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God's Hand in Our Journey: How Voices for Voices Reaches Millions (Ep. 319) · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin.
• 0:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast and, humbled by the love and support, the sharing of how our organization is helping people, has helped people to really just reassure, kind of like a checkpoint of are we doing the right things, are we going down the right path?
• 0:50
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And that can be, and it's challenging because there's so many competing priorities that we have to do every day, that we have to, we have to um, we have to decide what we're going to do and what we're not going to do.
• 1:15
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, what is okay if we don't get it done today, today, and what is critical like, what do we have to do?
• 1:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And as we evaluate ourselves, that's where we start to really find some introspection on are we doing what we like, what we love to do, Are we not?
• 2:03
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If we're doing what we like and love to do and we find ourselves at a fork in the road, we can go one way or the other way and they Each way could end up at a different, different place.
• 2:30
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The one thing I've learned, and we've learned Over time as human beings, is we don't have all the answers.
• 2:44
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Nobody's perfect.
• 2:48
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Helping feels so much better than receiving, and if we truly love what we're doing, not just as a hobby, but something that's bigger than us as a human, than us as a human, or bigger than our family, bigger, just bigger where we have the opportunity to share, to talk, to laugh, to love, to cry, to chuckle, it becomes apparent over time that we find out what that is.
• 4:14
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And when we find out what it is for example with me, that's what Voices for Voices is.
• 4:35
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It is a way to share and to help people all across the world.
• 4:42
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: To share and to help people all across the world.
• 4:48
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: 800 cities, 80 plus countries and those are just the analytics we can see.
• 5:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We know that there's a lot of analytics.
• 5:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And those are just the analytics we can see.
• 5:08
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We know that there's a lot of analytics we can't see.
• 5:31
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then, number one, I want to give a big thank you to a couple different people.
• 5:37
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: One is Nicole Hagee.
• 5:38
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: She helped manage the 1994 figure skating women's gold medalist Oksana Bayul's visit to the area.
• 6:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We had a date and some times that looked like they would be good for both of us, or the three of us, so Oksana, nicole and myself.
• 6:17
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then, kind of at the last minute my plans changed and then, kind of at the last minute, my plans changed where I wasn't going to be able to do that.
• 6:30
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We weren't going to be able to do the interview with Oxana when we agreed on a certain date.
• 6:48
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And Nicole and Oksana are just incredible people kind, gentle, caring.
• 6:57
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: They found time in between arriving at the airport, thrown out a ceremonial first pitch at the rubber ducks game, among other visits and meetings that she had planned ahead of time.
• 7:26
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I want to thank Nicole and Oksana.
• 7:30
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It was so awesome.
• 7:33
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I've never met an Olympian before, let alone a gold medalist, on that interview.
• 7:46
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You'll want to check that out.
• 7:47
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just incredible.
• 7:54
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I talk a little bit about how the Winter Olympics kind of was a thing in our family that we would watch, and there were certain events that we would watch more than others that garnered our attention, and one was figure skating, and so I was 13 at the time and Oksana was in Lillehammer and Tanya Harding and all that.
• 8:56
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Those things were going on or had gone on, had gone on, and so that's what made, I think you know, figure skating.
• 9:13
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It brought in a different crowd, more individuals that might not have an interest in in that.
• 9:17
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But anyways, I talked about how that was something that we we really did do as a family, with my mom, my dad and my sister and myself.
• 9:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what we would do.
• 9:33
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It was something we looked forward to.
• 9:35
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So to be able to meet somebody as talented on the rink on the ice but who also has battled alcoholism and she's on her recovery path and that's what she was in town to talk about, and it's just really incredible Again just to have the opportunity to sit down and have a discussion.
• 10:13
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It was awesome.
• 10:19
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then I also want to thank Anna McAdams, elliston Berry, mark McAdams, siobhan Ludick and Matt and Emma and so many others that had a hand in communicating with Senator Ted Cruz, with his campaign, with his staff, to have the opportunity to meet Senator Ted Cruz in person in DC, to have an interview with him, to talk about his passion of helping and the Take it Down Act, which is the take it down act, which is not take it down law.
• 11:27
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: He talked all about that and we have several episodes with Elliston, the daughter.
• 11:33
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Really, the take it down law was modeled after some unfortunate turns of events, was modeled after some unfortunate turns of events, and so to have an opportunity to meet, to talk to and to present Senator Ted Cruz with our annual Voice of the Year Award.
• 12:11
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Over the past two years I went to Tyrus you may know him, heard of him, and then last year I went to Elliston Berry because she has just become so brave and confident talking about her story, wanting to help others, and I had a small part to be able to meet Senator Cruz, and so for our, for our show, our podcast, to have that opportunity, and for Senator Cruz to be so Kind and Generous with his time and his entire staff and Cleared time for him To do our interview, and so I want to thank all those people and there's many more that were behind the scenes over the past months for those.
• 13:39
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so those were big events, big interviews, big whatever you want to call it, but they're both individuals.
• 13:55
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: They're both human beings too, so that's how we were able to have conversation.
• 14:00
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Doesn't matter if we agree with somebody's politics or not.
• 14:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: This man, senator Cruz, championed this effort, this take it down act effort.
• 14:16
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Took it from his home state of Texas to Washington DC, where things are notoriously take forever to get things to the floor for a vote and have bipartisan support, especially in the times we live in.
• 14:43
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It was just incredible to watch those events and the evolution over the last year and a half two years.
• 14:55
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: To be just a small part, I mean, it's just very humbling, yeah, and so I'm in a gratitude, thankful mood, because sometimes we take things for granted.
• 15:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes we take things for granted, we think we should do one thing and not the other, and the other ends up being the better thing.
• 15:44
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We think we are doing the right thing as much as possible, only to find out that it wasn't and to find out that there was nothing.
• 16:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Nothing a person can do to change anything.
• 16:14
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The series of events once they get kicked off and started, it's hard, life is hard.
• 16:32
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's hard for every single one of us and I am happy that, going on, eight years ago, I decided to swallow my pride and ego and everything and get a lot of help, get a lot of mental health help, and I'm stronger for that now.
• 17:23
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, I am not having the best of days.
• 17:37
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I find that praying helps.
• 17:51
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Remembering that nobody's alone and you and me, I'm not alone has, is or may know somebody, or may happen down the road a situation or an event or series of events to make.
• 18:21
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That makes us feel like, well, what's the point?
• 18:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then, and then that's when we reach inside, we dig deep, deep, deep into our heart and we say, at least I say God, jesus, what am I here for?
• 19:00
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: What do you want me to do on my short time on earth and through good times, through bad, through good decisions and decisions that right, if you look back and say, oh, I wish I would have did that.
• 19:27
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, it's not always possible to do that.
• 19:33
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Or to look ahead or to think something is okay when it might not be so.
• 19:49
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: When I reach deep down into my heart, as much turmoil, as much stress, as much you name it that is has will be going on for an amount of time that I'm not sure what it will be.
• 20:15
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I just say thank you to you and every viewer, every listener.
• 20:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't care if you only listen to one second, one millisecond, only listen to one second, one millisecond.
• 20:43
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You watch one episode, or over 317 episodes.
• 20:44
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I say thank you for giving an organization the ability to reach across not just county lines, city lines, state lines, islands, and allow us the opportunity to come to you.
• 21:17
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when I say, when I said earlier about you sometimes start wondering what are we meant to do on earth?
• 21:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're not animals.
• 21:38
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not eat, sleep, repeat, eat, sleep, repeat.
• 21:46
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So for me, the power, power is God, and that's where I put my trust.
• 22:02
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Ask for help, ask for forgiveness, forgiveness, ask for mercy, ask for grace, ask for A little bit of light.
• 22:24
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: When he's given us at Voices for Voices is more than I could have imagined.
• 22:40
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It is truly remarkable what we've done as an organization, the people we've reached, the stories we hear was reading a letter of support.
• 23:14
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It was sent to me.
• 23:15
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I was brought to tears.
• 23:21
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I have turn to channel if, if you don't want to hear more about this.
• 23:37
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so, as I was reading this letter of support, sometimes we can get in the weeds and you know, get so into every little, every little thing.
• 23:56
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes we don't take our head up and look up when we're walking instead of looking down.
• 24:07
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And when I read that letter, I have no words for it.
• 24:21
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean I'm getting goose bumps right now even just talking about it and thinking about it, because it's not a pat on the back.
• 24:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's not what it's for.
• 24:39
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There are things that I hoped and dreamed and wanted to do with our Voices for Voices staff and organization, basically the same thing, and I haven't taken my head out of the weeds very much.
• 25:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I question and I question, and I question and I question what about this, what about that, what about this, what about that?
• 25:45
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so, through that, let her support and others, and God, the feedback is what is Justin on his?
• 26:07
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: What is he here to do?
• 26:10
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: He's here to help an organization reach at least 3 billion people and help 3 billion people.
• 26:17
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So he's opened doors.
• 26:28
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: He gave us the opportunity to talk to Oksana Bayul and Senator Ted Cruz.
• 26:41
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: He opened a door to give us the opportunity to interview Ramona Robinson and Temple Grandin, and those are just a few, a few of the guests.
• 27:15
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when I rest my head at night, I thank God for who I am, what I've been able to do, try doing, the energy, the motivation, and this isn't some highly lucrative organization.
• 28:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's why I just wanted to thank each and every one of you, no matter how small or big of a part you've played with us.
• 28:26
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're subscribing and you're liking and following and sharing and all those free things to do, you are helping us reach more people, and so I have comfort knowing that God has me and every single one of us in the palm of his hands.
• 28:59
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's because of him that we're here.
• 29:05
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I also want to thank my parents, my mom and dad, that they gave me the opportunity to be born.
• 29:32
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Some aren't, for one reason or another, and so I think of why am I still here?
• 29:48
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: What is there left for me to do?
• 29:58
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for Voices comes back in subtle ways, in big ways, and we can't do it without you.
• 30:15
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I believe our organization, our TV show and podcast, is making a difference, is making a positive difference, is helping people.
• 30:33
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Difference is helping people.
• 30:38
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Even if some look at numbers of subscribers and followers and look at that, all it takes is just the one, just the one, and the the one, just the one.
• 30:59
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And the letters of support I've been receiving the last couple of days are just other indicators that Voices for Voices is something that's very near and dear to me, and it's not for me.
• 31:27
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not doing this for me.
• 31:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm doing this to help.
• 31:37
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm doing this so that my daughter has something to hold on to, and I know that her daddy through thick and thin, through good and bad, sacrifice so many, so many ways, so many things, and this isn't even about money at all, just just knowing that her daddy did, does things to help others, and that's why I try to include her and let her see and watch some of the shows that we have that are subject appropriate, because I want, I want her to find her things that make her feel good about herself, and I know she will.
• 33:56
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm not going anywhere.
• 34:00
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I just want to share this with you, that with you, that this is truly bigger than me.
• 34:22
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I could easily we could have easily just shut down shop.
• 34:34
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I said, oh okay, I'm going to therapy, I'm doing what I need to do from the mental health side.
• 34:43
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't need to have an organization, we don't need to have platforms for people to share their stories or to share our own.
• 35:12
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's always come back one way or another, small or big, that Voices for Voices is a movement.
• 35:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a positive movement, it's an uplifting movement, it's a sharing movement.
• 35:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a not be ashamed or not have a stigma movement.
• 35:40
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a not be ashamed or not have a stigma movement.
• 35:43
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for Voices is just what it's just like, what it says.
• 35:51
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for Voices, we speak for ourselves in the best way that we can, and our guests do the same thing, thank you, thank you, thank you, god bless you, thank you, thank you, god bless you, god bless America and God bless everyone across the world, on earth, in heaven, and thank you so much for allowing us to come into your home, to your earbuds, to your TV, to your iPads, chromebooks, netbooks.
• 36:46
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: However, just know that you can always go to VoicesForVoicesorg forward slash podcast and you can find every single episode that we have dropped, and at the top it starts with the most recent and that's free.
• 37:13
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So we'll see you next time.
• 37:19
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Please be a voice for you or somebody in need, and let us celebrate the voices of everyone all across the world.
• 37:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.
• 37:32
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thanks for being with us today.