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Watch Parties, Weight Rooms, And Why Your Coach Might Be Playing A Mental Health Podcast | Ep 362 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices.
• 0:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the show.
• 0:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whether you're watching or listening, whether you're near, whether you're far, uh, ninety countries of just about 900 cities worldwide.
• 0:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, out of that 90, uh, are countries, states, provinces, territories, and we are just thrilled beyond our wildest dreams to have you with us.
• 0:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for coming to us wanting to uh be a part of this movement called Voices for Voices.
• 0:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not without you.
• 0:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we wouldn't be able to keep this show going.
• 1:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have no reason to continue if it was not for you.
• 1:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if you could do so and keep smashing that subscribe button and keep giving us those thumbs up, follow, like, uh, share, comment, uh, all those things uh are free to do, and they really help us to uh continue to get closer and closer to helping uh the lofty goal of three billion people uh or more.
• 1:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we're going for more, uh, but to help at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 1:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we just thank you for coming to us whichever way that you uh that you prefer, whether you like to watch, whether you like to listen.
• 2:04
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• 2:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's voices for voices.org forward slash podcast, and one more time, www.dot voices for, which is spelled out F-O-R voices dot or g forward slash podcast.
• 2:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So where do we begin?
• 2:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Tonight was another uh example of having individuals in our country in the United States be able to express their voice in uh a different way, and that is voting.
• 3:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so voting is important.
• 3:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Anytime that we're able to share our voice, is it's important that if we're able to do that, if we're able to have somebody help us do that, it's very helpful.
• 3:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, whether the results turn out to be what we want or what we don't want, uh never give up, never never think that our votes don't count, they don't matter.
• 3:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we just gotta keep keep sharing our voice.
• 3:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's that's the best best way of going about it.
• 4:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when there are elections that happen we we request that you partake in as many of those elections as possible.
• 4:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, we all have differing of opinions on different issues.
• 4:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you.
• 4:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So regardless of if we agree, we're not gonna agree on every every topic of every candidate.
• 4:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But what we can do is we can voice our opinion through uh through voting.
• 5:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so tonight was one of those nights.
• 5:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, I guess at the time of this filming, it was technically yesterday.
• 5:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um regardless, if you had that opportunity to vote, if you're able to exercise that that ability to vote, have your voice heard.
• 5:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's much the the same as we we do here on voices for voices, is to share our voices as much as we can through as many different uh individuals, guests, organizations, uh, sponsors, donors, uh, whether you're you're watching or whether you're listening, no matter how you're coming and uh being a part of this voices for voices movement, this grassroots effort of helping people, one person at a time, and working towards helping three billion people.
• 6:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's with a B billion to help at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 6:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's one of those one of those dreams that I have uh you know earlier in life.
• 6:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: My I don't think my dreams were any anywhere aligned with where where I'm at now, and that's okay.
• 7:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So at different points of our lives, uh we have different maybe different goals, different different reasons for those goals, and that's okay.
• 7:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We can we can only be ourselves at um a particular moment in time, and so the goals and aspirations that I and Voices for Voices has is at this very moment and in time, not 20 years ago, not 30 years ago, but as we come together in this episode.
• 7:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And in case you didn't know, we have over 360 episodes in our um in our catalog.
• 8:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we know that you can find at least another episode or five or ten or thirty or forty or fifty that uh may be of interest to you and those that you are watching and listening uh with.
• 8:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We've heard this before, but it it must come in cycles.
• 8:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and that is that we're we're hearing that uh individuals, especially on uh campus, campuses, uh at universities, at colleges, uh, and others, and they're having uh you know watch parties, listening parties, uh, voices for voices, and that's that's that's very uh it's very humbling to think that a group of people uh are getting together to watch an episode or two or three, or listen to an episode two or three or more, uh, just much as if you have uh you have uh your favorite high school, college, university, or super bowl watch party, or bowl parties uh for college.
• 9:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so yeah, we we encourage that uh that why not why not get a get a group of your your friends, your dormates, your uh sorority sisters, your for uh fraternity brothers, uh those on live on the same street, same call to sex, same dorm, same apartment.
• 10:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um if you're living in a house on campus, everybody in the house, you know, get together, grab a uh since there may be um individuals that are not quite the age of 21, uh grab your your favorite non-alcoholic beverage.
• 10:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh not saying you can, but we uh we are uh not gonna condone underage drinking, let alone underage or any drinking and driving whatsoever.
• 11:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're not gonna do that.
• 11:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so that's that's why we're we're we're sharing that right right now.
• 11:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh as far as grabbing a beverage, you know ordering a couple pizzas, uh get together and put it up on the big screen.
• 11:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's probably the best way to do it.
• 11:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can watch again.
• 11:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's there's so many episodes that we've been blessed to be able to have, and we're over 360.
• 11:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We touch across, you know, pop culture, uh crime and punishment, uh all underpinning is uh is mental health, and and although we don't always refer to the words mental health in every single episode, I myself have mental illnesses that I am um battling each and every day coming up on the eighth anniversary of when I really had the lowest point in my life, uh, but was also one of the best points of my life.
• 12:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I finally took control of my my life and from a mental side and and to have uh individuals on my mental health team and stop trying to do everything on my own uh to put that trust in God, uh, put that trust here on earth on on those uh with those with those professionals.
• 13:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so I'm not saying you're like I am or anybody who knows like I am.
• 13:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm I'm just sharing my experiences, and if those are similar to you, then we have something in common.
• 13:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If not, we still probably have some things in common.
• 13:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, this might not be that or those right right about now.
• 13:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but yeah, I definitely wanted to throw in those watch parties, rose listening parties, uh, because those are a thing, they are happening.
• 14:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's one of those things where, you know, if I turn the calendar, excuse me, I turn the calendar back a couple years, it's one of those things where you you think like oh that'd be that'd be neat if if if that would happen, that would be occurring.
• 14:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I don't know, maybe it was like six or eight months ago, we were hearing a lot of the same uh a lot of the same feedback that there were uh watch parties and listening parties for the voices for voices TV show and podcast.
• 14:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And now more than ever, we have you know, we we looked at we went from having just a year ago 150 episodes in our catalog to now we have over 360 episodes, so we have over 200 episodes more than where we were this time last year, so that doesn't blow your mind.
• 15:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It definitely has blown mine when I looked at it because you know we can we can be down in the weeds we're working on things and like oh we never gonna get there, we're gonna get there, and then come up and we look at the numbers and go, holy cow, wow.
• 15:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Look at these numbers, these are just incredible, and so it makes sense to have a watch party, to have a listening party, start it on episode one if you want, and every weekend or whatever cadence y'all can get together.
• 16:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe you didn't even know about the voices for voices TV film podcast.
• 16:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And now because you you attended a watch or a listening party, now you decide, oh let me see if there's uh let me see what episodes that relate to me.
• 16:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let me check those out.
• 16:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then you're able to pay it forward because then you're able to take some of the uh some of the things that we have in common and some things that we don't have in common.
• 16:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh that's the cool goal is nobody here is perfect on earth.
• 17:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so it's all about helping others.
• 17:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's that's what it comes down to.
• 17:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so yeah, we'll just we'll just end on on that topic.
• 17:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um you know, the watch and listening parties.
• 17:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're having one, we just want to give a big shout out to everybody that's having a watch party for voices for voices, a listening party for voices for voices.
• 17:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're you're just so um so grateful to have you with us and and to have this play uh uh you know and on a on a on a campus.
• 17:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um maybe this is playing in the uh in the weight room while where you're getting pumped up, where you're lifting weights, before playoff games, before bowl games, before for before regular games, practices.
• 18:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we invite coaches, uh, administrators, presidents, vice presidents, have us have us piped into uh your your you know your your athletic uh practices.
• 18:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um what what better way than to practice and and also be enriched at the same time uh with uh with some of the knowledge and some of some of the events that I've been through and our guests have been through.
• 19:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's uh you know, we we none of us are getting out of here alive.
• 19:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I wish we were, but we're not.
• 19:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so why not maximize that that that time that we have together?
• 19:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh so yeah, again even even been hearing uh little whispers, but these aren't little whispers.
• 19:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh that at some halftime or at you know an intermission uh where a show of ours is is being piped in to the stadiums uh speakers.
• 19:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and then on you're talking about the you know, basketball, you know, that has the screen on the uh on the um, you know, whether it's basketball or volleyball and the intermission that there's highlights and parts of episodes that are being played there as well.
• 20:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and so it's just it's wild, it's wild to think that.
• 20:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but that just means that we're doing we're doing the best we can.
• 20:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we're all connected as one humanity.
• 20:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you to everybody that's making that happen.
• 20:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh let's continue to let's continue to make that happen.
• 20:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And let's see if maybe at uh at the next Super Bowl, maybe that turn turning point, USA, uh Super Bowl show.
• 21:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe part of our show is uh one of our shows.
• 21:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, at that point, we're talking we're gonna have over 400 episodes at that point, uh, because we're we're over three 360 now.
• 21:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and I'm just looking out just the next day, and we have we're having at least at the minimum two more shows just in the next day.
• 21:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're definitely by the time that the Super Bowl comes comes around here.
• 21:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know if it's the end of January or early February, it really just depends on how the calendar falls.
• 22:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but yeah, we're we're just I don't know.
• 22:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it takes a lot for me to be uh I'll say breathless, but we uh I have not a lot of words to say.
• 22:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if you can smash that subscribe button, give us a thumbs up, like, follow, share, have those watch parties, have those listening parties.
• 22:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're a coach, pipe in an episode or two during during practice or during during weight lifting, uh, to you know to continue enriching your student athletes.
• 22:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You're having a group over and you're watching over uh or watching a game, have everybody over an hour or so early, and you know, because most of our episodes are now you know around 30 to 40 minutes or so, you know, pre pre-select an episode and put that up on the big screen before the big game plays.
• 23:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That that'd be incredible.
• 23:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The that you are doing that.
• 23:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we do know that is happening, and helping three billion people or more over the course of my lifetime and beyond, uh, we we can use all the all the help that um we we can.
• 23:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so thank you for that.
• 23:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's just uh and gives me chills and goosebumps to think that's happening.
• 24:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we want to just be a voice where we're just we're bouncing ideas off, we're sharing information.
• 24:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh nobody's better than the other person.
• 24:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're we're we're just human beings and we are sharing, we're talking, we're coming together.
• 24:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's more that brings us together than divides us.
• 24:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we started this show by talking about you know being a point in in time where uh well, like I said yesterday, given the time that we're filming, uh, was a uh a voting day, it wasn't a presidential voting, uh, election day, but there were still you know a lot of local races that uh they were up for grabs, and uh that's one way you can share your voice uh among uh among so many others.
• 25:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm I'm just hoping that we're we're a light, you know.
• 25:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh you know, this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, and all of us can be that little light of mine.
• 25:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just like we have Guns N' Roses says uh sweet child of mine, and we say this little light of mine, and each one of us has a light, the shine.
• 25:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Each one of us has a voice, some we can hear, some we can see with art, some we have with sign language interpretation, some we can hear or see with music, uh with lyrics, uh through uh through books or pamphlets.
• 26:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh there's so many ways we can share our our voice.
• 26:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Those are just just a few of them.
• 26:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so have those have those watch parts, have those voices for voices, TV show and podcast, watch parties, listening parties, coaches, let's get those episodes piped in through uh through practice, weightlifting.
• 26:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh then always reach out if you wanna if you want to be a guest on the show.
• 26:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I'd love to come out and uh just chat with with the team, uh, with the the student body, um, and and just continue to be a positive, you know, positive person, talking about positive things in such a divisive world.
• 27:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So again, smash that subscribe button, thumbs up, like, follow, share, uh, celebrate all the voices, and each one of us, we all have a voice.
• 27:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If somebody feels like they don't have a voice, reach out and keep reaching out and reach out.
• 27:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And if you're somebody that is realizing and noticing somebody isn't having a voice, uh, make sure you're doing all that you can do to give them the opportunity so that they can have a voice.
• 27:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we'll catch you on the next watch party, we'll catch you on the next listening party, and uh we will see you very, very soon.
• 28:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is Justin with Voices and Voices, Justin with Voices for Voices, and we'll see you next time.
• 28:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Have a great day.