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3 Billion Lives: From Anxiety to Impact | Episode 199 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:01
  Justin Alan Hayes: Welcome to this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 0:06
  Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us.
• 0:09
  Justin Alan Hayes: If you can give us a big thumbs up, if you can like, share, subscribe to our channels, we would greatly appreciate that.
• 0:19
  Justin Alan Hayes: Continuing towards that goal of helping 8 billion 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond, we haven't even hit 8 billion people in the world quite yet, so that's why I chuckled a little bit.
• 0:39
  Justin Alan Hayes: And we're doing that with the help of you, partner organizations and just fellow human beings that want to help others and whatever that looks like.
• 0:57
  Justin Alan Hayes: Not all of it is monetary.
• 1:01
  Justin Alan Hayes: A lot of it is just spending a little bit of time, volunteering or even on social media liking, sharing, suggesting ideas.
• 1:20
  Justin Alan Hayes: Those are all ways to help us reach our goal.
• 1:28
  Justin Alan Hayes: And if you've known about Voices for Voices anything in the past, we are and have really started to hit some pretty big goals for us internally.
• 1:49
  Justin Alan Hayes: To get to that point, we've had a number of very grateful media spots where we had the opportunity to show the brand Voices for Voices, talk about the brand, among others.
• 2:13
  Justin Alan Hayes: We're doing a whole lot and it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of energy, it takes a lot of brain power takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of energy, it takes a lot of brainpower right, we know that we're not only we don't always just get tired physically, that we can get tired mentally.
• 2:35
  Justin Alan Hayes: That could be considered.
• 2:38
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know the term burnout, you know hyphenated burnout, or two words, I guess it would be burnout and really that just means you know we're, we're exhausted, exhausted from, from thinking from.
• 2:58
  Justin Alan Hayes: As a previous episode we talked about refreshing.
• 3:02
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know, we were a little bit, you know, addicted to that refreshing our, our news feeds, our, our emails, our apps for the newest and latest information and feedback.
• 3:17
  Justin Alan Hayes: And that can, that can take a toll, has taken a toll on me working through that.
• 3:27
  Justin Alan Hayes: But one of the reasons I'm able to at this current time is because, as you've heard me talk before about the importance of the work we're doing, importance of the stories, of the content that we're sharing, the guests that we are very grateful to interview and share their stories and share where they've been and where they're at and share their goals and tips.
• 4:03
  Justin Alan Hayes: And again, it's, it's a lot, a lot of work, a lot of, a lot of little things to kind of go in behind the scenes that you don't.
• 4:17
  Justin Alan Hayes: Many people don't see, they just see the finished product.
• 4:23
  Justin Alan Hayes: They see or listen to our episodes, which we're very close, if we haven't already hit episode 200.
• 4:36
  Justin Alan Hayes: So that's pretty awesome.
• 4:40
  Justin Alan Hayes: You've heard me talk about hitting episode 300 by the end of 2025.
• 4:48
  Justin Alan Hayes: Well, before we can get to 300, we have to reach 200 and we're just, uh, not even a quarter of the way through 2025 and we're at 200.
• 5:02
  Justin Alan Hayes: And we just have some really, really neat things that we're doing and neat guests that we're able to share, both in studio and remotely.
• 5:43
  Justin Alan Hayes: I've been able to one area that I've wanted to be a little more focused on this year, and it can be considered self-care, lowering of stress, and we can do that by a number of different things, and for each of us, those are going to be different, and one of those things for me is playing my guitar.
• 5:53
  Justin Alan Hayes: Not great, I know the basic chords, I'm not an educated singer by any stretch and I've wanted to, in 2025, be a little more focused on that little niche for me.
• 6:20
  Justin Alan Hayes: For me, because I like doing it, it does reduce stress, even though it is stressful trying to remember the progression of the chords.
• 6:37
  Justin Alan Hayes: So, for instance, as we would count one, two, three a song.
• 6:47
  Justin Alan Hayes: The progression might be the chord A, then C, then D, and so those are things that I have to remember playing certain songs and then write it.
• 7:04
  Justin Alan Hayes: Every song has a little bit of a different chord progression but anyways, regardless of how bad I think I am or not great at it, the emotional tie, the way it makes me feel doing it, and then afterwards it really is kind of a helpful thing for me to do.
• 7:38
  Justin Alan Hayes: And so far in 2025, thus far I've been able to do a little bit more intentional focused guitar playing slash, if you want to call it singing, call it talking and so we've been able to do a couple of songs done.
• 8:11
  Justin Alan Hayes: We've done more than what we put out, which is incredible that we still have a lot of incredible content that is still waiting to be scheduled because some current events happen and come up.
• 8:25
  Justin Alan Hayes: We like to capitalize on that, and so I believe we have out there memories from Maroon 5, crews from Florida-Georgia line, and that might be all.
• 8:48
  Justin Alan Hayes: I might be missing one.
• 8:49
  Justin Alan Hayes: I'll take a take a look after film this.
• 8:53
  Justin Alan Hayes: It's not really important.
• 8:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: I don't have superstructure goals when it comes to it, other than when I ruminate and when I do my refreshing of emails and and the like, if I'm able to take some time away from that and practice a little guitar, maybe learn, uh, learn a song or two and figure out if, uh, if that song or those songs plural will will be something that it will put out for kind of the world.
• 9:34
  Justin Alan Hayes: Because we, we are worldwide, which you've heard me saying another uh, another episode that it's really starting, uh, to hit me, that we are worldwide, that we have a global audience.
• 9:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: You've heard me or seen me say you know over 50 countries, over 550 plus cities across the world.
• 10:08
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know we are based here in Northeast Ohio where we spend most of our days, and I'm not sure really why.
• 10:18
  Justin Alan Hayes: I just as, of late, started to feel that way of really feeling well, the momentum, and that we're just continuing to expand and expand content, audience wise, each and every day and really by the hour, and then, as I'm sitting here talking or whether I'm in the studio, when I'm in the studio, I guess it's a little bit easier to be a little bit not, as I have more things to focus on it when I'm in studio.
• 11:16
  Justin Alan Hayes: So sometimes, well, that's teleprompter and they'll be lights, and lights really do affect me on that, on the autism spectrum, and so I focus on whichever camera that I need to, and really the cameras are like kind of that big as far as where I'm looking, so I can kind of generally look in that direction and then when we have guests, whether they're coming to us virtually or whether they're in studio, try to remain and have that eye contact with them and not worry which particular camera is being used.
• 11:59
  Justin Alan Hayes: There's five different cameras that the staff toggles in between.
• 12:08
  Justin Alan Hayes: They've known me pretty well after doing quite a few episodes, so they understand a little bit of my lingo and probably how my eyes shift, and so they're able to do a great job there.
• 12:26
  Justin Alan Hayes: So I have a few different things that can take my attention when I'm in studio, when we're shooting remotely, whether it's a solo episode like this or or whether we have a guest with us.
• 12:53
  Justin Alan Hayes: I guess my mind is able to expand a little bit, and it's interesting because when I maybe expand it, I think it's the right word.
• 13:08
  Justin Alan Hayes: It's what I mean by that.
• 13:11
  Justin Alan Hayes: I mean that one of the biggest things that as human beings we get afraid of throughout life, you know there's obviously taxes, you know dying, public speaking and when I started kind of my public speaking in college.
• 13:38
  Justin Alan Hayes: It's definitely super nervous and again, I medicated with alcohol and the like for quite a while and that was kind of my I say my go-to.
• 13:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: But the way I could continue and do what I needed to do whether that was a speech, a presentation and kind of get through it, because that's kind of the deal right Is get me through it.
• 14:15
  Justin Alan Hayes: Just like I had blood work done a couple weeks ago, I was like just get me through it, just get me through this.
• 14:22
  Justin Alan Hayes: And with speeches and interviews or the like, with speeches and interviews or the like, very much the same, get me through this speech, get me through this presentation.
• 14:44
  Justin Alan Hayes: Interviews for jobs, for scholarships, for anything, any type of interview, interview when I'm being interviewed, it really just consumes me, my mind's racing all over the place.
• 14:58
  Justin Alan Hayes: What do I want to, what topics do I want?
• 15:02
  Justin Alan Hayes: To make sure I share and, and you, we just have a flurry of activity going on in our head and that's very much the same with me, and so when I'm in the studio I know I have several things to kind of focus on or just be aware of.
• 15:22
  Justin Alan Hayes: That's kind of that flurry of activity for me in my mind when I kind of come out of that studio setting and it's just a camera, even if I have a light behind the camera or not, whether it's the camera we're using now or we have a couple different cameras that we use.
• 15:59
  Justin Alan Hayes: And the big thing now is just the time.
• 16:03
  Justin Alan Hayes: So to make sure that the best I can to stay around 30 minutes if at all possible.
• 16:12
  Justin Alan Hayes: So that's kind of the big milestone for these remote episodes, because when I'm in studio there's a clock and I'm able to follow that, follow that, and so for someone like me that I also have ADD, adhd, I guess, use that to my benefit, I guess.
• 16:43
  Justin Alan Hayes: So, whereas when I was using substances and alcohol specifically, whereas when I was using substances and alcohol specifically, mostly that's where I was focused.
• 16:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: I was focused on okay, when am I going to get that next drink, and not even the drinking of every day, but more of the binge drinking on weekends of I got to make sure I have something at home, you know, to pregame before I go out, and where am I going to go, and that's what was occupying my mind, whereas now I'm taking prescribed medication for my diagnoses, able to use a high amount of that energy towards the show, the organization, and that's huge because I really redirected kind of that energy from something not great to something a lot better.
• 17:54
  Justin Alan Hayes: Again, nobody's perfect, I'm not claiming to be where I'm at, though is in a much better spot with the energy, better spot with the energy.
• 18:14
  Justin Alan Hayes: So that flurry of activity for the show in studio is where I experience a lot, a lot of that flurry of activity.
• 18:20
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know a question progression, you know what answers have been given and where should we go from there, and so there's just a lot that I've learned over time.
• 18:33
  Justin Alan Hayes: So my interviews now are much better than what they were when I just started.
• 18:40
  Justin Alan Hayes: And that's just like any athlete or anybody, and the more practice you have in general, the better off you're going to be.
• 18:49
  Justin Alan Hayes: Does that mean you're going to?
• 18:51
  Justin Alan Hayes: You are so much better?
• 18:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: And no, it just means we're moving that pendulum.
• 19:00
  Justin Alan Hayes: We're moving in the right direction from where we started, just like if we're studying for an exam or a test.
• 19:14
  Justin Alan Hayes: If we study for five minutes versus 10 minutes and then we take a break and then we do five minutes and whatever that is.
• 19:19
  Justin Alan Hayes: The more our mind gets kind of conditioned, the better off we're going to be, just just like when we take an exam, when we see what type of questions are being asked, and so we know going forward.
• 19:37
  Justin Alan Hayes: When we study for a future exam quiz, we know what to look for a little bit more than when, at the beginning, we didn't really know what to expect.
• 19:54
  Justin Alan Hayes: Is it fill in the blank?
• 19:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: Is it essay, is it multiple choice?
• 20:01
  Justin Alan Hayes: Is it true-false combination?
• 20:03
  Justin Alan Hayes: Whereas again, when I'm doing these shows remotely, my mind is able to be a little bit more.
• 20:17
  Justin Alan Hayes: Since I've done it quite a bit, I'm still nervous.
• 20:22
  Justin Alan Hayes: I still get nervous every time before I start.
• 20:36
  Justin Alan Hayes: But for me, in these remote episodes, I'm able to settle in, and while there is still some anxiety there's, there's much less than in studio, so I'm able to.
• 20:50
  Justin Alan Hayes: When I say sit in, so I'm able to.
• 20:50
  Justin Alan Hayes: When I say sit in it, I'm able to in my mind, instead of ping-ponging between which camera?
• 20:59
  Justin Alan Hayes: What question?
• 21:01
  Justin Alan Hayes: Where am I at time-wise?
• 21:03
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know what type of delay do we have if we're on a Zoom call, a Zoom interview?
• 21:10
  Justin Alan Hayes: And instead of that, I'm able to really sit here a little bit or a lot more calm and able to think a little bit more clear in the given time frame that we have.
• 21:33
  Justin Alan Hayes: So when I talk about recognizing and it just starting to hit me about how worldwide our organization really is and how worldwide and how many people worldwide from all over the world, I can't stress that enough, that we're helping and we're sharing information, we're sharing content.
• 21:59
  Justin Alan Hayes: We've just come so far and if we didn't have goals you know, these huge goals of wanting to help $3 billion over the course of my lifetime and beyond I don't think I would be in this position where I would be kind of starting to feel a little bit of that weight.
• 22:27
  Justin Alan Hayes: Because to you right, you're watching or listening it probably sounds and looks very similar than what you've seen before or heard before.
• 22:42
  Justin Alan Hayes: But to me, with the camera setup that we have for this particular episode, it's much smaller in that there's just different sized cameras and you can use a phone, you can use a GoPro, you can use a variety of cameras, and so with the camera setup we have now, I'm truly looking into, let's say, like a, like a little bit of a dot, but kind of, uh, a small area, and to know that that small area in general, compared to other cameras that we use, just depending on availability they're charged, if we have memory, and and how many episodes we're gonna film and those types of things to to know that we are reaching so many people and that has been, that has been the goal and we're not done yet, we're not anywhere close, but just to see how far we've come in a short period of time and we're gonna.
• 24:08
  Justin Alan Hayes: We're hitting 200 episodes for the show.
• 24:11
  Justin Alan Hayes: We're gonna hit 300 by the end of 2025.
• 24:15
  Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, our guests are just amazing and we're just really grateful to be able to bring that those interviews and content to know.
• 24:31
  Justin Alan Hayes: Some's ultra serious, some's a little bit, you know, light, more lighthearted and and just what's what's going on in life.
• 24:41
  Justin Alan Hayes: But just know that, no matter what is covered behind my eyes, if you check out any of our social media, there's one post in specific and I believe it's nine different headshots of me, so pictures of my face at various times doing various things, and it says something like you know, the faces of depression.
• 25:17
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know, sometimes I'm some of those.
• 25:19
  Justin Alan Hayes: I'm smiling.
• 25:20
  Justin Alan Hayes: Some of them I'm not, some of them I look down and so, no matter what type of episode, the content, the individual or individuals we're interviewing, whether it's in studio, whether it's remote, I'm still a person that is going through active mental illness recovery and for anyone that needs to hear that you're not alone, you're not the only one.
• 25:57
  Justin Alan Hayes: We're all going through something.
• 26:01
  Justin Alan Hayes: Some things are similar, some things are different, but we're all going through this thing called life and it makes me feel good being able to share like this.
• 26:23
  Justin Alan Hayes: It very closely replicates, say, therapy, when I go to my therapy appointments, because I'm just sharing.
• 26:37
  Justin Alan Hayes: I'm talking about topics, things that are going on in my life, that have gone on, that are coming up, that are currently going on, things that are in the works.
• 26:50
  Justin Alan Hayes: You know having okay, well, we want to do 300 episodes in 2025 overall, and so some things we're working towards.
• 27:01
  Justin Alan Hayes: But just know that, no matter what we're working towards, that every episode, no matter how easy it looks to you or sounds to you, I'm still somebody that is in active recovery and I get curveballs thrown at me all the time.
• 27:25
  Justin Alan Hayes: Good days, bad days, a combination, good days, bad days, a combination yeah, and I think that's what I want to really really convey and we do from episode to episode.
• 27:45
  Justin Alan Hayes: So sometimes we talk about that and the stigma, and we can't do anything about that and the stigma, and you know we can't do anything about that.
• 27:53
  Justin Alan Hayes: We can.
• 27:55
  Justin Alan Hayes: We for me, I just keep my head down and trying to stay as busy as possible with the organization and trying to bring the best content and help as many people.
• 28:05
  Justin Alan Hayes: We got the re-entry program going.
• 28:09
  Justin Alan Hayes: We're helping a ton of people that way, but we were running for about half of 2024.
• 28:16
  Justin Alan Hayes: And we've seen a couple episodes with the individuals who lead that here in Summit County, and so I'm spending my time just kind of keeping my head down and working.
• 28:34
  Justin Alan Hayes: So, yeah, that does lead to burnout from time to time.
• 28:46
  Justin Alan Hayes: Things that are hopefully much better, as far as much healthier than binge drinking on weekends or whenever that was.
• 29:04
  Justin Alan Hayes: And so am I doing everything else perfectly healthy?
• 29:11
  Justin Alan Hayes: No, but I've eliminated that aspect and some toxic behavior that I'd been doing for quite a long time.
• 29:24
  Justin Alan Hayes: So that brings us oh, wow, so we're right at 30.
• 29:32
  Justin Alan Hayes: So again, thanks for all your love, your support.
• 29:37
  Justin Alan Hayes: Give us a big thumbs up, subscribe, like, share, follow and until next time, be a voice for you or somebody in need.