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The Most Underrated Place To Build Your Dreams | Episode #439 · 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, whether you're watching, listening here in the United States, or abroad in another land.
• 0:17
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• 0:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you for joining us.
• 0:50
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• 1:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we can make it to those goals.
• 1:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Remember, 300 countries, territories, provinces, 3,000 cities, and at least through 3 billion people overall over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 1:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're already at uh well over 100 countries and well over 1,000 cities.
• 2:03
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• 2:06
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• 2:13
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• 2:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's how we're able to produce this uh podcast and TV show.
• 2:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we're over 435 episodes, which you're able to see uh or here.
• 2:38
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• 2:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh you are the reason why we're here, and uh we want to say once again thank you.
• 2:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So there's my monologue.
• 2:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's that's the intro.
• 2:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, how is everybody feeling today?
• 3:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh depending on where you live, right?
• 3:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Where you know the the brighter the weather, the brighter our uh our outlook on on things, on on life, on what we set out to do today.
• 3:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And one thing I want to cover on this this show specifically because it's very I believe it's very important.
• 3:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I think you will too.
• 3:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I overlook things sometimes.
• 3:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What does that mean?
• 3:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That means Justin is smarter than the average person.
• 4:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's just not the case, and I take advantage of things, I don't look and see certain things, certain places, and but once I do, it's kind of like I go, okay, Justin, like you you seriously just overlooked a huge resource in the community, and we are about helping people, we are about community, we are about reaching out and sharing, sharing the good news, sharing topics, events, experiences that are good, bad, and different, and all that.
• 5:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so, what am I getting at?
• 5:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, in many communities, not all, but many communities, there is a library, and I know you may be thinking, here's this guy telling me I need to go to the library and pick out some books and read them.
• 5:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe, but not really.
• 5:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's not the full extent of why we're talking about that today.
• 5:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: At least where in the general vicinity of where I reside, there are there's many different libraries, and and two that I'm I'm thinking of, and one that I'm gonna talk about in depth.
• 6:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so, why am I talking about this?
• 6:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because you may not have access to certain things, you may not have uh, you may not have a dwelling, a house, an apartment, condo where you're able to work on projects, things that we've talked about before.
• 6:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe maybe there's a project or two that you've been thinking about doing, and for whatever reason, like, nope, I can't do that because I don't have access to blankety blank, I don't have a space that is quiet enough around that is as close to an office like as can be.
• 7:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So let me tell you a story.
• 7:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, not too many years ago, I was part of an organization, and at that time, one of the big things for organizations, because we were looking for a space where we could meet, talk about our goals, uh, usually it was in the evening hours, and so we might order food, and and so the big thing was these shared spaces where for a fee, remember this, for a fee, meaning you have to pay money, you could rent out a space in different size spaces, spaces that two or three people, spaces that maybe ten or twelve.
• 8:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we were paying a fee.
• 8:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I forget I forget what the amount is.
• 9:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The amount we were paying only plays the part in this episode in that there was money, that there was a transaction that had to take place, we had to sign a contract and all these things.
• 9:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we started looking at our budget and areas that did we need them.
• 9:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was close to around COVID, and so what we were doing, and whether it was COVID-related or not, I again I'm only recounting certain facts, so that's what I'm sharing.
• 10:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I don't know if it was because of COVID or what, but we were we were holding our meetings on much like this an audiovisual program where the whole leadership team could sign in and we would have our meetings virtual.
• 10:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So it didn't matter where a person was, they could log in.
• 10:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The caveat is they needed an internet connection, which if they didn't have if they didn't have a phone, or if they were taking notes on their phone and still trying to be present for the the meeting, or as I mentioned, maybe they lived in a house with a couple different people, and maybe it was loud, maybe there's TV or radio or music or band practice, you name it, and so we were holding our meetings virtually, so then we cut that item, that shared space that we were paying a monthly, a monthly fee, and also where the shared space was, it was close for a couple of people, but then it wasn't for everybody, so that's just one thing that we gotta think about, and so we thought about it and said, is it worth still paying this amount of money when we can be maybe more productive?
• 12:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because if we're in a spot, maybe we can instead of oh, let's order food, and then what does everybody want, and then it's delivered, and then we're chewing, and we're eating, and uh and all these things are going on, and we're really we're there to have a meeting, and so I bring up the library as an alternative again.
• 13:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm I'm talking about my experience, my experiences.
• 13:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I'm grateful to have two really valuable resources.
• 13:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But if I just want to go and film a show or two, I just again I I'm I'm grateful to have two legs and two arms and ten fingers, ten toes, two eyes, ears, mouth.
• 13:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um you know, I I'm I'm grateful.
• 14:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I'm able to get in my car, drive to the local library.
• 14:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I take my show equipment, and I go to the front desk when I get there, park the car, get out, lock it, you know, as we do, and go places.
• 14:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Go to the front desk, ask if there's any private study areas.
• 14:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes it's no.
• 14:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Many the times it's yes.
• 14:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That there's at least one space that's available, and so right there I have you know, has a door, you can close it, open it, and sometimes that's what our mind needs from the mental health standpoint, sitting in quiet, call it what you want.
• 15:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We don't have to call it meditation, we can just call it like I'm able to gather my thoughts together.
• 15:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So there's certain times of day, certain days of the week, where I'm able to think a little bit more clear and be a little more productive.
• 15:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's what I'm doing is I am identifying those times for the you know, in general, for the most part.
• 16:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's that whole getting better, the whole reason well the research of I'm continuing to learn.
• 16:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so maybe this week there's a certain time of the day that works better, and so that's when I I'm able to do our shows.
• 16:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We have guests, we have to have to keep that in mind to make sure that the time and date is you know mutually agreeable.
• 16:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But the library, I'll tell you what, I I don't know when it was, I don't know how it came into my mind.
• 17:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Libraries have been around for as long as I can remember, and I don't know why I overlooked it, I don't know.
• 17:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I think part of it was I didn't know the full amenities that the library has.
• 17:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: At first glance, my mind probably one way where your mind did, was oh, you go to the library and that's where you know you go to check out books, read.
• 18:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But when we're looking for an internet connection like a Wi-Fi.
• 18:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Again, I'm I'm speaking from experience.
• 18:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm able to pick up Wi-Fi at the library, like some people say there's certain restaurants or certain places, certain other places that are able to pick up Wi-Fi and some people go and work and do things there.
• 18:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So number one, is number one, we have a space if it's available that we can think.
• 19:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Number two, we have the availability of Wi-Fi.
• 19:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If we have a computer, podcasting equipment, etc.
• 19:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So those are two things, and those have nothing to do with books.
• 19:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're talking about space, we're talking about Wi-Fi just happens to be available in a space where there's books, and it's called a library.
• 19:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's also newspapers, magazines, and the one other thing that I didn't I again I don't remember exactly when when it happened, but I went to library and I forget what I was going for.
• 20:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And this library also has musical instruments that you can rent.
• 20:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's all kinds of equipment that you can rent.
• 20:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You check out for a week or two.
• 20:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Depends on the particular equipment or instrument, and so when I saw that, I was like, this is not the library that I remember growing up, and I think libraries, at least the ones I'm referring to, I think over time they just evolved and added more things to be more attractive for the community.
• 21:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yes, the libraries paid through tax dollars, it's paid through grants.
• 21:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: In fact, some people may be in from out of town, and they may just be wanting to.
• 21:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Look at different books and see what's in.
• 22:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And uh they may have heard about a book from a friend or a family member, and they just go to the local library and and see if it's there, and then they can look at it, and if they're from out of town, then they just write that down and they wait till they get back home, and then they check it out of their own library, or if they want to purchase it, they can they can also purchase it.
• 22:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's nobody what I'm getting at is there's nobody at the door that says what's your address to walk through these doors to check things out and to use the borrowed shared space that I was in our organization years ago we were paying for a monthly fee, same setup, at least at the library I'm referring to.
• 23:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some, you know, two people, some ten or twelve, and all in between, and they have nice chairs, you just want to charge your phone, have access to the Wi-Fi, and so there's things that we overlook in our lives, and I'm the first to admit, and I have admit I'm not perfect, nobody's perfect.
• 24:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We all falter at one time or another, no matter how hard we try, we do.
• 24:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's not because we want to falter, it's because we're imperfect human beings.
• 24:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I can't do anything about that.
• 24:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I can just try to do my best, and so that's where this information's coming from.
• 24:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe you don't have a a library that's closed, maybe where you're you're you're living at is quite a distance from the library.
• 24:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't I don't know.
• 24:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm just sharing from my experience about libraries and resources that maybe you knew existed, or maybe you didn't.
• 25:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Say Justin, like, oh well, everybody knows that.
• 25:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Okay, that's good.
• 25:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But what we're trying to do is we're trying to help people, and so it's for that one person that doesn't know or hasn't tried or has uh internally in their mind, I can't do this.
• 25:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't have a way to get all this put together, I don't have a place that is quiet where I can gather my thoughts.
• 25:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The library, it's not just books, the library where you can do a lot of different things, and they don't charge.
• 26:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If I go into the library, if all the rooms, all the office spaces that they have available, if they're all being used at a current time, well of course, then I have to wait.
• 26:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If they're not and they're available, then they ask for my name, address, and that.
• 26:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, they don't ask at the door, but for certain protocols, they may ask for address.
• 26:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But they don't ask for money, they don't ask for a hundred dollars a month.
• 26:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You might say, oh Justin, well, they're the library's getting whatever X amount in in tax dollars.
• 27:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Okay.
• 27:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The way I look at that is what do we spend?
• 27:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How many things do we spend that amount on?
• 27:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We go to the coffee shop every day of the week, or three or four.
• 27:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Coffee's five, six dollars.
• 27:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You start adding that up, that's a lot of money.
• 27:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And maybe you like the taste, maybe you like that it helps wake you up.
• 27:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't I don't know.
• 27:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't I don't drink coffee, but I'm not against anybody that does at all.
• 27:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But what I'm trying to say is it's free at that very moment.
• 28:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Nobody's checking your ID.
• 28:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You can walk in to your local library, get a library card, and your mind can expand that neuroplasticity in our brain, those new areas by just sitting, and whether we have a project that we're there that specific day, that specific time, or whether again just to have a little bit of a little bit more quiet.
• 29:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Why not?
• 29:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Give it a shot.
• 29:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You hear me talk all the time about voices for voices and how we have a zero dollar budget for just about the most part, and so being thrifty and finding ways to cut costs that we would normally have to pay for, like a shared space, like if I didn't know about the library and having those opportunities, if I wanted to go somewhere, the same amenities of the Wi-Fi indoors, uh I'd be paying a monthly fee, or maybe it's uh you know, if you're there one day a week, one day a month.
• 30:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There could be different fees, different rates to be paid.
• 30:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we are here to help.
• 30:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we know there's so many people that have projects, ideas in their mind, things they want to do, and so this is what we're doing today is sharing a way that may be overlooked to do your thing.
• 31:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I've I overlooked for years the library.
• 31:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Why do I need to go to the library?
• 31:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: When I was in college, made sense, but after that, it was like, well, I don't need to go to the library, they don't have anything I need.
• 31:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Actually, they do a little bit of peace and quiet for an hour, 30 minutes, 20, whatever, whatever amount of time.
• 31:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Why not?
• 31:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Give it a try.
• 31:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then if you have projects and things you want to do, you might say, Oh, I gotta type this up, I gotta put this in an outline form.
• 32:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But I just I just can't seem to quiet my mind enough.
• 32:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, part of that is our mind and mental health.
• 32:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So maybe we reach out to a therapist or psychiatrist.
• 32:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you don't want to do that, the next best alternative NBA.
• 32:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Go to the library, spend some time alone.
• 32:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Spend that quiet time, go to church.
• 32:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Go to church and spend some time.
• 32:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Spend some time alone.
• 32:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You'd be surprised.
• 33:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I've been so surprised where I'm like, oh my gosh.
• 33:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like the musical instruments part, I mean, they don't have a piano, but they have it's surprising the the different instruments and equipment they have.
• 33:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I was flabbergasted when I saw that.
• 33:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I was like, you can run a manjo, you bet you can rent uh an acoustic guitar, and then all have a tuner, so I you don't have to try to find how to tune, you just figure, okay, here's the top string, and here's where it needs to be, and I wait for the arrow to go in the middle, and then I go to the next one, and you do that six times, and then it's already, and then you can just play.
• 34:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Don't have to be some huge rock star musician, just the sound of music can help us and in ways we just don't we don't we don't know until we do it.
• 34:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So the library that's been the topic of this episode today.
• 34:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you for joining us.
• 34:38
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• 34:50
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• 34:57
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• 35:05
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• 35:12
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• 35:39
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• 35:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much.
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