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Persistence Isn't Motivation—It's This Instead | Episode 525 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hi everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices.
• 0:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 0:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're here in the United States or abroad, if you can do us a huge favor, give us a big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, reshare, repost, uh, even reach into your phone and share the Voices for Voices podcast with maybe 25 or 50 of your connections.
• 0:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, that would be greatly helpful.
• 0:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's free to do, and it helps us get closer and closer and closer to reaching and helping at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 0:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for being with us.
• 0:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have a show.
• 0:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thanks for tuning in.
• 0:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we just have a huge, massive heat wave uh this last basically week and a half.
• 0:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so it's uh it's been toasty around here, uh, but it's uh it's good.
• 1:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So um first and foremost, uh happy 250th birthday to the United States of America.
• 1:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh 250th of anything is is huge.
• 1:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so wanna to to join in in with the celebration of um celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States of America.
• 1:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we know that uh through travels that we've made over uh over the years, uh there's uh I can always sense uh proudness uh to live in uh whichever country that we are we are in and uh always love to see that and I I usually get goosebumps with with that because it's just showing like hey, we're we're happy that we live in the the country that we do.
• 2:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so I'm happy to live in the country I live in.
• 2:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but it's not all about me, and it's not all about just the United States of America, it's about the whole world.
• 2:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we are, as you know, or if you don't know, we want to help a lot of people, and that's not just people here in the United States, it's across the globe.
• 2:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's because of you, because of your help, because you're sharing, uh, because you're joining in to our uh grassroots uh movement, voices for voices, that we're even able to fathom the idea to do what we're doing, to go where we're going, to help who we're helping and going to be helping um and bring the people along that we're gonna be bringing uh along um with with us.
• 3:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh mythical creatures around the world.
• 3:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, we acquire them late 2025.
• 3:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, you definitely, for anyone that has a Facebook account, you wanna you wanna follow mythical creatures around the world.
• 3:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh there's already, I think, a hundred thousand that are following us on that specific area.
• 3:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so we also invite you to uh follow our mythical creatures around the world business unit, uh, because the uh the information, the stories, the experiences are like no other in the world.
• 4:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You you just can't find can't find what you can find there.
• 4:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's a big reason why we wanted to acquire them, because we wanted to make sure that their voice and voices continue to be heard even in the face of adversity, which we all go through from time to time.
• 4:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for making mythical creatures around the world uh one of the, if not the biggest independent uh Facebook pages uh in the world, and that's uh that's incredible.
• 4:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It really is, right?
• 4:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because you know, we we we sit back sometimes and go, Who am I?
• 5:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Who am I to affect change?
• 5:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: How can I do it?
• 5:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it and it just starts with one thing, and then and then two, and then once you have two and you do one more, then you have three, and you see how methodical it is, and it does usually take a little bit of time, as we have noticed with voices, and I think patience is the biggest thing, just like here in the United States, and you know, celebrating our 250th uh birthday here, July 4th, 2026, takes time for things to happen.
• 6:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some's good, some's not so good.
• 6:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But nobody's perfect here in life, and we we know that.
• 6:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're just we're just happy to be in one of the freest countries in the world.
• 6:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But as I mentioned earlier, we love traveling to all the other countries that we do and will to meet, to help, to share, to listen, to give a hug, and to say thank you for making voices for voices, uh what we are, who we are, and to keep us going.
• 7:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's it, that's a huge part, right?
• 7:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Starting something, okay, that is a little on the easier side, depending on what kind of business you're looking at.
• 7:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's one thing, getting getting it, getting it started.
• 7:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But to continue with the passion, the persistence, that's the hard part.
• 7:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's the hard part.
• 7:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Waking up every day going, all right, let's do it.
• 7:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's see what we can do today.
• 7:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: See how we can help.
• 7:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I look at this in a little bit of a parallel of going to the gym, and I've chatted about that on earlier episodes.
• 8:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Right?
• 8:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you haven't done anything for a while, or it's like, all right, I'm gonna start going to the gym for whatever goals that we have, right?
• 8:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We all have different goals.
• 8:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we get a membership, we start maybe that first week, you know, we're doing good, we're feeling good, then gets in the second week, and then third, and I found myself in the third slash fourth week going, oh, I don't, I don't, I don't know if I want to go to the gym.
• 8:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I I want to go to the gym, but we start doubting ourselves.
• 9:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The same type of doubt with a organization with an organization, like voices for voices.
• 9:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I can't tell you how many times I've been ready to pack it up and pack it in because of a thought in my head, an article that I've read, listening to somebody or somebody's going, you know what, we we're not gonna be able to affect change on the level that we want to.
• 9:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so there are those days of down where we're going, yeah.
• 9:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I it was good while it lasted.
• 9:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have to we have to learn to just push through.
• 10:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't want to say it's easy, like, oh, just push through.
• 10:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not easy.
• 10:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's certain times you gotta just push through.
• 10:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, there's weeks, as I've said, where we film a bunch of episodes, and then there's some weeks where we don't.
• 10:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But we not only don't we need the weeks where we do film a bunch of episodes, we also need that I don't say time away of just relaxing.
• 10:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not saying just kick up your feet and like, oh, I don't have anything to do today.
• 10:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not talking like that.
• 10:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What I'm talking like is let's free our mind, let's open up our mind to find out like what else, and think about what else we can do to help people how and who and when and where that's why we need those days where we're powering through, and we also need those days where we're taking that self-care and taking a break, right?
• 11:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Took a break.
• 11:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So he's taking a break.
• 12:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If he's able to take a break, then we sure should be able to take a break as well.
• 12:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then I just want to talk about you know self-imposed deadlines.
• 12:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: These are deadlines that we impose on ourselves, on our mind.
• 12:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I wanna I wanna film X amount of episodes this week or this year, whatever the time frame may be.
• 12:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nobody's asking us, nobody's saying, well, you need to hit this is the goal you need.
• 12:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We just self-impose those deadlines of I'd like to, it'd be nice to.
• 13:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I think we can be a little kinder to ourselves.
• 13:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, if there is a true deadline that's tied to a paycheck, to a donation, to you name it, that's one thing.
• 13:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But even at five hundred and over five hundred and twenty episodes where we're at, there's nobody saying Justin, this is how many episodes you you need to do this year.
• 13:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I haven't really even talked publicly or even privately, for that matter, about how many episodes we're looking at doing for the calendar 2026 as we you know ch turn the page from June to July.
• 14:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So going from the first half of 2026 to the beginning of the second half of 2026.
• 14:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I don't I don't know where we'll end up, but I know that we're gonna end up in a really solid place.
• 14:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I think it's good not to have too many self-imposed deadlines.
• 14:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because that's just added stress.
• 14:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like if again, if there's nothing tied to like a payday or a donation or uh whatever type of business you're in, a sale, then then you do however many shows, you build as many widgets as as you can, you do as much marketing as you can.
• 15:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But you know, we shouldn't beat up ourselves about these.
• 15:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I've done it a fair amount of times.
• 15:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, Justin, we could have did this, we could have did that.
• 15:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Look, I didn't know we would come through and execute and be at the point where we're over 520 episodes in and continuing strong.
• 15:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, we have these goals, some goals we're able to hit, some goals we're not.
• 16:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just life, things happen.
• 16:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So the fact that we're able to be where we are, and to have at the foundation, at the core of our organization, mental health, trauma, recovery.
• 16:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's huge.
• 16:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We we talk about some current events like this, right?
• 16:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Happy two hundred and fiftieth birthday to the United States of America, July 4th, 2026.
• 16:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're able to talk about that as a current event.
• 16:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just as we're able to talk about self-imposed deadlines.
• 16:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some can be healthy, others cannot be healthy.
• 17:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We do what we can.
• 17:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If our body's telling us we need to rest, let's rest.
• 17:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Today was one of those days for me.
• 17:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I did a whole lot of resting.
• 17:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: A lot of a lot of resting.
• 17:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not just for the physical body, it's for the mental brain as well.
• 17:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it's healthy to take time away and then regroup and then jump right back in if it's meant to be.
• 17:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for joining Voices for Voices.
• 17:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can find our podcasts everywhere you get podcasts.
• 18:04
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• 18:30
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• 18:34
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• 18:38
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• 18:44
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• 19:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for being with us for this episode.
• 19:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Happy 250th birthday to the United States of America, and we look forward to seeing and meeting so many of you all across the world and seeing the happiness and the proudness that you are of your country.
• 19:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you.
• 19:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you soon.
• 19:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll talk to you soon.
• 19:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And have a great day.
• 19:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.