Respect Yourself

Host: Super (@SHGFees) with cohost Sho (@AgogoKaren) · Tue, 08 Sep 2026 · 1:08:00 · 6 speakers

TL;DR

• Super opened with a raw, unscripted reflection sparked by NFT NYC: he was "taken back by how seriously I was taken by people," and realized he'd spent years lifting others up by putting himself down [8:28].
• The room turned it into a group therapy session on self-respect — Sho, Woof, Sols, Slick Ric, and Tim each unpacked their own versions of the same lesson.
• Recurring threads: respect goes two ways and must be earned, idolizing founders sets you up for disappointment, and "come as you are" beats wearing a mask.
• Age got reframed as a crutch that cuts both ways — young or old, it's the mindset, not the number.
• Tim closed the serious stretch with the "crabs in a bucket" metaphor: people who tell you you're not experienced enough don't believe in themselves either.
• It wrapped in warm, slightly unhinged banter about Tim's age, his breath, name tags, and — inevitably — crabs.

Highlights

Super sets the topic: respecting yourself [8:28] — Super explained that childhood stuff (acne, not much money, being put down) had built a habit of "putting other people above me as a way of giving other people respect." He traced the moment it started shifting at NFT NYC, when he realized he belonged in those rooms just as much as anyone.

The coach who wouldn't let him self-deprecate [12:18] — Super recounted thanking his project partner "coach" for working with them, only to be stopped: "We're not doing this to help you, we're doing it because it's gonna be mutually beneficial and because we all believe in you." He revisited this later [47:25], and Sho added that if the mindset weren't mutual, coach would've just said "yeah, glad you're coming along" — the correction itself was the sign of integrity [48:20].

Sho: you are enough, and you're worthy to be here [24:55] — Sho named everyone in the room and reminded Super he's "just as worthy to be here" as any of them, that respect doesn't mean putting people above you, and that she nearly teared up watching the moment it "clicked" for him.

Woof on masks [29:39] — Woof had no patience for anonymous founders hiding behind personas: if you're a good person, why hide? He offered the line that landed the topic: respecting someone else should never require making yourself smaller — you can admire someone's strength without questioning your own.

Sols: the 180 and the meeting IRL [32:07] — Sols told his story of a middle-school-introvert-to-extrovert transformation, warning that you can take pieces from people you admire without losing yourself. He also delivered the space's most web3 moment: going for a handshake at NFT NYC, not knowing what Super looked like, until Super said "Who am I?" and the voice gave it away.

Sols: your network is your net worth [49:15] and the Paris agency story [50:41] — He reflected that every successful person had help, then described an awful job — boss doing lines with a crying baby in the background — that left him too stressed to eat for six months, until he set his boundary and walked.

Slick Ric's sermon [40:36] — From his shop, Slick delivered the crowd's favorite stretch: "comparison is the thief of all joy," idolize no one but God, move at your own speed, and "come as you are." Sols half-seriously told him to start a podcast.

Age is a crutch — both ways [55:40] — Super noted people call him young "for where you are," and Sho immediately flipped it: she's used being old as a crutch too, and got told to "quit using your age as a crutch and just learn." Slick added that age means nothing next to mindset and legacy.

Tim on the crab bucket [59:18] — Tim, the quiet introvert, described leaning hard into who he was and how it unlocked opportunity. On being told he wasn't "experienced enough" in salary talks: "If you can't tell me who is, then there is no one else here more experienced than me." Crabs pull each other back into the bucket because they don't believe in themselves — "it takes someone to know someone."

The wrap-up descends into crab jokes [1:02:42] — Sho confessed she thought Tim was 55 (he's 36); Tim doubled down that he'd meant "30 years older." From there: the Buc-ee's mints Sho handed him for his alleged breath, Sols never actually meeting him IRL, and Super closing the serious note about not being a crab — which Sols promptly undercut with "And don't get crabs" [1:06:32].

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Respecting someone else should never require you to make yourself smaller… humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's knowing that you're worth it without needing to prove your worth more than somebody else's." — Woof [29:39]
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• "Comparison is the thief of all joy… when you start to compare your self-worth to others, you'll never be happy." — Slick Ric [42:03]
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• "When you come in, it says come as you are. Not come in a suit… come as you are, because you're always trying to change and you're always trying to improve." — Slick Ric [44:53]
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• "Your network is your net worth, man. And that's what it truly means." — Sols [49:15]
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• "If you can't tell me, then there is no one else here that's more experienced than me… when someone tells you you can't do something, it's because they don't believe in themselves too." — Tim [59:18]
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• "And don't get crabs." — Sols [1:06:32]
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Who said what

• Super (@SHGFees, host)^* — Set the whole theme with a vulnerable monologue about learning to respect himself instead of putting others on pedestals; steered but didn't dominate, mostly listening and thanking.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren, cohost)^* — The room's anchor: respect is earned and mutual, "you are enough," and honest about using her own age as a crutch.
• Woof (@WoofArmyXX)^* — Zero tolerance for masks; the "never make yourself smaller" framing.
• Sols (@solsweb3)^* — His transformation story, network-is-net-worth, and the toxic-job cautionary tale; also the comic relief at the end.
• Slick Ric (@richj530)^* — Called in from his shop with the most quoted wisdom: comparison, idolize no one, move at your own speed, come as you are.
• Tim (@tim_8093)^* — The introvert's case for self-belief; crab-bucket metaphor and salary-negotiation grit — then the good-natured target of the closing jokes.

Worth a full listen

• [40:36]–[46:27] — Slick Ric's uninterrupted stretch. The paraphrase can't carry the cadence; it's the emotional and rhetorical peak of the space.
• [57:43]–[1:02:24] — Tim's arc from "the quietest person in the room" to the crab-bucket philosophy, tied directly to real salary negotiations. A complete little talk on its own.
• [1:02:42]–[1:07:50] — Where the family energy shows: the age reveal, Buc-ee's mints, and escalating crab wordplay. It's the warmth and humor that made the heavier hour land.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.