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Why You're Not Behind (Antarctica Taught Me This) | Episode 463 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have just started a live.
• 0:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We are live.
• 0:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It took us like five seconds or so.
• 0:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Welcome to our live.
• 0:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I guess we can call it our mobile live.
• 0:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We titled this one Untitled.
• 0:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Why do we do that?
• 0:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because sometimes we don't know exactly what topics we're gonna get into.
• 0:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So instead of picking one topic, we just say untitled.
• 1:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that way we can go over any topic, really.
• 1:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And as you can see, I have our pal with us.
• 1:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She likes to to move around and do some exploring.
• 1:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't you?
• 1:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh yeah.
• 1:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is one of the one of the ways you like to do your exploring, huh?
• 1:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You like to perch yourself on my back, on my shoulders, and say, hey, I wanna be on camera.
• 1:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I wanna be on camera.
• 2:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Why don't you put your camera on me?
• 2:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So since I can't see down here, I'm gonna just climb right on up.
• 2:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this is Lucy.
• 2:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hi Lucy.
• 2:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us.
• 2:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So she's just gonna be hanging out up here.
• 2:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I didn't know this was a thing that pets would do.
• 2:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That they would I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to do a screenshot with that.
• 2:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's so cool.
• 2:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What Lucy Yeah.
• 2:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we yeah, we put this as untitled uh because we're gonna cover a wide range of titles and topics.
• 3:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So let's start with the first topic.
• 3:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this will kind of just morph from here.
• 3:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We just finished today.
• 3:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or did we today?
• 3:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Was it yesterday?
• 3:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know.
• 3:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: One of the days uh where we just dropped episode number four hundred and sixty one.
• 3:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so you'll be seeing that uh everywhere, every everywhere that you download podcasts.
• 3:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you can Etsy on it, you can voices for voices on it.
• 3:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you can watch us, you can listen to us, and with a catalog, a portfolio of 400 and 60 episodes, we have quite quite a few to choose from.
• 4:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And because we have quite a few to choose from, there are many that you would like, and the contacts on your phone would like.
• 4:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And since we are in getting into the the end of March 2026, that means we're not there yet.
• 5:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We haven't, we're not at the end.
• 5:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yes, we're closer to the end.
• 5:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're closer to the end than the beginning.
• 5:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But the reason I'm bringing this up is because there are so many ways to so many ways to measure anything.
• 5:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You're you're gonna use no matter what you go into.
• 5:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, college, university, or not, math is gonna be something that is looked at.
• 6:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For instance, time.
• 6:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What time is it now?
• 6:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What time do we have the next thing?
• 6:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What time uh what time is my alarm set for tomorrow?
• 6:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh that's just time.
• 6:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so there's there's different numbers to uh associate with shows and everything.
• 6:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And one of the things that we look at, while we know we're not picking up every single analytic that's available, or no, we do pick up every analytic that is available, and because we pick up every analytic that is available, say cheese analytic that is able to be found, we sometimes share that information, sometimes we don't, because we know there's so many other numbers, metrics that we're not able to get, we're not able to find for one reason or another.
• 7:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so the way we look at things, and I and I guess the way now that I'm speaking out loud about this, it's been in my head, that's why these are helpful to have have these lives as well, is so I and we have voices for voices, and yeah, it's mirrored.
• 8:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: My t-shirt's mirrored, so it actually says voices for voices, but can't see that because it's backwards.
• 8:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Big deal.
• 8:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Doesn't matter.
• 8:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What matters is that what we do is important to us, that's what matters.
• 8:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just like what matters to you is what you do.
• 8:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whatever that whatever whatever it is that you do, a multitude of things.
• 8:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when we look at some some numbers, we can be like, yeah, look at these numbers, they look great.
• 9:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then on other days we can look and go, oh, we're falling short.
• 9:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But are we really?
• 9:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That perked up Lucy's attention.
• 9:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She's like, no, we're not falling short.
• 9:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're not falling short, and you're not falling short either.
• 9:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because there are points of time where we look at things.
• 9:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's a point in time where we say, here's where we're at right now.
• 9:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Here's where we're at tomorrow.
• 9:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so it's a point in time.
• 10:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I like bringing up this particular story.
• 10:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Brought it up in uh one of our one of our episodes of the Voices for Voices show.
• 10:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's been a it's been uh it's been a couple years, at least, since this story broke.
• 10:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not on it it's not about me, but it relates to all of us, I think, because the story goes a little bit like this There's an individual that wants to basically backpack across Antarctica in kind of the most treacherous weather and the most treacherous season that there is.
• 11:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this individual makes the preparations, prepares the the best way he knows how, and begins.
• 11:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter, centimeter by centimeter.
• 11:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This individual starts trekking eastward little at a time, little at a time, little at a time.
• 11:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I don't know if he had this in his mind or if this came out of the um the excursion of what what he what he picked to do.
• 12:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Anyways, so he's very uncomfortable, cold, windy, cold, windy food, right?
• 12:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Trying, and this is what amazes me, even to this day, is the the the food aspect, is how little an individual can actually consume in these super harsh conditions and yet continue moving forward.
• 12:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So this individual is trekking eastward, eastward, eastward.
• 12:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And what he says afterwards because right, you know, you know, the thank thank the good Lord that he made it.
• 13:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He made it all the way across.
• 13:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so right, that's the top line story is, you know, hiker trucks, you know, the the west to east, end to end, Antarctica.
• 13:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But it's it's it's more than that.
• 13:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And when you say, well, what do you mean it's more than that?
• 13:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well the body is able to do only what the body's able to do.
• 13:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Same with our mind.
• 13:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But what I've learned over the last several months with the guests that we've had on, and I've fallen victim to this, uh, is I say like the body's able to do what the body's able to do externally.
• 14:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we hit like a crescendo or a peak, age-wise, you know, muscle mass, all these metrics, numbers.
• 14:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But the mind were able to continue growing and learning and researching.
• 14:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's called neuroplasticity.
• 14:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what I would that's what one of our guests taught us on a recent episode.
• 14:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Excuse me, hmm.
• 14:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: On a recent episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 15:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Please reach out, 25 contacts, let them know about the show.
• 15:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Won't be disappointed.
• 15:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Promise you that.
• 15:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nobody that takes it seriously.
• 15:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We go through tough topics, we go through easy topics, we go through life topics.
• 15:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I found out that the brain, never too late to have neuroplasticity.
• 15:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What that basically means is our brain can continue to grow and modify.
• 15:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whether we're two years old, whether we're 20, whether we're 50, whether we're 70.
• 15:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I thought that that was not a thing.
• 16:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Right?
• 16:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We see all these hacks that are out, like chips and tricks.
• 16:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, if you take this vitamin, or if you do this, then you can do that.
• 16:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so I I don't know.
• 16:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I guess I I just had it in my mind that, well, you know, at some point the brain just stops learning, I guess, is the best way to put it.
• 16:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then it doesn't.
• 16:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so let's go down to that story on Antarctica, this individual.
• 16:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so at his press conference afterwards, you know, ask tons of questions, tons of questions.
• 16:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, one of them's like, how'd you do it?
• 16:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: How'd you make it?
• 16:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, all these conditions, blustery conditions, conditions that right now doing the show, like I'm kind of getting the chills because I'm like, oh my gosh, how could somebody do that?
• 17:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: How could they survive that?
• 17:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And yet they did.
• 17:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And he did.
• 17:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: His answer was I realized that if I look at what I'm doing as a whole as I'm starting here and I'm ending here, hopefully, and this is how many m miles or meters or kilometers, then things can look daunting almost too much.
• 17:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so what did he do?
• 17:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What did he do?
• 18:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He was telling himself that this right now, in the present, in the moment, this is a moment.
• 18:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or in the moment.
• 18:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That this moment will not last.
• 18:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This moment won't last.
• 18:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll get to the next moment.
• 18:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe it's similar to the last moment, maybe it's different.
• 18:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't know.
• 18:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But he was telling himself, let me just get to the next moment, let me just get to the next moment, let me just get to the next moment.
• 18:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is only a point in time.
• 18:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This isn't.
• 18:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This does not define who I am as a person.
• 18:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is just a moment in time.
• 19:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is just a moment in time.
• 19:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I can just imagine the neuroplasticity modifications that were going on as this individual is telling himself, this is just a moment.
• 19:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm here in the present.
• 19:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But this is just a moment.
• 19:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This does not define me.
• 19:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not gonna think of how many kilometers from West Antarctica all the way east.
• 19:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm gonna just think of this moment in time.
• 19:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just right here, and I'm gonna I'm gonna fight to make it to that next moment.
• 19:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then the moment after that.
• 19:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's what I would I would say to anybody, no matter what you're doing, no matter high profile, how low, high how low profile it is, this is just a moment in time.
• 20:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is not this moment does not define us as a human for our entire lives.
• 20:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is just a moment.
• 20:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like Lucy, you know, just chilling on my shoulders here.
• 20:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is a moment in time.
• 20:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Lucy's gonna probably get tired of sitting on my shoulders and wanna explore the car here while we're you know, and there she is, right on right on cue.
• 20:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so this is I know I love you too.
• 20:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I love you too.
• 20:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and so it's a moment in time.
• 20:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I I think that's that's what we have to we have to we have to just think about life in that way.
• 20:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So whether it's something that's really hard, okay, thank you, love you, um, or rather easy, it doesn't matter.
• 21:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's one moment in time.
• 21:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's why I hearken back to that story about that individual in Antarctica, because I can't think I mean there's probably a lot of things out there, but right now I can't think of something that com what would come close to to that, to being in that in that moment that this individual was in Antarctica facing frigid weather, frigid winds, everything.
• 21:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And he's just trying to survive, just trying to make it to that next moment.
• 21:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's all we have to do.
• 21:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's make it to the next moment.
• 21:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's do it.
• 21:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know we can.
• 21:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's so many people that I'm connected with.
• 21:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I haven't been able to say hi to.
• 22:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh yeah, I saw Shane here was in here for for a second uh or a minute or so.
• 22:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And let's say welcome.
• 22:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I haven't had a chance to you know reach out and to talk to him.
• 22:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I hope to uh some someday uh to be able to do that uh and and connect.
• 22:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um he's done he's on he's doing great things uh out on the out out on the west coast.
• 22:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um again, it's just that moment.
• 22:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's get to that next moment, and then next thing you know, we may be at that finish line and go, oh my gosh, we made it.
• 22:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we may be at a press conference, maybe we're not.
• 22:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe I made it through the day with major depression, maybe I took a shower, maybe I brushed my teeth for the first time in a week.
• 23:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know.
• 23:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But when we just look at one moment at a time, be surprised.
• 23:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm I'm always surprised at my myself.
• 23:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And this is not to boost me up or boost voices for voices up.
• 23:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is just to boost human beings up.
• 23:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay?
• 23:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is to say, look, here's what we can do as humans.
• 23:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We can be as adventurous as we want or as we don't want.
• 23:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Less adventurous.
• 23:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But just think about that.
• 23:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I gotta take I didn't tail my kind of in front of me there for for a second.
• 23:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh yeah, yeah, I'll be out soon.
• 24:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we want to thank that individual.
• 24:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I I'm gonna have to reach out and and see if we can connect and get him on get him on.
• 24:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's okay.
• 24:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, to get him on the show and and just talk talk through that.
• 24:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um I'm sure he's got quite a bit and has had quite a bit of um success.
• 24:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh a lot of people want to talk to him and you know over the over the years and the months.
• 24:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh because that's a pretty big that that's a pretty that's a pretty big thing, right?
• 24:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you if we if we if we take out a map and we look at Antarctica, it's a well north to south.
• 24:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It may not look to be that big.
• 24:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, they're gonna it'll be out soon.
• 25:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I promise.
• 25:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well it might not look north to south.
• 25:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like a big country.
• 25:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: West to east.
• 25:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You roll you look roll out a map.
• 25:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It is a it is a it it's it it's enormous.
• 25:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I wasn't sure what what uh what we're gonna get into with with this live, this Instagram live.
• 25:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, shout out to all our followers, all the people uh that follow Voices for Voices.
• 25:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have nothing but love and support coming your way, and we thank you for the love and support you've given us to take us to 461 episodes, uh, to have us help people uh in so many different ways.
• 26:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some are monetary, some are just talking about experiences like this.
• 26:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: As somebody who has major depression, you know, when I talk about, well, you know, I I I I woke up today.
• 26:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, that's a big thing, because guess what?
• 26:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We all don't wake up tomorrow, the next day.
• 26:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's one of the reasons why we try to be I don't say uh active.
• 26:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um that's why we try to do as much as we can on the given day that you know today, because we don't know how we don't know how how much longer we're gonna be here.
• 26:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I just want you know the whole the old saying, you know, leave it out on the the floor, leave it out on the stage, right?
• 27:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Do the best the best he can, the most he can with the time, the energy, the space that we have.
• 27:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that story, that person just fuels that fire.
• 27:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Of like, oh my gosh.
• 27:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, we're uh I'm still probably gonna complain about something at some point in my life.
• 27:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I look at that story and go, whoa, of anybody that could have done any kind of complaining, that would be a person who would say, I don't know why I made this decision.
• 27:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know, maybe.
• 27:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But as I mentioned about depression, mention about anxiety, you know, autism, low spectrum autism for me, you know, ADD, ADHD, all those uh I just I just try to do one thing at a time.
• 28:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And sometimes we get so focused on one thing that we don't realize what we have accomplished.
• 28:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean remember, when we when we leave Earth, we're we're we don't get to take any of this stuff with us.
• 28:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't get to take our cars, our houses, apartments, condos.
• 28:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Unfortunately, we we we can't.
• 28:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't.
• 28:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's why I I like to think about legacy.
• 28:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And by coming out with this huge goal of wanting to help at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond, it's because I want I want my legacy, I want the legacy of voices for voices to carry on to other people because I'm not gonna live forever.
• 29:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nobody's gonna live forever.
• 29:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay.
• 29:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if I can help somebody who's I don't know, whatever age, 18, 52, 27, those individuals, because I'm 44, uh, a lot of individuals are gonna have a lot more living to do than than than me.
• 29:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's why I I want to do as much as I can, because then you know the hope is that they share voices for voices with others.
• 30:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for voices at the core is about helping people.
• 30:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yes, we're we're rooted in in mental health and in trauma and recovery, but we're rooted even deeper in just helping people.
• 30:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what we want to do, we want to help people.
• 30:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Excuse me.
• 30:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The mustard seed.
• 30:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So small.
• 30:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Probably would get would have if we look at, you know, s size relative.
• 30:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, if we see somebody who's short versus somebody who's tall, we say, okay, the if we're we're gonna play basketball, all the you know, all the tall people, all the tall folks muscular are gonna get picked first.
• 31:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's gonna be that person that maybe that that shorter person that made me maybe gets picked last.
• 31:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so like that mustard seed.
• 31:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All the other seeds get picked.
• 31:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we see this mustard seed and go, that's look how small that is.
• 31:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's that's not gonna amount to anything.
• 31:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or not it's not gonna not to anything.
• 31:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not gonna amount to a whole lot.
• 31:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, it is one of the biggest.
• 31:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It turns into one of the biggest trees in the world.
• 32:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we gave up on the mustard seed.
• 32:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we give up on that person who may be not quite as tall as others.
• 32:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We miss we miss a whole lot.
• 32:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'd miss out on a whole lot.
• 32:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I'm gonna I'm gonna close out our our live here with uh something that came across my one of one of my social media feeds.
• 32:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's by Elon Musk, so I I get it.
• 32:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some some love him, some don't.
• 32:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It doesn't matter.
• 33:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's what he had to say that I'm ho I I'm hoping that reaches so many of you.
• 33:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And me for that for that matter.
• 33:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It talks about fear.
• 33:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Talks about fear and what does he say about it?
• 33:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He says, you know, I'm paraphrasing here, so don't quote me.
• 33:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm paraphrasing.
• 33:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Elon was asked about fear.
• 33:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Cause I'm I'm pretty sure he's faced a whole lot of fear at different times in life.
• 34:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so he was asked, right?
• 34:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, what do you it's okay, Lucy?
• 34:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah.
• 34:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, you can just you can just take a snooze on my shoulders.
• 34:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yes, you sure can.
• 34:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so he's asked about fear.
• 34:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He said most people are so fearful of things.
• 34:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And yet they they they don't even look at it.
• 34:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just in the mind of like, oh my gosh, I gotta do this thing, I gotta, you know, my friends or somebody I know or somebody else tried it, whatever.
• 34:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't even know what the thing is.
• 34:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It doesn't matter what the thing is.
• 35:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The only thing that matters is the thing is really hard and it's to make people fearful.
• 35:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He said, what you do, he said most people again, most people, a lot of people, most people, don't want to look at fear.
• 35:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Look at that thing or things that's fearful, that's making them fearful.
• 35:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He said, what you do is you look it straight in the eyes.
• 35:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You look it straight in the eyes, and you'd be surprised that the fear dissipates.
• 35:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But you gotta look at it.
• 35:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know we've thrown a lot at you tonight.
• 35:48
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