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Groundhog Called It Wrong, Justin Sets the Record Straight | Episode 443 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hi everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices.
• 0:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 0:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're grateful, thankful for you joining us.
• 0:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you can give us a big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share to the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 0:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We greatly appreciate that.
• 0:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, thank you for coming with us, whether you're watching, whether you're listening, whether you're here in the United States, or you are in another land, another country.
• 0:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we're grateful for each and every one of you who's taken in a second or two uh to see what Voices for Voices is all about.
• 0:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we are third behind uh the uh the Dan Bongino show and the Joe Rogan experience.
• 0:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh it is uh that's a very big blessing uh to be so close to you, the viewers, the listeners, um, and to have so many that are watching and listening, it uh it gives me goosebumps.
• 1:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it is uh uh as I mentioned, you know, to think that having this show, talking to you with you, um whether you're watching or listening, no matter where you're at in the world, uh, we're just so grateful that you're with us.
• 1:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh if you could do us a big favor, uh if you could reach out to maybe 25 contacts in your uh in your phone and let them know about the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 1:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're over 440 episodes and we're going stronger than ever before.
• 1:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that would be very helpful if you could you could do that.
• 2:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh also by doing that, uh, we are on our way to reaching 300 countries, 3,000 cities across the world.
• 2:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're well over 1,000 cities and well over 100 countries across the world, and we are well on our way to help and reach at least 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 2:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have big goals, even bigger than that, if if you can believe that.
• 2:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we really are.
• 2:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, whether you're a believer or not, you can still come with us for the ride.
• 2:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, because uh we can never have enough good vibes, and uh we uh we're with you, and uh we want the best of everybody.
• 3:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We want every single person to share their voice, however, that may be.
• 3:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe it's the spoken word, like me, maybe it is playing an instrument, playing a sport, sign language interpretation, and the list goes on, sharing our voices is not purely restricted to the spoken word.
• 3:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and I think sometimes that gets lost in translation, um, and that's that's not the case.
• 3:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um what I will say here at the outset, because uh having having depression that can be can be considered uh among among other diagnoses, uh, but for sure uh major oppression can be considered a disability.
• 4:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's okay.
• 4:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's okay if you have major depression and it is a disability, uh I'm fighting through all the diagnoses each and every day, each and every afternoon, each and every night.
• 4:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because I wanna I want to be the not only the best for me and my family, but I want to be the best for you, our viewers, our listeners.
• 4:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and I'm gonna I'm gonna try it and keep doing the best that I the very best that I can.
• 4:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and and that's that's just all I'm gonna do.
• 4:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's all we can do.
• 4:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um again, we we're living our lives, not somebody else's life.
• 5:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh that's that's a that's a critical point to to think think of and and to keep in mind that let's not compare ourselves to anybody.
• 5:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't compare yourself to me.
• 5:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I uh I don't gonna compare myself to anybody else because there's no one else like me.
• 5:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no one else like you.
• 5:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There may be similarities, but for the most part, we're we're different, we're unique.
• 5:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have things that you like that I may not like.
• 5:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There may be things that you like that I do like, and it might be the same vice versa.
• 5:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Things that I like that you don't like, and things that I like that you do like.
• 5:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh taking us to how grateful I I am.
• 6:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I thought it was necessary to share in a show.
• 6:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's uh it's a bird.
• 6:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh hopefully springtime is is is on its way a little bit sooner, regardless of what punks and tawny fell, uh the the groundhog in uh in Pennsylvania.
• 6:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh sad by the shadow and everything.
• 6:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I'm uh it's hard to it's hard to think of because I overlook so many things day to day.
• 6:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I am grateful for and thankful for a lot of things.
• 6:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know there's a lot of people that may say, oh Justin, you have you have everything you need, everything you want.
• 7:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I don't I I think we're just all looking for some type of balance.
• 7:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, because there's no perfection here, we know that.
• 7:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we're just looking for balance in our lives.
• 7:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I remember uh a yoga instructor when we were, I mean, this is years ago.
• 7:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is oh man, over 15 years ago.
• 7:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh went to a yoga class, and the instructor was just asking the class, I don't know, there might have been 15, 20 people in the class, what they thought yoga and uh and the like meant to them or what it means.
• 7:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And the most popular answer was not that we were looking for perfection because there is no perfection, but we were trying to be as imbalanced, not in balance as in not balanced, in balance as in balanced, meaning you you know, you see the uh you know, you see the the the weights, you know, one way or or another.
• 8:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and if it's equal, then we're in balance.
• 8:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If not, we're imbalanced.
• 8:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so uh that that's that's what came out of that.
• 8:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so that's that's really what I'm in in search of because there is no perfection.
• 9:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Also, I am and I want to go through a list here, so just bear with me.
• 9:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I'm grateful for the two eyes I have, the two ears I have, uh, the mouth, even though even though I I guess I uh there's a movie, I'm sure there are many movies, but one movie I remember uh I think it was old school where Vince Vaughn was playing uh a friend of Will Farrell and is at the beginning at uh at Will's uh wedding reception that the best man Mitch was giving his uh best man speech, and and Vince had to take over for him because Mitch was struggling a little bit, I guess.
• 10:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and Vince, you know, did his did the toast.
• 10:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and he goes, I'm not a talker, I'm not a talker, uh after his after the speech.
• 10:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's like you know, for me, there's moments where I am able to talk and am able to share in some way, somehow.
• 10:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I'm not a perfect talker, nobody is.
• 10:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes I ramble, sometimes I may mispronounce a word, but we all do.
• 10:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We all have those moments, and that's what makes us that's what makes us human.
• 10:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I'm grateful for my teeth, I'm grateful uh for my ten fingers, I'm thankful for my ten toes, I'm thankful for my arms, my legs, uh, hair on my head, even though it's turning gray.
• 11:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but I guess that comes with age.
• 11:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and I know that there are some people who I am grateful for my feet uh that I'm able to walk, uh, that I'm able to tie my shoes, uh, that all the things I'm just very grateful for because I know there's there's a lot of people out there that one or more of what I mention may not have.
• 12:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I take the I take these things for granted sometimes a lot, actually.
• 12:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I think that's that's where I can get I can get a little bit complacent of like, oh, well, whenever I wake up in the morning, I'm gonna have all my faculties.
• 12:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just a word that means what I just went through.
• 12:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm so deep in what am I gonna do that day?
• 12:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: How am I gonna do it?
• 12:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: When am I gonna do it?
• 12:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All the things.
• 13:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's how complacent I I am to not even really bat an eyelash over such as today.
• 13:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Woke up and filming some episodes and I really didn't think any anything would uh at least from my body standpoint would uh change any of that.
• 13:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean it still can.
• 13:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But when I thought in my mind I th I I want to film a few episodes of the show today, I overlooked some of those very things I just said.
• 14:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I shouldn't.
• 14:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I need to be more grateful, more thankful for what I have and not focus on what I think I think some of us may do, focus on the things that we don't have.
• 14:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whether that's oh, whether that's money, whether that whatever that is.
• 14:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: When we step into that area, it's hard to come out of.
• 14:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's why publicly with this show I want to make sure that I'm crystal clear by sharing this because I do take things for granted.
• 15:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some of us might, I know I do, and I just want to let you know that I'm sorry that I have at times taken things for granted.
• 15:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you have a challenge in one of the ways or other ways that I mention, I always want to say I'm sorry for overlooking that and just assuming everybody watching and listening is like me in that respect, in these respects.
• 15:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's not the case.
• 15:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm no Superman, I'm no yeah, I'm just a human being who is trying to do the best he can with the resources, with everything that he has.
• 16:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because I really do.
• 16:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I have a I have the ability, especially for the show, have the ability, and our organization has the ability to reach so many people that we've talked about at the beginning of the show.
• 16:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: In each show, we continue to reach more and more and more and more and more people, and more and more and more and more locations, geographies.
• 16:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um the numbers go up, up, up so that that that's why I wanted to cover that in this particular episode.
• 17:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um because it I I don't I don't want anybody to feel that I'm overlooking somebody's challenge that I maybe I don't have.
• 17:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I do have big challenges mentally.
• 17:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I work through them though.
• 17:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just like you work through.
• 17:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You work through what what you have or don't have.
• 17:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's all we can do.
• 17:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All we can do is the best we can with the best with with what we have.
• 17:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's all we can do.
• 17:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's all we can hope for.
• 18:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I hope tomorrow I've the same faculties, the same workable body parts, and and uh as today, as I had yesterday.
• 18:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The one thing I will say closing out is by choosing to do a little um change in the arrangement of certain areas of my life can and is helpful.
• 18:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's helped give me a better perspective, at least here in the short term, because I'm just kind of getting started with with some of these changes that I needed I needed to make a long time ago, but I'm just now making them gives me the vigor, the uh intensity to be able to sit here and come on and and put a couple couple shows together.
• 19:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's really remarkable the human body for lacking in one area, then other areas pick up the slack in most cases.
• 19:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, I'm not a doctor, I'm not diagnosing uh none of that.
• 19:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so please don't go to a doctor and say that you watch this podcast and the host was talking like that.
• 20:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Please don't do that.
• 20:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's because that's not what my intentions were or are.
• 20:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for joining us.
• 20:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is a grateful, thankful episode.
• 20:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us.
• 20:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you can give us big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, reach out to 25 contacts in your phone, send a group text, let them know about the voices for voices TV show and podcast.
• 20:47
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• 20:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They just think we're this big organization.
• 21:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have less than five, less than three, less than two people um working on the show.
• 21:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's not just the filming of the show, that's the editing.
• 21:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, that is the title, when titles, hashtags, descriptions, you name it, you're looking at the person that does it.
• 21:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um voices for voices built off of my mental health as a foundation.
• 21:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we are a nonprofit.
• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Lovevoices.org.
• 21:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Lovevoices.org.
• 21:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we'll spell this out one last time.
• 22:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: L-O-V E V O I C E S dot O R G.
• 22:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much.
• 22:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're sending so much love and support your way.
• 22:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for the love and support you've sent our way.
• 22:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're so grateful and thankful to have you as a member of the Voices for Voices Grassroots movement.
• 22:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And until next time, I'm Justin Alan Hayes, founder of Voices for Voices and host of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 22:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's celebrate all the voices in the world and let's share our voices and share the voices of those in need.
• 22:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Take care.
• 22:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We love you.
• 22:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.