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Confused....How do I correctly wire my ceiling fan with these other switches and outlet

I am trying to re-wire so that I can have separate ceiling fan light and motor switches. I thought this was simple enough but am having issues. There are 4 sets of wires coming into my wall gang box. Bottom wire is 14/2 for an outlet and is the power source. There are three different 14/3 wires. The first 14/3 runs to an outlet (which jumps to another outlet also using 14/3). This seems to have been done for the purpose of a wall switch for lamp (simpler for me to keep this if possible). Wiring at the outlet is both neutrals on one side, black- hot at top, red at bottom. The second 14/3 is for my ceiling fan which comes with a light. I want to turn this into 2 switches as mentioned above (one for light, one for motor). The third 14/3 wire jumps from here to another wall to work as ceiling fan switch as well (don't need or want the switch but it apparently provides power to another outlet via electrical box in attic). The switch for the outlet was using the neutral (white from outlet wire) and 2 reds (one from outlet wire and one pigtailed from remaining reds). How do I wire this correctly?