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

• Founder of Voices for Voices®, Justin Alan Hayes • Season 4 • Episode 315

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

We celebrate the milestone of publishing our first book under Voices for VoicesⓇ Publishing while reflecting on the importance of self-belief despite criticism and doubt. Through 310+ episodes, we've remained committed to our mission of helping others find their voice and share their stories.

• Accessing our content easily through voicesforvoices.org/podcast with no app needed or subscription fees
• Finding community through "watch parties" where people gather to enjoy episodes together
• Breaking news about our publishing arm with "Young Siren Born: The Dream Dimension" now available on Amazon
• Dealing with dismissive reactions to our achievements and staying focused on our mission
• The importance of believing in yourself even when others question your dreams
• Embracing the serenity prayer to navigate life's challenges with grace
• Setting realistic expectations while still pursuing big goals

God bless you, God bless the United States of America, and God bless every human from every corner of the world. We love you, we believe in you, and believe in yourself.

Chapter Markers

0:00 Welcome to Voices for VoicesⓇ

5:01 The Impact of Our Work

12:14 Finding Voices for VoicesⓇ Content

16:27 Kindness to Ourselves and Others

24:49 Young Siren Born Book Release

32:35 Dealing with Doubt and Rejection

39:01 Believe in Yourself and Embrace Change

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Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

Hey everyone, it's Justin from Voices for Voices. Welcome to another episode of our TV show and podcast. I'm proud to be your host and just being able to bring some quality content, quality information to you Some quality content, quality information to you. We have been at this for over 310 episodes by now. I think we might be a little bit more by the time this one drops and it's because of you. You're watching, you're listening, you're sharing, you're following, you're subscribing, you're giving us a thumbs up, and that's what keeps us going.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

That's the fuel, that's the big part of the fuel to keep us going as an organization, as a show of wanting to talk and share and give insight into the lives, not just of me, but into the lives not just of me been through exactly the same experiences and events. There may be similarities with some of the areas, but that's why we're talking about it. We're bringing it to the public's attention, we're bringing it to your attention, to others. It's important why we're doing this. We're doing this to help people, like anything, there are individuals who don't think we're helping people, and that part breaks my heart because I know we are. I know we are we're helping people through tough situations, through times in their lives where they feel alone, like they're the only ones that have gone through and are going through something, through something, and it just breaks my heart to hear and to see people basically wanting to disqualify the work that we do on a day-to-day basis.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

We talk about numbers. We've talked about numbers on various episodes. I encourage you to look through our catalog of over 300 episodes. Wherever you watch, listen, consume content, one those places that we're continuing to share because there continues to be questions is not an app. It's actually on our website. So if you head on over to voicesforvoicesorg forward slash podcast, that will take you to our podcast page. You don't need an app and, by the way, where our shows are at, you don't need to spend money to watch or listen, and so this is just another avenue, and the best part about it is from a, if we want to think, efficiency standpoint. You know, the least amount of click, scrolling down is that when you go to voices for voicesorg forward slash podcast, the brand new episode that just dropped is at the top, so you don't have to scroll all the way down to get to that episode, that particular latest and greatest episode. We do encourage you to take a look at other episodes that may very well be something of interest to you or others. We're finding more and more that there are watch parties I guess that's a term where friends, sometimes family members, will get together and they'll watch or listen to an episode or two or three, and you know whether that's eating pizza, having chips and veggies, and water and juice and whatever that may be.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

That's the part that's really humbling to us that people are taking the time in valuing us and we value our own selves first and foremost. We have to. Life is a hard, it's a hard thing to go through. Excuse me, it's hard. There's ups, there's downs, there's twists, there's turns. It's hard. There's ups, there's downs, there's twists, there's turns, there's surprises. There's all kinds of different events and experiences that we feel, we hear, we see, we feel, we touch, we listen, we hear. All these events happen. And not only is there help out there. If you're going through hard times and you just want somebody to talk to, like I do and have for many years, there's nothing wrong with that. There is not an ounce wrong with that. Not an ounce wrong with that. And so don't worry what other people think. I know it's hard in this digital age of social media and judging it's hard.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

We all, at some point, get caught up at some degree or another, whether we think so or not, and so what I'd like to propose is that not only do we, as humans, stop the judgment of ourselves like they, like individuals are, are God, and they know everything about a potential situation or experience or someone or someone that you're talking to wanting to make a difference, and these others want to make a difference too, and so that's my yeah, that's my wish for you, for me, for the whole human race, for the whole human race here in the United States, here in the state of Ohio and all points outside of the United States, and to be kinder to ourselves and to be kinder to ourselves, people that are toxic, that drag you and I down at times by the very people who claim to know everything about a situation. They thrust themselves into a situation, and so that's my wish, that's my hope that we can, we can make this whole world a much better place to live, to play in, to experience. It's when there's divisiveness, division, judgment, whether Judgment, whether those individuals Think they're judging or think they're not, or calling it something else. Believe in yourself what you are doing, what you want to do. It is extremely important. Why? Because it's what you want to do.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

We talk about dreaming, we talk about taking part in activities and things that are bigger than ourselves, bigger than me as an individual, bigger than you as an individual, bigger than you as an individual. When we talk about wanting to help 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond, you wouldn't you may or may not be surprised the amount of people who go oh, you're doing a noble thing and you're probably helping people, but you need to do something else. You need to do something else. You can do Voices for Voices, for a half hour, an hour a day, and still make that impact. And I invite you and anyone else who would like to see a behind the scenes of a day-to-day of how we think about strategy, how we think about topics, how we think about what do we think, what do we want to go forward and how do we want to expand our reach and help more people than what we did today or yesterday.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

And right, voices are voices. There's many ways for us to share our voice, for us to share our voice. One of those ways Is through writing, journaling and just Not even A couple days ago, what we have shared on our Our show and you, you may know this, what we have shared on our our show and you you may know this because you probably watched or listened to that episode and those follow up episodes that we have a publishing arm of Voices for Voices, where we're giving individuals the opportunity to share their stories, their novels, their novellas, but the world and so I'm going to share that book that is now out, it's available, it's under Voices for Voices Publishing, it's under the author, david Solomon, the editor, amanda Solomon, the publisher, voices for Voices Publishing, and so we're going to switch screens here so I can show you that. So right now, you can head over to Amazoncom and you can look up Young Siren Born the Dream Dimension, which is a part of the Young Sirenborn series. You can have that digitally or what I have pulled up, which is what you see here, you know Kindle, or you can choose paperback as well. And so I just talked about the date, the timing August 22nd 2025, by David Solomon.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

Author and illustrator, voices for Voices Publishing. Voices for Voices Publishing, as we were part of the editing process and Amanda Solomon just did a wonderful job of helping make sure that the content flowed, content makes sense. And I will say, because this has come up here as a question, the question that this particular book I'm going to scroll down here if I can this book is the ASIN, or independently published through us, voices for Voices Publishing. Publishing date the language is in English. The print length Total pages 104. The ISBN number. So that's important, obviously with anything from a publishing standpoint Weight, and then here the reading age, and I'll highlight this if I can. The reading age anybody can read this as long as you're at least 7 years old, up until usually the 18-year-old mark. But as an adult you can also read it.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

And so this is not a pipe dream, this is not just an idea that was in our minds. This is a real, tangible thing. You can touch and feel the pages, the cover of this particular book you can. If you choose the digitally, the Kindle edition, then you have that digitally. You don't have to wait for shipment. If you have Amazon Prime, that will help you get a copy a little bit quicker than the average shipment time. And so here is the cover. So, as we see here, the young Sirenborn Book one A Dream Dimension by David Solomon, and you see here Voices for Voices Publishing, and then you also see here, as I mentioned, kindle. You can get that instantly Paperback, just like you would purchase Any other item On Amazon. It's in stock, you can pick your quantity, add the cart, you can do the buy now. And so for me, it is a time where I have few words because this particular book concept idea to developing characters and the plot Again, you saw the age range, so this is not going to be a book that, as far as how it's written, it's written for that, the age range that we, that we shared, and so if we're older than that, the book could look like.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

It is written in a, I'll say, like a more of a basic format, a more of a basic format, and it's because it's for those age ranges, those ages, and so we are just grateful for the opportunity to take what was once a once-a-year event for Voices for Voices a brand new day and right here in 2025, the first of many publications through Voices for Voices Publishing. And this isn't a pipe dream. You can look at it, you can buy it, you can share it, you can download it. Again, just depends on the format that you would like to have that in it's.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

For me, it's a validating moment because I, like so many others along the way who have been told, well, you got these grandiose ideas big deal, and these are supposedly from people that you know, say they love us, that they support us, and so I don't have anything to say in spite or anything along those lines. The only thing I have to say is that book is real, our organization is real, we're helping people in this instance and reading and entertaining, teaching morals, some ethics, some mental health, some issues, some events that had wear on the characters. And so we go back to the beginning of the show. We have to believe in ourselves, we have to bet on ourselves. From time to time, we have to go forward, and there's going to be, there's going to be people that I don't even know why. I'm not even going to try to pretend why or like. I know the reason. All I know is, for, whatever the reasons are, there's some people that haven't and won't ever understand how important this work is that we're doing.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

I remember an example, very recent, because this book just dropped two days ago, where I was asked. I was asked hey, let's look at your email, see what's in there. And one of the most recent, the most recent messages I had was from Amazon saying that this particular story, this particular book, was approved and is now published and is now available on Amazon, published and is now available on Amazon. And I the feedback I got was very I don't want to use nonchalant, but it was almost as if it didn't matter that I share information. And right there on that particular day just happened to be the particular day that one of the books under our Voices for Voices, publishing, of publishing, came to be and is now available paperback digitally. And that hurts. That hurts a lot, but lot.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

One of the big reasons is when somebody or somebody's and to say that like, yeah, that'd be great that this project or that project works out, and so for that to be a pretty big moment, not just for the authors and editors and our organization, who has just crossed over into a brand new area or a brand new era. However, we want to think about it and there's something that's tangible. Tangible, we can feel it. We can feel the pages. You get that paperback copy. We can see it with our eyes. And so I'm disappointed because I don't need a pat on the back. I don't need a oh. Way to go, justin. Way to go. Voices for Voices. Way to go, david, way to go, amanda. It's not about that. It's about wanting to help others through the voice that we have. And a voice for these individuals is writing, bringing stories to life, bringing events to life, bringing characters to life. And so when I like, eh, big deal, so what? You published the book.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

That hurts as a human, because just a day earlier, I was being told that I was making things up, that projects aren't happening, that the thought of a project wasn't in the cards, wasn't happening, and yet, and yet, on that very morning of August 22nd 2025, around 9 am or maybe a little bit after, to get that notification. It's purely God, it's God's intervention. I could have had any other email, any other message be the most recent, but that wasn't the being. God wanted that to be shown, that to be shared at that very moment. And we know life. We just talked about ups, downs, hurdles, curveballs, all kinds of things we go through in life. And so does that mean every project, every thought, every goal we're going to meet or we're going to be able to accomplish? No, it doesn't. But, on the other hand, there are going to be some goals and some ideas that come to fruition.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

I know it took over 10,000 times for the light bulb in its current form to be invented. If it was stopped at try 9,999, we might not have the light bulb as we have it today. And now look all of us Light as a part of our day, bringing us out of the out of the shadow from night to day. And I just want to reiterate to everybody thank you so much for the love and support you have shown us and continue to show us, and we mean it Because we know we're making a difference, we know we're helping. Sometimes we're helping our own selves by talking through a situation or event or something that we've gone through, we're going through, we've gone through or going through and we also know that we could be validating some information you already know about confirming, denying, sparking an idea, letting you know that I can do this, I can try. That's what it's all about.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

I don't claim to be the best TV show and podcast host ever. I'm not. I'm not perfect Nobody is but what I do know is I'm at least a little bit better now, with as many episodes and shows we have had up till now than I was at the very beginning, and I'm willing to admit that. I'm willing to accept that, and so should you. We have to start somewhere. We have to start somewhere. We have to start somewhere so you can do it.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

Believe in yourself, try your best not to let the detractors, the jealous, the envy, the questioning and we're talking about things that are legal, that we're able to do. We're not condoning any illegal activity, activity and how we can help others and or help ourselves. So when we talk about, we want to start out right by helping one person. It doesn't have to be somebody we don't know that one person that we may be helping on a particular episode or a particular part of an episode Might actually be ourselves, and that's a beautiful thing, where we don't expect that, where we don't expect that and maybe we don't know, in the conscious, maybe it's the subconscious way we're helped that a little stress is taken from us and opening and freeing our mind up just a little bit. That's an incredible thing too.

Voices for VoicesⓇ Founder, Justin Alan Hayes:

Believe in yourself, embrace change. Embrace, change, know that, know that. God, please grant us the serenity to accept the thing we cannot change, like what other people have to say and think, courage to change the things we can and, last but not least, in the wisdom to know the difference. Amen, in the name of the Father, son, holy Spirit, amen, thank you for joining us. We'll see you on the next episode. God bless you, God bless the United States of America and God bless every human from every corner of the world. We love you, we believe in you and believe in yourself. Bye, bye for now. Thank you so much.

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