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You Created Champions, Not Politicians | Episode 440 · 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 today's show.
• 0:09
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  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're number three only to the Joe Rogan experience and the Dan Bongino show.
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  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, so we're quickly rising.
• 1:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, and we're just very grateful to be where we're at with a uh a small staff, uh, but we have big messages and uh helping people uh help us reach people and help people in over 300 countries, we're over 100 countries and over 3,000 cities, we're already over a thousand cities, and then the huge overarching goal is to uh reach and help at least 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 1:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so welcome, whether you're here in the United States or you're somewhere uh outside the United States across the world.
• 1:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much for being with us today.
• 1:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So, today's show uh we're going to be talking a little bit about the Olympics.
• 2:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we had a previous show about the Olympics, but uh this one is uh is a little bit different.
• 2:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh this really gets to the heart of competition, it gets to the heart of uh all right, let's just jump in.
• 2:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I I I need to just say it.
• 2:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so if if you're an athlete, you go to the Olympics.
• 2:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You that means you and others, even if you don't make it to the Olympics, you've poured your heart and soul and your whole being into trying to make it to the Olympics over the course of years and hours and hours and hours of training.
• 3:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then you finally you make it to the Olympics to compete against the best in the world based off of qualifications, and then you win a medal, and you are asked questions and interviews, and this is really kind of a two-parter here.
• 3:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're gonna talk about so you ask questions, so you're in interviews, so that's nothing new.
• 3:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now, what you say or what a person may say, that's what we're talking about.
• 3:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Okay, we're not here to we're not here to judge, we're just here to bring up conversational pieces that might resonate with individuals.
• 3:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The first is you bring up, you're being interviewed, and I say you, I don't mean you specifically.
• 4:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The individual individuals who uh made it to the Olympics, earned a medal, maybe didn't earn a medal, maybe just about participating and making it.
• 4:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And you're being asked questions about how it feels to be an Olympian, to represent your country, and the first thing that comes up, and this is just this is just my opinion, this is our opinion.
• 4:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, thanking God should be one of the first things that is said uh when somebody asks questions.
• 4:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We've seen Drake May from the New England Patriots, although they lost the Super Bowl, still gave gave the glory to God for making it to the Super Bowl, for just making it in general.
• 5:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then the winning coach from the Seattle Seahawks and American Football League, uh head coach American football, uh, when he was being interviewed after the Super Bowl, that's what he said.
• 5:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: He said, you know, God put me here to do this thing, and I'm doing this, and I did this, and I'm gonna continue.
• 5:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Those are big things.
• 5:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I would juxtapose, which basically just means alternatively, we have the Olympics, and we have people being asked questions.
• 6:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the first thing that comes to mind is somebody's agenda.
• 6:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Meaning the athlete you know has an agenda, what they want to talk about.
• 6:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now, I'm not saying you can't you can't talk and share about what just occurred, whether that was earning a medal or not, or just being an Olympian.
• 6:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Being an Olympian, this year I think it really struck me more than others of how much how much work and how much practice goes into being an Olympian.
• 6:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: For instance, I was watching, I was flipping the channels, and these are individuals that already made it to the Olympics.
• 6:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so not every channel is a specific and a specific event.
• 7:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some of it is practice, and so figure skating was one of the uh one of the events being being practiced.
• 7:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh for what I saw, it was uh you know, individuals that were, you know, because they can do you know, couples and uh and that.
• 7:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so what I saw were individuals and they were going through their routines over and over and over and over again.
• 7:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So it's not like those individuals made it to the Olympics, and then they're like, all right, I'm here, and then I do my event.
• 7:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yeah, that that's what it looks like to the to the world, to the general public and dignitaries.
• 7:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because that's usually what we just see on on TV or we hear on the radio.
• 8:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so that was that caught me off guard just a little bit because I I didn't realize I I thought that somebody qualifies to make it to the Olympics.
• 8:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I knew there was probably some practicing going on, but I actually got to see it this time.
• 8:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I have a whole new perspective on that of how much work that goes into it.
• 8:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So let's skip back to the post.
• 8:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let's go back to the interview room.
• 8:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And questions are being asked of how's it feel, and the first thing comes to mind is an athlete's agenda.
• 8:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now, I'm not saying we can't talk about it, that's not at all what I'm saying.
• 8:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That would be the opposite of voices for voices.
• 8:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: What I'm saying, and what we're recommending, is the reason that you're on, not you, but you get what I'm where I'm going.
• 9:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The reason why that individual is being asked those questions at the Olympics is for the work that they've done for the event or events.
• 9:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So they could be in one event, they could be in many events.
• 9:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So it's that hard work that got them there.
• 9:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so when they're being asked a question, it should have everything to do with that event, the preparation, uh how it felt to finally make it, and then individuals decide to toss in politics, toss in their own agendas on other areas.
• 10:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Again, I'm not against any of that, but there's a time and a place.
• 10:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And well, I'm we're human.
• 10:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But I mean, I remember growing up and just being taught like what like what are you working on?
• 10:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's like it's like growing up and going to school and uh getting a hundred percent on on an exam, and the next best highest grade was like an 80%.
• 10:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so maybe maybe the teacher, maybe the professor, maybe somebody asked, like, how'd you do it?
• 11:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like, is there is there something you could share um with the class?
• 11:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I'm not gonna go and just start talking about my agenda about politics and all that.
• 11:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Doesn't make sense.
• 11:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm gonna talk about how I got how not how I got 100%, but how I performed at the level that I did, or that you did.
• 11:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And a lot of that's probably gonna have to do with well, I studied and I did this and I did that.
• 11:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You're not gonna bring bring up politics and you know other social issues to use the uh use use your platform for for that.
• 12:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I read and saw a post by one of our past guests, Oksana Bayul, uh, gold medalist figure skating, and that was what she brought up.
• 12:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: She said, the reason the reason you're actually at that interview table or you're on that podium has very little at that moment to do with politics or other issues, that all can come later, that all can come later.
• 12:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But if an event like skiing or figure skating, I mean, if the event is mental health, well, of course you're gonna talk about mental health.
• 13:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If the event is um political science or you know, debating on you know political topics or other social issues, that's one thing, of course you're gonna talk about those issues, those topics.
• 13:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That just is bonkers to think that you wouldn't in that case, however, when you or I are at an event or the Olympics, and the first thing that comes out of our mouth is, well, I'm not really sure how I feel about wearing this flag on my jacket, on my clothing, or to represent this country this country, or to bring up social issues.
• 14:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You didn't get there because of social issues.
• 14:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Did they play a part?
• 14:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe not saying they didn't play a part, but there's a time and a place.
• 14:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's a time and a place, and that's the part that we're really trying to just share that this is next level, okay?
• 14:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So a lot of what we talk about is it's all next level, but this is just another half a level above that.
• 14:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So a lot of what we talk about is next level, is we're bringing in things that have helped us and or hurt us, and and we're trying to make amends and and and talk about this topic and that topic.
• 15:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But we're about mental health.
• 15:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Voices for voices is about mental health.
• 15:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if I get asked a question, I'm most likely gonna bring up mental health because that's what I'm doing, that's what we're doing.
• 15:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Whether it's a book, whether it's a TV show, whether it's a podcast, whether it's a movie, whether it's a song, whatever it may be, I'm probably gonna bring up mental health.
• 15:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because that's what I'm known for.
• 15:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's what voices for voices is known for.
• 15:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And if people aren't sure, well, that's what voices for voices is known for.
• 15:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The main foundation is mental health, mental illness.
• 16:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Full stop.
• 16:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So it makes sense in those cases to share and talk about mental health, mental illness, how'd you get started?
• 16:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Why'd you get started?
• 16:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's all gonna reverberate and it's all gonna go back to mental health.
• 16:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now at the Olympics, when the whole reason that you're even being asked a question instead of sitting at home, like 99.999999% of people that you qualified against, and you're gonna sit or stand and talk about the politics and social issues.
• 17:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How about just talking about make it to making it to the Olympics?
• 17:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How about talking about how your practice has gone or how how your your event has gone, you know, if it's a team sport, if it's uh an individual sport, it makes sense to talk about those things.
• 17:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But to bring up politics like, well, I'm not really sure how how I feel, that's okay.
• 17:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: A lot of us don't know how we feel about certain certain things, but I'd also add in who paid for your flights, who paid for your hotel, who paid for your food?
• 18:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's the country.
• 18:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I bring this up, and this is I think one of the reasons why we're so popular is b across the world, and that is I've been to a lot of countries, I've been to a lot of different areas across the world, and every single country, territory, city I've been to, there's a sense of happiness of being of locals being a part of that community or that country.
• 18:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Doesn't mean they have to agree with things politically and social agendas and all doesn't mean that doesn't mean that they can't have thoughts and ideas not at all at the end of the day though, they're representing their home country, their home city, their home state, territory, province.
• 19:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so when we come when we're talking about the Olympics and these athletes who want to use, you know, this pedestal and spout off about things that like they didn't get to the Olympics because they were they were experts in politics and experts in social issues.
• 20:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They got there because of how well and how they competed and how they qualified for a particular event or events, and so I think it's important for all of us to think about that.
• 20:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I know you most of us were I'll speak for myself.
• 20:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Oh my god, speak for ambush.
• 20:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm probably never gonna make it to an Olympics, okay?
• 20:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But if I'm asked the question, if I'm being interviewed as I have been hundreds of times, a lot of what I'm gonna talk about is mental health, and that's because that's what's really just saved me.
• 21:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: God saved me for some reason, and that's what we're doing.
• 21:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're talking, we're sharing.
• 21:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're not saying you can't have a voice about political issues, social issues, but I go back to the a theme of there's a time and there's a place when you're at the Olympics because you made it all the way through qualifications for an event or many events, and when you're being asked questions, you answer.
• 21:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Based off of again the practice, how happy you are to be afforded the opportunity to compete at the Olympics.
• 22:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You don't have to say a whole lot.
• 22:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Nobody says you have to go on and on and on and on and on.
• 22:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you do that, you just gotta make sure what you're saying, and this is also a public relations issue that we're talking about.
• 22:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We talk about the topic that's being like why we're here.
• 22:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not talking like why God has us here.
• 22:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm talking like, why am I sitting at this table being asked questions in Milan, Italy, Cortina, Italy, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
• 23:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Why am I here?
• 23:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is it because I again I'm an expert in politics and so that's what this show's about.
• 23:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Be gracious.
• 23:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Show some gratitude for the country that you're representing.
• 23:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you want to talk about other things, talk about other things at other times.
• 23:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You don't talk about social issues, and mental health can be huge.
• 23:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You can touch on it, but you don't have to you don't have to get into the whole whole thing.
• 23:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And just say, you know, hey, that you know, there's more to come.
• 24:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm gonna be sharing more on areas that I felt help me at a different time.
• 24:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It you're you're you're there.
• 24:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: These athletes are coached to to on how to speak publicly.
• 24:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And like Oksana Bayol said, I I agree with the reason you're at the Olympics as an athlete is because of your athletic ability, and you're there to represent a country.
• 24:51
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if you're not happy representing a particular country, then move.
• 25:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Move to a different country, then if it's that big of a if it's that big of a deal that you gotta bring it up and you can't, you just can't wait to say your bit, then move.
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  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Very similar to shows.
• 25:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you don't like a show, turn on a different one.
• 25:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You don't like a movie, turn on a different one.
• 25:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You don't like the country that you're living in, move to a different country.
• 25:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you still the same.
• 25:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We still give you the opportunity to share your voice.
• 25:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But at that very moment when you're being interviewed at the Olympics after an event, we talk about the event, we talk about representing whichever country we're representing.
• 26:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And if we don't we don't think that that's we don't feel that way, then again, move.
• 26:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Move somewhere where you're happier.
• 26:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We want people to be happy, we don't want people to be sad, we don't want people to be upset.
• 26:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because all that all that's doing is rallying up people.
• 26:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And voices for voices, as you know, unites people.
• 26:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We bring people together, togetherness.
• 26:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We don't divide.
• 26:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if you're gonna use a stage that big at the Olympics, should be about uniting.
• 27:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Countries that don't get along, they get along for the most part at the Olympic Games.
• 27:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because it's not about the politics at the Games, it's about performing.
• 27:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's what they're there for.
• 27:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They're there to perform in their events or event and they're representing their country.
• 27:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If they don't they don't like that country, then they they have all the all the things that they don't like, then they can they can move.
• 28:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you, Oksana, for that that quote.
• 28:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh it's a heavy topic to talk about.
• 28:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: On the surface, it seems easy, but it's really a hard topic to really really go after.
• 28:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But it is a it is a topic.
• 28:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh nonetheless.
• 28:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's why we felt and feel the importance of doing a show on it.
• 28:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you for joining us.
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