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Beyond Filters And Flawless: Choosing Purpose Over Perfection | Episode 394 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Hey everyone, it's Justin here of Voices for Voices.
• 0:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the show.
• 0:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are getting closer and closer to episode 400, which is a huge milestone for our organization, for our show, and for anybody who has a show or who has done anything for 400 times is really a time to reflect on all the positives that have uh have happened along along the way.
• 0:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: 90 countries, actually 100 countries now, uh 100 countries or a thousand cities.
• 0:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's uh again just an honor and privilege to be able to have an audience like your yourselves.
• 1:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We have so many people that have been with us from the beginning, and we can't uh say thank you enough for being with us from the beginning, as well as if this is your first show, this is your first few seconds of the show, you're testing it out, seeing if something, if it's something you might like or someone you know may like, and we just thank you for giving giving us a shot.
• 1:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh because we right you never know unless you unless you try.
• 1:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If we wouldn't have started with episode one, uh we wouldn't have made it to episode two, and and then you know the story kind of takes over from there, as far as how well received our show and our ministry, which is really what Voices for Voices is.
• 2:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's a ministry, it's ministering to people that uh could use a little encouragement, like myself, even as a host.
• 2:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, I I can always use encouragement.
• 2:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't I don't know anybody that really can't use encouragement.
• 2:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh none of us are perfect.
• 2:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's part of what we're gonna touch on with today's show about perfection, being perfect, the uh the allure uh to to be perfect.
• 2:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and so we'll we'll get started with with that.
• 2:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um anybody that anybody out there have social media or knows somebody that has social media, uh I I think we may, if we're not on social media ourselves or our organizations, we probably know somebody that does use social media to some extent.
• 3:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's really where our journey begins here for this show.
• 3:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because number one, we we know we're we're not perfect, nobody's perfect.
• 3:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, Jesus Christ was perfect, we're getting close to his birthday.
• 3:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, and you know, he I believe died for all of our sins, and God did not send him to earth, did not send his only son Jesus to earth, he didn't send him to earth to condemn the earth.
• 3:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um, he sent him to earth to uh uh in a nutshell tells it's okay, like we're we're okay.
• 3:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm here to save you.
• 3:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the years go by, and sometimes you know, tradition and and things happen, but getting back to social media, you know, with all the different filters and effects and uh you know that we can use for use for for social media for for posting photos, videos, it's that request to have or make it seem like wow, this person really is you know having you know, they're living their best life, you know, one of these analogies like that.
• 4:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we look at it and go, man, like those those people, they they look as close to perfect, or you know, like they're traveling the world, they're at the beach, they're you know, exotic cars, and um and so there is that tendency for then us, and I'm just speaking for myself, there's that tendency for me to look at those and go, whoa, you know, we better bring it with our uh with our photos, our videos, our promos, everything.
• 5:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And what we may not know or may not realize is that just because it looks like somebody, maybe always looking as close to let's use the word flawless, as close to flawless as possible.
• 6:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What we fail to realize is those individuals, the ones that aren't the bots, so like they're real, you know, people like you and I we're all going through things.
• 6:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We all have gone through things, we've all experienced peaks and valleys.
• 6:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and and that's where that whole perfection thing comes in of is anybody gonna care if they don't have a perfect post or perfect, as close to perfect, as close to flawless posts or videos or shows.
• 6:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, people are gonna just turn turn us off.
• 6:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I'm not talking about the people that are you know putting the negative comments and and that.
• 7:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm talking about just regular people, right?
• 7:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They're you know, they they come and they go to different shows, they subscribe and they unsubscribe, and you know, they're they're at a watch party watching our show like happens uh more times than I guess what we had thought, uh, which is an awesome thing.
• 7:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That that you know we're on like some humongous projector screen uh or humongous TV or you know on uh playing on the you know the podcast, the the audio version of it.
• 7:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I know I've gotten carried away sometimes with is anybody even gonna watch this?
• 7:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is anybody even gonna care?
• 7:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is anybody gonna listen to this?
• 7:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's what social media and things like social media are doing and have done.
• 8:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They've led to people taking um their their own lives because of that.
• 8:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh there's bullies everywhere, but as what we're learning is just ignore them, and sometimes it's hard to do because we look at oh, we're getting attention, oh, somebody's sending us a comment.
• 8:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And some of the you know, some of the comments are good, some are just people just being negative.
• 8:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And what I always try to say is, hey, you know, you know, can you please take that that comment or those comments, you know, out of the out of our show, especially when we're doing you know, TikTok lives and that.
• 8:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's it's totally unnecessary.
• 8:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Find something else to do, find find another TikTok live that you get along with better with those comments.
• 9:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm talking about sick, nasty, perverted comments that have no business anywhere.
• 9:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh being under 18 or above 18 doesn't matter, just has no place.
• 9:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So this whole perfection thing, we get we get hung up on, and it kind of ebbs and flows.
• 9:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm again, I'm speaking for me, for uh for voices for voices.
• 9:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh there's obviously some shows that are better than others, some uh some topics uh hit a little differently depending on the the time that they're released, and so there's a whole host of things that kind of go into uh into that whole group of different traits and characteristics where we're being judged.
• 10:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's no there's no two ways about it.
• 10:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're being judged like everybody else.
• 10:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so when we have our phones or our smart devices, and you know, we're we're looking through our feeds and our friends or the friends of friends or whatever, however, it when you scroll, and we have a tendency, I have a tendency to fall into that trap sometimes of man, like we're gonna have 400 episodes just like that, like it's happening um within the next week.
• 10:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh it's just happening, and even with with that, and we've had so many, all of our guests have been so phenomenal because they take their time out of their day and share it with us and share it with the world, which is you, no matter where you're at.
• 11:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: North America, South America, Africa, uh, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Greenland, Antarctica, you name it.
• 11:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we are we're reaching the entire world, literally.
• 11:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's part of what makes me confident that we're gonna help in one way or another, at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond, is because within two years of our show, we're at we're gonna be sitting at 400 plus episodes, and we're just gonna be continuing.
• 12:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's just the show part, okay?
• 12:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's that's just one part of our ministry.
• 12:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Another part of our ministry are the books, the novels, the comic books, the book The Search for Drake Colton, written by a nine-year-old, the youngest author in the United States at the current moment.
• 12:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And as we know, as we understand, we believe that uh Ryan Solomon is the youngest author in the world right now.
• 12:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we're not boasting about it, we're just trying to share what we believe is a fact.
• 12:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now we could learn some information that says differently, but right now um we haven't we haven't found somebody that is, and then not only that, but then has the support of the family where it was totally Ryan, Ryan, R-Y-A-N, totally Ryan's idea.
• 13:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: He wanted to write the book that that was all on him.
• 13:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: His parents, his mom, Amanda, and dad, David, they're also creators, and they didn't force their son to write it.
• 13:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, so it's just an incredible thing, and so that's one another part of our ministry.
• 13:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Then you're gonna start seeing you know, production, so uh TV shows, pilots, season long, seasons-long shows, you're gonna find movies, you're gonna find RPG, role-playing games, you're gonna find a lot of things that are gonna be coming in our ministry to help people.
• 14:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We want people to feel safe, we want people to feel healthy, we want people to feel prosperous, like they're given all the tools uh as possible.
• 14:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're only able to do just a teeny bit of that, but that's where us as voices for voices as an organization and as a ministry, and especially with mythical creatures around the world now being brought under the Voices for Voices umbrella, being protected uh from copyright infringement.
• 14:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now that's a whole new ball game.
• 14:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So the whole perfection thing, we can second guess and be like, yeah, let's not do this, or let's not let's not put that episode out, or let's not talk about this topic because it's it's it's a topic that is some people don't like certain topics that we share and we talk about who are human, and so I've said it once, I've said it a million times, we wouldn't be doing you, our viewers, our listeners, anybody that's ever come in contact with voices for voices, mythical creatures around the world, we wouldn't be doing a service to anybody if we just turned the other way.
• 15:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, just like the previous episode where we uh talked about an actor that tragically took took his own life, and the um the son uh Nick Reiner looks to have taken the lives of his mom and his dad.
• 16:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Both of those are connected to mental health, and that's where Voices for Voices really comes in is it's not always the glamour thing of like, oh, I'm gonna jump on the mental health bandwagon because you know that's getting you know that's the hot topic for today, or for the week, or the month, or the year, or whatever.
• 16:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's why episode 400 and and continuing on, along with all the other ministry uh departments, I guess you call them, why it's so important we we continue talking about these horrific circumstances and events that happen because we all have mental health.
• 17:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, it isn't, oh well, Justin has mental health and I don't have mental health.
• 17:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, we all have mental health and with that comes the potential of mental illness.
• 17:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some we know about, some we don't.
• 17:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Unless we're seen by a professional, we don't know.
• 17:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I'm not trying to say that every single person on the planet has a mental illness.
• 17:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's not what I'm saying.
• 17:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What I'm saying is what I'm saying is I have mental illnesses.
• 18:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And yeah, there's days we just passed the winter solstice, so now our now our literal literal days we're gonna have a little bit more potential for sunlight than we had.
• 18:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Just the other day we had the the shortest day by sunlight, it happens every single year, and that's probably one of the hardest periods of the year for me, is once we turn our clocks back an hour all the way until now as we're filming this this particular episode where we've gained another minute or so, and then tomorrow we'll gain another minute or so of potential of sunlight.
• 19:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we bring these things to people's attention to just keep it real, one of these sayings that I was growing up, it's like, yeah, what's going on, oh just keeping it real, just kicking it, whatever the terminology, and I used it.
• 19:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some of you may have used it, some I s and I still use it.
• 19:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's nothing wrong with that.
• 19:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But this whole side of trying to be flawless with with did with social media it can drag people down.
• 19:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I'm gonna just use kind of the I don't know.
• 20:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The analogy or symbolism.
• 20:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um I can speak and write in in English, uh, but I don't always use the right words and in the right form.
• 20:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh I I look at a show when I was growing up, um, Comedy Central is called, I think it was Comedy Central.
• 20:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'll double check that.
• 20:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I think it was.
• 20:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it was like called the the Chappelle show.
• 20:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Dave Chappelle.
• 20:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, regardless of where anybody stands politically, that was a time, at least it felt like no matter who we are, where our roots are from, that we could all, if we wanted to, again, these are choices that we have.
• 21:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That we all could watch a show and and just laugh hysterically at you know some of the skits.
• 21:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I forget how many seasons the show went, but Dave Chappelle was at the top of his game.
• 21:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Each episode seemed to just build on the previous episode.
• 21:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there came a point where the expectation of people was so high because he set the bar, Dave Chabel set the bar so high.
• 22:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: He's a fellow he's a fellow Ohioan.
• 22:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So Dave, if you uh if you're ever available, we'd love to have you on the show.
• 22:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh just to have a regular conversation, no gotcha questions, just hanging out, chatting, um, let us know.
• 22:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But from where I was as a viewer of the Chappelle show, each show, again, was building on the like the content.
• 22:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was it was you know, like Mozart, you know, playing.
• 22:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh everything just kind of flowed, and the shows got funnier and funnier and funnier.
• 22:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we actually use more muscles when we in our face when we laugh than when we cry or you give you know sad face.
• 23:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh again, I'm not breaking any records by sharing any of that.
• 23:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh that's just a just a fact.
• 23:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so there came a time where you know what we would call like burnout in any workplace, whether it's TV, whether it's uh writing novels, writing music, uh performing live shows all over the world.
• 23:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes there comes a point where it's like, I don't know how I'm gonna top this last this last episode, this last show, you know, that we did in you know Paris, France, or I'm just throwing throwing a geographic kind of give you an idea.
• 24:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like I don't know if we can we gotta do something else.
• 24:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We gotta keep building, we gotta keep building on top of that.
• 24:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Excuse me.
• 24:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And all of us are human, right?
• 24:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yeah, there's bots and robots, and and Elon's got, you know, the AI and you know, the robot dogs, and like it's uh pretty incredible what what he's what he's doing on so many levels, so many of his organizations.
• 24:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so burnout can happen to anybody.
• 24:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I'm not saying this happened to the day where um because social media was, I think, just starting, I could have my dates wrong, where we're just starting to be an impact.
• 25:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if let's say today, David Chappelle, then and I know he he's done uh other shows as well, um, since then on a different schedule on that.
• 25:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But if he decided, and he had never done the shows that he did, he decided, okay, I'm gonna, you know, in 2026, I'm gonna start, I'm gonna have you know do my show like he did years ago.
• 25:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The scrutiny would just be it would feel so thick you could like cut it with a knife.
• 25:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How people would would scrutinize each and every because we could scrutinize no everything we do, no matter what we do, no matter if we think we did it, a good thing, whether we didn't, it's all in the eye of the beholder, how they feel, what they think.
• 26:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So there's this whole perfection thing, just trying to link it with you know Dave Dave Chappelle.
• 26:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's so many times for us that if this wasn't a ministry, and the ministry kind of title really came just in the last 150 episodes or so, which might sound like oh, just 150.
• 27:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, given that this time last year, we were literally at 150 give or take episodes, yeah.
• 27:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It that would be correct.
• 27:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's always incredible that once we we we look through the lens of ministry, at least for me, more times than not, there are times where I I try not to judge, but I do.
• 27:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But there's less of that now than what there had been.
• 27:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I think that just comes with practice.
• 27:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Again, I'm not no way, shape, or form saying I'm perfect, because I'm not.
• 27:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Nobody is.
• 28:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We've already covered that a million times, so I just mean maybe with the timing of episodes and the length and uh the flow can get better with practice.
• 28:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But I still look at social media because that's one of the tools that we use to let people know that hey, there's there's a new episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast out.
• 28:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Wherever you get your podcasts, you can find Voices for Voices there.
• 28:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you watch it on YouTube, you watch it on Rumble, you listen on Apple, you listen on Spotify, listen on iArt, and there's still another nine or ten uh other uh audio platforms that uh Amazon, Amazon Music, we're on there.
• 29:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So it doesn't matter where you find us, the show's the same.
• 29:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if you look at episode 390 on Apple and 390 on Rumble or on YouTube or Spotify, whatever your favorite platform is, favorite out, streaming out.
• 29:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's the same, it's the same show.
• 29:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We we just we're I think from what I've seen, because right when you're when you're let's say you're looking at an X post, there's so only so many characters you can use if you're not verifying.
• 30:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So you're limited.
• 30:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we're limited in how many platforms we can put links to in an X post versus maybe a LinkedIn or a Facebook.
• 30:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You get the drift, but we try to provide as much as we can because there's sometimes I'll use one, sometimes I'll use Spotify, then I'll I'll use iHeart, and it doesn't matter.
• 30:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's the same content, it's the same unperfect content no matter where where you find us at.
• 31:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: For a myriad of reasons.
• 31:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we want it's taken me a long time to get here.
• 32:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so if we throw all that to the side and we just stay with the vision of here's here's who we are, here's who you know voices for voices is, and we're a ministry, and we're gonna talk about easy topics, we're gonna talk about hard topics, we're gonna talk about people succeeding and doing really well, and then we're gonna talk about some of the harder topics.
• 32:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We don't do it because we want to.
• 33:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We do it because we owe our viewers, our listeners.
• 33:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we're not skewing our coverage, our we're not skewing one way or the other.
• 33:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, because otherwise we would we would be showing a false narrative of oh, everything's great, and all you need to do is reach out to you know 988.
• 33:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we do it, we do cover these.
• 33:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so, yeah, if you're somebody you know has or is going through a crisis and you're in the United States, text 988, call 988, go to the 988 um it's 988 hotline or 988 crisis hotline, and you can chat there.
• 33:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But we're gonna just cover a vast array, and that's when you see like voices for voices is the hottest show out there.
• 34:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, we are because the individuals they come again, they may not like every single comment, they might not like every single guest, but as far as again, going back to my you know showing my age, going back to just keeping it real.
• 34:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's just what we do.
• 34:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we try to take that noise of what social media can be, and can be that dark, you know, that rabbit hole that we're we're just going down and we're like, look at this person, look at that person, look at that, look at this, look at this.
• 35:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because that's not healthy.
• 35:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Again, doesn't mean we don't do it, it's just not healthy, and so the less we're doing that and that we're comparing, and the more that we're just focusing on us and what we can impact, then the more the more people like you and others, if you decide you want to put a show together, and the more of you that's gonna be hitting 400 episodes and more.
• 35:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's all we want to see.
• 35:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're we're not saying, oh, look at us, we're just sharing information.
• 36:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you don't like it, well, can't really help you there.
• 36:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Just sharing information, we're sharing goals, we're sharing vision, we're sharing, we're sharing.
• 36:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And if you could do us a big favor and subscribe, you could share, like, follow, give us a thumbs up.
• 36:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Those are all free things to do, and we'd greatly appreciate if you could do that for us.
• 36:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So don't be discouraged.
• 36:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's easy to be discouraged, it's so easy, so easy just to take the take the easy road.
• 36:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Stop looking at what others are doing and start having others look at what you're doing.
• 37:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'll say it again.
• 37:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Stop comparing and looking so much at what others are doing.
• 37:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So stop that as much as possible, and start believing in yourself and your organization.
• 37:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So by you stopping and watching or listening what others are doing, be that change and be that show, and be that individual, and be that organization, and be that TV show, be that movie, uh, be that uh role-playing game.
• 38:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The people are looking at you.
• 38:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Once you start doing that, and I think I just had a revelation myself by saying that.
• 38:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I really do.
• 38:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I was not not playing, but that was probably some pretty uh pr pretty good info there.
• 38:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So stop caring about others.
• 38:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not saying stop always caring about others.
• 38:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm talking about when we're talking about shows, like so we're talking about like a podcast, if we're talking about a TV show, so just lower how much you care and worry about what others are doing, and fill that void, fill that empty space with you, with your show, with your novels, with your role-playing games, with your movies, with your TV shows.
• 39:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That right there is some heavy information brought down into something very manageable.
• 39:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Stop spending so much time watching TV, watching other shows, and work on getting you on that on that show, on that movie.
• 40:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Why are we watching this?
• 40:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Again, I'm not saying we we a hundred percent stop.
• 40:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: All I'm getting at is what what would happen if we would say five or ten percent less of what we're watching on TV and put that towards whatever that that project, that thing, those things, excuse me, that you want to do that for one reason or another just haven't done it.
• 40:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Look at me.
• 40:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I'm I'm nothing special.
• 40:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I mean, we're all special, we're all children of God, and uh uh, but I I'm nothing special.
• 40:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I wasn't born into royalty, but the hard work and just lowering that by a couple percent of being so hung up on what others are up to in the same, you know, in the same profession type of deal.
• 41:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's I think probably a big part of why we are gonna be reaching we literally in a year did just about 250 episodes.
• 41:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's unheard of.
• 41:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We don't have a staff, we don't have a huge staff at all.
• 41:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We we we don't.
• 41:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We have literally like literally you what who you see and who you're listening to right now, the voice you're hearing, that's that's basically the staff.
• 41:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So while we might be like, oh look, he's on he's on TV, he's on a show, you you he's got this huge staff.
• 41:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No, once they hit the you know, uh when we cut for this episode.
• 42:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Guess who has to go and edit, and guess who has to go and uh pick out title description, title names, descriptions, uh cover for each episode.
• 42:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's that is so unglamorous, but it's gotta be done.
• 42:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's got to.
• 42:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's that's the only way it can really get this show out to the masses, and we know we're only getting a tiny portion of the analytics, and the analytics that we see again, just on the reach alone across the world, a hundred countries, a thousand cities.
• 43:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If that's the analytics that we are getting, goodness, what's on the analytics that we're not getting because of privacy laws, because of private servers, because of many different things.
• 43:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So there's hope.
• 43:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There is a lot of hope.
• 43:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let that hope start with you and let that be a good thing to be contagious.
• 44:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Look what she did.
• 44:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How'd she do that?
• 44:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How how you don't get to episode 400 without three hundred and ninety-nine previous episodes, unless you want to cheat and then just start your episodes at 400.
• 44:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But just like I said at the beginning, you don't get the episode two without episode one, you don't get episode three without episode two, and the consistency, some people are gonna again are gonna hate everybody, what are you doing?
• 44:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This isn't making a difference.
• 44:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, I believe it is, and all of you that are watching and listening, no matter what platform you're on, no matter where you're at across the world, we talk about culture and less about politics.
• 45:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So let that sink in a little bit.
• 45:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We talk more about culture and less about politics, more about culture and less about politics.
• 45:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You can kind of line that up with stop worrying about what others are doing, or just ratchet it down a percent or two, and use that percent or two working on your thing, your things.
• 45:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This can be you next year.
• 45:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Easily could be you next year.
• 45:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You could you could probably you could be on episode 500.
• 46:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's room for all of us.
• 46:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There is room for all of us.
• 46:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So don't let anybody talk you down.
• 46:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Do your thing, do your things.
• 46:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And come with us.
• 46:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We got a lot of people to help.
• 46:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that includes us.
• 46:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We got a lot of people to help.
• 46:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We gotta help ourselves.
• 46:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So when we share, we get we get just as much out of shows than the viewer, the listener, the guest.
• 46:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because there's things like I mentioned in this show, I didn't even I didn't even have it on my radar to talk about.
• 47:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But it came up in the show and and in the topics that we're talking about.
• 47:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So stop worrying and start thriving.
• 47:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Have a great day.
• 47:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you.
• 47:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You're making a difference, you're helping people, you're helping yourself.
• 47:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Stop worrying and start thriving.
• 47:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We'll see you on the next episode.