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What If Being Yourself Is The Strongest Brand You’ll Ever Build (Episode 354) · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices.
• 0:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us.
• 0:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If this is your first episode, or if you've been with us from the beginning, we uh are grateful to be with you wherever you may be, in the United States or across the world.
• 0:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we are just getting such great feedback and uh just incredible uh traffic, web traffic in the good way to uh all of our shows, episodes, uh watching, listening uh from all parts of the world.
• 0:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's really humbling uh to think that uh what we're doing is is having as big of an impact as uh we want to from the from the beginning.
• 0:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We we start out and you know we want to uh want to help people, we want to change the world, we want to uh be a light, we want to inspire, we want to share our experience, experiences.
• 1:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So hopefully you don't have to, or if you or somebody you know is or comes across uh an event or an experience, uh, like one of our uh over now 353 episodes that uh we we can maybe shed some light, uh have you laugh at uh me trying to sing some of these uh some of these songs, uh, you know, whether it's Justin Bieber or Imagine Dragons, uh and it's all in the name of uh wanting to inspire you and the people you know and love to uh give it a shot, whatever that is.
• 1:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, we we live once, uh, we're here on Earth for a very short time, as we we know.
• 1:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we don't have to be told again, but I guess I just did that.
• 2:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh thank you for being with us.
• 2:04
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• 2:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's it's just it means so much uh to look at analytics in uh in the public forum that we're able to get.
• 2:20
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• 2:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we don't we don't care how you're listening, how you're watching.
• 2:36
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• 2:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're here for everybody.
• 2:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so uh we we hope that we're able to bring some some enjoyment, some laughter, a lot of seriousness, because life isn't easy.
• 3:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We know it's not easy.
• 3:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We know that uh, well, I'll just talk about my myself here.
• 3:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh you know, growing up, you know, we think everything's I want to say like easy, uh, but the repercussions we we just go about life and we're just I guess uh I for me uh because I can't speak for others, you know we're trying to have fun, we're trying to meet new friends, uh and we'll just leave leave it there, but uh the repercussions uh don't seem to be as heavy and as much as when we grow up and we're we're adults.
• 3:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um for me, uh when when we get to the point, when I got to a point where people started passing away and dying uh near near and close to me, like dad, as we know, um who's watching us from heaven, uh past uh last March 1st, uh uh gone way too long, got long gone way too soon.
• 4:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it really puts things in perspective of what are we here for?
• 4:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and and so we've had discussions and and talked about that.
• 4:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but what I want to do a little bit on this episode is uh so when you look at the voices for voices, social media, it you know, it looks to be polished, uh or maybe that's my term.
• 4:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um it takes a lot of work uh to to get things to where they are now.
• 5:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And when we're filming episodes, no matter where we're at, uh, you know, there's a process.
• 5:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So what you see in here is the final product.
• 5:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh what you don't see in here is once we we conclude a show, an episode or episodes, if we're doing you know a two-part series or what have you, um, is you know, the converting of files from one file type to another, and having that second file be the one that actually goes up and we we upload to uh for us, uh we use Buzz Sprout as our audio aggregating site, uh, and then YouTube and Rumble from the video uh video side of things, video TV uh side of things.
• 6:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh what happened with an episode actually is just the previous episode, uh now thinking about it, episode 353 with Nicole Bobek.
• 6:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh my gosh, such a powerful uh down-to-earth, transparent uh episode that we were able to film with with her.
• 6:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh, you know, you might be thinking, well, well, what's he talking about with you know these these files?
• 6:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, we ran into technical difficulties.
• 6:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we we filmed the show as we always do.
• 6:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh want to have them both ways.
• 6:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We want to have you know the TV side and the video side as well as the audio side.
• 6:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And for whatever reason, and it could be user error, which is me, uh, or zoom or somewhere in between, the uh the video file did not come through, did not convert in the way that we were used to.
• 7:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I worked all uh literally half of a day because we fit we filmed around the the the noon lunch hour, Eastern time.
• 7:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we're trying to get that episode out because it's very important.
• 7:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh Nicole has a great book called The The Wild One, which we uh firmly uh support.
• 7:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we want you to go out, want you to buy it.
• 7:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's on Amazon, uh on on the paperback side and the Kindle side.
• 7:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Barnes the Noble uh has that in the uh the hardback.
• 7:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh Nicole mentioned that uh because of uh the uh the outreach and uh of the interest um as a top-selling book, uh that fans uh and and readers and and uh that would uh be interested in an audio version of that.
• 8:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so that's become uh TBD to be determined.
• 8:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so what I wanted to do and why I wanted to do this episode uh was to share uh first off a video, um, because what would you what we did was we we uploaded uh so the audio is just as it was and as it always is.
• 8:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So there's nothing different with that.
• 8:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It is the video uh where it's so you have the video screen, but you're only hearing uh the uh uh the uh it the audio uh version you're not you're not seeing, which is a shame because it uh uh it was something that I wasn't used to.
• 9:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I tried all kinds of things, tried different different programs and spent a few dollars on some programs that they say, oh, this can convert anything, and um well, everything except what what I needed to be converted.
• 9:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and so what do we do?
• 9:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We just go with the flow.
• 9:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we have the audio uh portion of our our show with with Nicole uh that is out there, episode 353.
• 9:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and and so I wanted to uh just do some highlighting of the the the show on video uh because there's uh you know so much interest in uh what what what what she has going on in in her life, the uh you know the ups and the downs as we know, they they really um say they really happen, but it they really do, they really happen.
• 10:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so the to uh to just give credence so you can actually see what we were what we were showing uh on on the screen yesterday um is is one of the the the reason why.
• 10:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh I'm going to be pulling up here momentarily um what had pulled up yesterday, so we can get uh get this on video.
• 10:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so we're gonna do that, and then we're gonna go to Barnes and Noble, and we're going to go down here.
• 10:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh because we I feel I feel terrible about you know the fact that we weren't able to to make this uh make this happen from the video side.
• 11:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It uh I know we're not perfect, I'm not perfect, nobody's perfect.
• 11:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, but what it what we were trying to do was definitely highlight somebody who has ups and downs, like we all do.
• 11:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're lying to each other, uh to ourselves if we say, oh no, I'm perfect.
• 11:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, none of us are perfect.
• 11:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, so we'll just we'll just uh you know go there.
• 11:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so what I'm gonna do is uh work on sharing the screen to to go ahead and all righty.
• 11:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So what we have here, hopefully you're you're you're able to see.
• 11:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so we'll actually here, let's go here.
• 11:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There we go.
• 11:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if if you uh have ever heard of Amazon.com, uh I'm I'm kind of saying that facetiously, uh more than likely we have.
• 12:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so the um episode 353 with Nicole Bobek, uh figure skater, uh just uh um just a great person who sh is sharing and has shared her story uh a ton.
• 12:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I'm gonna switch how I'm sitting here um as we kind of shift here.
• 12:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so what yeah, what you're seeing uh is the Amazon.com of uh Nicole Bobek's book called The Wild One.
• 12:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so hopefully you're if you're able to if you're able to be viewing, here's the cover.
• 12:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um if you're listening, yeah, you would you you would have heard what we're talking about here today, because it's uh it's uh just a uh uh a summary summarization.
• 13:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and this is uh mostly for uh those uh that we we weren't able to reach on episode 353 on on the TV and video uh program side of things.
• 13:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so uh Amazon.com, uh the title is Bobek, so that's my call last name.
• 13:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The wild one, and so there is uh there is the Kindle edition, and then there's the paperback edition.
• 13:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm gonna do just like did yesterday, uh, is uh first say uh 21 reviews, 4.8 uh stars.
• 13:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's awesome.
• 13:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's that's that's amazing uh to to to be there.
• 13:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh the number one new release in ice skating and figure skating.
• 13:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh like yesterday, I'm I'm I'm going to, especially now that we have uh fingers crossed, you know, the video comes through after we finish the show.
• 14:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, but I'm gonna read uh I'm gonna encapsulate and quote uh the description for uh for Nicole's book, and then we'll transition over into uh the uh the the second tab, which is the uh the Barnes and Noble uh print edition that uh can be purchased in the hardback.
• 14:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So here we go.
• 14:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There we're we're quoting uh the description for Nicole Bobeck's book, The Wild One.
• 14:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The quote, she was the wild child of figure skating.
• 14:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Graceful, rebellious, unforgettable.
• 14:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is her story in her own words.
• 14:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nicole Bobek didn't did not just skate, she soared, spiraled, and crashed in ways the world can never look away from.
• 15:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: With a ponytail flying and a wink to the judges, she captivated audiences in the 1990s, redefining what it meant to be a figure skater.
• 15:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But behind a sequence and spotlight was a girl fighting battles far from the ice.
• 15:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Battles with identity, expectations, addiction, and the crushing pressure to be perfect in a sport that demands nothing less.
• 15:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Told in her unmistakable voice, honest, raw, defiant, and deeply human, Bo Beck, the wild one, is more than a memoir.
• 15:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a reckoning from the cold early mornings at the rink in the dark to the dark nights of her public downfall.
• 15:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nicole takes us on a journey through the highs of Olympic dreams and the lows of criminal charges and courtroom headlines.
• 16:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She doesn't flinch from the truth, she owns it.
• 16:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is the untold story of a skater who refused to be anyone but herself and paid the price.
• 16:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But it's also a story of resilience, grace, and unshakable love for the ice.
• 16:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nicole Bobek's comeback isn't just about skating, it's about survival and finally peace.
• 16:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So just came out earlier this month.
• 16:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we recommend that you go purchase it uh on Kindle or Paperback, or we uh also recommend uh if uh if you uh if you like the the hardback version of the books to head on over to Barnes and Noble and you can grab yourself the hardback version.
• 16:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we we highly uh recommend that this uh this book.
• 17:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we talked about so I'm gonna go back to this stop share for the time being.
• 17:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, there we are.
• 17:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we wanted to wanted to show that because I wasn't able to be shown on our uh the the TV and video uh program yesterday.
• 17:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh we're happy to be able to to to do that because um you know if you're spending time with us and uh you know busy days and just a lot of things to do, we we very much appreciate everybody, all of our guests' time, but especially uh Nicole's uh and and then to have the the snafu with uh the the video and TV file.
• 17:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh just feel awful about that.
• 17:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so the book, it's amazing.
• 17:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we we recommend that.
• 17:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and you may also have uh if you did uh listen, uh we're gonna have a little bit of uh a little bit of duplication, but it's uh because we're we want to try to bring this all together.
• 18:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And if if you uh have social media, maybe you do, maybe you don't, I don't know.
• 18:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh some people do.
• 18:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe do.
• 18:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh Nick Nicole has a pretty uh pretty active Instagram account.
• 18:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then there were a couple of different posts, uh, social media posts on Instagram, on Nicole's uh account that really caught um really caught my attention as uh was uh preparing for our our show.
• 18:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and and so I'm gonna uh talk about those uh just to just to reiterate you know where we're we're at.
• 18:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so the first one is uh actually just a couple weeks ago it was posted.
• 19:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and this is on Nicole's uh, or actually this is on her threads account.
• 19:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it may also be on her threads and uh Instagram.
• 19:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I wouldn't I was checking uh the different the different uh social media platforms just to see if there was uh anything that we we may be able to talk about.
• 19:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But regardless, on on uh on Nicole's uh threads account, uh she says in quote, we all have some skeletons in our closet.
• 19:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you want to know some of mine, be sure and get the book.
• 19:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um not only is she a figure skater or is she an Olympian, uh, she's a mom, single mom, uh uh going through recovery, you know, as uh as I am, as uh a lot of people that uh a lot of guests we have, and and that's hard.
• 20:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I'm making you know the addiction awareness, and then uh fortunately, you know, uh in Nicole's case, there was some domestic violence.
• 20:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh domestic violence is never never accepted, no matter who's doing what.
• 20:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It just it's just not uh and then the let's see here.
• 20:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Here we go.
• 20:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, so this was the other uh one, and I don't know, yeah, because I have the the background how we have it.
• 20:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh uh and one of the reasons why we we wanted to at least give it a shot and try to reach out to Nicole about coming on the show was you know, we're obviously the organization voices for voices.
• 20:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we know how raw and unfiltered I am and and our guests are uh when they come on the show.
• 20:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so when I saw this particular post that I'll just get ready to read, uh it really just literally clicked as far as uh how authentic we can be just as individuals and just being our own selves, that we we don't always have to be uh you know here advertising or selling a brand, like a shirt or um uh or a uh a type of uh a type of phone, uh uh a type of soda, uh water, what have you, that we can just be ourselves and be our authentic selves.
• 21:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so this is also that was pulled from uh Nicole's uh threads uh post.
• 21:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh she says in quote, in 1995 and still today, I'm the only figure skater who got a two-page spread in the Vogue magazine, and no, not advertising for a company or a clothing line, uh, strictly for being who I am and was.
• 22:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then obviously we don't uh want to want to support Nicole and and uh her movement of coming and talking about some uh you know as we we we talk about on our our show, it's just being who we are, that we don't have to be representing a brand and yeah, those things are nice, getting those endorsements are nice.
• 22:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we can't can't lie about that.
• 22:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but when we're recognized for just being ourselves, like that that post uh that Nicole made about the Vogue uh two-page spread uh as the the only figure skater that got a two that got and had it and or had a uh past present so far, uh a two-page spread in the Vogue magazine where it's not where she wasn't repping a brand, she was repping her own self and her own personal brand, which is just her being herself, and that really resonated and resonates with me because we talk about personal brand and how important that is, regardless, you know, if we're a championship athlete or uh ultra successful actor, actress, or uh CEO, or whatever you want to want to call it, that uh being recognized for just who we are is I think one of the best things to to happen to an individual.
• 24:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so that's why you don't see me uh in us.
• 24:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh you know, we've we've done some while we're traveling.
• 24:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes we'll do uh a uh a promo on uh I think I did one on MMs and uh Beef Jerky and when was uh was traveling uh a few months back.
• 24:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and those weren't paid, those were just I I just thought it'd be neat to do that.
• 24:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but other than those, we really have voices for voices.
• 24:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The we're repping the brand of voices for voices, but we all have a voice, and and so we're really just repping ourselves.
• 24:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just repping myself right now.
• 24:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No logos on on this this this shirt.
• 25:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, you might see in the background, the background, you know, voices for voices, and then you know, the two two uh kind of pamphlet books that I put together, one on my mental health journey and one on kind of uh you know getting uh getting a career started, uh applying to jobs, resume building, etc.
• 25:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, but we don't do a whole lot of brand repping on on our shows because I want to stay true to who and what voices for voices is, not only for the shows, but for out in the public, because more and more uh I'm being recognized.
• 25:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh not that people are you know running up to me in the in the paparazzi stuff happens uh when when we're out kind of in uh let's say La La Land LA and in that where uh there's actual you know uh a following and people are able to find out your your you know your travel plans and then they're there with cameras and asking questions and and that uh but more and more um and I'm not just saying this just to say it, but more and more I'm being recognized uh out in public uh because of the different stands that we have and are taking as an organization and as an individual.
• 26:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it makes me feel good that it's it's about literally just being a human being and talking about human being stories and things we've gone through, things our guests have gone through, things our country, our world has gone through.
• 27:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we talk about spirituality, uh religion.
• 27:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't have to you don't have to have a religion or uh that's just something that we talk about.
• 27:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so if you have a higher power or higher authority that you kind of think about at certain times, um you know we we realize everybody's different, everybody has their thing and their things, and so we're just bringing it from our our perspective, and so uh that's that's kind of where that is.
• 27:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But but yeah, being recognized and known, it's it's it's I don't say it's crazy, but it is it's kind of crazy because go from just being like this you know average person uh and and now um being recognized, you know, at at church and um grocery stores from time to time.
• 28:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh my my my family, my mom's being you know uh caught up with uh at church and different things of uh people are tuning in, and I guess that's the thing, the biggest thing, and one of the hardest things is when it looks like nobody's watching, when it looks like nobody's listening, not that we want every single person, because it's not the never gonna happen that every single person is gonna love us.
• 28:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We know that.
• 28:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, some are gonna like us, but I'm gonna shift positions again, so you're gonna see a little bit of movements.
• 28:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Apologize for that.
• 28:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh trying to get more comfortable.
• 28:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There we go.
• 28:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so it it's it's nice to just be a human being and talk about human being things and stories.
• 29:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And yes, uh, there's a lot that we talk about that's deep and it's uh hard to talk about, hard to fathom.
• 29:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I look back and think, well, what am I doing here on earth?
• 29:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I've talked about this before, and I'll continue to talk about I'm not here to just punch keys on a keyboard, I'm not here to just do uh, I don't know, kind of in the box type of work.
• 29:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm here to help change the world.
• 29:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm here to help people.
• 29:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's not about the money, because trust me, Brian, uh there's not a whole lot of money in what we're doing right now.
• 29:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And And so that's the part that I'm happy about is you know, I growing up, and you know, there'd be this saying that we would I would hear in college and other places that you know do something that if you weren't getting paid, you would still do.
• 30:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And let me tell you, this is this is it for me.
• 30:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's voices for voices.
• 30:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's being my authentic selves.
• 30:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Have good days, have bad days, have good experiences, have not so good experiences.
• 30:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so the fact that there's notoriety and and and uh people are starting to recognize and hear and how they're hearing, how they're listening, how they're watching.
• 30:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh again, because of you know privacy settings we have on our phones and our devices and our computers and our laptops, netbooks, I whatever, whatever uh device that we do use, a smart TV, uh to watch and listen.
• 31:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We do know that there's you know, not everybody has Spectrum or you know, uh YouTube TV or or Hulu, you know, some uh or ATT.
• 31:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh that some people live in certain areas of the country and the world where they they need to they don't have access to to that type of internet connection.
• 31:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So they have to use what's called you know private servers or private routers.
• 31:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and I think Starlink uh with Elon Musk may be one of them too, uh where the analytics uh between you know the privacy settings on our devices and depending on where people are at.
• 31:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh for for example, there's areas of the state of Oregon that if you want internet, if you want C V and that you have to do it yourself.
• 32:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You have to you know get it get it your own private server.
• 32:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so we know our analytics aren't picking up a lot.
• 32:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and our public servers aren't picking up a a lot.
• 32:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's with the private servers, there's a lot of analytics that we're not, yeah, we're not getting.
• 32:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so yeah, it's it's crazy because one would think that, oh well, you don't have millions of followers and watch listeners or viewers.
• 32:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, yeah, that's what the analytics look like on the outside.
• 32:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and then there's certain events, certain things that I've viewed and heard, and and that myself, and that uh that really show otherwise, that show that there are a lot of numbers out there that we're not seeing.
• 33:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's completely okay with me because I want to remain the same now as I as I will in the future.
• 33:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, we don't know when our last day on earth is gonna be.
• 33:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So for me, being able to talk to you, to whether you're watching or listening, whether you've tuned in for one or two seconds of any of our shows, uh, or or you've been with us from the beginning, just the mere fact that we are so in the in the public domain and the public analytics that we have, we are over 85 countries that we've reached.
• 34:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And yeah, some might be VPNs too, uh, but not everybody has a VPN.
• 34:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so not not only you know hitting that you know, 90 countries across the world, uh, but over 150 cities across the world.
• 34:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So when you boil that down, and we talk about uh we talk about this, and I'll talk about it again.
• 34:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That uh one of my favorite bands growing up, and still to this day, is uh the their music's changed a little bit a little bit, obviously as as we get older and you know our tastes change.
• 34:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, but the old school third eye blind uh album has a song uh on the their debut album called Jumper, you know, saying, you know, in the in the song of, you know, wish you'd step back from that ledge, my friend.
• 34:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and that's what we're we're trying to do, is if we can inspire, if we can even just get one person, and I know we have, um, but that's how I'm taking this day by day, show by show, and everything we do is as long as I can connect and we can connect with one person, maybe it's today that helps them, maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's a week, a month, a year, or maybe it's somebody that they know that they're able to say, Hey, look, look at this show.
• 35:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, this guy here, he's trying to sing, you know, one of Justin Bieber song, uh, or Imagine Dragon song.
• 35:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and it makes them laugh and chuckle.
• 35:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That that doesn't that doesn't offend me.
• 35:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's about life and just being ourselves.
• 35:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And you know what?
• 36:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I just did it, I do it, and I do it again.
• 36:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so there'll be other kind of bonus episodes and where we do that, and that's probably one of the funnest things I I get to do is those, uh, because I know how it makes me feel, even though I know I'm not a singer and not an artist, and you know, this hugely successful at all.
• 36:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and I don't think I'll ever will be, but just when I do it, it just makes me feel good.
• 36:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's like, okay, that's something new that I did, and so I just feel good.
• 36:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm like, yeah, well, I tried it.
• 36:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so it kind of comes back to that at the end of the day, you know, we're we're gonna be able to maybe think about like, oh, I regret this, I regret not doing this, or not trying this, or that, or the other.
• 36:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so I don't want to look back and have as few things as possible uh to say that oh well, I wish I would have done that, or I wish I would have done this.
• 37:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I'm really trying to do those things, not just for that, but for now, for people like you that are watching and listening.
• 37:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I just can't get over the huge responsibility that I have and we have at Voices for Voices, that because we're reaching so many people that we we know we're reaching, and we know there's a lot of people that we're we're reaching that we don't know about, uh it's just it's just an honor and a privilege to be able to do this.
• 37:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we again we want to thank you for watching.
• 37:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for listening.
• 37:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Head back to episode 353.
• 37:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh if if uh you know the audio is the the the way uh that that you uh you know consume your content, uh you know, consume your your podcast, or check out this episode 354 about Nicole Bobek, about her story, her experiences, her book, the fact that she was she wanted to put put the uh you'll put these uh ultra personal experiences uh out there.
• 38:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so that that's one of the reasons we wanted to to do this, to pay our respects.
• 38:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um she's healthy, so I don't mean pay our respects to giving her the uh the the TV and video show that she deserves that uh we weren't able to get her on episode 353.
• 39:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh we're we're just so grateful and humbled that we had the opportunity to talk and listen and see and speak and uh and and and just connect with another human being.
• 39:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's really all we're trying to do.
• 39:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So from Nicole uh to myself, Justin on Hayes here at Voices for Voices, we want to thank you for joining, you're watching, listening.
• 39:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can smash that subscribe button, like, follow, share, thumbs up.
• 39:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All those things are free to do, and it helps us get closer and closer to helping those 3 billion people and more over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 39:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for letting us come into your lives for however long or however short amount of time that is.
• 40:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So, until next time, let's celebrate all of our voices and let's please be a voice for you or somebody in need.
• 40:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.