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We're Pushing 500 Episodes - Here's Everything We Do | Episode 494 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin here with Voices for Voices.
• 0:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We haven't done a uh Instagram live for quite a while, so we thought today would be a good day.
• 0:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's a it's a gloomy day outside, uh, but uh it's always good to be alive.
• 0:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're gonna go through some of the updates that you may not know about voices for voices, uh questions that you know we get asked, um, and I just wanted to share uh with uh with everyone.
• 0:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're gonna get started.
• 0:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we do have a TV show and podcast titled The Voices for Voices TV Show and Podcast.
• 0:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Pretty uh you know, pretty uh complex there, right?
• 1:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but what we wanted to share about the Voices for Voices TV show and podcasts is we are um not only are we approaching 500 episodes, but we are a charity.
• 1:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're a nonprofit, we're a 501c3.
• 1:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we get lots of questions about that.
• 1:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so I I thought I would just uh share that at the the current time as we're we're going through questions I get asked, and then we uh we're we're trying to answer as many as we can uh with this uh IG Live.
• 1:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh also people are asking where all they can find the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 1:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so if they're at home or on the go, you know where they where they can find it at.
• 2:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I'm gonna just list all the uh all the different platforms you can find it to date.
• 2:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um there are probably a few more for Apple users um that uh I I won't be listing but uh we're gonna give it a go.
• 2:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you can find, you can watch and listen to the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast in a uh myriad of ways.
• 2:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that is we're just gonna go from uh top to bottom here so you can watch or listen to the Voices for Voices TV Show and Podcast on Rumble, on YouTube, on the web browser, Apple Podcast, Podcast Addict, any smart speaker, TV or smart device, cast box, iVooks, which is spelled I V O O X.
• 3:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: A lot of our international uh listeners are utilizing that Spotify, can't forget Spotify, Podbean, iHeart, Odyssey, Amazon Music, Podcast Republic, TuneIn, Pocket Cast, Deezer, Pod Chaser, Podcast Index, Player FM, True Fans, Good Pods, and Listen Notes.
• 4:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's a lot.
• 4:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we are not limited to one particular uh one particular platform, and we just wanted to share that um because I know from experience if I've been traveling or you know to and from uh work, you know, you can you can you can find voices for voices everywhere.
• 4:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so we we just wanted to share all the different ways you can find the voices for voices TV show and podcast.
• 4:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we're closing in on 500 total episodes, which is just a it's incredible.
• 4:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh since we are a 501c3, you are able in the United States to donate or purchase any of our merchandise, which I will go over here in a little bit.
• 5:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um books, and here in the United States, you can write that off on your taxes.
• 5:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh 100% tax deductible.
• 5:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We are a 501c3.
• 5:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So the way you can donate, uh, we have three main ways.
• 5:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh the first is lovevoices.org.
• 5:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's lovevoices.org.
• 5:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Lovevoices.org.
• 5:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can also find us on Venmo in the cash app.
• 5:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We do have a couple of books that are available.
• 5:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can find those on voices for voices.org and the voices for voices.org is spelled out V O I C E S F O R V O I C E S dot O R G You can also find us, please add us, please follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and just a reminder that all donations, all purchases of merchandise, books, etc.
• 6:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: donations are in the United States 100% tax deductible.
• 6:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you do not live in the United States, uh just check with your tax preparer and uh and see how uh donations to charity work.
• 6:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Every country's a little bit different, uh so we we would just recommend that for for you to do.
• 7:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's a lot, right?
• 7:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean it now that I'm now that I'm doing this, it it feels like I should be doing this a little more often and sharing because it come on, I mean, let's be real.
• 7:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We all have so much going on.
• 7:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we just want to know exactly where to go.
• 7:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I like to just be have a little bit of structure and sort of know, like, okay, well, I can go here, or I can go here, or any of the places uh that uh that you listen to podcasts, or if you watch on YouTube or Rumble, you can find Voices for Voices there.
• 7:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We were built our organization off of my mental illnesses, and we have added the trauma and recovery of all kinds, recovery from substances, uh, trauma, maybe a a car accident, maybe relationship, maybe uh something that I didn't list.
• 8:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so it's very important that we uh uh we just keep those in in mind that we are oh yeah, and oh by the way, yes, there is a dog.
• 8:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have a dog, Lucy.
• 8:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh she is in her last day of having to wear the cone.
• 8:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and so we're we're very excited that we're gonna be able to uh remove the cone uh tomorrow.
• 8:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it's uh it explains she's just been a trooper uh for for the two-week span.
• 9:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh and it's uh it's cool.
• 9:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I've never had a had a pet before and uh and so it's it's neat.
• 9:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh even if even if the pet likes to sit on your shoulders or neck area, uh we we figure ways to get things done.
• 9:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um so what we would like to do next is uh some individuals are have asked uh what our what our website is.
• 9:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so I did you know I did mention the lovevoices.org.
• 9:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's where you can uh where where you can go uh and make a donation, and it's totally up to you.
• 10:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we are a very open and transparent organization, and we are just grateful to have you with us uh here today, and uh this episode will uh be uh here, I guess, forever.
• 10:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's close to forever.
• 10:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh long past when when when I'm no longer uh lit living.
• 10:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but uh so what is our website?
• 10:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to attempt to do a little flip here.
• 10:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Here we are.
• 10:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know, can I do this?
• 10:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yes, okay.
• 10:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Wow.
• 10:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay.
• 10:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So voicesforvoices.org is our website.
• 11:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Voicesforvoices.org, voices for voices.org.
• 11:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when you do that, you will see in the kind of the center of the page, our logo, voices for voices.
• 11:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: On the top right, you will see home, what we do, career center, and events.
• 11:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Right now we don't have any events scheduled, but as you are seeing here with the scroll bar, uh we actually are going to be going on a tour, uh, but and it's actually twin uh 2026 to 2028.
• 11:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we do need to update that.
• 11:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so more information coming soon on that.
• 11:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we're just gonna go page by page.
• 11:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and and so we scroll here, and the voices for voices publishing the books that we have and will have uh for sale uh will be able to be found on the Voices for Voices Publishing World Tour 2026 to 2028.
• 12:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so then we have here, want to add a tour stop to your want us to add a tour stop to your town.
• 12:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Please fill out all the information.
• 12:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so it's you know, general information.
• 12:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we get into uh some of the books that we have for sale.
• 12:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I'm just gonna scroll all the way through.
• 12:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you can find all this on voicesforvoices.org.
• 12:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Their first comic book, The Adelan.
• 13:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's incredible.
• 13:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we obviously do have a way to support the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast, which we are a 501c3 as mentioned.
• 13:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And you're also able to make a donation uh the these ways here.
• 13:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay.
• 13:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then if you want to head on over and find the Voices for Voices TV show and podcasts, you can click right here.
• 13:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then this is just a little bit of a collage of things we've done over the years helping people just spread in love with human human beings.
• 13:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we get into our mission is to improve the lives of others with mental health, addiction, accessibility, and disability needs, and career support.
• 14:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We do have a career career center on our website, which a lot of people do not even know about.
• 14:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and then our Voices for Voices vision, as you can see, is to make mental health, accessibility, and inclusion a non-negotiable priority for people everywhere, coupled with long-term career development to become a healthy and productive member of society.
• 14:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that, ladies and gentlemen, and we have we have a couple of uh testimonies here.
• 14:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for being a mental health advocate for so many.
• 14:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You helped me at a time when I had lost all hope.
• 14:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Your donations brought smiles to my children's faces, even with the war happening in our hometown.
• 14:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That is relating to a mission trip we had to Ukraine.
• 15:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we go through all the different ways, donations help others from food, shelter, mental, physical, emotional health care, clean drinking water, clothing, other essential items, and then we do have a way to check out our previous uh larger events and a little bit about me and the quote that I I share, as you will know if you've watched or listened to any of our shows.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for voices will help three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 15:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Be a voice for you and someone else today.
• 15:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, you want to be a sponsor?
• 15:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let us know.
• 16:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And interested in volunteering, sponsorship, opportunities, being a guest on our show, uh, help our uh organization reach our goal of helping those three billion people.
• 16:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And the House of You, Redwood Living, our key sponsors, and another way to donate, and we have the quick links.
• 16:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're gonna scroll up really fast, and we're gonna go to what we do.
• 16:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And when you see under what we do, you have what we do, shop, podcast, career center blog.
• 16:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Blog's pretty we pretty explanatory.
• 16:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh Career Center, Podcast, and shop and what we do.
• 16:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So let's just start with the the what we do.
• 16:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So here's here's the pie.
• 17:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We inform and educate, we intake, refer, follow up and follow through.
• 17:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we also have workforce development and advancement.
• 17:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then right under there, you can see we have our latest episode, number four hundred and ninety-three there, along with all the other episodes uh that that that we have uh that that populate.
• 17:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So now we go to our shop.
• 17:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this, folks, is really an area that we don't talk about a whole lot, but we should.
• 17:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we have a whole shop area.
• 18:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we have you know the donations, we have a gift card for our merch shop, we have hats, we have beanies, different color shirts.
• 18:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We got a we got a bomber jacket, we got yoga capri leggings, uh short sleeve t-shirts, yoga leggings, uh athletic shorts, athletic shorts, embroidered champion packable jacket.
• 18:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's the one I have.
• 18:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we just scroll through and there's all kinds, and then we get into stickers, stickers, spiral notebook.
• 18:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Get into our spiral notebook.
• 18:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We get into adult coloring pages.
• 18:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have a set of three that I design based on our organization.
• 18:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so they are you will not find these anywhere else in the world except here.
• 19:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Of greening cards, blankets.
• 19:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have patches, mugs, tumblers, steel water bottle, enamel mugs, steel tumblers.
• 19:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we get down into we also have VIP meet and greets, autograph photos, tote bags, flags, glass jar, soy, wax candle, more mugs, trucker cap.
• 19:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you can see we have quite the the breadth of products.
• 19:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Then we click on podcast, and here we are.
• 19:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have a couple different spots where you can find that as we we just saw.
• 19:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Then the career center, this is also it's listed.
• 20:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Here, let me go back because I'm missing.
• 20:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Here we go.
• 20:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So the career center is here.
• 20:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then also under what we do, career center.
• 20:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this is not your typical indeed.com.
• 20:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is a more uh in-depth career center where we're connecting talent with opportunity, and you can we have everything, we have uh a lot of a lot of mental health jobs for for good reason, right?
• 21:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what we're about.
• 21:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We also have uh ways for you to view all the jobs.
• 21:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can upload your resume.
• 21:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can search by location, job title, keyword.
• 21:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We also have ways for you to improve your resume, my resume writing, different insights, there's coaching available, uh, job search obviously.
• 21:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So these are all things that we don't really talk about.
• 21:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um we don't we don't we don't really talk about as much.
• 21:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so then we'll press it back.
• 21:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There we go.
• 21:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll go back to the home page.
• 21:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then here here we are.
• 22:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I am going to let's see if I can get this switched.
• 22:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, now I'm back.
• 22:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's a lot, isn't it?
• 22:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That is a lot of information.
• 22:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's so important that we use the money to help others.
• 22:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And all we have to do is help one another.
• 22:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just as if they were our our relative, our our loved ones, uh, somebody we know, even if it's somebody we don't know, uh it's just an amazing feeling.
• 22:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm getting getting chills right now.
• 22:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just an amazing feeling when we're able to help a person, and a lot of it doesn't have to be money.
• 23:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I shared following us on social media, watching and listening to our show, uh heading over to voicesforvoices.org, heading over to lovevoices.org.
• 23:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's it's incredible that an organization like ours, Voices for Voices, has a uh has a groundswell of so many people, all the people that have watched, listened to our shows, have been at our events, have listened or watched our events, uh so many of the the places that we're gonna be uh hitting up on our uh world tour from Voices for Voices Publishing.
• 24:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's just incredible.
• 24:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, we're able to dream.
• 24:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I think that's a big thing.
• 24:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're able to dream.
• 24:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't let anybody tell you you can't with hard work, determination, and focus, which it's hard for me to focus at times.
• 24:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, but when I focus, beautiful things happen, people are helped, people feel worthy, and life is worth living, and we just are so grateful to have each one of you uh here if you're able to reach out to twenty-five, fifty, hundred contacts in your phone and let them know about the voices for voices organization, which is voicesforvoices.org, and that's four spelled out F O R.
• 25:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then let them know about the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 25:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let them know, let them know, and then let them know that there's a world tour that maybe come into their town, their city, their area, that they may be able to uh have an opportunity to uh to come to our tour stop in in their their town or your town.
• 25:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So just wanted to say thank you.
• 25:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for being with us.
• 25:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We look forward to so much more uh opportunity to help others.
• 25:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and as I've said before, and I wholeheartedly believe not only are we helping others, but I'm helping myself by uh helping my mental health and sharing.
• 26:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is this is like a notebook or like a diary, uh, the the the episodes that that we have on our show uh and what we're doing right right here, right now.
• 26:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you so much.
• 26:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Tell a friend, tell a family member about Voices for Voices.
• 26:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we are so indebted to you uh and are so grateful that you have decided at one time or another to watch or listen to even one second of our Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 26:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So until next time, let's celebrate the voices of everyone in the world.
• 26:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's be a voice for ourselves and maybe someone else in need.
• 27:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices.
• 27:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We love you, we support you, and we'll see you next time.
• 27:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Take care.
• 27:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.