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What Champions Do That You Don't | Split-Second Adaptation Under Pressure | Episode 425 · 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 on this episode, as well as our over 420 episodes in our catalog.
• 0:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Whether you're watching, whether you're listening, whether you're here in the United States or across the world, we are reaching over 100 countries, over 1,000 cities on our way to helping three plus billion people over the course of my lifetime.
• 0:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we're turning that 100 countries of reaching and helping into 300, and we're turning the 1,000 plus cities that we are reaching and helping into 3,000.
• 0:52
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• 0:54
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• 0:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It is an awesome feeling to be here, to have the opportunity to uh come into your homes, to come in to your earbuds, uh, wherever you may be, whether you're home or whether you're traveling, whether you're at work, uh, whether you're commuting, uh to and from work.
• 1:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much for joining the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 1:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are up against uh the uh Winter Olympics are coming up very shortly, uh very soon, uh, and they're gonna take place in uh Italy, uh around the Milan area and in different different spots for for different different sports.
• 1:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And having been to Italy twice, uh actually three times, so uh twice was for school, and we went to Milan both times, uh more for uh you know business and and seeing how business is conducted, how manufacturing is conducted uh in Italy, because uh I'm from the United States, our class is based in the United States, and so we went to Italy to learn international business up close and personal.
• 2:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it is uh just an awesome feeling to to know that some of the areas that uh I may have visited uh with my uh classmates uh will be featured uh uh locations uh for the uh 2026 Winter Olympics.
• 2:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so this episode's about the Olympics.
• 2:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh the Olympics, yeah, they come around every uh every four years, I believe.
• 3:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh there's the winter, then there's the Summer Olympics, and Olympics really brings together the best of the best.
• 3:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so you know, the best uh athletes from all the countries that are participating.
• 3:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I'm gonna refer back to uh the couple conversations we we had here on on the show that you'll be able to check out after you watch and listen to this particular episode.
• 3:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, and and that is the stress and the amount of time that people who are training for the Olympics, like these are lifelong goals, right?
• 3:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we've talked about goal setting a little bit, and so for some athletes, individuals, uh the Olympics is kind of like the pinnacle of their uh of their career, and so what I mean by that is that's what they want to do.
• 4:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They want a they want a chance to be an Olympian, to win a gold medal, a silver medal, a bronze medal, because these are all the best in the complete entire world that are competing, not just within you know a particular country, but uh across the entire world.
• 4:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um, and and so there's so much training, and the conversation that I'm referring to is let me pull up episode number 317, where we had the opportunity, so that's episode number 317.
• 5:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: 317 is the episode number where we were able to interview in person Oksana Bayul, the figure skater, gold medalist at uh Olympics, and she talked at length about the stress that goes into training, and we're not talking about practicing or training, you know, one hour a week or one hour a day.
• 5:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: These are these are very dedicated people that they're going to school and then they head off and practice.
• 6:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some practice, then go to school, and then practice again.
• 6:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so there's so much time and intensity to be perfect, and we know that nobody is absolutely perfect, we know that Jesus is perfect, not us human beings, but we try to be the best that we can and to come out on top in the Olympics, and so Oksana was talking about how stressful all that training was for years and years and years to have an opportunity to qualify for the Olympics, so that's stressful enough.
• 6:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Then when an individual qualifies for the Olympics, then there's the performance or the game or the matches, uh, depending on we're talking about a tennis match, if we're talking about a figure skating and competition, uh there's so much that goes into it, and knowing that so many people are watching and listening across the world.
• 7:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh I know growing up with my mom and my dad and my sister, the Olympics was something that we we we watched.
• 7:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was something we look forward to uh seeing, you know, depending on the location of where the Olympics were taking place.
• 7:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, a lot of the Olympic games take place in a different time zone in uh many times different countries, so they're recorded or taped, and then some of not all the events because there's so many, uh, but some of them are then uh able to be broadcast on the uh uh usually they call prime time, you know, evening television, where the most people have an opportunity to watch uh or listen to uh a broadcast of what is uh occurring, you know, who's participating and all that.
• 8:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so Oksana was talking about when she qualified, she made it to the Olympic Games, and then it was her turn to skate.
• 9:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And Nancy Kerrigan, the U.S.
• 9:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Olympian, skated right before Oksana and had one of the highest scores, and so there was even added pressure to Oxana, where not only all the stress from all the practicing and qualifying, make it to the Olympics, qualifying and going forward in the actual competition to be at the point where she was skating after Nancy Kerrigan for the gold medal is is really what it came down to.
• 9:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And Oksana mentioned to us that she had uh you know some some back issues, and so that was bothering her, and and so through all that she was able to compete, but not only that, adaptability is one of the skills that we try to learn as human beings, and Alexana was telling us how she had to adapt her program, her figure skating program, so the two to three to four minutes.
• 10:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, right, you have all the these years and hours of practicing and qualifying, and it comes down to just a couple, just a few minutes, and then to watch a competitor get one of the highest scores, Oksana again, as she she talks about in episode 317 and in our catalog, uh again, check that out, watch it, listen to it.
• 11:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: She had to adapt in the moment.
• 11:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So not only was she going with her, you know, pain in her body, she was dealing with the stress of, oh my gosh, if I want to have a chance at a gold medal, I have to do something different in my program, in my routine.
• 11:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So she added an additional uh an additional jump, that's what I'm gonna call them, because I don't I don't know uh like all the the specific names of all the different jumps that uh and the spins and all that, that's what the the the judges judge the the the figure skaters on.
• 11:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, they have different criterion that they do that.
• 11:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so Oxana in real time dealing with the pain, all the stress that goes into it, the millions they're watching, not just uh those inside uh the you know the ice rink, uh ice arena, uh, but the people watching all over the world.
• 12:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And she made that modification and she made that adjustment, and so she added this extra jump, and she landed it, she did it.
• 12:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and Oksana ended up winning the gold medal based on her scores, based on the fact that she was able to modify in real time and say, in her mind, hey, if I want a chance of this gold medal, I gotta this, I have to do something additional.
• 12:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I need to change something.
• 12:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's something that us as individuals sometimes we have to uh sometimes we have to work through.
• 13:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, nothing is perfect, so we can plan just like the Olympians, uh, but sometimes we have to modify.
• 13:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that could be any number of of ways and things that we would have to modify on a on a on a daily basis.
• 13:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh let's just say that if and this is just a small example, let's say that you you're you're you're you're filling out papers for something.
• 13:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe it's a house, maybe it's a car, maybe uh maybe it's a TV, it maybe it's a piano, a guitar, and you're filling it out, and you're being asked to fill out the form with a pen in the store where you're at, or location you know, for the house, the signings, they don't have any pens.
• 14:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so did we think to bring a pen or not?
• 14:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we may have to modify and say, well, I have a sharpened pencil, is that okay?
• 14:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, not ideal.
• 14:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The fact that we had a pencil, we were able to sign the papers.
• 14:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I know that's a very small example, and it is on the other side of the continuum from what we were talking about with the the Olympics, but that's just a modification of sometimes we have to we have to deal with that.
• 14:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let's say uh there's a treadmill and we're doing a workout and we're used to walking a certain number, right?
• 15:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So the the treadmills you could you uh you can either make them incline, so it feels like you're walking up a hill, and then there's like the speed at which you're walking.
• 15:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, maybe you're used to walking the number seven, but the treadmill you have only goes up to six, but you can do the uphill, which is what you need to do, what you want to do.
• 15:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so you just make that modification and say, okay, for this workout, I'm only gonna be able to do six.
• 15:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's no other way like I like that I can change that, and so that's what I do.
• 15:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I do the number six instead of number seven.
• 15:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's not gonna ruin all my other workouts, but I'm just adapting to the moment, like getting getting as close to that number as possible, and also getting back to the Olympics, uh we had on, and this was yeah, episode number 353.
• 16:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, so that's episode number 353 on uh the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 16:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Again, you can watch and listen after you watch and listen to this episode.
• 16:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we had Nicole Bobeck, and she's also an Olympian, and so she uh went through the rigors and the stress like Oksana did.
• 16:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now Nicole from a medal perspective may not seem or look as successful as Oksana's, but she's still an Olympian.
• 17:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's still so many hurdles and obstacles and qualifications and all the um practicing and you know sometimes uh you know these individuals for that are uh participating in the Olympics, that's that might be all they do is practice, school, eat, sleep, practice, school, eat, sleep.
• 17:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It may not have a whole lot of time to have the you know the kid uh or the adult experience with you know friends and family, there might be it because there's just so much so much practice that uh that goes into it.
• 18:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And you might say, oh, okay, well, yeah, there's a lot of practice.
• 18:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, there's also travel time as well, because if you're a figure skater, and unless you live near an ice skating or an ice rink, because you're gonna play hockey on on on ice as well, unless you have an ice rink that's nearby, it's not like going to the local gym.
• 18:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um, yes, you do work out at a gym or a modified gym, uh, but the actual skating and getting used to being on the ice and the different turns, and then there's music that's being played, and you're choreographing your jumps and your spins and your skating, you know.
• 19:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If there's a fast part of a song, so you might skate a little faster, might have a faster or quicker jump and spins, and and the slower part might be a little bit slower of the skating.
• 19:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and so there's so many, so many aspects that it's not just like a sport, not taking anything away from the other sport of baseball or or basketball, where it's it's pretty straightforward.
• 19:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And for baseball, you need to just need glove and a ball and and uh and a friend or a family member, and you can play catch anywhere.
• 19:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh basketball, may uh whether there's a basketball, whether there's a gym whether there's basketball hoops, uh maybe close, but it I I would think there'd be a basketball court closer than an ice rink.
• 19:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't know that all for sure.
• 19:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh I just from my understanding is the an ice ring, there's there's fewer ice rings.
• 20:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so you got to add that into the practice time.
• 20:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So let's say you're doing two hours of practice a day, and you have to travel an hour each way.
• 20:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's four hours right there of your day.
• 20:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's a there's different countries which are joining us, and thank you so much for joining us all over the world.
• 20:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you.
• 20:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we thank you for your love and support.
• 20:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Where there's even fewer ice rings, and so they might have to travel even further.
• 20:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I'm just bringing these up just to talk about there in this season of Olympics that's coming up here very soon, that there's a lot of sacrifice that goes in to wanting to be an Olympian.
• 21:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the thing is, the the chance of let's say a hundred thousand people want to be an Olympian, compete at the Olympics, well, we see that there's so few that actually make it to the Olympics.
• 21:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so there's so many that go through all that same stress, uh practice, the driving back and forth, uh, all that, and don't get an opportunity to compete as an Olympian.
• 22:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They have to wait till the next the next Olympics, which is years away.
• 22:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I think it's it's really times like these that make us reflect a little bit on our own lives and thinking about how much time do we spend practicing, traveling to and from.
• 22:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's some people that have to take an airplane to and from work every day.
• 22:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's some people that live in in uh in states close by, but let's say they're have a TV show, or they're uh a news anchor in one of the big markets, maybe New York City, maybe Miami, maybe Chicago, Los Angeles, uh, San Diego.
• 23:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so maybe they commute, their commute is on an airplane every day, or a subway, or a train, or a bus, or a car, or an airplane, or a helicopter.
• 23:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm sure I may be missing one or more uh transportation methods.
• 23:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But when we think about all that time, that goal has to be worth it.
• 23:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if you're a news anchor and that's your job, and maybe the the the organization pays for your flight back and forth, or maybe that maybe they rent you an apartment or a condo to live in during the week, and then you're back home with family on the weekends.
• 24:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm just throwing examples out.
• 24:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I remember sitting in the San Diego airport.
• 24:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This is several years ago, and I don't know what news organization this individual works for or worked for, but it was a basic it's it was a T it's a TV show.
• 24:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There are you know, tell it's you know, we have you know TV and the news cycles 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and we were waiting for a plane to arrive to take us to Los Angeles to get a bigger plane, then to go on to our final destination.
• 25:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Hers is different than mine, and I just overheard a conversation with her saying, you know, I wouldn't be taking the because there's a red eye flight that was San Diego to LA and then LA to wherever you're going because of the time change and and different time zones.
• 25:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we're we're gonna be arriving in the morning.
• 25:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I overheard her say, you know, I wouldn't be taking this red eye, um, but I have to be on camera at a certain hour.
• 25:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so again, I don't know, I don't know what news station it was.
• 25:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: All I knew was what I heard, and so that was probably someone who was on TV in one capacity or another, and so she lived in San Diego, but was going to her work, and it was a it was a Sunday night, uh, was gonna be going to New York.
• 26:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's where I'm I'm I'm getting at as far as the goal has to be worth it, and and so I don't I have no idea what the family situation is or was, or I'm going off of literally hearing a couple sentences of just happen where I was sitting, and you know, people were just gathered close to the gate, ready for the air airplane to arrive.
• 26:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The one with the propellers, by the way, too, which uh those scare me a lot.
• 27:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I remember well, I won't, I won't they they they've they verge.
• 27:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I will hear in a second, but it's it's it's it's kind of funny and interesting.
• 27:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and so to hear that, so she uh she was traveling to and from work.
• 27:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So my guess is that wherever she was working, probably had a hotel or an apartment or a condo where this person was able to live during the week and then fly now.
• 27:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because it I mean you're talking, you know, New York to LA or LA to New York, that's you know, you're talking about five-hour flight.
• 27:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so if somebody were to do that, that'd be 10 hours, like at least 10 hours a day.
• 28:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If it was every day flying San Diego to LA to New York, New York to LA to San Diego.
• 28:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so my that that that's just my thoughts on a situation.
• 28:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now on on the plane, um, I was watching and I like the sport of baseball, and they're the hometown team is the Cleveland Indians.
• 28:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now it's the Cleveland Guardians.
• 28:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, it's been it it had been uh quite a long time since the guard the Guardians or the the Indians at the time had a good record and made it to the playoffs, let alone to the World Series and won it.
• 28:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It'd been a really long time.
• 28:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so somebody made a movie about them making it to the playoffs.
• 28:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and in and in the movie, one of the ways that they're made the team was made to travel because the own the owner wanted to move the team from Cleveland, Ohio, somewhere warmer down south.
• 29:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So the owner in the movie found what they thought were not great players and thinking, okay, they could justify a move or a sell sale of the team with a really bad record.
• 29:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They could they could say, look, this was the record, and we're gonna move the team.
• 29:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so the owner was trying everything, so they started off you know flying, um, and the the plane that they're flying in uh has the propellers, and they were and in the in the one scene in the movie, the team was waiting for the plane, and they looked over, you know, they saw a jet, and they said, Oh, you know, we get the traveling style.
• 30:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, and then somebody from the team said, Oh, no, no, that's not your plane, your plane's over here, and they looked over there, and well, and and there was uh one of the maintenance workers with duct tape putting duct tape around you know the the propeller uh propeller needed uh some something to help keep it together.
• 30:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um and so that was the one the one uh the one example.
• 30:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then the second example I had uh in the in the professional realm with one of the organizations I was working with.
• 30:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we were taking uh we had flown down commercials, so like in a regular jet, I don't remember which airline it was, uh it doesn't matter, but uh in the organization they were they're gonna be taking us to their uh locations where they make the product that they sell.
• 31:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so we were we're taking their private jet or private plane, so that's what it was.
• 31:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was private plane.
• 31:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so somebody at work said, Oh, you're going on the private plane, and they're like, Yeah, that's not a it's not a jet, because people think like, oh, you're flying private.
• 31:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and they're like, No, it's not, it's not what you think of.
• 31:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's not uh it has it has the propellers, and I was like, oh my goodness, and I gotta find the picture.
• 31:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I have it somewhere.
• 31:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't know where it's at, where I was able to get a picture with the pilot right outside the plane.
• 32:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um it ended up, I mean, it was like I think it was like a 40-minute, 35-40-minute flight from uh where we were at to where we were going, and then we you know flew flew back after after the tour.
• 32:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so a 45 or 35-40-minute flight each way.
• 32:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That if somebody was commuting that that amount and it was being paid for, because it's not it's not inexpensive to fly on any type of a plane, no matter what what kind of plane, whether it's one with the propellers or whether it's you know uh uh 747, uh you know, or these these jumbo jets.
• 32:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so all that to say, getting back to close out our show on on the Olympics, uh, there isn't a uh past Olympian.
• 33:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh her name is Laurie Hernandez, ended up winning a gold medal at I believe it was the 16, 2016 Olympics.
• 33:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so she's a gymnast.
• 33:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And you know, we have we have a child in our uh in our home that it's our child.
• 33:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um and so we like to read to our child.
• 33:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: My wife and me, we like to read to our child.
• 33:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we came across this book, I and I believe it was my wife that came across it, and and it uh the book was written by Laurie Hernandez, and what I didn't know until literally right before started this show is so the main character in the book, the name is Zoe, and I was like, okay, Laurie Hernandez, um I just looked it up real quick.
• 34:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Her middle name's Zoe, and that's the main character in the book, and I had no idea.
• 34:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I had no idea that was that that's her middle name.
• 34:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and so Zoe in the book, you know, reflecting on Laurie talking about all the practice and how the the balance beam was one of her best uh one of her best, yeah.
• 35:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They have the rings, they have the floor competition, they have the uh the balance beam, they have the horse where they jump and do flips, and they have the bars, you know, the one, the taller one and the shorter one.
• 35:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so the the balance beam is the one that Laurie was really good at.
• 35:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And in the story, Zoe, also known as Laurie Hernandez, uh, goes through how she went to gymnastics when she was growing up, and and she fell.
• 35:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so she told her family, I don't want to go back.
• 35:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't want to go back, I don't want to go back to gymnastics again.
• 35:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And her parents said, Let's go get some ice cream and celebrate.
• 36:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And Zoe was like, Well, why are what what's her to celebrate?
• 36:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh I I fell and I don't feel good about that.
• 36:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't know if I want to go back.
• 36:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And her parents said, You did fall, so we're celebrating that you fell.
• 36:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we know that sometimes we're gonna fall, and sometimes we're not gonna fall.
• 36:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So they went out, they had ice cream, they the story continued to the end where she didn't fall.
• 36:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I think that can be implemented in all of our lives.
• 36:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's times we're gonna fall.
• 37:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're gonna fall short.
• 37:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We may physically fall.
• 37:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then there's gonna be times that we're not, and we don't, that we don't fall.
• 37:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I just want to leave you with that.
• 37:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Have fun watching the 2026 Winter Olympics.
• 37:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Milan, Italy.
• 37:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And just think about that.
• 37:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes we're gonna fall, sometimes we're not.
• 37:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: A lot of it for me is in my mind, and where I fall short.
• 37:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then there's sometimes where I don't fall short.
• 37:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we have to be this understanding of that.
• 38:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So to bring this home, our child had an appointment, went to the appointment, didn't work out that day, that time.
• 38:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I said, Let's go get some ice cream.
• 38:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: My child was like, or our child, my wife and I've child.
• 38:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I say mine, she's ours, our child.
• 38:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And she was like, Well, she's a child, so she is naturally like, Oh yeah, like ice cream.
• 38:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But she was kind of like, well, why?
• 38:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I said, Remember that book we read the other night?
• 38:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Which was the Lor Laurie Hernandez book, the Zoe book.
• 39:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Do you remember how Zoe fell?
• 39:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And she said, Oh yeah.
• 39:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I said, that's what we're gonna do.
• 39:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're gonna go get ice cream, we're gonna celebrate that we went to your appointment, and it didn't work out last time.
• 39:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so there's gonna be some times where it does work out.
• 39:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: In fact, more than way more than those that don't.
• 39:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so I invite you when you can to take maybe a situation or an event.
• 39:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like Zoe, Laurie Hernandez book main character and celebrate.
• 40:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We already have enough negativity, division in in the world.
• 40:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So why don't why don't we just celebrate the little things and say, yeah, it's still work out.
• 40:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm sure growing up, same thing for me.
• 40:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm sure I went to appointments, doctor, done out, and they and it didn't work out.
• 40:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: For sports, there were there were times where I made the team and times that I didn't make the team that I wanted to make.
• 40:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we just learn have to have to have to learn and do the best we can.
• 41:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No, it's not gonna be overnight.
• 41:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No, it's not gonna be the easiest thing in the world.
• 41:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No, it's not fun.
• 41:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But let's just have a little fun.
• 41:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let's celebrate sometimes those things that don't work out.
• 41:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because that might be the very thing that celebration, that you know, going for ice cream or whatever for you is a is a treat.
• 41:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe that's the very thing that's gonna help that child, that person go back the next time to that appointment and do it.
• 42:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And think of I I'm I'm brave.
• 42:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I came, I and it didn't work out, and now I'm back, and it's gonna work out.
• 42:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you so much for the love and support.
• 42:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we uh we have again over 400 episodes, but over 420 episodes to be exact.
• 42:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh have fun watching the uh winter Olympics coming up.
• 42:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh it's definitely gonna be uh something that's gonna be fun to watch.
• 42:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and you know, we we cheer for countries, but we just cheer for people doing the best they can, and that's how life is for us.
• 42:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We just do the best we can, there's nothing else we can do, and so I'm Justin Alan Hayes, voices for voices.
• 43:02
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• 43:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Farewell for now.