Join us for an eye-opening journey into the world of HOSA: Future Health Professionals, where we explore how this organization is molding the next generation of healthcare leaders. Discover the unique stories of Dakota Fauntroy, Yexon Marquez-Argueta, Via’Shalaine Eisenberg, Alexandra Zarwell, and Charlie Irizarry as they reveal how HOSA has transformed their aspirations and personal growth. From pediatric surgery to travel medicine, our guests are forging diverse paths, united by the invaluable skills and networks they've built through HOSA. Expect to be inspired by their evolving dreams and the resilience they demonstrate in the face of challenges.
In this engaging episode, our guests recount unforgettable experiences from HOSA's competitive events, workshops, and conferences. Learn about the International Leadership Conference in Houston, Texas, where unexpected opportunities emerged, offering profound lessons in leadership and decision-making. Hear firsthand how these young leaders have gained confidence in public speaking, honed their networking abilities, and expanded their understanding of healthcare careers. This episode is a celebration of the dedication and passion these students bring to the healthcare field, showcasing HOSA's role in empowering them to achieve their career goals.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning.
My name is Dakota Foncho.
I'm from Friendship CollegiateAcademy and my role in the host
of chapter right now is I am ajunior president and my future
health HOSA chapter right now isI am a junior president and my
future career in the healthcarefield is I want to be a
pediatric surgeon or a paramedic.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hi, my name is Vi.
I go to District of ColumbiaInternational School.
I aspire to be a pediatricdentist and my role within HOSA
at my current chapter is at mychapter is an admin officer.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hello, my name is Alexandra Zorwell.
I also go to DC InternationalSchool, and my role in my local
chapter is the curriculum chair,making educational activities
for my members, and my aspiringcareer is something within
emergency units.
I'm not really sure what,though.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Hello, my name is Jackson Marcus from Coolidge
High School and my future careerinspiration is being a travel
doctor and my local role is vicepresident.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Good morning.
My name is Charlie Irizarry.
I serve as the vice presidentat my chapter at the Advanced
Technical Center and I aspire tobe a pediatric surgeon.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, let's get started with our questions.
How did you first get involvedin HOSA and what has your
involvement meant to youpersonally in terms of your
growth and development.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I actually got involved in HOSA in a kind of
funny way.
I was looking through a schoolregistry of extracurriculars,
saw it was confused and didn'tknow what it was, and looked
into it, was interested andapplied.
It really has helped myleadership skills.
I've gotten a community andbuilt a network.
It's given me a lot ofopportunities.
It's quite incredible.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Like Vi, I also saw it through posters in the
hallway, but also our localadvisor at the time, mr Patel,
helped introduce me to it andget me more involved in the
actual chapter itself, as itbenefits me and my skills.
I gained a lot of networkingskills, also learned how to
reach out to certain positionsand grab them, and also it
(02:20):
opened my perspective intodifferent health care careers,
and that's why I'm still alittle confused of what I want
to do.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So I got involved because my local advisor came to
my human body systems class andshe talked about it for a
little bit.
Then a teacher helped sign usup and that's how we got
involved.
That's helping with leadershipskills like networking and
getting to meet people who areinterested in their field.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I got involved through my college counselor.
He applied me for HOSA withoutme knowing but it has really
helped me with my networkingskills, my leadership skills,
public speaking.
It has helped me bothacademically and personally with
like motivation and it's helpedme figure out what I want to do
(03:06):
in life.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I also got involved with my school and it's like
when you're in the healthscience field I chose the health
science field.
When you're in the healthscience field it's like you're
put into wholesale but like youdon't really have to do the
competitions and get involved asmuch.
But I wanted to get involvedbecause I see how fun and like
how much it would help me growin life, like right now, if I
(03:28):
feel like I have grown withnetworking skills and speaking
in front of a lot of people,because at first I did not speak
.
Like I did not like speaking infront of a lot of people.
So I see that we all gotinvolved through our school and
stuff.
Can you share your experienceswith hosts of competitive events
, workshops and conferences?
What moments or activities hadthe greatest impact?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes, so I think that the conference that had the most
impact on me, or event hope sowide, was the International
Leadership Conference in 2024.
It was hosted in Houston, texas,and it was a very interesting
experience.
I got there as an officer and Iwas going for the leadership
(04:12):
seminars, but I ended up havingto substitute for somebody in a
competition in the emotionalwell-being challenge, and
participating in that was reallyinspirational.
I was able to learn about whatcompeting in wholesale was like
and I was able to learn aboutalcohol abuse in teens
(04:33):
throughout the emotionalwell-being challenge and I was
able to learn how to makelast-minute decisions and be
like decisive and ready on thespot, as I was substituted a
couple hours before thecompetition occurred.
We got eighth place in thecompetition and after that we
(04:54):
went to leadership seminarswhere I was able to learn how I
can help lead my peers back whenI got to my local chapter and I
was able to network with otherpeople who are also part of HOSA
from around the world and learnhow to speak in front of other
people, which was my greatestfault originally.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I feel as though that was a great opportunity for you
.
What leadership skills have yougained through HOSA?
How have you applied thoseskills in your academic or
personal work through HOSA, andhow have you applied?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
those skills in your academic or personal work.
So some of the leadershipskills I've learned is how to
manage my time and how to berespectful and help others in my
community.
That's helping my academicgoals because I learned how to
do my work on time and manage mytime with the time I have so I
can meet every day right there.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
For students who are unfamiliar with HOSA or hesitant
to join what would you shareyour experience to encourage
them to get involved?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I would say it can be very scary and intimidating to
join a new organization,especially when it's so academic
based.
I would say people are put offby HOSA because they think
they're not academic enough orthey don't have enough like
leadership skills.
(06:15):
And I want to say that thesethings develop over time.
You are not born with them andI think it's important that we
allow people to make mistakesand grow.
I myself, when I joined HOSA, Iwas not quite ready to do all
the giant competitions and be ina role of leadership.
(06:37):
These things grow over time andif you have any interest in the
healthcare, whether you thinkyou're an academic, whether you
think that you're gonna be agood leader, or even if you
wanna an academic, whether youthink that you're going to be a
good leader, even if you want todo leadership, I would say join
, because there is no negativeside effect of joining HOSA.
You can leave afterward, butthe skills are transferable and
(07:01):
it's very useful.
You build a network, you gainopportunities and, at least
personally for me, I would say Iwould go as far as to say that
HOSA has been one of the biggestforces for a positive influence
in my life.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I agree with you because I feel that most people
think that the word leadershipis kind of intimidating and they
think that they have to leadall the time, and that makes for
health issues.
What are you most lookingforward into your involvement
with HOSA this year?
Personally, me, I'm lookingforward to actually compete in
(07:37):
competitions, because lastsummer I was at the competition
in Houston but I was juststarting golf at HOSA, so like I
didn't compete and I didn'treally know what was going on,
but friends told me, like theydid EMT, they did their
different tests and they kind ofhad fun with it and then it
wasn't really intimidating withthem, like they pushed through
and they.
(07:58):
So I'm looking forward tolearning more, having more
networking skills, meeting morepeople and competing this year
in the HOSA defense.
What are your future plans inyour education or career in the
healthcare industry and how hasHOSA imposed those goals?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So, as I said before, I'm a little bit confused on
what exactly I want to move intoin the healthcare industry, but
I know that I want it to be inemergency medicine and I learned
this through, specifically, thecompetition that I competed in
during my SLC time.
I won first place in myphlebotomy competition during
SLC, which is spring leadershipconference or state leadership
conference, which is coming upvery soon, and that really
(08:38):
showed me that I wanted to workwith therapeutic services or
diagnostic services withinhealthcare, which I also learned
through my leadership positionby creating certain lessons to
guide our members at my DCinternational chapter and to
open their perspectives ondifferent healthcare fields.
So I think that HOSA, in thatway, has really opened my
(08:59):
perspective into seeing like youdon't just have to be a trauma
surgeon to work in emergencymedicine.
You can also be an RN, maybe bean NP.
At our last midwinterleadership conference we had a
bunch of PA students from GeorgeWashington, I think it was come
in and they talked to us aboutbeing a PA.
I personally didn't reallyunderstand the difference
(09:19):
between being a doctor, pa or MP, but they really described that
to me and now I've also openedmy interest to that because I
can get an undergrad degree,which I plan to do in public
health and environmentalsciences, and then also add on
to that a PA degree or a nursingpractitioner degree.
So I think that's really helpedit in a way, and I think HOSA,
as being this giant pipeline tohealthcare, really just adds on
(09:44):
to like our networking abilities.
We have a lot of people withinhealthcare already that know
about HOSA and we can reach outto them.
I've gotten a bunch ofshadowing opportunities within
hospitals, within nursingschools, to be able to reach out
and just ask them and say, hey,I'm part of HOSA, this great
community of people.
I'm sure you've heard of us.
(10:05):
You've probably hosted usbefore.
You know that we havededication.
You know that we have greatworth ethic.
You know that we're committedto whatever we do and we put our
whole heart into it.
So usually with that they'rewilling to take you on and show
you amazing things.
It's really worth it.
Does anybody have anything elsethat they want to share with
their career goals.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I would like to say that take the risk.
If you think that it'sdifficult, take the risk, go out
there.
If you think that competitionswill be hard, I don't know if I
can do it Do it.
I have been in the positionbefore of being too shy, of too
scared, of like downplaying yourabilities.
(10:48):
Make sure to put yourself outthere.
You can really make change.
Even if you think that you'renot quite there yet.
You can get there, and there issuch a huge community in HOSA
that is willing to support youand to help you go through those
steps to get to where you wantto be.
I agree with Vi it is a risk totake, but you have nothing to
(11:11):
lose with going into thesecompetitions and these
leadership seminars.
The only thing that's going tohappen is you gaining abilities.
You're going to gain theability to be a leader.
To happen is you gainingabilities.
You're going to gain theability to be a leader.
You're going to gain theability to do public speaking
and you're going to gain a bunchof opportunities that you
didn't have before.
I was able to be on theWashington Post, I was able to
compete in competitions, I wasable to meet some very important
(11:34):
people and healthcareprofessionals, and without HOSA
I would not have been able to dothat.
So it is worth it and, like Visaid, take the risk, because you
have nothing to lose.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I think.
Also as the DC chapter, we'rekind of a small chapter.
We're a pretty new chapter.
My local chapter was foundedaround three years ago, so we're
relatively new, but we're veryclose knit and so all of us,
like we just met today but wecare so much about each other.
We know partially abouteverybody's experiences and so I
think the whole idea thatyou're competing in this
national kind of organizationand you're part of these
(12:08):
chapters but you all have verysimilar interests, it helps bond
you closer together and that'salso a part of the networking
which I think is really cool atHostel.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So that's it.
We have all the questions wehave for today.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Thank you so?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
much.
It was such a pleasure to behere and if you're interested in
HOSA, do it.
Good morning.
My name is Dakota Foncho.
I'm from Friendship CollegiateAcademy and my role in the host
of chapter right now is I am ajunior president and my future
health HOSA chapter right now isI am a junior president and my
future career in the healthcarefield is I want to be a
pediatric surgeon or a paramedic.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hi, my name is Vi.
I go to District of ColumbiaInternational School.
I aspire to be a pediatricdentist and my role within HOSA
at my current chapter is at mychapter is an admin officer.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hello, my name is Alexandra Zorwell.
I also go to DC InternationalSchool, and my role in my local
chapter is the curriculum chair,making educational activities
for my members, and my aspiringcareer is something within
emergency units.
I'm not really sure what,though.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Hello, my name is Jackson Marcus from Coolidge
High School and my future careerinspiration is being a travel
doctor and my local role is vicepresident.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Good morning.
My name is Charlie Irizarry.
I serve as the vice presidentat my chapter at the Advanced
Technical Center and I aspire tobe a pediatric surgeon.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, let's get started with our questions.
How did you first get involvedin HOSA and what has your
involvement meant to youpersonally in terms of your
growth and development.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I actually got involved in HOSA in a kind of
funny way.
I was looking through a schoolregistry of extracurriculars,
saw it was confused and didn'tknow what it was, and looked
into it, was interested andapplied.
It really has helped myleadership skills.
I've gotten a community andbuilt a network.
It's given me a lot ofopportunities.
It's quite incredible.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Like Vi, I also saw it through posters in the
hallway, but also our localadvisor at the time, mr Patel,
helped introduce me to it andget me more involved in the
actual chapter itself, as itbenefits me and my skills.
I gained a lot of networkingskills, also learned how to
reach out to certain positionsand grab them, and also it
(02:20):
opened my perspective intodifferent health care careers,
and that's why I'm still alittle confused of what I want
to do.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So I got involved because my local advisor came to
my human body systems class andshe talked about it for a
little bit.
Then a teacher helped sign usup and that's how we got
involved.
That's helping with leadershipskills like networking and
getting to meet people who areinterested in their field.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I got involved through my college counselor.
He applied me for HOSA withoutme knowing but it has really
helped me with my networkingskills, my leadership skills,
public speaking.
It has helped me bothacademically and personally with
like motivation and it's helpedme figure out what I want to do
(03:06):
in life.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I also got involved with my school and it's like
when you're in the healthscience field I chose the health
science field.
When you're in the healthscience field it's like you're
put into wholesale but like youdon't really have to do the
competitions and get involved asmuch.
But I wanted to get involvedbecause I see how fun and like
how much it would help me growin life, like right now, if I
(03:28):
feel like I have grown withnetworking skills and speaking
in front of a lot of people,because at first I did not speak
.
Like I did not like speaking infront of a lot of people.
So I see that we all gotinvolved through our school and
stuff.
Can you share your experienceswith hosts of competitive events
, workshops and conferences?
What moments or activities hadthe greatest impact?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes, so I think that the conference that had the most
impact on me, or event hope sowide, was the International
Leadership Conference in 2024.
It was hosted in Houston, texas,and it was a very interesting
experience.
I got there as an officer and Iwas going for the leadership
(04:12):
seminars, but I ended up havingto substitute for somebody in a
competition in the emotionalwell-being challenge, and
participating in that was reallyinspirational.
I was able to learn about whatcompeting in wholesale was like
and I was able to learn aboutalcohol abuse in teens
(04:33):
throughout the emotionalwell-being challenge and I was
able to learn how to makelast-minute decisions and be
like decisive and ready on thespot, as I was substituted a
couple hours before thecompetition occurred.
We got eighth place in thecompetition and after that we
(04:54):
went to leadership seminarswhere I was able to learn how I
can help lead my peers back whenI got to my local chapter and I
was able to network with otherpeople who are also part of HOSA
from around the world and learnhow to speak in front of other
people, which was my greatestfault originally.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I feel as though that was a great opportunity for you
.
What leadership skills have yougained through HOSA?
How have you applied thoseskills in your academic or
personal work through HOSA, andhow have you applied?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
those skills in your academic or personal work.
So some of the leadershipskills I've learned is how to
manage my time and how to berespectful and help others in my
community.
That's helping my academicgoals because I learned how to
do my work on time and manage mytime with the time I have so I
can meet every day right there.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
For students who are unfamiliar with HOSA or hesitant
to join what would you shareyour experience to encourage
them to get involved?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I would say it can be very scary and intimidating to
join a new organization,especially when it's so academic
based.
I would say people are put offby HOSA because they think
they're not academic enough orthey don't have enough like
leadership skills.
(06:15):
And I want to say that thesethings develop over time.
You are not born with them andI think it's important that we
allow people to make mistakesand grow.
I myself, when I joined HOSA, Iwas not quite ready to do all
the giant competitions and be ina role of leadership.
(06:37):
These things grow over time andif you have any interest in the
healthcare, whether you thinkyou're an academic, whether you
think that you're gonna be agood leader, or even if you
wanna an academic, whether youthink that you're going to be a
good leader, even if you want todo leadership, I would say join
, because there is no negativeside effect of joining HOSA.
You can leave afterward, butthe skills are transferable and
(07:01):
it's very useful.
You build a network, you gainopportunities and, at least
personally for me, I would say Iwould go as far as to say that
HOSA has been one of the biggestforces for a positive influence
in my life.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I agree with you because I feel that most people
think that the word leadershipis kind of intimidating and they
think that they have to leadall the time, and that makes for
health issues.
What are you most lookingforward into your involvement
with HOSA this year?
Personally, me, I'm lookingforward to actually compete in
(07:37):
competitions, because lastsummer I was at the competition
in Houston but I was juststarting golf at HOSA, so like I
didn't compete and I didn'treally know what was going on,
but friends told me, like theydid EMT, they did their
different tests and they kind ofhad fun with it and then it
wasn't really intimidating withthem, like they pushed through
and they.
(07:58):
So I'm looking forward tolearning more, having more
networking skills, meeting morepeople and competing this year
in the HOSA defense.
What are your future plans inyour education or career in the
healthcare industry and how hasHOSA imposed those goals?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So, as I said before, I'm a little bit confused on
what exactly I want to move intoin the healthcare industry, but
I know that I want it to be inemergency medicine and I learned
this through, specifically, thecompetition that I competed in
during my SLC time.
I won first place in myphlebotomy competition during
SLC, which is spring leadershipconference or state leadership
conference, which is coming upvery soon, and that really
(08:38):
showed me that I wanted to workwith therapeutic services or
diagnostic services withinhealthcare, which I also learned
through my leadership positionby creating certain lessons to
guide our members at my DCinternational chapter and to
open their perspectives ondifferent healthcare fields.
So I think that HOSA, in thatway, has really opened my
(08:59):
perspective into seeing like youdon't just have to be a trauma
surgeon to work in emergencymedicine.
You can also be an RN, maybe bean NP.
At our last midwinterleadership conference we had a
bunch of PA students from GeorgeWashington, I think it was come
in and they talked to us aboutbeing a PA.
I personally didn't reallyunderstand the difference
(09:19):
between being a doctor, pa or MP, but they really described that
to me and now I've also openedmy interest to that because I
can get an undergrad degree,which I plan to do in public
health and environmentalsciences, and then also add on
to that a PA degree or a nursingpractitioner degree.
So I think that's really helpedit in a way, and I think HOSA,
as being this giant pipeline tohealthcare, really just adds on
(09:44):
to like our networking abilities.
We have a lot of people withinhealthcare already that know
about HOSA and we can reach outto them.
I've gotten a bunch ofshadowing opportunities within
hospitals, within nursingschools, to be able to reach out
and just ask them and say, hey,I'm part of HOSA, this great
community of people.
I'm sure you've heard of us.
(10:05):
You've probably hosted usbefore.
You know that we havededication.
You know that we have greatworth ethic.
You know that we're committedto whatever we do and we put our
whole heart into it.
So usually with that they'rewilling to take you on and show
you amazing things.
It's really worth it.
Does anybody have anything elsethat they want to share with
their career goals.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I would like to say that take the risk.
If you think that it'sdifficult, take the risk, go out
there.
If you think that competitionswill be hard, I don't know if I
can do it Do it.
I have been in the positionbefore of being too shy, of too
scared, of like downplaying yourabilities.
(10:48):
Make sure to put yourself outthere.
You can really make change.
Even if you think that you'renot quite there yet.
You can get there, and there issuch a huge community in HOSA
that is willing to support youand to help you go through those
steps to get to where you wantto be.
I agree with Vi it is a risk totake, but you have nothing to
(11:11):
lose with going into thesecompetitions and these
leadership seminars.
The only thing that's going tohappen is you gaining abilities.
You're going to gain theability to be a leader.
To happen is you gainingabilities.
You're going to gain theability to be a leader.
You're going to gain theability to do public speaking
and you're going to gain a bunchof opportunities that you
didn't have before.
I was able to be on theWashington Post, I was able to
compete in competitions, I wasable to meet some very important
(11:34):
people and healthcareprofessionals, and without HOSA
I would not have been able to dothat.
So it is worth it and, like Visaid, take the risk, because you
have nothing to lose.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I think.
Also as the DC chapter, we'rekind of a small chapter.
We're a pretty new chapter.
My local chapter was foundedaround three years ago, so we're
relatively new, but we're veryclose knit and so all of us,
like we just met today but wecare so much about each other.
We know partially abouteverybody's experiences and so I
think the whole idea thatyou're competing in this
national kind of organizationand you're part of these
(12:08):
chapters but you all have verysimilar interests, it helps bond
you closer together and that'salso a part of the networking
which I think is really cool atHostel.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So that's it.
We have all the questions wehave for today.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Thank you so?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
much.
It was such a pleasure to behere and if you're interested in
HOSA, do it.
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