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From Dreams to Reality: How Our Publishing Journey Proves the Haters Wrong (Ep. 315) · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin from Voices for Voices.
• 0:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Welcome to another episode of our TV show and podcast.
• 0:12
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm proud to be your host and just being able to bring some quality content, quality information to you Some quality content, quality information to you.
• 0:28
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have been at this for over 310 episodes by now.
• 0:39
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I think we might be a little bit more by the time this one drops and it's because of you.
• 0:45
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You're watching, you're listening, you're sharing, you're following, you're subscribing, you're giving us a thumbs up, and that's what keeps us going.
• 1:01
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's the fuel, that's the big part of the fuel to keep us going as an organization, as a show of wanting to talk and share and give insight into the lives, not just of me, but into the lives not just of me been through exactly the same experiences and events.
• 1:53
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There may be similarities with some of the areas, but that's why we're talking about it.
• 2:03
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're bringing it to the public's attention, we're bringing it to your attention, to others.
• 2:08
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's important why we're doing this.
• 2:13
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're doing this to help people, like anything, there are individuals who don't think we're helping people, and that part breaks my heart because I know we are.
• 2:41
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I know we are we're helping people through tough situations, through times in their lives where they feel alone, like they're the only ones that have gone through and are going through something, through something, and it just breaks my heart to hear and to see people basically wanting to disqualify the work that we do on a day-to-day basis.
• 3:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We talk about numbers.
• 3:30
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We've talked about numbers on various episodes.
• 3:34
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I encourage you to look through our catalog of over 300 episodes.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Wherever you watch, listen, consume content, one those places that we're continuing to share because there continues to be questions is not an app.
• 4:02
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's actually on our website.
• 4:05
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So if you head on over to voicesforvoicesorg forward slash podcast, that will take you to our podcast page.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't need an app and, by the way, where our shows are at, you don't need to spend money to watch or listen, and so this is just another avenue, and the best part about it is from a, if we want to think, efficiency standpoint.
• 4:51
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, the least amount of click, scrolling down is that when you go to voices for voicesorg forward slash podcast, the brand new episode that just dropped is at the top, so you don't have to scroll all the way down to get to that episode, that particular latest and greatest episode.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We do encourage you to take a look at other episodes that may very well be something of interest to you or others.
• 5:38
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're finding more and more that there are watch parties I guess that's a term where friends, sometimes family members, will get together and they'll watch or listen to an episode or two or three, and you know whether that's eating pizza, having chips and veggies, and water and juice and whatever that may be.
• 6:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's the part that's really humbling to us that people are taking the time in valuing us and we value our own selves first and foremost.
• 6:45
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have to.
• 6:47
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Life is a hard, it's a hard thing to go through.
• 6:57
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Excuse me, it's hard.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's ups, there's downs, there's twists, there's turns.
• 7:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's hard.
• 7:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's ups, there's downs, there's twists, there's turns, there's surprises.
• 7:12
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's all kinds of different events and experiences that we feel, we hear, we see, we feel, we touch, we listen, we hear.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: All these events happen.
• 7:40
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And not only is there help out there.
• 7:42
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're going through hard times and you just want somebody to talk to, like I do and have for many years, there's nothing wrong with that.
• 7:57
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There is not an ounce wrong with that.
• 8:02
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Not an ounce wrong with that.
• 8:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so don't worry what other people think.
• 8:14
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I know it's hard in this digital age of social media and judging it's hard.
• 8:23
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We all, at some point, get caught up at some degree or another, whether we think so or not, and so what I'd like to propose is that not only do we, as humans, stop the judgment of ourselves like they, like individuals are, are God, and they know everything about a potential situation or experience or someone or someone that you're talking to wanting to make a difference, and these others want to make a difference too, and so that's my yeah, that's my wish for you, for me, for the whole human race, for the whole human race here in the United States, here in the state of Ohio and all points outside of the United States, and to be kinder to ourselves and to be kinder to ourselves, people that are toxic, that drag you and I down at times by the very people who claim to know everything about a situation.
• 10:59
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: They thrust themselves into a situation, and so that's my wish, that's my hope that we can, we can make this whole world a much better place to live, to play in, to experience.
• 11:28
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's when there's divisiveness, division, judgment, whether Judgment, whether those individuals Think they're judging or think they're not, or calling it something else.
• 12:07
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Believe in yourself what you are doing, what you want to do.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It is extremely important.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Why?
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Because it's what you want to do.
• 12:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We talk about dreaming, we talk about taking part in activities and things that are bigger than ourselves, bigger than me as an individual, bigger than you as an individual, bigger than you as an individual.
• 12:48
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: When we talk about wanting to help 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond, you wouldn't you may or may not be surprised the amount of people who go oh, you're doing a noble thing and you're probably helping people, but you need to do something else.
• 13:16
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You need to do something else.
• 13:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can do Voices for Voices, for a half hour, an hour a day, and still make that impact.
• 13:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I invite you and anyone else who would like to see a behind the scenes of a day-to-day of how we think about strategy, how we think about topics, how we think about what do we think, what do we want to go forward and how do we want to expand our reach and help more people than what we did today or yesterday.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And right, voices are voices.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's many ways for us to share our voice, for us to share our voice.
• 14:43
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: One of those ways Is through writing, journaling and just Not even A couple days ago, what we have shared on our Our show and you, you may know this, what we have shared on our our show and you you may know this because you probably watched or listened to that episode and those follow up episodes that we have a publishing arm of Voices for Voices, where we're giving individuals the opportunity to share their stories, their novels, their novellas, but the world and so I'm going to share that book that is now out, it's available, it's under Voices for Voices Publishing, it's under the author, david Solomon, the editor, amanda Solomon, the publisher, voices for Voices Publishing, and so we're going to switch screens here so I can show you that.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So right now, you can head over to Amazoncom and you can look up Young Siren Born the Dream Dimension, which is a part of the Young Sirenborn series.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can have that digitally or what I have pulled up, which is what you see here, you know Kindle, or you can choose paperback as well.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I just talked about the date, the timing August 22nd 2025, by David Solomon.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Author and illustrator, voices for Voices Publishing.
• 17:37
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for Voices Publishing, as we were part of the editing process and Amanda Solomon just did a wonderful job of helping make sure that the content flowed, content makes sense.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I will say, because this has come up here as a question, the question that this particular book I'm going to scroll down here if I can this book is the ASIN, or independently published through us, voices for Voices Publishing.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Publishing date the language is in English.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The print length Total pages 104.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The ISBN number.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's important, obviously with anything from a publishing standpoint Weight, and then here the reading age, and I'll highlight this if I can.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The reading age anybody can read this as long as you're at least 7 years old, up until usually the 18-year-old mark.
• 19:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But as an adult you can also read it.
• 19:37
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so this is not a pipe dream, this is not just an idea that was in our minds.
• 19:57
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: This is a real, tangible thing.
• 19:58
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can touch and feel the pages, the cover of this particular book you can.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If you choose the digitally, the Kindle edition, then you have that digitally.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't have to wait for shipment.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If you have Amazon Prime, that will help you get a copy a little bit quicker than the average shipment time.
• 20:43
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so here is the cover.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So, as we see here, the young Sirenborn Book one A Dream Dimension by David Solomon, and you see here Voices for Voices Publishing, and then you also see here, as I mentioned, kindle.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can get that instantly Paperback, just like you would purchase Any other item On Amazon.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's in stock, you can pick your quantity, add the cart, you can do the buy now.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so for me, it is a time where I have few words because this particular book concept idea to developing characters and the plot Again, you saw the age range, so this is not going to be a book that, as far as how it's written, it's written for that, the age range that we, that we shared, and so if we're older than that, the book could look like.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It is written in a, I'll say, like a more of a basic format, a more of a basic format, and it's because it's for those age ranges, those ages, and so we are just grateful for the opportunity to take what was once a once-a-year event for Voices for Voices a brand new day and right here in 2025, the first of many publications through Voices for Voices Publishing.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And this isn't a pipe dream.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can look at it, you can buy it, you can share it, you can download it.
• 24:22
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, just depends on the format that you would like to have that in it's.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: For me, it's a validating moment because I, like so many others along the way who have been told, well, you got these grandiose ideas big deal, and these are supposedly from people that you know, say they love us, that they support us, and so I don't have anything to say in spite or anything along those lines.
• 25:35
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The only thing I have to say is that book is real, our organization is real, we're helping people in this instance and reading and entertaining, teaching morals, some ethics, some mental health, some issues, some events that had wear on the characters.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we go back to the beginning of the show.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have to believe in ourselves, we have to bet on ourselves.
• 26:39
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: From time to time, we have to go forward, and there's going to be, there's going to be people that I don't even know why.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not even going to try to pretend why or like.
• 27:05
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I know the reason.
• 27:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: All I know is, for, whatever the reasons are, there's some people that haven't and won't ever understand how important this work is that we're doing.
• 27:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I remember an example, very recent, because this book just dropped two days ago, where I was asked.
• 27:57
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I was asked hey, let's look at your email, see what's in there.
• 28:05
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And one of the most recent, the most recent messages I had was from Amazon saying that this particular story, this particular book, was approved and is now published and is now available on Amazon, published and is now available on Amazon.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I the feedback I got was very I don't want to use nonchalant, but it was almost as if it didn't matter that I share information.
• 29:12
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And right there on that particular day just happened to be the particular day that one of the books under our Voices for Voices, publishing, of publishing, came to be and is now available paperback digitally.
• 29:49
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And that hurts.
• 29:52
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That hurts a lot, but lot.
• 30:02
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: One of the big reasons is when somebody or somebody's and to say that like, yeah, that'd be great that this project or that project works out, and so for that to be a pretty big moment, not just for the authors and editors and our organization, who has just crossed over into a brand new area or a brand new era.
• 31:17
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: However, we want to think about it and there's something that's tangible.
• 31:27
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Tangible, we can feel it.
• 31:30
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We can feel the pages.
• 31:33
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You get that paperback copy.
• 31:38
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We can see it with our eyes.
• 31:44
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I'm disappointed because I don't need a pat on the back.
• 32:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't need a oh.
• 32:05
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Way to go, justin.
• 32:06
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Way to go.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for Voices.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Way to go, david, way to go, amanda.
• 32:12
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not about that.
• 32:16
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's about wanting to help others through the voice that we have.
• 32:21
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And a voice for these individuals is writing, bringing stories to life, bringing events to life, bringing characters to life.
• 32:41
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when I like, eh, big deal, so what?
• 32:51
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You published the book.
• 33:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That hurts as a human, because just a day earlier, I was being told that I was making things up, that projects aren't happening, that the thought of a project wasn't in the cards, wasn't happening, and yet, and yet, on that very morning of August 22nd 2025, around 9 am or maybe a little bit after, to get that notification.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's purely God, it's God's intervention.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I could have had any other email, any other message be the most recent, but that wasn't the being.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: God wanted that to be shown, that to be shared at that very moment.
• 35:01
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And we know life.
• 35:09
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We just talked about ups, downs, hurdles, curveballs, all kinds of things we go through in life.
• 35:21
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so does that mean every project, every thought, every goal we're going to meet or we're going to be able to accomplish?
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: No, it doesn't.
• 35:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But, on the other hand, there are going to be some goals and some ideas that come to fruition.
• 35:54
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I know it took over 10,000 times for the light bulb in its current form to be invented.
• 36:04
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If it was stopped at try 9,999, we might not have the light bulb as we have it today.
• 36:20
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And now look all of us Light as a part of our day, bringing us out of the out of the shadow from night to day.
• 36:46
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I just want to reiterate to everybody thank you so much for the love and support you have shown us and continue to show us, and we mean it Because we know we're making a difference, we know we're helping.
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  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes we're helping our own selves by talking through a situation or event or something that we've gone through, we're going through, we've gone through or going through and we also know that we could be validating some information you already know about confirming, denying, sparking an idea, letting you know that I can do this, I can try.
• 38:09
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what it's all about.
• 38:19
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't claim to be the best TV show and podcast host ever.
• 38:22
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not.
• 38:23
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not perfect Nobody is but what I do know is I'm at least a little bit better now, with as many episodes and shows we have had up till now than I was at the very beginning, and I'm willing to admit that.
• 38:44
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm willing to accept that, and so should you.
• 38:52
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have to start somewhere.
• 38:56
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have to start somewhere.
• 39:00
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have to start somewhere so you can do it.
• 39:11
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Believe in yourself, try your best not to let the detractors, the jealous, the envy, the questioning and we're talking about things that are legal, that we're able to do.
• 39:49
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're not condoning any illegal activity, activity and how we can help others and or help ourselves.
• 40:11
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So when we talk about, we want to start out right by helping one person.
• 40:25
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It doesn't have to be somebody we don't know that one person that we may be helping on a particular episode or a particular part of an episode Might actually be ourselves, and that's a beautiful thing, where we don't expect that, where we don't expect that and maybe we don't know, in the conscious, maybe it's the subconscious way we're helped that a little stress is taken from us and opening and freeing our mind up just a little bit.
• 41:19
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's an incredible thing too.
• 41:29
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Believe in yourself, embrace change.
• 41:36
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Embrace, change, know that, know that.
• 41:48
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: God, please grant us the serenity to accept the thing we cannot change, like what other people have to say and think, courage to change the things we can and, last but not least, in the wisdom to know the difference.
• 42:22
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Amen, in the name of the Father, son, holy Spirit, amen, thank you for joining us.
• 42:32
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you on the next episode.
• 42:35
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: God bless you, God bless the United States of America and God bless every human from every corner of the world.
• 42:46
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We love you, we believe in you and believe in yourself.
• 42:56
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye, bye for now.
• 42:59
  Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much.