Ray Hayes Part 3

Today on John Dash and Friends, John sits down with his friend Ray Hayes—a young voice with remarkable wisdom and genuine kindness. In this heartfelt conversation, Ray shares powerful life lessons that challenge, uplift, and inspire. More than just a talk, this episode is a meaningful moment you won’t forget. Tune in and let it speak to you.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

The Friday before I was supposed to uh that Monday start picking, uh, we had a sales rep quit and I never missed a beat. But that's the closest I've come to being let go or fired. So uh so my career's just been it's a God thing. I I couldn't I'm not smart enough to write it. So I know I can't take credit for it.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Well when you think about that though, when you think about your career and you think about the accomplishments in your life, I mean what do you attribute that down now other than saying I I understand the Lord works in everybody's heart.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

I got all that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

But there's things that you do and you've done that cause you to be successful. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Yeah, absolutely. And yes, you can you can say the biblical answer, and that is the answer. Yeah, I got you. But yeah, I I think uh I've always been pretty much an optimist. And I've always um didn't mind working. Never really picked a career, just whenever something presented itself, I'd do it, and I'd do it the best of my ability, and then that usually launched something. Um when I got hired at the pharmaceutical company, I got hired from the gym business. And this this account man, I mean uh sales manager, he kept on, when you gonna come work for me, when you come work for me. I said, I'm not. I said, because I'm gonna go over there and interview and they're gonna ask, where did you go to college? And I didn't. And they're gonna say, Thank you very much, and you can go on back to whatever you was doing. And um he kept on, kept on, and I was got married. I was working three days a week at the gym, 45 hours in three days, and I was working three days a week as an electrician, uh newly married, working about 80 hours a week, right? And he offered me a job that would pay what I was making both of those. And I said, Well, I guess I'd better talk to him. Uh I was bodybuilding at the time, so I was so big I didn't even own a sport coat. Uh couldn't find one to fit, you know. And uh but I said, I I'm gonna go over there and I'm gonna interview it. He said, Right, I've got three college guys working for me right now, and none of them do what I see you do here in the gym with your members. He said, if you can do that in the pharmaceutical business, you can make it in the pharmaceutical business. And so it was just treating people the way you want to be treated, being optimistic, serving people. Um, I think is probably if I had to, if I had to write my part, God's part's his part, but if I had to write my part, it'd be that.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

You know, and I find that to me, people that are successful, uh half the battle's showing up. You know, a lot of people just won't show up.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Right.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Yeah. Okay, um, when it comes to working and doing things and and things like that. I found if if you'll just show up, yeah. You know, I had 45 men work for me one time, and and I a lot of them I said, if you'll just show up, man, I said, you know, we'll deal with the rest of the things. Just show up. Oh, yeah. I can deal with you being lazy, I can deal with you don't I but that let's just show up first and then we can work with everything. And I think a lot of times people just they're I find people that go from place to place and job to job and thing to thing, and I don't mean you shouldn't look for moving up. I'm not saying that. Absolutely. But you come somewhere you gotta lock in and and make it work because in the end you spend whatever you make.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Uh I read a a book of a guy one time that lived for like twenty-five years off $130,000.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

And the way he did it was he said you concentrate more on what goes out than you do what comes in.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Right, absolutely. And uh I knew some people didn't retire early that way.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Uh I would rather save money than make money. Okay. I'm I'm extremely I'm looking and thinking about stuff and and those little things I try to look at it in life. But I think just I've never thought I was the best at what I do. I'm a manager. Gifted people have to be managed, okay? Because there's a thin line between gift and crazy, and people cross over. Right. Yeah. I mean, we we and I'm sure you probably know more. I know a lot of doctors that broke as convict.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Okay, couldn't manage our money.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

But gifted could do what they do, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 4:01

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

There there's great musicians out there that have lost everything. Gifted, great musicians. Oh Lord, athletes that and I think now there's probably a lot more uh good.