts.
So again, I thank you all like so, so, so, so much.
I want to give everyone a little bit of insight too.
You know, we get leads and clients that come in on ex-co-hosts, and I don't
think that the speakers really truly understand what they're looking for. I think we forget,
or a lot of people have forgotten, once they're on ex-co-hosts, they kind of forget a little bit
how spaces used to be. And we talked about it a little bit on this one about bringing up speakers
sometimes, and it's really risky, right? Like you
don't know who you're bringing up on stage. And so our platforms kind of helped everybody with that.
So as a host, but everybody needs to remember that like sometimes the brand has hired a host,
right? And they're meant to keep the conversation flowing. So you're kind of a part of that.
meant to keep the conversation flowing. So you're kind of a part of that. What they look for and
what they ask for is necessary for a lot of speakers to know. They want to make sure that
speakers are retweeting the space. They want to make sure that if they're tagging them and they're
doing announcements and they're doing promotion, that you guys are doing the same thing because
there are tons of speakers that do just join spaces just to,
you know, get that clout and say, I joined the space and I spoke on this space, but they didn't
actually bring any value to the host. And it happens all the time. It happens every day.
And then they wonder why after, you know, they've spoken on, you know, five, six spaces,
they're no longer getting booked on, on spaces-cohosts or invited. We have an
invite system. And just for reference, that invite system and the suggested speakers work
off of an algorithm based on your ratings and your attendance and all of these things. So if
you're not building your brand in that way, that's going to be, you know, what sort I'm thinking of, you know, just beneficial for the host as well.
You probably can bet you might not get booked on that host space next time.
And remember that host talk.
You know, we have communities where people, you know, drop some information or they help each other.
And if they've kind of have realized that you are joining spaces or you're not showing up or you're not retweeting, you're not really bringing value or you're shilling a little bit too much, you're probably going to get a little bit blacklisted just through the community outside of ex-cohosts. Just remember that. And I think it's important for everybody to know, like these are conversations that we have, you know, with people that are interested in
working on ex-cohosts and they do free trials and they'll test those grounds out. So if you want to
see them up and on ex-cohosts and more of their spaces, make sure you're bringing that value too.
Comment on the space. It takes two seconds, you know, like comment, retweet it, like it, any sort of engagement is, is helpful, but especially when this space has
started, I know everybody in here has done it. Um, for this space, I see everybody in this space
do it for other spaces all the time, but I do just need to let like for, you know, for the,
the later clips for everybody that's going to read these, you know, articles and resources, that that is something that hosts 1,000% look for. And if they realize you haven't done it,
they might not book you on the next space. So just keep that in mind. Engagement is key.
Even if you can't speak a ton, a simple retweet goes such a long way in, you know, a marketing manager's eyes for that space. And they remember that.
So, and in the rating system, if you guys haven't hosted on Xcohost, there is a section for hosts
when they leave a rating for speakers to choose, you know, if they spoke on the space, but they
didn't engage with it, right? Like they didn't retweet or engage with any of the content on the site. So keep that
in mind. Hosts are leaving ratings. Eventually those ratings are going to go live. So we want
everybody to support each other and help each other build each other up. And we're going to do
like award shows and stuff like that. So keep that in mind. That's a little bit of alpha drop, but she just dropped some alpha right there, guys. Oh my God. It's coming. It's coming.
It's coming. I know a lot of people, a lot of speakers don't know what the host backend looks
like on Xcohost, but it is important to know that you can't see who's left you a rating that's under
five stars. So just keep that in mind for hosts, but speakers,
you're not going to know who that host was that left you a bad rating, but we can certainly see
it on the back end and it will affect your invites, I would say, or eventually your profile
and your rating. So keep those things in mind. This is the community that's supposed to be
helping each other, right? At the end of the day. So that's what X co-hosts has started as,
and that's what it's going to continue to be. We're not going to restrict people from,
you know, running their business, but keep in mind that like, it's always going to be community
built. So either be a part of the community and help each other, or you're probably not going to
get as much engagement on spaces.
And you'll be back to requesting to join random spaces on X. But also keep in mind that this
goes for other platforms too. It's not just Twitter. If you want to get on real panels,
in-person conferences, things like that, make a name for yourself here. Do it here. Start here.
It's free. It's easy. But yeah, all of this
information that we talked about on this space goes beyond X spaces. So keep that in mind.
Remember that. And you might start to see them on X co-host too. But yeah, that's my take. I wanted
to give everybody a little bit of insight on that. And I pinned something up. We've started doing a broadcast on ex-co-host, not on ex-co-host to broadcast, but you can promote your broadcast.
There's a couple of teasers on there, too. We're teasing some other platforms that you can share your broadcast to.
What's coming? You'll see. I don't want to get too deep into it, but a lot of things I have to do
with a little bit more broadcasts and streams and things like that. So keep an eye out for
the announcements. I would say in the next two weeks, we're going to drop a few more features
this summer. So thank you guys. And thank you, Snooch.
Definitely make sure you guys have those notifications on. I can tell you firsthand,
there's some spicy stuff coming out you don't want to miss out on. So make sure the notifications
are on for the ex-cohost account. Guys, I absolutely appreciate every one of you that
showed up today and appreciate you, Tori. And we'll get a lot of these clips put together and
there's some great content that's going to come out of this. Guys, absolutely love you all. See you on the next one. Take care. Get out there,
touch some grass, and remember, a rising tide lifts all ships. Make sure you're helping each
other out. Take care. Have fun. Thank you.
