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What If Doing Your Best Is Enough To Change The World | Episode 396 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Hey everyone, Justin here, Voices for Voices.
• 0:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you very much for joining us on this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 0:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are so glad you decided to join us, even if it's only for a few seconds.
• 0:22
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• 1:05
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• 1:28
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• 1:54
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• 2:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We have embarked on helping at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 3:06
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• 3:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we are the hottest podcast, TV show, mix on the planet.
• 3:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it's planet Earth, in case anybody was curious.
• 3:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the Earth is round, so just uh throwing that out out there, just having a little little humor.
• 3:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We can I we can laugh from from time to time.
• 3:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh I just got back from doing a little bit of uh a little bit of last minute uh shopping for for the uh for the holidays, uh not quite finished.
• 4:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Seems to be a a yearly tradition.
• 4:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um then I don't think I'm the only one uh where we get closer and closer and closer, and then uh it's like, oh I need to go get some other things.
• 4:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't quite have everything that I need.
• 4:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so I'll be doing that uh you know coming coming up, and depending on when this episode airs, when it premieres, uh it may be uh after you know Christmas has started for us.
• 4:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh that that's that's nothing that we we're pushing on anybody at all.
• 4:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some people uh celebrate Christmas, some people don't, some celebrate Annika, some celebrate Kwanzaa, uh some don't, and that's okay.
• 5:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The one thing I do know is the time off work, if if uh if you if you can, uh the time that comes with having um time away from work to recharge the brain and the mind is always welcome, uh no matter no matter what the what what the reason reasoning is.
• 5:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so yeah, I was just I was out doing some shopping.
• 5:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um and it just so I said to laugh at myself when I'm when I'm out about yeah, you you plan on going to one store and then you end up at another and you end up at a different time that you thought you were gonna be there, and so then there's you know crowds, and there's just a lot of people doing a lot of the same same things, trying to complete their complete their uh their their shopping, and no matter what season they celebrate, or even if they don't celebrate a season, even if they're just celebrating another day, and that is one of the biggest things is to celebrate another day on earth because we don't know when our last day is gonna be, we don't know when our last minute, hour, second, we don't know when that's going to be.
• 6:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we can hope and not say hope in this case, we can think that we you know we'll find out from a doctor, like, oh, we're gonna get this diagnosis, and we'll we're given a certain amount of time that we we we can plan on uh staying on earth before we pass.
• 7:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um but sometimes tragedies happen and they don't happen because we want them to happen, they don't happen because we try for them to happen, we don't.
• 7:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's one thing as a somebody with uh as a parent, so this is called when when we share with our our children about accidents and how uh how sometimes they happen.
• 7:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And some of the first feedback from children are well, I'm not gonna let that happen, you know that, and we all learn the same way, right?
• 8:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Our our brain starts forming once we're born in the back, it works our way up to the front, uh, you know the logic and reasoning and that.
• 8:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and so we just have to try our best to share that even if it's something, even if it isn't uh a traffic collision where somebody wasn't paying attention, and and there's a collision, and you know, lives can be be altered uh in the families and the people, the loved ones uh get impacted as well.
• 8:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So it doesn't have to be uh something like that where it's hugely impactful.
• 9:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Can you just carrying a couple of toys and putting them back where they belong?
• 9:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that may lead to an accident of oh well I dropped one of the toys and I broke it.
• 9:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Didn't do it on purpose, it was an accident.
• 9:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We didn't we didn't we didn't plan to do it, and so it's it's principles like that, you know, that we we try our best, but there's really no handbook that comes with with with the the child.
• 9:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We just try our best that we can do and try to be there and just be a sounding board and helping and and guiding and we're not perfect and we make mistakes and so we we we we go that that route of the best we can and then that follows through when for the most part with uh children are they're good, well-loving, well-meaning, beautiful inside and out, uh so smart, so intelligent.
• 10:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I I go go back to my I said my initial point of you know, do do what do what you do, not what others tell you to do necessarily.
• 11:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We talked about that on a previous episode.
• 11:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But the shopping and all that uh I maybe it's just maybe I'm just hardwired to uh to start a little bit later than a majority of people.
• 11:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I think, you know, sometimes we can get caught up in our work.
• 11:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we can be, you know, laser focused on on that work and think, oh, I'll be able to get this in time, meaning whether that's a delivery uh of an availability at a store.
• 12:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh can I pick it up at a store, or does it have to be shipped at a house or the the the apartment or the condo or wherever, uh the dorm.
• 12:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we just have to go with the flow.
• 12:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I just got a notification that one one of the one of the things I was shopping for, supposed to be here today.
• 12:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And if not today, tomorrow, which when we're this is as we're filming it, so we're filming it, filming this ahead of Christmas, even though this may premiere it may first drop on on Christmas.
• 12:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now it's saying it might be Monday that it's gonna be delivered.
• 12:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And to saw my look on my face when I saw that, I was like, I can see a a day or so.
• 13:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How does that turn into I mean Friday's still late, Saturday's still late, Sunday's still late, and now it's Monday, and it's just something we we adapt to and we adapt with.
• 13:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so we have to adapt in other areas of our our lives as well.
• 13:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that made me so upset that uh yeah, so that just made me very upset to to learn that I may be surprised.
• 14:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Don't like surprises very much.
• 14:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um but this would be one of those instances where a surprise would be okay, where oh, we know we told you you're gonna get a delivery on Monday, but it's actually coming Tuesday.
• 14:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or wait now, because Tuesday's just about over.
• 14:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Maybe it's coming Wednesday.
• 14:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we'll see.
• 14:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So everything we do, there's things we can we can plan to a certain degree.
• 14:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's things that are out of our control.
• 14:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that is a majority of life that's out of our control.
• 15:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I mean we we've already covered this on many episodes, so we're not gonna we're not gonna get into all the examples that I I've I've used before.
• 15:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The other thing well, let me just close that that that thought out with it kind of helps the mental health feel accomplished.
• 15:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Finish the shopping.
• 15:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We wrap the presents.
• 15:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We sign the cards and we d uh each thing we do no matter whether it's small or large, it's a it's a little bit of a relief of like, okay one less thing to do.
• 16:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yeah, we love those days when we we can have minimal minimal things to do, we can re relax and if anybody likes relaxing, it's me.
• 16:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Anybody likes their naps, that's me.
• 16:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Anybody that loves their sleep, that's that's me.
• 16:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I've tried to think back if it must just be it must just be me.
• 17:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because I at different times have uh done some traveling outside of the eastern time zone.
• 17:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Whether that's western or whether that's eastern.
• 17:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Not easter, eastern direction, it's easter eastern direction from the eastern time zone.
• 17:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Say that three times fast.
• 17:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so then I arrive back home, and then my body works on acclimating back to the eastern time zone.
• 17:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so there were a couple trips that uh maybe they just affect me a little bit differently.
• 18:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't I don't know.
• 18:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like real fast paced, like being in being in one area for one day, then being in another area for a day, and then being, and then I and and so there's just a fast-paced nature.
• 18:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I don't know if my body was trying to catch up from all that, but we're talking like months, and in some cases years from when these different moments of travel occur.
• 18:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so it's hard to hard to fathom.
• 18:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's not impossible, but it's hard for me to fathom, then my body's still just getting used to the time zone again.
• 19:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The eastern time zone, the home time zone.
• 19:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I could be wrong.
• 19:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Everybody everybody I kind of talked to, they're just like, no, I you just I think you just like your sleep.
• 19:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You you're you're used to it.
• 19:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or working different hours.
• 19:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that that's something we just have to embrace.
• 19:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's hard.
• 19:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's hard to do.
• 19:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We we try, we try our best.
• 19:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes our best isn't good enough.
• 19:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But that's okay.
• 20:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We can only do our best.
• 20:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's literally the only thing we can do.
• 20:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No matter what that is.
• 20:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We just do our best.
• 20:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then the results will be what the results will be.
• 20:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's what we're doing at Voices up for Voices for Voices.
• 20:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're doing our best that we can, given our resources, the money that's been spent over the years on Voices for Voices.
• 20:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so we do our best.
• 20:55
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• 22:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we we just have conversation and we talk about real life events, right?
• 22:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we just went on for 15, 20 minutes.
• 22:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I'll just close out this particular episode by saying that it's so cool, so neat to see family members that all right.
• 23:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They play as many sports as they can.
• 23:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it's just really it's another incredible moment that was able to watch him play as a freshman on the freshman team and the the JV, the junior varsity team.
• 23:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was just so neat, so neat just watching him.
• 23:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Luckily my mom was able to come.
• 24:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Getting emotional, but it happens.
• 24:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's like uh my dad now in heaven, he passed on March 1st of 2020, 2024.
• 24:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that that's a little bit what I was referring to about yeah, we don't know how how much time we have on earth left.
• 24:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so it with my dad we were given a period of time.
• 24:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But even that was an estimation And for us with our belief that it was God that He knew the exact day, the exact hour, the exact minute, and the exact second.
• 25:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So when I talk about certain aspects my dad, I know he's watching in heaven with with my my nephews and with my child and my daughter.
• 25:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: He would just light up at the opportunity to go watch a ball game or go watch a recital.
• 26:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um that was one thing uh one of the things I miss about my dad is for so many you know, for forty-two of my uh years if I'm those of you listening, my eyes are tearing up because I'm getting emotional.
• 26:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So just to kind of let you know, people watching obviously can see I'm doing something with my eyes.
• 27:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so oh and and so being at a ball game where I know my dad would have just loved to be there, it has nothing to do with how how well my family members played.
• 27:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was just a mere fact that he just won wanted everybody to be happy with what they were doing.
• 27:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I remember so many years ago that my nephew I remember both of them were born, but with this this particular this particular game was a ball sport, so there's like you're playing with the ball, you're shooting it in a basket.
• 28:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh not with a firearm, but sh shooting, like trying to make as many baskets and get as many points for your team that at the end of the game that we would that you want to have the mark more points, a higher number, unlike golf or other sports where you want a low number.
• 28:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I remember so so clearly that my dad loved baseball, he loved all kind of sports, really.
• 29:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: My nephew tonight played, he he played really well, and I remember being over at my mom and dad's house and sorry, and being over at my mom and dad's house, and my nephews being so young.
• 29:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so, right, they're playing with toys, they're you know, they're keeping everybody on their toes.
• 29:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And my dad, he would toss, you know, like a a soft, very soft ball.
• 30:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then my nephews would you know, they'd be a footer away, or a T she like not very far, just you know, they're learning, and and and so when um when I do that, my dad would always tell them, you know, catch the ball with your hands.
• 30:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Catch the ball with your hands.
• 30:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You say hands, hands, but for to get a little bit of that uh that memory of okay, if a softball is tossed in my direction, I have to catch with my hands.
• 30:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So whether it's a basketball or baseball, soccer with the more with the feet.
• 31:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So instead of hand, it's more like feet, feet and from again as young as I can remember, not just with I mean with with with our family's children, young ones.
• 31:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was just it was something, and it I mean it's very small.
• 31:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's not saying anybody's gonna make you know the professional sports and make all kinds of you know money, and it was just merely merely just the fact of trying to just just help recommend that if you catch it with your hands and then you squeeze it uh or in baseball, depending, you know, you could have a glove in one hand, so catch it with your glove, which is your actual hand is inside the glove.
• 32:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Anyways, I I am now reminiscing on those types of activities where watching my nephew out out there playing.
• 32:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I mean the fact that he's in high school, like and my other nephew that in his his grade is uh not high school, but he's he's he's getting there.
• 32:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um so just seeing the way he's catching a ball and passing and dribbling and shooting and scoring baskets and points and and and playing on two different teams because he's very talented and so I know my dad like with everything, he's he's looking down, watching down from heaven, and even though we were given a period of time my dad's diagnosis, it still doesn't prepare anybody, didn't prepare us.
• 33:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You can't pre be prepared when somebody's gonna pass away.
• 34:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And especially when you're in the same the same room, and I never experienced that at all with any of my family, let alone you know my my dad.
• 34:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I tried to reminisce about the all the good times, and and so this you know the the this what seems like a small example of like, well yeah, of course you you want them to catch the ball, or uh when somebody's no longer living with you to whether we talk to them a lot or we sit and watch a ball game for hours and might say 15-20 words over the course of the game.
• 35:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's just like an understanding that we're both watching the game and and then we just watch the game, literally.
• 35:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We just watch the game.
• 35:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so you know the Christmas shopping part.
• 35:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was a little late-hearted.
• 35:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's a lot of people out.
• 35:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Right, yeah, you you look at your list of excuse me, no one knows this HM.
• 36:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yeah, you look at the list and it says a bag of something.
• 36:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then you see a box of that something, and you're like, uh small bag, and you're looking around.
• 36:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Excuse me, you're looking around and uh I'm seeing I'm not seeing that.
• 36:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm seeing I'm seeing not what's on the list.
• 36:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's in a different package, different shape.
• 36:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I went back and forth so many times going, okay, I think this is it.
• 37:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Then I'll go to the next aisle, and there would be another version of what I was looking for, and I go, well, small bag.
• 37:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Now I found a bag, but how small?
• 37:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so these are the types of things the with my mental illness is more than one.
• 37:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I guess super hyper focused.
• 37:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And that's one of the things, right?
• 37:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you take ADHD, ADD, somebody, somebody like me that has major depression, you know, we're trying to bring everything together and and be able to focus and not be all over the place, which I still am a good majority of the time.
• 38:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But that's the idea.
• 38:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that you know, do I get the box or do I get you know I see a bag?
• 38:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's uh what size of the bag, and uh is there say a flavor?
• 38:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I see a flavor of a small bag, but it doesn't say flavor on the list.
• 38:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so these are the types of things that uh I hopefully it makes you you laugh a little bit.
• 38:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um I'm trying to laugh at myself um you know, with just everything that's that that's uh that's happening you know, another another Christmas with without our our dad with us on on earth though he's always with us it's just in a different in a different form And so I my my emotions and their things it's always a roller coaster because there's times like these where I'm on a show and I am extra emotional.
• 39:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's times I'm not.
• 40:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Doesn't mean I'm not thinking about said topics and said people.
• 40:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so when I say, you know, do the best you can, and no matter who it is, no matter what age, young, old, doesn't matter.
• 40:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Just do the best you can.
• 40:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the best that I can so far with voices for voices that we've reached people like you and others in over a hundred countries, over a thousand cities all over the world, all over planet Earth.
• 41:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're helping people.
• 41:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some of it is quantifiable, some of it isn't.
• 41:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Some we we learn how we helped, some we'll never know.
• 41:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We'll never know about that person who takes takes a show and sends it to a few of their friends and loved ones, and it could be the vote both.
• 41:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and then they pass it on to somebody.
• 41:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so three, four people deep.
• 42:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It might reach that person.
• 42:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And they might it might just be something they just need to hear or see in here, or have it sign ASO American Sign Language.
• 42:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's my best.
• 42:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Could I quit?
• 42:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Can I quit?
• 42:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yes, of course I can.
• 42:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I can hang them up and say, well, this is the best idea I could do.
• 42:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's more.
• 42:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's more people to help.
• 43:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's more people to need to see somebody out in the light.
• 43:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Somebody who was in the dark for so much of their life.
• 43:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Me.
• 43:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I felt every emotion in the book.
• 43:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Races twice, still had crooked teeth.
• 43:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Acne all over my face.
• 43:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And even now with anxiety and stuff, like there's a tendency to like you know scratch my face and see a mark on it.
• 43:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I can't I can try not to do it.
• 43:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes it just happens and I'm okay with it.
• 43:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Based on other people how other people measure up.
• 44:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I only do my best.
• 44:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Voices for voices is my best as a human.
• 44:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I pray for every single one of you on the planet, whether you are a prayer type of person or not.
• 45:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I even pray for our enemies, people that don't like us, people that think we're sharing too much information, and I don't know.
• 45:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't know how else to be.
• 45:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I spent I I spent too much of my life in seclusion where I wasn't sharing.
• 45:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I wasn't talking.
• 45:37
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I didn't have confidence.
• 45:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I didn't have a yeah, I lacked self-confidence so long, so many different ways.
• 45:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Insecure.
• 45:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's even times now where I'm insecure.
• 45:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And others.
• 46:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So this is one of the ways that I have to communicate with the world.
• 46:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And through our guests that we have on.
• 46:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sometimes there's guests, one or more guests on the show.
• 46:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And sometimes there's solo shows like this one with me.
• 46:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But just know that I'm giving it my best.
• 46:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I'm not a say as I do, not as I say as I do, not as I do.
• 46:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm living the same types of things.
• 47:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Not the same exact type.
• 47:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But I mean there's decision making points.
• 47:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so your decision making points could be could be different than mine.
• 47:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But the fact of the matter is we have to decide one thing or another.
• 47:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then we move on, and then we figure, oh, am I gonna brush my teeth and then wash my face at night?
• 47:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or am I gonna wash my face and then brush my teeth?
• 47:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Am I gonna philosophy for a brush?
• 47:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I mean, these are all things that we some of us have them programmed in our mind.
• 47:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I one of the things I like, I I like structure and I don't like structure.
• 48:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Oh, and one therapist said, Well, how can you want structure, but you say you want the flexibility and I was like, yeah, I know that's that's that's just me.
• 48:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I like to have an idea of what's what could possibly be taking place, but I also want some flexibility.
• 48:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So don't feel bad if you're like if you're like I am, or even if you aren't like I am.
• 48:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I hope I made you laugh maybe a little bit, cry a little bit.
• 49:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I do have emotions, I'm not a robot.
• 49:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We don't do this for the accolades, we haven't received one single award, and I'm more than okay with that.
• 49:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't want an award.
• 49:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I want to help people.
• 49:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I want people to watch, I want people to listen, I want people to subscribe for free, to watch for free, to listen for free on any platform, any stream platform app.
• 49:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I want you to help us reach our goal of helping at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 50:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because I know my life is short, all of our lives are short.
• 50:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We spent such a short amount of time on earth, and there's a reason we're here.
• 50:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I still don't know if voices for voices is that reason.
• 50:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, for me, believer Jesus Christ and God, they for me, again, this is for me.
• 50:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This isn't for everybody.
• 50:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Same for me, that's who knows why I'm on earth, why I was born, why I have had supportive parents and family relationships and personal relationships, and uh and you know the song goes on.
• 51:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Here I am just about two weeks removed from my forty-fourth birthday.
• 51:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I think voices for voices is what I'm supposed to be doing.
• 51:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But I haven't I haven't gotten a postcard or a letter from God or Jesus saying to Justin Allen Hayes, this is your purpose in life.
• 51:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Sincerely, Jesus Christ and my Father God.
• 51:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It would make things a whole heck of a lot easier having that knowledge, but we don't usually get it, and I haven't gotten it.
• 52:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I have to go off of signals of well I did get that shopping done.
• 52:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's still more I'm gonna need to do tomorrow.
• 52:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I got to watch my nephew play ball.
• 52:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: My mom was there, she got to see.
• 52:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I got emotional, and I always will.
• 52:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Talking about someone or someone's that we love and we miss, wish they were still here, wish we were able to have more conversations, wish all the things.
• 53:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's when I say I pray for our I pray for myself, for my family, I pray for our enemies, people that don't like voices for voices, don't like what we're doing for whatever reason.
• 53:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I still pray for them.
• 53:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Because we're all human beings, and we're all here for such a short period of time.
• 53:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So who am I to say that I'm above anybody?
• 53:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not.
• 53:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not God.
• 53:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Nobody's perfect.
• 53:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm not Jesus Christ.
• 54:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Never have, never will be.
• 54:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's something I can guarantee with a one hundred percent certainty.
• 54:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This was a powerful episode for me.
• 54:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And again, if you can if you can do us a favor, text 25 of your friends, let them know about voices for voices, about our TV show and podcast.
• 54:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're gonna be reaching the milestone of 400 total episodes of the show and podcast before the ball drops on January 1st of 2026.
• 55:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let them know that Justin Allen Hayes, the Voices for Voices, wants to help three billion people over the course of his lifetime and beyond.
• 55:16
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let them know that.
• 55:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let them know that they can follow us, they can subscribe, they can give us thumbs up.
• 55:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: All those things are free to do.
• 55:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Follow us on all social media platforms.
• 55:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And you notice I haven't mentioned one thing about money.
• 55:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are a 501c3 nonprofit.
• 55:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you live in the United States, if you so choose, to donate at lovevoices.org.
• 55:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Lovevoices.org.org.
• 56:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's not an amount too small, there's not an amount too big for helping people as it relates to recovery and mental illness.
• 56:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's how I started this organization from my mental illnesses that I'm still dealing with eight years after hitting rock bottom the middle of November twenty seventeen.
• 56:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You don't have to donate.
• 56:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Just watching and listening, and watching and listening and sharing with individuals, that does so much for us that you don't even maybe you do know.
• 57:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so if you're able to do that, thank you so much.
• 57:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Even if you're not able to, thank you just for watching and listening, and being an ear for me to have a conversation with.
• 57:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And the list goes on, and that's for every single episode.
• 58:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's how we let them know.
• 58:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We hope you have a blessed day.
• 58:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Morning, afternoon, evening, night.
• 58:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we have nothing but love from us to you.
• 58:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Have a great season.
• 59:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No matter what or how you celebrate.
• 59:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We want everybody to be happy, prosperous, healthy.
• 59:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We want to turn the volume down on people that are sapping energy from our ourselves, and let's increase the volume and intensity for what you and I are doing.
• 59:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So stop listening, stop watching if it's not helping.
• 59:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Or if you're it's hard to relate and start doing more of what you want to do.
• 1:00:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Stop watching TV, watching whether it's an athlete or an entertainer, a musician, when you've always wanted to be on that big stage in front of those fifty thousand, hundred thousand, those millions of viewers turn the Super Bowl.
• 1:00:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's how we've gotten to where we're at.
• 1:00:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's how that's how I've maintained any and all of my energy for this organization for our show and podcast, for our books.
• 1:00:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I haven't even touched on our books.
• 1:00:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We have seven books out.
• 1:01:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Seven.
• 1:01:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
• 1:01:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Seven books.
• 1:01:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Check out Amazon.com.
• 1:01:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Type in Justin Allen Hayes.
• 1:01:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Type in Ryan R Y A N Solomon S O L O M O N.
• 1:01:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: David Solomon S-O-L-O-M-O-N.
• 1:01:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And Amanda Solomon S-O-L-O-M-O-N.
• 1:01:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: They're family.
• 1:01:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Ryan is nine-year-old author.
• 1:01:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: He made the decision that he won he wanted to he wanted to be an author.
• 1:01:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: His parents support and they supported him along the way.
• 1:02:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Saying it's your idea, your thoughts.
• 1:02:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If you don't want to do it, don't do it.
• 1:02:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You're nine.
• 1:02:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You can you just be a kid.
• 1:02:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So the search for Drake, Colton, by Ryan Solomon.
• 1:02:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Buy a copy.
• 1:02:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Get an electronic copy.
• 1:02:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Tell those ten, twenty, thirty, forty, hundred friends or your followers, if there's a nine-year-old author, is the youngest author in the United States of America, and very well could be the youngest author across the world.
• 1:02:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The voices or voices, voices for voices publishing.
• 1:02:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's where you're gonna find voices or voices publishing.
• 1:03:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We have so much to go, we have so much going on with our organ organization, and how nimble and how uh uh small the staff that we have, like you're looking at from like the administrative and the marketing, and you're you're looking at a good majority of that right here.
• 1:03:27
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: David Solomon as well, his wife, Amanda, as well.
• 1:03:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So you make a purchase of any of those books, The Search of Drake Colton by Ryan Solomon, uh, The Young Siren Born by David Solomon, both The Search for Drake Colton and Young Siren Born, brought to you by Voices for Voices Publishing, Enchantments Embrace, also brought to you by Voices for Voices.
• 1:04:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That is story that Amanda Solomon wrote.
• 1:04:25
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There is the Seaman, S-E-A Amanda by David Solomon.
• 1:04:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's with Voices for Voices publishing.
• 1:04:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And there's others.
• 1:04:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: There's so much so much going on, so much hope, so much happiness.
• 1:04:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you very much for being with us.
• 1:05:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you, and we'll see you on another show.
• 1:05:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This is Justin and Alan Hayes, the Voices for Voices.
• 1:05:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let's celebrate the voice in all of us, and let's please be a voice for you or somebody in me.
• 1:05:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Bye bye.
• 1:05:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We'll see you next time.
• 1:05:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much.