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Stand Up, Speak Kindness (Episode 335)

• Founder of Voices for Voices®, Justin Alan Hayes • Season 4 • Episode 335

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Stand Up, Speak Kindness (Episode 335)

What if the bravest thing you do today is send one sentence: “I’m happy you’re alive”? That’s where our conversation lands after a hard, honest walk through jealousy, threats, a local safety scare, and the long shadow of choices that spiral into harm—or into healing.

We start with why we show up: to give people a voice and confront uncomfortable truths without flinching. Justin shares a chilling neighborhood story about a fake, unmarked bus and a student who trusted her instincts. David steps in with raw accounts of smear campaigns, blacklisting, and a single angry moment that led to prison—and to a deeper understanding that contempt multiplies until someone stops it. He doesn’t excuse harm; he maps cause and effect. We talk counseling and faith as tools for emotional hygiene, how forgiveness differs from access, and the discipline of de‑escalation in rooms that want a fight.

From there, we zoom out to power and platform. Fame can trap, legal tools can silence, and the entertainment industry often rewards provocation over responsibility. Our answer isn’t outrage theater; it’s infrastructure. We’re building Voices for Voices Publishing and new productions—books by adults and kids, comics, films, and more—to seed better stories into the culture. We challenge the way sexualized content reaches children and argue for art that treats dignity as a craft choice, not a buzzkill. Through it all, David’s survivor perspective and creative work point to a stubborn hope: change happens when ordinary people practice courage daily.

If this resonates, help the signal travel. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs courage, and leave a review so more people can find these stories. Then text someone—ally or enemy—and say, “I’m happy you’re alive.” Small sentences can bend big outcomes.

Chapter Markers

0:02 Purpose, Reach, And Gratitude

3:28 Choosing Mission Over Fear

8:15 Local Safety Scare And Wake‑Up Call

10:59 David On Hate, Rumors, And Resilience

17:17 Prison Lesson: Actions Ripple Out

21:37 Counseling, Forgiveness, And Boundaries

26:06 Building Change: Publishing And Media

29:18 Fame, Control, And Exploitation

35:06 Culture, Morality, And Industry Pressures

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VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

Hey everyone, it's Justin here again, uh back with another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. Thank you for joining us. Uh, we're glad to have you with us. Uh, whether you're watching or listening, whether you're near, whether you're far, uh, we're pushing 90 countries, 900 cities across the globe, and we can't do this uh without you. What that shows us and tells us is uh that there are individuals, people watching and listening. Um on top of that, there are private servers that other individuals are watching and listening. And so we don't we don't even have the full grasp of uh what what uh how how we're doing and and who we're reaching. Uh we we get um we get information from time to time, but uh to to whoever's watching and listening, wherever you may be, public server or private, private server, uh we're we're here to uh share information, uplift, uh help give people a voice, uh share our voices, share voices of uh others that uh may no longer be with us. And and as uh as our uh guests on on last show and on on this uh two-part, second part, uh you know, we don't know when when is gonna be our time to go. We know uh one thing, we know we know we're not getting out of this live. So um no matter who we are, no matter what accolades, uh no matter how many statues or roads that we have named behind us or or uh buildings on uh a school campus. Um we're not getting out of this uh live. So uh I've uh about two years ago, maybe a little bit longer, made made the decision to uh go 100% uh voices for voices. And uh I I I'm glad I did. Uh we're helping so many people. I never say never, but you know, we wouldn't have thought about hitting 300 episodes. Uh you know, we're we're thinking about hitting 300 episodes by the end of the calendar year 2025, but here we sit in kind of that's you know second week of uh October, and we're uh now on episode 335. We can't do this without you watching and listening near far. Thank you so much. If you're able to uh give us a thumbs up, subscribe, like, follow, share. All those things are free, and they help us uh get closer to our goal of helping three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond. Uh and before we pick up uh our conversation uh with our uh guest or no one uh uh part two of because uh Zoom just signed in to have its have its time limit met. So uh we we want to make sure we're uh we're uh we're able to cover everything uh that our our guest uh David Solomon wants to share. Uh but what I wanted to do was just to kind of echo a lot of uh what he did say uh about you know being a voice, about um you know stepping outside of the mold. Uh the there tends to be sometimes some jealousy, some envy, uh for whatever reason, uh don't really know, uh thinking that oh well you know they're they're doing something and they have the spotlight and you know we deserve it, not them. And and so uh we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna have ulterior motives and we're gonna do everything in our power to uh you know hurt them, whether that's a lawsuit, whether um, you know, these uh with what's come to our attention or these uh kind of uh I'll just call them indirect uh death threats uh at this point um for what we're doing. And again, why are people like us who are we're just standing up or sharing our story, we're helping. Um why why would somebody want to have that come to an end? Um you know, we can think of you know power, we can think of uh money, uh which we don't have a whole lot of, so it's like good luck, you know, uh you know on that front. Uh but it is, you know, it's it's it's a decision that we have to make each and every day. Uh first off, we don't know if we're gonna be here tomorrow, so we gotta make the best of the time that we do have. And uh it's just incredible our following, our listeners, our our viewers. Uh, we have we have a lot of people that uh want good to happen, want want stories to be shared experiences, we want to inspire people to may have gone, you know what, uh Justin tried singing you know one of Justin Bieber's song, and it was ridiculously bad, but he at least did it, and you know what, maybe maybe that's something that I'm gonna I'm gonna do because if he can do it, I can do it. And that's the whole idea, is we're doing so many different things, so many different avenues. Uh some you know, others you're gonna learn about uh, you know, within the next uh period of time. And those are the types of things that keeps us keeps us going, keeps us uh positive of wanting to continue on with voices for voices, the messaging, uh, the guests, the content that we cover. We've had people say, well, you're you're covering this is dark content, or uh you know, this is scary stuff. Well, the world is a scary place no matter what we're doing. And I feel uh that I would rather spend my time uh on Earth that I have left, which I don't know how many more seconds I have. I would rather spend that time trying to help as many people as possible than to stand on the sidelines and be a bystander of just watching and pointing or just um you know passing a situation because I don't want to get involved with it. Uh and and so we are getting involved with it, and there are gonna be uh there's gonna be haters, there's gonna be people, um, unfortunately, that that that do that say, hey, um uh you know, it's you know it wouldn't it wouldn't be our fault, or we wouldn't bat an eyelash if you know if uh you you ended up like Charlie Kirk. And those are real words and that have been said. And so when we talk about these things, these things are real, these things are happening, they're happening in our backyard. You saw one of our posts and one of our shows earlier this week where a high school student was waiting for her bus to uh come pick her up, and I'm talking like in our backyard, literally. So this isn't you know happening in a third world country, this isn't happening um somewhere else, it it happened very near where uh where we where we reside, and a bus pulled up with no city or no school district on the side, the doors opened up, and there was a gentleman with no shirt, a bunch of tattoos, a surgical mask, and said, Hi, I'm your substitute bus driver today. Come on, come aboard. Luckily, that that student had uh uh her wits about her, uh, could tell, could feel that something wasn't right. So she took a step back, and uh the the bus ended up leaving, and a few minutes later her real bus did come. She told the bus driver, which uh you know, we're talking about the Stoneman Run Falls, Ohio uh school district, uh, that this happened at and uh so the student had told the the real bus driver what it happened. They said they would tell the bus garage, we don't know if that happened or if it didn't. Um, and then uh her mother went to the police station and filled out a police report and said that uh you know there was no school-wide alert that went out to people to say, hey, make sure that your children, if they're riding the bus, that you know if this is happening, you know, make sure they don't get on that bus. Uh and so we don't we don't know what the stats are, we don't know if anybody got on the bus or not. Uh, but that's happening right here. So for everybody out there that is saying all this happens, you know, so far away, and you know, we just watch it on TV or wherever.

DavidSolomon:

Um it happens in real time because you know, just today uh there was a mass shooting in a church.

VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

Yeah. Yeah. And I mean that thing burned to the ground. I wasn't even that was like these things were happening. So go ahead, David. Jump in.

DavidSolomon:

It's okay. This is my point. What have we come to? Like what Justin brought up. What what society are we living in? We're all human and we're trying to be part of the poison instead of fixing the problem. We're polluting our own land, not chemicals, our choices. You know, I'm told that my son Ryan, uh, who Amanda, you know, took from an abusive situation, and we married and raised him, you know, I don't know what he would have turned out like if it hadn't been for her leaving his blood father, who was a porn addict, abusive, etc. And now the young man wrote a book on his own. Created a story that might change someone. You can buy it. It's called The Search for Drake Colton by Ryan Solomon. And every day that kid amazes me. He makes choices that just he wants to change the world for the good. He wants to be part of the solution, not the problem. Why can't we be like that, like a child? Why can't we just take a step back? We're acting like children on a playground. I don't like you, let me push you off the side. I don't like you, let me push you off a skyscraper. You know, when I heard that Mindy Davis was telling people that, you know, I did this and I did that, I just came unglued. Mindy Davis is a uh a person that my mom helped. And I guess you could say became friends with in a nice way. But then the the the person uh had a mental illness and for whatever reason um became delusional and and tried to uh hurt herself. And then blame that on a delusion and then wants me dead because she doesn't like what I say that I'm a Christian or you know, wrote something. These are the type of people that are psychos right that hate, they're they're causing this hate. And Mindy's only one of them. We got Brian over here, the person who took me, saying that you know, I'm evil and I'm this and I'm that and all this hate. I got blacklisted in the Christian writing world because of him. No joke. Poor Scott, who's a leader, who doesn't lead. He hands the staff of Moses to his wife, who also doesn't lead, although I gotta give it to her that she's actually written a book. But he learned he leads this giant publishing empire and he doesn't even know how to write a book. That's interesting. And then all this hate in this deflamation case. Oh, because I told the truth. Man, a wow. We got my stepfather, Steven Rymers, out there, you know, doing his thing, lying, cheating, fraud, you know, you name it, you know what I mean? Like this and that, this and that, changing our mind, and then people saying that he's kidnapped when he's not because Brian's spreading that all this hate, and it amazes me. All these people hate on me and make up all these lies and make up all these stories. And not a one of them has actually called my cell phone. Man talk about getting to the truth. Man alive. We have really come a long way, haven't we? You know I made a fatal mistake in two thousand and twenty-one after my mom passed away. I threw a smoothie at a black person. You know what they did? I had a person called my mom the seaword and I threw a smoothie at him. You know what they did? The first time in my life I went to jail and because I was white and it happened in an all-black town, I went to prison. Solitary confinement in prison. The things I saw. There was this one man, young man about twenty, doing time. He killed his wife. He belonged there. He was dangerous. But then I learned why. And then I thought, wow, I wish I could go back in time. I wish we could go back in time and and not let that happen because of the way he was raised. Because he was raised that black people don't matter. And that nobody cares. And he was angry because he walked in a gas station and someone thought he was gonna shoot the thing up. So he came home to his wife and he was angry and killed her. All because people called him the M word. Do you realize the actions that played a role, not in him, but in the life that he took? Our actions affect everyone around us. Think about that. I was beaten up in that prison by black people. I paid a price for that smoothie, I'll tell you. I was let go. But I paid a price. For a long time it would show I was a felon because it is second degree assault in Prince George County, Maryland. Now after that, I'm paying the price again. Because someone resurrected that that hated me and said, You're a criminal because you threw a smoothie. Can you imagine how many other dangerous people are out there that didn't throw the smoothie that maybe you should be looking at? I was mad at first when I got the call that, you know, you can go to prison again because whatever call was made. I just let it go and I gave it to God and I said, Okay, well, you know, it's a kangaroo court. They're all black. It is what it is. It's in God's hands. Here we go. And now that's gone. Because I didn't live in fear of the unknown. That's what kind of country we live in. They don't like you, they'll rest you. Man alive. Look at where we are. Look at where we are.

VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

Yeah, they'll cancel, they just like with with us, they take they take a studio away from us, so it's like, well, but that's not gonna stop our voice.

DavidSolomon:

If I may Justin, you have a uh you have someone uh a counselor, right?

VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

No, yes.

DavidSolomon:

And and so did I long ago. I think everybody should have counsel and check in on themselves in this world of hate and hurt and make sure they are okay before they step out that door. Now and then they walk into our door and they start telling you and I think we're the problem that we're the door, and whether that's a psychiatrist or physical, or maybe you talk to God and get it right, yeah. But don't take your anger out on innocent people, and I I come back to this. Amanda's family says she's the worst mom, she deserves to be dead, and my newborn child deserves to be dead. Now the reason her family was told that we had a newborn was because Amanda wanted me to call up her mother and let her know that she was gonna be a grandma. Even though she caused all the hate and all the ruckus and listened to my trafficker, Brian. Guess what? I did it anyway. It was a hard thing to do, like shaking Brian's hand, for example, and forgiving him and not forgetting him. But I did it anyway. Stayed on the phone for about an hour, got called every name in the book, got cussed at, got death threats like right, left, and center, like legit death threats every 20 seconds out of the woman's mouth, or Amanda's sister. But I didn't make one. I just took it. I waited for everybody to be quiet and then I said, So I just wanted to let you know that you have a grand, you know, a a grandson or a granddaughter, grandchild, and you know what? That's it. And they were like blah blah blah, beep, beep, beep, ba, ba, ba, screw you, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And I'm like, your hate will ultimately destroy you. And if you live in destruction, it will engulf you. If you choose to hate and you don't even know why you're hating, it will destroy you and it will eat you alive. For the same reason people spread lies about me to this day. It really amazes me. That's why I'm a writer. I want to make a world a better place. I want to impact people. Make them think. Make them be better, do better. Make good choices. We can do better. It's just hard until you have that momentum or that role model to look up to. And that's why I and Justin opened up our own publishing house to do just that. And not only a publishing house, but production, and and we're not going to stop there. Because there's a need. And the Bible says to go out to all the world and preach the gospel. And that is what we're doing. We're being his voice. And we are sharing truth and seeding truth and watching it grow in the soil that it is planted in. This isn't about religion. This is about spreading hope to a world that has none. That's powerful. That is how you change the world one plant at a time. I want to address another heavy subject that's been going on. All you've been hating on Justin Bieber, just really hating on him. Justin and I go back to two thousand and eight. Rogue Valley. Medford, Oregon. I met him. So did my mom. Man. He was a kid. And one day, as he said it, and his mom were just playing video games and doing Legos and skating around. And he has an allowance of ten dollars. And the next day he has an allowance of ten million dollars. And no parent to tell him you have no limit. What would you do? Oh, you'd buy the skate park. You'd buy the ice creams. They're like and people hate on Justin because he has a family now and and he wants his freedom and he's still enslaved. He's in a conservatorship. But I can relate to that because Brian tried to put me in one. Is that funny? It's a way to silence a victim. Like Britney Spears, we see it all the time. Don't talk about it. Demi Lovato was in one, we don't talk about it. Sabrina Carpenter, we don't talk about it. It's so sad to see what's going on in our country right now. Yeah, I was talking to this wonderful person last night. Family. You're prolific in the way that you see the world and you're writing you. You want to really make a change? Well, I do, but it's God who is prolific, and I am his messenger, and he breathes the words onto the paper that you read. Not me. I am not the writer, nor will I take credit for it. It is him that is ultimately the one that gives me the idea. And sometimes some novels that I'm gonna write that you guys are gonna read, they're not gonna be easy to stomach. Some of them are gonna be very hard. Especially those people who seek out sin. And that doesn't mean, and let me be clear, you're sinless or you can be sinless. That means people that indulge in sin and want it and are addicted to that life, whatever that may be. We all sin and we come short of the glory of God. We fall short of the glory of God, and He forgives us. But man, look at our world today. Mocking Jesus, Nicolas Cage, Jesus Superstar, the girl that played in Wicked. Whoa! Taylor Swift in the ooh. And they're child role models singing about their life in the bed, in the sheets. You know, I ghost songs for a lot of people, you know, one republic and another band. I gotta say. Not a one of them have sung about their sex life for kids. You know, the most the the most that I've ever done a song like that is a song I'm working on for a famous person right now in industry. And it it it it goes, I want to be more than friends. I don't know how this is gonna end. I don't want to hurt you like he did. I don't want to lose you one bit. I want to be more than friends. It makes me sick to see you're with him when I wish that you were with me. In my mind, I close my eyes and I think that we were meant to be. Why can't we go back to when we were best friends when we were kids long ago? All those memories we made and all the history that we break, and now I feel everything will fade. That's the most you ever see me write about that. I gotta give it to the Jonas brothers, Kane Brown, all these people I've gotten the honor of just working with. And then you have Taylor Swift singing about wood and let's see, what is it? Dude, dude, that's how I open my thighs to little girls who don't know what that is. Um that was a good role model moment. Brilliant, just brilliant. At least if you're gonna talk about that, do it in taste. But that's not by accident, folks. That's the industry. You see, America is changing, and the industry is gonna get darker because they're being forced out into the light. That's why Pete Diddy, that's why Epstein, that's why all these things are happening because nothing can operate in the shadows anymore, because the shadows are having the light shined on them. So the shadows are non-existent. So now people like Sabrina Carpenter are showing their butts in thin air and flashing their boobs in front of children at concerts. Because this is what is being done, and it is forcing people into the open. And Charlie Kirk, God has used that moment to bring evil into light, and you are seeing it in real time. Don't be part of the problem, don't be like Amanda's parents and say, I hate Charlie Kirk, or I hate David because he's a survivor of human trafficking, or I hate Charlie Kirk because he doesn't like this person when you don't know them, or you don't know their story. Don't hate anyone. Don't don't wish anyone dead. Don't wish anybody harm. Man alive. You know, my stepdad, Steven Rymers. Is he a great example?

VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

Yeah, like three minutes so far.

DavidSolomon:

Yeah. You know, people can make a change or people can get stuck in their ways. So be the change that the world needs. You want to be part of the change? My nine-year-old wrote a book. The Search for Drake Colton by Ryan Solomon. Look it up on Amazon. That's being a change. The Seaman by David Solomon. I wrote that when my mom died. That's being a change and not being a victim that my mom died, but celebrating the legacy that she gave. Sound of freedom. That's being a change, and not letting the trafficking that happened to me define me and cage me in an emotional rut. Be a voice for those that have none. And remember, everyone is human. So if you see someone that you know or maybe you don't get along with, I want you to call them up after you hear this podcast, and I want you to say, I'm happy you're alive. We may not this we may not agree on everything, but I'm happy you're alive. And then they'll go, what? Or just say, it's good to see you. I'm so happy to see you. Even if you hate them, even if you wish them death. Instead, it's so good to see you. And I promise you, you will make the world a better place. Thank you so much for letting me talk to you and for letting me have a moment to have my voice heard in your home, in your place, in your car, in your workspace, or in your families. And I hope it makes a difference. Please tune in to Voices for Voices. We have a lot that's coming up. Please like and subscribe. We have a lot more coming. Justin has done a fabulous job with this. We're just beginning. Voices for Voices Publishing is live. Check our books out. We're gonna have merch out, we're gonna have productions, movies, comics, video games. The Adolan comic is out. Check it out. And The Young Siren Born, the Dream Dimension by David Solomon, also, which I wrote for kids to get closer to God. Be a part of change, be a part of a movement, and be a voice for those that have none. Be a part of the solution and not the problem. Thank you so much again, Justin. Have a great night.

VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

You as well, David. Thank you for joining us, and thanks to all our viewers, our listeners. Uh, we just can't do this without you. Um share, like, subscribe, thumbs up. Uh, check out those books again, Voices for Voices Publishing, uh, David Solomon, uh, Ryan Solomon, uh Amanda Solomon. Uh, we're gonna have other uh authors that are gonna be coming aboard too.

DavidSolomon:

Uh mythical creatures around the world Facebook.

VoicesforVoicesJustinAlanHayes:

Exactly. And that's uh that that that's uh a big place where we're able to touch a lot of a lot of lives. So let your friends or family know, check us out, follow, and we promise you it'll be worth your time. So until next time, please be a voice for you or somebody in need.

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