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Choosing Your Own Path When Everyone Else Has Opinions | Episode 464 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Hi everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices.
• 0:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 0:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Whether you're watching, whether you're listening, whether you're here in the United States or you're somewhere across the world outside the United States, we welcome each and every one of you, whether this is your first episode or whether you've been with us from the beginning.
• 0:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um it's hard to believe that we have surpassed the uh 460 total uh voices for voices, TV show and podcast episodes.
• 0:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh it's it's a it's just a surreal it's a surreal moment uh for us at the the organization uh to make it where we where we are.
• 0:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we have nobody else to thank but you if it wasn't for it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have a show, we wouldn't wouldn't have the demand uh to bring content all across the board from easy topics to hard topics and everything in between.
• 1:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you could do us a quick favor and give us a thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, and maybe reach out to 25 or maybe 50 of your contacts in your phone and share voices for voices and our voices for voices TV show and podcast with them.
• 1:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That would be greatly appreciated.
• 1:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that is something uh these are things that are free to do, so they don't cost you anything uh except uh maybe a minute or two of your your time.
• 1:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you again for making voices for voices, what it is uh today, and what it will be in the future.
• 2:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we uh we just have so many so many areas that at the outset of the organization had no idea that we would be uh working in and towards uh areas that you'll be seeing and hearing much more in the not too distant future.
• 2:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um, but I understand, you know, competition and everything.
• 2:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So uh not going to share too much on what those are.
• 2:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You're you're gonna know, uh, but we'll just put it put it that way.
• 2:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um and so we're grateful to be a zero budget goal crushing organization.
• 3:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And as you may know, if you've followed us, been part of any of our shows, we are a 501c3 nonprofit charity organization, which means we're a charity.
• 3:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's something also to think about.
• 3:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That uh who would have thought a charity with basically a zero zero dollar budget keeps crushing goals, keeps coming uh coming out with so much content for our shows, and as as you will begin to see uh so much other uh projects that we're able to do.
• 4:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it's because of you.
• 4:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you.
• 4:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you for making voices for voices what it is, and thank you for continuing to believe in in the organization uh in myself.
• 4:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's a uh it's a it's a real humbling experience.
• 4:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So what I would like to touch on in this episode is right, the organization.
• 4:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're called Voices for Voices, and we talk about all the different ways we can share our voices, and the list just grows how we can share our voice.
• 4:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And this episode, I want to tell and share with those individuals who help make individuals who want to share their voice and who are able to share their voice, or an individual individuals who are sharing the voices of others.
• 5:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh you know, we think of you know, we think of teachers, we think of coaches, uh, we think of you know an orchestra director, you know, sharing the voice through through music.
• 5:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we think of uh teachers, professors uh with uh sign language interpretation.
• 5:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh there's so many people that we want to thank to give us and you the opportunity to share your voice.
• 6:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You have a blog, you have a following, maybe you have a show too.
• 6:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: All the all the people and all the ways, all the things that allow us to share our voice are because of somebody else.
• 6:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I didn't get here voices for voices.
• 6:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We didn't get where get to where we're at on our own.
• 6:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I've I've talked through the story many times, and it was as recent as a couple of episodes ago, actually.
• 6:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it wasn't until I swallowed my pride, until I, you know, I talk about learning and researching, and and if I wouldn't have learned and researched, then we wouldn't be here today.
• 7:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because if I thought that, like, okay, I can handle everything, I can come up with all the ideas, and it's all about me, it's all about me, it's all about me.
• 7:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We wouldn't be here.
• 7:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I want to say thank you to each and every person.
• 7:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not gonna be able to because it it would take quite a while uh to to go through the names, but you know who you are.
• 8:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You gave me not even just at the beginning of Voices for Voices, but even throughout the years.
• 8:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And uh even I look back at you know different sports that I played, the coaches giving me the opportunity.
• 8:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes I succeeded, sometimes I didn't.
• 8:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: When I didn't succeed, there are times where I got just very depressed.
• 8:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But now looking back at all those all those individuals, good, bad, and different.
• 9:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Look back at these individuals, and in one way or another, they've helped shape who I am and who we are as an organization, and how being transparent is helpful to me, it's helpful to the organization, and it's helpful to you.
• 9:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, many many of you know, you know, the story of you know me me growing up and and so going to going to college, just getting to that point of going to college um was hard.
• 10:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so there were times where, again, I second guessed myself, I went with the crowd, and then there came a point where I started to step away from the crowd a little bit, where I started to take my studies more serious, still did my fair share of partying, got that, but all along the way, there were teachers and individuals that I would meet mold me, along with bosses and managers and directors and um deans uh so many people that somehow, some way I continued.
• 11:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I think that's a big thing is continue on.
• 11:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're living in a moment that moment does not define us as a whole person.
• 11:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like, oh, Justin screwed up, so he's a screw up.
• 11:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No, I may have screwed up, and so I try to learn from what I may not have known, what I may not have seen, that might not have listened.
• 12:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Whatever the case may be, all these experiences and events have made me who I am, and so there's so many people along the 44 years of my life that have molded me.
• 12:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I can look back and be like, well, I wish this didn't happen, wish that didn't happen.
• 12:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yes, there there are some of those situations, especially when I wasn't the nicest person in the room.
• 12:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But when we look past that, excuse me, when we look past that and we start to start to look really inside.
• 13:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What do we want to do?
• 13:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What do we want to get out of life?
• 13:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're just gonna run the rat race like go to bed, wake up, go to work, be dinner, go to bed.
• 13:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yes, those are aspects.
• 13:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But do those really define us as a person in who we are in totality?
• 13:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't think so.
• 13:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The reason I say that is because I'm here right now.
• 13:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's any number of things that could have had me not here right now.
• 14:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's why I want to thank each and every person, whether I felt you were nice to me or not, whether I felt you helped me or not.
• 14:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But if I hadn't gone through different experiences, I don't know that I would have the drive that I have the dream and dreams that I have of wanting to be more of a helper in my life here on out the helping of others not that always helping myself.
• 15:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I also gotta think of for for me as a believer, gotta think of God as a driving force as well, because I I couldn't I couldn't have the energy to be here on a day that I don't have to be filming a show that I could just take the easy way out, and there's gonna be days where we're gonna go and not film shows, but we're gonna be working on our other projects.
• 16:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Then there's gonna be days when we're gonna film two or three shows.
• 16:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the best way to find those is again wherever you download podcasts, you watch on Rumble, watch on YouTube, our channel.
• 16:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You're gonna see and hear our episodes the quickest that way, those ways, than a social media post.
• 16:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We still we still do social media posts.
• 16:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But we have a lot to give, a lot a lot to share.
• 16:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so the best way I think is to film, do all the administrative parts, taking an episode that's filmed and doing the editing and titles and description, hashtags and all those looking at the cover to see how it looks and so thank you.
• 17:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you to each and every person that I've come in contact with whether it was a good experience, whether it wasn't.
• 18:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But I kind of look at this as like, you know, a second, third, or fourth, or fifth, or fifteenth chance for me.
• 18:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's why I'm here sharing about my mental health.
• 18:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I have been and will and are sharing.
• 18:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So many times I could have given up, so many.
• 18:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You may be in the same boat.
• 18:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's like, well, what's the use?
• 18:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Nobody cares.
• 18:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Nobody cares what I'm talking about or what what I think.
• 18:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let me say this.
• 18:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If nothing else.
• 19:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Whether you go to therapy or not, that's not my I I'm not I tell you my story.
• 19:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not telling you what you need to do.
• 19:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But if you don't have a therapist and you do a show or something similar at some point or another.
• 19:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Just like having a therapist.
• 19:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sharing information, wanting to help people.
• 19:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's a lot of what therapy is.
• 19:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sharing how our days are gone, have gone, what we did, what's come up, what what type of obstacles have we have we run into?
• 20:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you so much for making voices for voices what it is and what it will be.
• 20:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Both here in the moment and in into the into the future.
• 20:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you.
• 20:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And again, we would love for you to follow us on social media.
• 20:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're everywhere.
• 20:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let us know how you're doing.
• 21:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And help us, as you've helped us to get to this point, to continue helping us reach and help at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 21:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're well on our way and we're gonna do it.
• 21:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's just the way it the way it's gonna be.
• 22:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or maybe not.
• 22:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe just to listen or watch.
• 22:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You go, you know what?
• 22:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's exactly how I feel.
• 22:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or how I've felt before.
• 22:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's another person.
• 22:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Another human that's gone through or has gone through something similar.
• 22:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I'm going to live the fight another day.
• 22:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm going to live, continue to live until my days are gone.
• 22:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I think with that mindset, each and every one of us can be a better person.
• 22:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And don't don't don't forget this.
• 23:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Don't forget to dream.
• 23:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And don't forget to go after your dreams.
• 23:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Don't let somebody tell you you can't.
• 23:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's the jealousy and envy that comes with that because they might see what you're doing.
• 23:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't want him to do that.
• 23:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Excuse me.
• 23:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I wipe my nose.
• 23:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Little itch.
• 23:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I've gone through that phase.
• 23:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's great.
• 23:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We can listen.
• 23:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We can listen to experience and listen to uh people's opinions.
• 24:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But don't ever forget that the buck stops with you.
• 24:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So you're the one that has to make the decision at the end of the day.
• 24:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is that person that you talk to once a month or once who knows how often?
• 24:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Are we going to let them dictate how we feel and what we do on a day-to-day basis?
• 24:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or are we not?
• 24:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I would almost beg you to listen, but you make the decision at the end of the day.
• 24:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What you want to do.
• 24:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's going to be people that are going to come, they're going to go.
• 25:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We need to do those things so we can operate at a at a high at a high um high efficiency.
• 25:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't know what I'm trying to how what word I'm looking for.
• 26:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So take time for yourself.
• 26:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Think things through.
• 26:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Listen to others.
• 26:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then you make a decision and you go after it.
• 26:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So lastly, again, thank you to everybody.
• 26:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's been a part of my life.
• 26:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Good, bad, and different.
• 26:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are voices for voices.
• 26:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This is the Voices for Voices TV show podcast.
• 26:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Over 460 episodes in our portfolio, in our catalog.
• 26:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we're just so grateful to have you with us.
• 26:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So hope you have a great day, great evening, great morning, afternoon, wherever you are.
• 27:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we look forward to seeing you and sharing and talking to you on a future episode of our Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 27:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much.
• 27:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Have a great day.
• 27:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Bye-bye for now.