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Build Your Mental Health Team · 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 for watching and listening.
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• 0:34
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we greatly appreciate that.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Helps us get closer and closer to reaching and helping at least 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 0:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And if you're able to and you want to, we are a 501c3 nonprofit charity here in the United States.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, if you purchase any of our books, the same goes with that as well.
• 1:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we are just uh so thankful to have you with us here today.
• 1:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's been uh it's been a pretty long week here, uh, as most of the the weeks are, uh, but in a good way.
• 1:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh been able to spend some extra time with family uh before uh the uh I guess the uh school kind of starts, I guess is the way to say it.
• 1:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and and so it's uh it's always a blessing to be able to uh be with family and do the best that I can and that we can together uh as a human race.
• 2:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh we are here to talk about hard topics, easy topics, and all topics and in between.
• 2:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we don't have a show, we don't have an organization if it wasn't for you watching and listening.
• 2:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you so very much.
• 2:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh if you even uh if you have your phone out, if you're watching or listening, or if you don't, maybe you can pull it out and share the Voices for Voices podcast with maybe 25 or 50 of your contacts.
• 2:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and we have over 550 episodes.
• 2:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so we have quite the catalog that you can look through.
• 2:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so welcome to everyone who is watching and listening for the first time, and welcome back to those who have been with us from the beginning and have seen or and or heard uh our shows in the past.
• 3:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We thank each and every one of you, and we do spend what five minutes, you know, talking about that, but it's so true.
• 3:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, we don't we don't want to take anything for granted because today we're here, tomorrow we might not be.
• 3:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're doing the best we can with the time we're given on earth, and uh that involves uh sharing content, stories, experiences with as many people as we can.
• 3:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Goal is to help as many people to hopefully be relatable to a lot of people to help people, maybe go get help, and you don't even have to call it help, just go talk to somebody.
• 4:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It always turns out this way where it's like journaling, but without the pen and the pencil.
• 4:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I'm journaling right now, but I'm speaking and sharing.
• 4:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, that's the journaling that I do.
• 4:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we all do things a little bit differently, and that's that's the cool part about us as human beings that we're able to do that in our own unique way.
• 5:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some of us similar, some of us different, but we're all human beings.
• 5:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And having the respect, we'll you will never uh never hear threats, anything like that, uh, coming from voices for voices, anything related to voices for voices.
• 5:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, we don't believe in it, we don't think it's right, we don't think it's uh humane to talk that way and to share in that manner.
• 5:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we just ask that uh you uphold that as well for you and those that you lead.
• 5:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it is winding down summer.
• 5:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's uh it's really gone pretty fast.
• 6:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we we've had, as I mentioned, a lot of a lot of days that are just so hot that it the safe part is if you're able to to stay cool and to stay inside as much as possible.
• 6:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so I think there was so much of that that lasted for days, and I think there was maybe a maybe like a two-week span that it it uh it lasted for at one period, one point in time.
• 6:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But it's uh again, uh grateful to be alive, grateful to be here, to talk, to share, to laugh, to cry, to love, to uplift.
• 6:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what we're here for.
• 7:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just such an amazing, amazing time to be alive because we're we're so interconnected.
• 7:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We talk about how far distance-wise our podcast and TV show goes.
• 7:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It goes all over the world.
• 7:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's it's really remarkable in the year 2026 that we're able to talk, we're able to share, and we can touch lives in ways we never could have dreamed about.
• 7:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I mean, I guess we could have dreamed about it.
• 7:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh you know, growing up, you know, we're busy playing with friends and sports and those those types of things that we were we really weren't thinking about as much of the future.
• 8:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The future I thought I had was a professional baseball player, football player, uh, astronaut, basketball, I mean, you name it, that that's where I felt that I was going to land when I when I grew up, and none of the above happened.
• 8:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or none of the below happen.
• 8:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so you you probably wonder like what what makes you get up in the morning?
• 8:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What what makes you want to do what you do?
• 8:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, some of our shows are better than others, I guess.
• 8:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, but that's just like being human.
• 9:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like sometimes we do things really good, sometimes we don't, and that's okay.
• 9:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no problem with that at all.
• 9:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're able to overcome a lot by ourselves, but with my mental health, with your mental health, with everybody's mental health, and health in general, we can't do it all on our own.
• 9:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We can try.
• 9:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Trust me, I tried.
• 9:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I tried and tried and tried.
• 9:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But until you have like a team, you know, behind you, you know, uh football's coming up.
• 9:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so if there were no coaches and it was just the football team, it would it would be pretty uh pretty wild out there.
• 10:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But to have a you know, your teammates, that's helpful.
• 10:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But also you want to have those coaches that are able to impart their experiences, their wisdom on each player and help during games, help during practices, help during scrimmages.
• 10:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I feel mental health, as well as all health, by having a team approach, we're able to I don't want to say get through hard times easier.
• 11:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're able to we're able to, I guess, manage better.
• 11:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it doesn't mean that all the stress, all the anxiety, all that goes away.
• 11:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But by managing it, it is okay, I'm feeling really anxious, I'm really nervous.
• 11:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whether we know something's going on, whether we don't know, whatever that may be, if we're feeling that way, we look at, well, what can we do to help go in the opposite direction to help lower stress, lower that volume on the anxiety.
• 11:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so by having a team with us is one of the ways that it helps from a professional standpoint, having our best interest at my in mind again.
• 12:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I've tried going at it alone.
• 12:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And are we still gonna have days where we feel alone and they're gonna be hard?
• 12:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Absolutely.
• 12:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Doesn't make life a walk in the park every single day very few days I would say does it feel like things are going in a uh in a in a great direction.
• 13:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so if you're able to find find a psychiatrist, forget about the name of what a psychiatrist is, forget what the word therapist means.
• 13:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Those are just titles.
• 13:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like in football, there's head coach, assistant coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, quarterback coach, receiver coach, you know, there's all these coaches when we're talking about this football example, that they're all pulling together.
• 13:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So while a coach may be a specific position coach, like a wide receiver coach, the wide receiver coach needs to understand what the quarterback coach like what to expect.
• 14:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, are we gonna be doing a lot of passing plays?
• 14:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm talking about American football here, by the way.
• 14:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I should have said that at the outset for our Aussie friends and others.
• 14:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So everybody's got to do their thing separate, but they gotta also do it together, and that's where the players they do things separate, they individually have different jobs to do, different plays, but then they also have to come together, and they have to block the other team from getting the ball or vice versa.
• 15:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it is critical to have each of our mental healths at the best level that it can be.
• 15:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nothing's perfect, nobody's perfect, so we can't expect our mental health or other health to be perfect, because it's not, it's just not gonna be.
• 16:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That I couldn't do everything on my own.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I had an expectation that I could and I was wrong.
• 16:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we're allowed to we're allowed to say I was wrong.
• 16:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're also able to say I was right.
• 16:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I feel better, I feel worse, I'm happy, I'm sad.
• 17:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, all these different emotions come and go and come and go.
• 17:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They don't last.
• 17:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I may feel down at this very moment, and then maybe the next moment something happens that's positive and go, oh this is incredible.
• 17:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know that happened yesterday for me, and in in in a couple ways.
• 17:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh the one I will discuss is you know, we have this is episode five hundred and sixty.
• 17:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we have five hundred and sixty episodes, not fifty-six, not sixty, but five hundred and sixty episodes now.
• 18:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I invite each and every one of you that's watching and listening right now to go back, download all the other episodes.
• 18:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I guarantee you're gonna find a ton of episodes that when you have some free time that you're gonna want to watch or listen.
• 18:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Same thing goes for your contacts, the people that you share the voices for voices podcasts and TV show with.
• 18:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They're gonna find so many different episodes, both with guests and without.
• 19:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is my again, this is my form of journaling.
• 19:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's something that I'm glad I'm doing, I'm glad I got started.
• 19:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so yesterday I got some good news from a potential guest on our show that we've been hoping and praying that we we would be able to connect and be able to put put something together to share.
• 19:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I can't do this alone.
• 19:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Our organization, we can't do this alone.
• 20:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's through the awesome people like you, your contacts, your friends, family, teammates, fellow coaches, co-workers, what what what have you?
• 20:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what's brought us here.
• 20:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't have a show if we don't have you.
• 20:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't have an organization if we don't have you.
• 20:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's why we say thank you so much.
• 20:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because anybody who thinks that they're it's all because of them, that's just sounds like uh, you know, the ego's in there a lot.
• 20:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It might be a decent chunk of the the reason, but it's not the whole thing.
• 21:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I think just by being transparent and sharing, some don't like that we share a lot.
• 21:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I don't know how else to be.
• 21:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, if we're voices for voices, I need to be a voice for me and others.
• 21:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You need to be a voice for yourself and others, and that comes in different shapes and sizes and different times of the year, some for long episodes, some for short episodes.
• 21:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just all about.
• 22:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Having faith that what we're doing is making a difference.
• 22:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I can just feel it.
• 22:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I can feel we're making a difference.
• 22:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're making a positive difference across the world.
• 22:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I can't.
• 22:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I couldn't fathom that at the beginning of our organization.
• 22:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a huge goal that I that and we had.
• 22:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But it's another to actually execute and make it happen.
• 22:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so for all the days that I've wanted to just not do an episode, and just for one reason or another, I miss an opportunity to come into somebody's live and say, it's okay.
• 23:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Start small.
• 23:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: My students say, you know, we look at your profiles, you know, LinkedIn from the professional side, and and it and it looks like overbearing, overwhelming.
• 23:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I tell my students, and I tell you and anybody else that's listening and watching.
• 23:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You have to start somewhere.
• 23:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I didn't just wake up and go, oh wow, this is episode 560.
• 23:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's been a long time, it's been a lot of work, it's been a lot of money that I've spent out of pocket.
• 24:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And God keeps putting these nuggets of opportunity near me, in front of me, beside me, sometimes a little bit in the rear view mirror.
• 24:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That this is this is what I'm here for.
• 24:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is why I'm still alive.
• 24:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe episode 560 is maybe that finishes my work on on earth.
• 24:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know.
• 24:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know when my time is gonna come.
• 24:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know a lot of people that that know that.
• 24:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I don't just speaking for myself.
• 24:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I want to make the biggest difference that I can during the short amount of time I have left.
• 25:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because we all don't know when it can be.
• 25:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It could be tonight, tomorrow, in a day, 10 minutes, 30 seconds.
• 25:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We we don't know.
• 25:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we don't we don't have to play God.
• 25:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We can just we can just be ourselves.
• 25:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this feels good being able to do this podcast, this show to to lead the voices for voices organization, mythical creatures around the world, so many other ventures that some are more in the works than others.
• 26:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some are at different points in in the pro you know, in the project.
• 26:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, if a project takes six months, some are an episode, some are in, you know, the the fourth month, some are in the first, some are two days before getting started.
• 26:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So all we can do is just be ourselves.
• 26:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Sounds corny, sounds cheesy, sounds basic.
• 26:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, I'm not here to try to sound smarter than anybody at all.
• 26:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just here to talk about things I've been through that might be something or some things that you've been through or others.
• 27:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, I've already helped somebody.
• 27:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What is that reason?
• 27:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or what it or what are those reasons?
• 27:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not.
• 27:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For me, it wasn't.
• 28:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you would ask me 10-15 years ago about this, I'd probably been not laughing and like uh like ha ha ha.
• 28:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like not like that.
• 28:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I've just been like, no way, there's no way we're gonna have 560 episodes.
• 28:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no way we're gonna be reaching over a hundred and fifteen or so countries.
• 28:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no way we're gonna be reaching thousands of cities, provinces, territories, states, countries.
• 28:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just incredible.
• 28:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so if I wasn't meant to do this, I wouldn't be doing this.
• 29:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not a time filler, it's when I when I have time, I'm like, okay, this is this is when I need to do it.
• 29:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is when we need to, you know, get things scheduled, get things put together, just like with our guests.
• 29:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Find out when there's a mutual time, mutual date, and we do the episode or episode, and then we get them out as quickly as possible.
• 29:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, there's some that we may hold on to for a period of time, but for the most part, I'm like, let's get this out.
• 30:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We gotta get the we gotta this is gonna help so many people.
• 30:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We gotta do it.
• 30:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's get this out, let's get this edited, let's get this put together, let's get the title, let's get the description, let's get the hashtags, let's, you know, that's what that's what I'm talking about.
• 30:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm very impatient, as I I've said.
• 30:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You've watched me say, you listened to me say one of things that happen in the snap of a finger.
• 30:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not always the case, and sometimes, a lot of times, is because there's something bigger and greater than what we could ever fathom or ever imagine.
• 30:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you don't have to be a believer in God.
• 31:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I gander to say that you probably look up to some higher power, whatever the name is, or whether that's a role model you look up to, a mentor.
• 31:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, we're all we're all just trying at the end of the day, we're all just trying to live.
• 31:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, let's call it what it is, we're just trying to live.
• 31:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like Maslow's hierarchy of need, like we need shelter, we need food, we need clothing, we need water.
• 31:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They're just certain things.
• 31:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If we don't have that, if I don't have that, I can't do a show or shows.
• 32:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We've got to have those bare necessities.
• 32:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it breaks my heart every time I see somebody on the side of the street that is in need of those basic necessities.
• 32:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I just breaks my heart.
• 32:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not able to help help those individuals.
• 32:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I saw one of those individuals yesterday and had a dog.
• 32:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not here to judge what somebody's choices were, why they're there.
• 33:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I can tell you this, I don't know that it's a choice that any of us would want to be in just the hope that we ha we're able to scratch enough money together so we can eat and his dog can eat my it.
• 33:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe it's because we have a dog now that it's changed my outlook on pets because you know people some research says you having you know a like a pet dog, for example, like you're taking care, you know, you're helping feed, take it, go for a walk, all those things.
• 34:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And there's been so many episodes in the last few months where our dog is usually right next to me, or uh depending on which where where I'm at, where we're filming, she'll just be nestled up close to my arm and just take a snooze.
• 34:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She's a dog, she's not gonna live forever.
• 34:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm a human, I'm not gonna live forever.
• 34:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So she barks at other dogs, she barks at sounds, she barks, she's a dog, but there there is you know some kind of evidence out there, you know, with you know mental health and that you know, to have like a support animal could be helpful, can be helpful, and I think that's what Lucy, our dog, has been for me.
• 35:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just been really helpful and really neat.
• 35:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now does she always go to the bathroom outside?
• 35:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No, that that's something we're we're still working on But again, she's a dog for humans, like they can understand like a little bit of body movement and the end of the day, she's a dog you know, but by by being able to pet pet her and just you know have my arm around her and we're just sitting editing a show that's probably been helpful too.
• 36:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So maybe maybe check that out.
• 36:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Obviously, if you have to check out like with allergies, and there's you know, there's all kinds of things we have to figure out before go ahead and get like a service animal.
• 37:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: These are some of the things again that have helped me.
• 37:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some you've heard before, some you might not have heard before.
• 37:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: My goal outside of reaching and helping at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond is just to say, here's what I'm doing.
• 37:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe you pick one part of it, maybe you pick two parts, maybe you find something else that works better for you.
• 38:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So maybe just by watching and listening to this episode, it frees up a little bit of your mind and your head space because I'm gonna try this or I'm gonna try that.
• 38:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, this isn't a popularity contest.
• 38:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some people think it is like I'm just trying to live, and I'm just trying to do the best I can, and I fail way more than I succeed.
• 38:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I remind you, I'm only human, we're only human.
• 38:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So until next time, let's celebrate the voices of everybody in the world.
• 39:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And let's be a voice for not only ourselves, but maybe somebody else that that needs their voice to be shared because they're not able to, or maybe they're in heaven, and so we need to we need to continue doing as much as we can to share those voices, keep them alive, not just in our minds, but across the world, and so let voices for voices be that light, or one of those lights.
• 39:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for joining us, for sending our love and support to you, and we'll see you on the next episode of the Voices for Voices podcast and TV show.
• 40:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.
• 40:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.