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What If Your Voice Is The Work You’re Here To Do? | Episode 405 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Hey everyone, it's Justin here of Voices for Voices.
• 0:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you as always for joining us on the show.
• 0:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, we are grateful here to be in uh 2026 and uh bringing more fresh content to you uh through our Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 0:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are uh we're getting up the speed with our blog posts.
• 0:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh so that's one one thing that we uh are doing that uh we uh hadn't uh prioritized, uh mainly due to staff.
• 0:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And right, so you when you have limited staff, you have to kind of pick the pick the things that uh absolutely positively need to get done.
• 0:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um and and blogs are or something that needed to get done, uh, but kept falling a little bit below that threshold.
• 1:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So uh that's one thing that you may be seeing uh as we get uh 2026 off the ground, besides you know, the content, the occasional TikTok live.
• 1:24
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh you know, you can find us anywhere and everywhere.
• 1:28
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• 1:34
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• 1:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh those are all things that uh are free of charge for you to do.
• 1:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And if you're able to uh reach out to 25, 30 of your your friends, uh your followers, uh, and uh let them know about the voices for voices TV show and podcast.
• 2:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We are uh the hottest TV show and podcast that is out uh globally worldwide, uh behind the Joe Rogan experience.
• 2:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: He uh has been doing this uh a little bit longer or a lot longer than than we have.
• 2:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so it's uh it comes as no shock, no, no surprise that uh Joe Rogan is is up there at the the the top.
• 2:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh the one thing that we're bringing in uh that's a little bit different is we're bringing a uh kind of a a uh nonprofit feel because we are a nonprofit.
• 2:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So we are a 501c3 nonprofit charity organization uh who are bootstrapping this.
• 2:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we are crushing our goals with a zero uh zero budget uh zero dollar budget, I guess is the way to call it.
• 3:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Meaning there's very little money that goes into the organization.
• 3:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And some of you may be able to say, well, yeah, it really shows.
• 3:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and we have uh when I say you know, crushing goals, we're only supposed to be at 300 episodes at this point.
• 3:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh once you turn once we turned a page into 2026, and we crushed it uh by over a hundred uh additional episodes.
• 3:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's what we're that's what we're talking about.
• 3:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um so thank you.
• 3:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you for for for joining us.
• 3:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh one thing I I I want to just ask at the outset is how do you share your voice?
• 3:58
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: How do you share your voice with with others?
• 4:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is it through the spoken word?
• 4:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is it sign language?
• 4:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is it through music?
• 4:08
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is it through um you know written like novels, stories?
• 4:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, is it through art, like painting, uh, animating?
• 4:23
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh there's so many different ways that we express and share our voice with uh with others and even with other forms of our voices sharing, sharing uh what what's the what's the the one that you you you'd like to do that you prefer.
• 4:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It doesn't we're not even we're not looking for perfection at all.
• 4:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're just we're just curious.
• 4:55
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're curious uh to know what uh what uh how you use your voice because we know that one of the most terrifying, I guess, things to do uh is to do public speaking.
• 5:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So uh I would if that data holds true, I would I would think that public speaking and you know being on a a show that's not yours, uh you're a guest on it.
• 5:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I don't know.
• 5:31
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm I'm I'm just I'm just throwing ideas out.
• 5:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we're we're curious.
• 5:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if you can you know drop those in in the in the comments, you can reach out to us, let us know.
• 5:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh we're we're curious.
• 5:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh then we'll we'll share that feedback as as the uh as our our show you know continues here through 2026.
• 5:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And uh so we'd uh we'd love to hear your your feedback.
• 6:05
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The other part of the feedback is uh you know, since we just turned the page on the new year, are you know new year's resolutions, are those still kind of a thing where uh where you there's something or some things that uh you have in mind to say, okay, I'm gonna do better at this.
• 6:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and I and so we you know leave that in the comment uh uh comments as well.
• 6:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let it let us know uh what what that looks like for you or for you know people in your your your circle, like what's what's the popular thing?
• 6:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Is it still going to the gym, sticking to a workout, schedule uh eating cleaner?
• 7:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh I don't know.
• 7:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh you you tell us what what what it is.
• 7:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: One thing that so I'll get into a little bit about me.
• 7:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, I want to say I guess this is a maybe a byproduct of when I hit rock bottom mentally in 2017 that I had like I'll say no filter, but I would using uh not great language, you know, swearing and uh that was something I don't even know when I started it.
• 7:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh but I have noticed and um I'm just surprised that I haven't really shared much about it because uh you know depending on you know our upbringing and and our following and and all that, I'm just surprised that I'm surprised on myself, which I guess that's kind of hard to do.
• 8:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: But uh, but as a byproduct uh of basically uh getting a mental health team around me, some of that may or may not include medication uh drinking alcohol and all that.
• 8:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um I just want to clear something up for you know, when I talk about like drug use, like I wasn't on like vendors and you know days and days and days out at the time.
• 9:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like I would say I experimented and I I think that's gonna taken out of context, um where because I talk about it and I share about it, that it seems like well, he must that must have been like like I know his alcohol consumption and and I know how that how out of control that was.
• 9:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so if I know about that, then surely his drug abuse was the same, just out of control.
• 9:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I want to just say to those that have thought that, and uh, that's not the case.
• 9:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh the big thing for me was alcohol.
• 9:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Yes, I experimented, but that's it.
• 9:57
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh you know, I didn't have that, you know, a dealer on call.
• 10:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Like, I mean, that I I didn't do any, I didn't do any of that.
• 10:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so I wanted to I want to clear that up because that is unfortunate with you know a uh with a lot of people following, watching and listening.
• 10:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh that the nice say like you know of the drug abuse and and that like I just meant that I experimented.
• 10:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I didn't mean that you know, like I said, that it was like a like a daily occurrence for many, many, many years.
• 10:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was not even close to that.
• 10:44
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was way closer to the other end of the spectrum than than what I'm what I just said.
• 10:52
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I want to share that and just make sure I'm being very very clear with that because I'd be doing my own self.
• 11:01
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I am doing myself a disservice by by talking about that and giving the giving the impression that that was like s some huge part of my mental health crash in 2017.
• 11:26
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It was about the alcohol abuse, it was a it was about it was about the alcohol abuse and uh not talking through uh uh a very very high number of of you know just different topics and and and so that that was the biggest part, biggest parts.
• 11:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so anybody who has heard me talk about and say, oh, like you know, I've you know, drug abuse, that was like a big thing for me.
• 12:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's not, it wasn't.
• 12:14
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I experimented, and that's about where where it left off.
• 12:20
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I just want to be crystal clear about that, and that's my fault for not explaining it much much better, much clearer.
• 12:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, I get it, it's on me, it comes across a certain way.
• 12:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um, but that wasn't the case at all, not even close to it.
• 12:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's the first thing.
• 12:45
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: The second thing is what I really wanted to just talk about was you know, my the language and me swearing, and you know, there's been a couple episodes where I've used not great language here and there.
• 12:59
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I guess I started to notice the decrease in I say like the uh the decrease in, you know, the F-bombs and all, you know, just words that you know we we wouldn't want to be sharing in front of our children and kids and uh and so that's something that over time I guess I'm not real I guess I'm not realizing until now because I haven't really brought brought it up and uh if if I have it's been quite a long time in our in our shows, I may have mentioned it briefly.
• 13:49
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and I and maybe it's because I've said a few a few of those swear words, the words that I you know like the remove from my vocabulary and which has been removed from my vocabulary for quite a long time.
• 14:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Mostly I internalize it.
• 14:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh just like it's it's not it's not worth it, like the as far as like saying the you know the those words, like all it's gonna do is just get me fired up and riled up even more.
• 14:36
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So uh I I guess I've over the years since 2017 and and with gone through you know the healing that I'm trying to go through on a day-to-day basis, which some parts I'm doing great, some parts I'm failing miserably.
• 14:56
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I think that's I think it's just life in general.
• 15:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh that's where I'm at.
• 15:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I don't want to say like there is hope, you know, as far as the language goes.
• 15:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I I remember this being not a good example, uh again to you know have conversations with uh the the age groups and you know going into schools like I have and speaking to them and uh and then obviously with with our show and podcasts and uh the various media opportunities I've been given over the years.
• 15:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm so grateful for that.
• 15:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I think I just felt and feel that I owed it because before this show, before Voices for Voices was a thing, I was on a few shows, few podcasts, a few TV shows, and it was almost like a challenge to me because when you have a uh when you have that anxiety, it's one thing to think in your head, like, oh yeah, I'll just I'll just refrain from using the you know the F bomb.
• 16:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And then in other words, uh but then it's another one when when the camera's on and the lights on and and I've never been on it and I was never on a show before, and you know, you're thinking about trying to talk about my personal brand and the organization, and and it's kind of like things just move so fast, like time goes so fast.
• 17:06
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So many guests have told me over the course of the years and the episodes that uh you know say, you know, let's just plan on one episode, but then I'm like, maybe we should plan on two just in case, because I know how fast time goes, and I don't I would rather have extra time than to have you know than to be rushing uh I guess through their branding and and and uh you know answering questions and just having a conversation because I know that I wouldn't want to be rushed off.
• 17:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh and so anyway, so kind of at the beginning, you know, before Voices for Voices, when I was starting to formulate that I wanted to do something organization-wise, I wanted to help people.
• 18:00
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That was what I wanted to do.
• 18:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That was just the big overarching theme.
• 18:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I wanted to help people, and I want to help people now and continue to help people.
• 18:09
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: That's why we have this huge goal of helping three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 18:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And we have plans in place that uh should get us there.
• 18:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um you know, Lord willing, and uh, you know, by the grace of God, you know, we we will we will do that.
• 18:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh whether it's in through my time here on earth or whether it's after I pass, I I I think we got a great thing going.
• 18:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And and so referring or reverting back to you know those early shows, I was so worried that I was going to miss something, that I was gonna say um or like.
• 19:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, I say it now.
• 19:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And I've had 400 some plus opportunities, and that's just I'm just a regular person, so that's just oh well.
• 19:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm I'm a regular person.
• 19:19
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I I try to cut down on the ums and the likes and and those filler words, and uh, I remember being in school uh you know counting, you know, somebody speaking how many times they say the word like or um, and here I am saying it so a bunch.
• 19:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh there you go.
• 19:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So through all the madness of trying to remember everything that I wanted to say, not knowing exactly how questions would go from the host, because you know, sometimes it's easy to stay on track and other times it's not.
• 20:03
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And now I understand that more as a host that sometimes you just get so off track and not in a bad way.
• 20:12
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: It's great conversation and it and some of those episodes are some of the best we've had.
• 20:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so that's why like having like having a a cushion you know be able to have at least time set aside for a couple shows just in case.
• 20:30
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so I guess to start as a challenge with the language on those first shows that I was asked to be a guest on.
• 20:42
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And it's not it's not easy to do.
• 20:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, because you got I had a million things running through my head just like I think we all do almost all day every day now.
• 20:54
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: And so when I was able to do it and then I was able to slow things down in my mind to the to the factor to the point where I could think where I had a little more clearness and clarity in my mind when I was asked the question and now when I ask and when I open up shows and I close shows very we don't use a script.
• 21:33
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: When I like started out we did and it got to be just it it it didn't it wasn't coming across as original because there was you know time at the beginning and the end where it were it was these canned lines and trying to make sure that I was getting certain things in and I was like we have here's our brand here's who we are here's our body of work right this is I think episode 405 so we we've had a lot of lot of shows and we know there's a lot of repeat viewers repeat listeners we love you all whether this is the first time you're with us or you've been with us from the beginning but we do we have a lot of content and that's the whole goal of how we're approaching helping people is by talking about the hard questions the hard topics we're talking about life some of it is easier than others and I can't apologize for talking about life I can't I have we have to be able to talk about hard topics and how they affect us as human beings because that's how we're going to be able to help people in some of the most vulnerable times of their lives in our lives that sometimes people tune in for that 20 seconds and that 20 seconds was enough to at least get a little bug in their ear to get get them thinking okay here's somebody is at least addressing and talking about these topics doesn't mean you have to agree with me doesn't mean you have to be 100% on board we just want you to know that we we are sharing very uh very deep concepts uh life and anybody who I'll say I I don't know the age but yeah as as as we grow up and you know it took me I think longer to mature than normal I I some people may say took a took me a long time you know part of it might have been the language others you know the partying and all that and and so now when you know some people see and hear me they it's almost as if they don't it's almost as if like they don't they don't recognize me like whether it be like being around me or or having a conversation it's like well that's not the Justin I remember and I get shut down all the time on interview requests from people I went to school with and wanting to promote what what they're doing and and I know there's probably a lot that's you know from the past is automatically like I don't want to be on his show like he was not the best or the kindest and then I get that in the same sense I'm not gonna shy away from those times where I did not act accordingly that I should have and uh and I think one of the ways that I can heal or at least try to at least start is by talking about these these life milestones that happen and that's why we were so happy when we beat our goal by over a hundred episodes because that's a big deal it's a big deal for somebody me barely getting a 3.0 in in in high school and you know being an outcast and and then you know the the you know story goes and the the the things I did and not proud of a lot of them and but here I am and so there's a root there's got to be a reason that I'm here like why am I here and there's so many people that have been taken from us not even not only just in 2025 but why am I here why why has God spared me up until now to be here and the only thing I can think of is that there must be some some kind of work some something that he wants me to to continue or to do before my time's up here on earth that's that's that's that's the only way I can really as I'm you know trying to verbalize it and and trying to process it in my mind of you know why me and I try to be grateful every day and and again I some days I succeed some days I fail miserably and that that's me I'm a human being and you know the times where I have not been the best person nice and and all that you know that eat eats at me but after the fact it's kind of the only thing I can say is you know I'm sorry about what whatever the those things are I mean there's so many ups and so many downs in my life and there's probably some ups and downs at some points of your your life and and others watching and listening across this planet earth somehow voices for voices the brand the show the organization the publishing the media the I I don't know it's hard for me to I guess put the thoughts together and so the only thing I think I know is well while I still have a microphone while I still have a camera then God must be telling me to share share information share life experiences that I must be we must be we must be helping people because otherwise why would I why would I be here is is what I'm getting at there's so many more talented people that we've lost over the course of my life that I mean for musicians I mean you can you can say and think you know whatever as far as you know the reasons why they pass on and uh you know actors and actresses and there's some very very talented exceptionally talented people and so for me I it's like I I I keep asking like like why why me why am I why am I still here because at times when I do screw up and I do the wrong thing say the wrong thing act the wrong way I admit it I mean I I I don't know what else to do I mean nobody's perfect and I know I'm not so all I can say is sorry I wish I hadn't said that I wish I hadn't done that I wish but I'm here for something and so when you hear us talk about wanting to help three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond this is why why did we get past the first episode why did we get past the first 50 the first 100 the first 200 to 300 why did we beat our goal by over a hundred episodes we were only supposed to hit 300 total episodes by the end of 2025 and we ended up going way over 300 and even a even some change over 400 couple more episodes I think maybe it was like two or three episodes when it was all said and done before uh the ball dropped uh could the kick off the year 2026 and so I guess that's what that's what keeps me going that's what keeps me waking up wanting to help not knowing what that looks like I just I just know that I have I'm an expert on myself and I am an imperfect person imperfect human being so I that must be one of the areas that God wants me to to at least you know up until now like continue sharing and continue talking some of the topics are a little more lighthearted and some are very very very very very deep and 20 years ago I would never talk about I would never think about talking about the topics I'd be like no way Justin like I wouldn't even want to think it in my own mind let alone have over hundred I and you keep hearing me talk about over a hundred countries a thousand cities I don't know about you but number one those numbers are real so I I I see those on a daily basis and number two wow wow wow that this little camera this little microphone sometimes I wear the earbuds somewhere the headphones just depends like how I'm feeling uh sometimes I wear the you know we're wear the green here and yeah we're we're promoting ourselves or promoting voices for voices if you would like to sponsor us for an episode or for a tier like maybe 10 episodes you could definitely reach out and we'd love to have that conversation so sometimes you'll see me wearing different accessories and that and uh sometimes I wear them regularly and sometimes I don't I usually mostly for the show because that's what I'm passion I'm passionate about voices for voices I'm not passionate about somebody else's brand nothing wrong with somebody else's brand I'm just gonna promote our brand is is how it really just comes down to it so the language has just gotten better I think less derogatory terms less derogatory thinking I'm a work in progress I think we all are every day we're if we wake up whether it's early in the morning or close to close to noon we're waking up nonetheless and so there's got to be something the God or your higher power or if you're not a believer there's just got to be something in the mix that is keeping us waking up and keeping us doing what we're doing now I'm not talking about people breaking the law and and those things so don't don't take me for a fool because I'm not the average regular person like me like the people we we work with on the team we're we're with the mission we want to help people and if you want to help people with us go ahead and reach out I'm I'm sure we I'm sure we could I'm sure we could use your help in one way or another or a multitude of ways.
• 38:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So I start shows saying no we're grateful to be here grateful to have you and we we truly are because even though we've reached who we've reached still have to keep coming back and watching and listen however you however you do that sometimes I listen on one platform sometimes on Spotify sometimes on iHeart sometimes it's um as a late you know the the Amazon music with the podcasts and uh YouTube I mean we have our YouTube channel we're starting to I guess get a little bit smarter and use some of the the shorts we hadn't I've been doing a whole lot of that.
• 40:02
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Um, but like I said, continuous learner, and we're just grateful to be here.
• 40:10
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We really are.
• 40:11
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Uh, you know, most organizations would have gone belly up or just stopped at this point because they weren't seeing some you know huge return on investment and and that.
• 40:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So that's when I say that you know, we're doing this on basically a zero dollar budget, and we're crushing goals.
• 40:46
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We crushed a goal by a hundred and three episodes.
• 40:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: If that's not passion, if that doesn't show perseverance, persistence, whatever the buzzword you want to use, or what's being used out there, I don't know what is.
• 41:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're bringing it, and we're just so happy to have you with us.
• 41:21
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So if you could subscribe, if you could give us the big thumbs up, like, follow, share, reach out to 25, 30, 40, 50, 100 of your your following, your followers or text, big group text, the group message on chat.
• 41:43
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let them know about the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast, the hottest show on the planet behind the Joe Rogan experience.
• 41:53
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let them know that we crushed our goal by over 100 episodes over the course of where we ended up 2025.
• 42:04
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We were only supposed to be at 300.
• 42:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, we were at not just 400, we were at, I believe it was 403.
• 42:17
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We already have two.
• 42:22
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: This is the second episode for 2026 in the books, and we're just we're continuing.
• 42:28
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Well, God keeps putting me here.
• 42:35
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You don't have to be a believer.
• 42:38
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I'm I'm just sharing from my perspective, that's all.
• 42:41
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: You know, God keeps putting me here, higher power keeps putting me here.
• 42:48
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We're gonna we're gonna keep sharing, we're gonna keep talking, we're gonna we're gonna converse, we're gonna yeah, we're gonna talk about some light-hearted things, you know, we're talking about some hard topics, talking about life.
• 43:07
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: So thank you so much for being with us.
• 43:13
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you.
• 43:15
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: No matter who you are, where you're from.
• 43:18
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Let's try to let's try to reach 200 countries and 2,000 cities across the world.
• 43:29
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: I know we can do it.
• 43:32
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Can you help us?
• 43:34
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Thank you so much.
• 43:39
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you.
• 43:40
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: God bless the United States of America and God bless you wherever you may be across the world.
• 43:47
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: We love you and we will see you later.
• 43:50
  Justin Alan Hayes, Voices for Voices: Goodbye.