Two Overlapping Shows Nearly Broke Us | Here's What Changed | Episode 460

0:00Hi everyone, it's Justin. Thank you so much for sharing this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast, whether you're watching, listening here in the United States or any other point across the world. Thank you for demanding Voices for Voices content. We love you, we're thinking about you and thank you for your love and support. If you can do us a few quick, easy free favors, if you can give us a big thumbs up, like follow, subscribe, share, and if you're able to please reach out to maybe 25 or 50 of the contacts in your phone, let them know about Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. We'd love to have, love to have your friends, family, colleagues, teammates, fellow coaches, join us on

1:07this journey to help and reach over 300,000, over 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond. Again, nobody's perfect and I am a good example of that. So yes, thank you for being with us. And this up, we're going to really just break it down on the organization, and Voices for Voices on the show, predominantly the show, but really everything Voices for Voices related. We get comments and feedback all the time and some of it has been to the tune of, oh, it's so easy for you to sit there and talk about experience 1, 2, 3, and so when we

2:17get that feedback, we do, we take it in and we look at it. But the fact of the matter is it's not, it's not easy. So it's really, there's really two parts we're going to talk about. The first part is, oh, it looks so easy. All you have to do is sit in front of the camera and film your episodes. And as we've said before, there's a lot of administrative work that is behind the scenes, it doesn't get seen by a lot of people. It's not fun. Is it easy? It's not hard. So I guess it would be easier than other projects, other tasks, and to the average person again, it looks easy. It looks like,

3:20hey, anybody can do it. And anybody can, let's just say that, anybody can put together start, continue a podcast and or TV show. You can do it. And that's part of what keeps us going here. Our voices for voices is, we want to be a light in so many different ways. And one of those ways is, well, Justin's doing it. So maybe I can do it. And that's why not. Give him to try it. See how it goes. Oh, until you know, and you're not going to know until you try it. We could have did

4:21you know, 10 episodes and called it a day and say, okay, well, that's enough. Now what we did do for each of you who have been with us from the beginning is, at the very, very, very, very, beginning of the podcast and TV show, we did, we did two podcasts. We did the House of You, two podcasts and we did the voices for voices. And we ran into a few issues, few problems. One is our body doesn't know the difference between good stress and bad stress. And so I was

5:23basically stressing my body to do two separate shows. So that was thing one at the very beginning. Thing two was, we were paying for studio time times two. So before I learned and went through the process of researching, doing my due diligence and coming to the point we are today, I was taxing my body so much because of what I would do is, I'd film one, actually, these

6:23will back. These are just audio shows. So there was no TV, there was no video. So that's the old school voices for voices. The TV show podcast came from. And so what would happen is, I would film an episode. Maybe I'd film two, right? Because I'd have to do one for each, one for the House of You and one for voices for voices. And that was only part of the process. Again, then thing two was I was paying double the studio time because I was in a studio. And even to this day, we're doing, we're doing this on our own dime.

7:28We love donations. We would absolutely love. We're a nonprofit. We're a 501c3. We accept donations all day, every day at lovevoices.org. But we haven't gotten to that point. Even after all the shows that we've done, all the things that we've done. And you might wonder, well, then, well, why are you doing it? Easy. I feel this is what God wants me to do. And so that's why I'm doing it. So I'm continuing it. I feel called to do this work. And so, yeah, it's work. But where we're at now is so much. Even though there is quite a bit of

8:33administrative work behind the scenes to do. Titles, descriptions, hashtags, just the name of you. Find in links for every single platform that our shows on. I do it because I feel like that's what I'm called to do. And so find what you're called to do. Maybe it's the same. Maybe it's different. Maybe it's similar. Maybe it's not. But we don't know until we try. So back in the day again, I had to learn. I couldn't just do things myself. So I was in a studio, paying 60 bucks an hour, not just for the recording.

9:40So let's say I did a show for the two shows. And I'll say they were in at the outset. I didn't really have an amount of time that I wanted to strive for for our shows. So there were some that were 32 minutes. Some that were 50. Some that were an hour. And so those days that I was filming two episodes, one for the house of you, one for voices for voices, that's 60 for hour one, another 60 for hour two. That's $120. And at least another 60 for the engineer, the producer.

10:44That's $180 for an organization that for on time some purposes again. We're working off a zero dollar budget. And so that was the one of the beginnings of reaching in to areas and in that money to pay for these types of things. And at the beginning, it started as I'm doing this thing. I'm doing this podcast. And I guess I was more of a I was a fan person, but like, well, you know, why not? I was only doing the audio.

11:52So there's a whole audience of you and others just didn't have a chance if that was how you consume podcasts and TV shows. So I was realizing that I needed some way somehow to reach, reach you. They're watching. No matter how you're watching. And then I was looking at again, doing two episodes, which were very similar. Many times are very similar. So I started thinking to myself, why am I doing two episodes? I get it. There's the house of you and there's voices for voices. But why am I doing two shows that are very similar.

12:59And again, I went through the payment structure of 60, 60, 60, sometimes running up a bill of $240. And I wasn't even reaching the video, the viewers. I was only reaching the listeners. And I was taxing my body twice. That was basically repeating a lot of not of that content. And so I was time went on. I talk about always learning that I always like to learn and continue to learn. So at some point, I started to learn

14:00and learn and learn and learn. And it's probably right around COVID a little earlier than that. I tried to think exactly where I started to think, well, maybe I can do this on my own. And so it took a lot of practice for the whole process, not just the filming part, the entire process that I mentioned. You know, the title, the description, the hashtags, there's a myriad of things that have to do for each episode.

15:03And we talk about it over and over and over again. The reason I do that is because it's true. It takes extra time. Our bodies don't know the difference between good stress and bad stress. Just no stress. And so when I learn to invest in myself and the organization, I find myself migrating from the House of You and Voices for Voices podcast, to the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast, to where we are today. It's taking a lot of trial, a lot of air, a lot of trial, a lot of air.

16:08I wouldn't have any other way. You know, at the outset of the show talked about the body doesn't know difference between positive stress and negative stress. And why are you doing this? And I said, well, I believe that God wants me to do this. This is part of part of why I'm alive. Probably a big part of why I'm alive. There's been so many different times across my life span thus far, but it's like, how did I make it through? And the answer is God. For me, you don't have to be a believer. You don't have to be a believer at all. I'm just sharing my experience and experiences.

17:10And so once I streamline from two podcasts, the one came across the opportunity to film at ATV Studio. And so for quite a while, we would film. You can see on this virtual background, you can see that's the look through one of the cameras, straight on camera one. And then things happen. And I could have packed it at that point. I could have just been forget it. It's not worth it. But for those of know me, know that that wasn't even an option. Absolutely was not an option.

18:27You know, what was an option? What is an option? Put my head down. We're just knocking out episodes. I'm sharing, being so transparent, tackling hard topics, tackling easy topics. And now we find ourselves with a lot of episodes and our our, our, our voices for voices, vault, triple V, the voices for voices, vault. And you can find TV, video, episodes. So you can watch and you can listen.

19:32Even as recent as maybe a month ago, I'm still learning, finding ways to reach more and more people. We have a huge goal, right? We're going to help and reach at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond. That's a huge goal. We're not going to reach at it or even get close if we just pack it in. I stream line from two to different, but very similar podcasts, the one. So that reduced my stress. Different program software. That reduces my stress.

20:32And just knowing that, knowing I'm believing that this is what I am, what I'm called to do. Maybe they'll change one day. Maybe something else will come up. But for right now, I do this, even with the stress, knowing that we're reaching so many people. It's one thing to talk about a goal and the dream. And there's been a lot of dreams for a lot of people that have gone by the wayside for one reason or another.

21:37Same for me, but I continue to dream. And one of the dreams is to help and reach at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond. In that right there, on top of less stress, from two shows to one show. Because I believe that this is what God had and has in store for me. And this isn't for me. This isn't for voices for voices. Yes. I'm the name Justin Noun Hayes. Voices for voices is the brand behind Justin Noun Hayes.

22:42It just, it just means that we're going to keep going. We're going to take the positives, the negatives, the the neutrals, the in-between, and we're going to continue. And we're going to help. We're going to be there for the person to help them off the ledge. We're going to be there for that person who has made a plan to end their own life. We're here for everyone. We're here to let everyone know there is a purpose for each and every one of us.

23:50One of the biggest things I've learned is there's a lot of naysayers out there. There's a lot of negativity. There's a lot of judging. And so I hope that I am a light in that we are lights, that voices for voices, to help you work through people that are judging you and I. Say, and you can't do that, you can't do that. Nobody's watching, nobody's listening. Nobody's watching me play my games. Nobody's coming to my cheerleading competition.

24:51Yes, they are. And more people than we can think. So let's stay together. Let's work through whatever may be going on. Let's reduce those stigmas. It's the very people I believe they created these stigmas because they don't want other people to not just survive but thrive. I think I truly think that. If you put something in place, if you put a hurdle or hurdles in place where a person

25:53or millions of people have to go over one hurdle after another hurdle, after another hurdle. Give me pretty degrading and they can eat at us internally and our minds. So I really think from the outset, whenever that was, people want to keep power, they want to keep money, they don't want other people to succeed. And that's just coming to my mind right now in real time. The only thing about it that's pretty genius, how do you stop people from succeeding?

26:56You keep putting those obstacles up. And then yet on the other side go, oh, let's help reduce the stigma. Let's help reduce the stigma. Well, some of these are the very same people. Potentially, they put those roadblocks up to put those stigmas in place. So let's not worry about that. I know it's easy to say and again, easy for Justin to say, look, I'm not living some lifestyle, the rich and famous over here.

27:56I'm living because I think God wants me here, needs me here. Whether you're a believer or not, even if you're not a believer, there's some kind of positive energy for each of us. And so let's find that positive energy. And let's do what that positive energy is guiding us towards. It's going to take trial and error. So much trial and error, but don't ever give up. Don't give in. Don't listen to the naysayers, the haters, the people who are judging.

29:03Be yourself. Be kind, be generous. And be the person that you want to be. Not what others want you to be, but what you want to be. So have a great day. Let's celebrate all the voices across the world. And let's be a voice for those of us and those who are in need of needing a little help of being a voice for them. So we'll see you on the next show. Have a great day, everybody.