Meet our Team Members:
Every month we will be selecting a team member for our Employee Spotlight.
This month we are introducing Jacobe Hayes Clinical Education Specialist serving since September 2019.
What is your favorite quote, saying, or motto?
"The Man in the Arena" - Theodore Roosevelt's speech "Citizenship in a Republic", delivered on April 23, 1910, at the Sorbonne in Paris.
What is your greatest achievement in life so far?
Learning how to invest in the stock market has been a real game changer for me. This is tied with the self - explorative journey psychology has
brought me on, but I do not feel like this is complete.
What is your #1 pet peeve?
A coffee stain on a white shirt. Keep a Tide stain stick on me; Drip too hard to let a stain take me out the game.
What is your most memorable moment in your EMS career?
A FOIA request couldn’t get this information out of me lol.
What is your favorite movie or play?
“IT” I am torn between the original mini series and the remake they just did, like them both.
What would constitute a perfect EMS crew member?
This is a good one. I am picky about who I work with on a truck. As a paramedic, you are expected to coordinate the
efforts of everyone on scene, and doing so in an orchestrated symphony can be challenging. The best kind of partner is
someone who is exactly where they need to be, doing exactly what they need to be doing, while I focus on everything else.
In essence, someone who is able to lead themselves, so I can lead the rest.
What is your best kept secret?
It is tough for me to answer this — not because I do not want to, but because I cannot think of anything. Last year, I realized that the
only way to foster genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard is to model these traits yourself.
The spirit of being more genuine involves self-disclosure. There is a version of yourself, hidden from the world,
that you deny exists when you hold back, and I refuse to deny myself the right to exist.
What would you consider your worst habit?
I have a bad habit of over-romanticizing. I think it is a byproduct of studying psychoanalysis for so long.
Who is your greatest inspiration in your life?
God, more specifically the patriarchal motif encompassed by the Abrahamic adventure — thrust from the throes of comfort and security
into the chaos of the unknown — invites risk, beckons action, and serves as a persistent reminder that life is best balanced with one foot
in the realm of what is known and the other in the realm of what is new.
What is your favorite food item?
Orange Chicken… with the orange peel slices in the mix…
What would be considered luxury to you?
I do not know. I like nice things, don’t get me wrong, but they are just things. I cannot think of an item that would provoke the satisfaction commonly equated with this question.
With that being said, reaching a level of peak conversation—full disclosure with someone—would be considered a luxury. Most interactions never move beyond the base level of cliché
conversation or, at best, one step above with fact-finding, even among people we swear we are close to. Full empathy is rare.
If you could meet anyone in the history of the world, who and why?
The person who invented orange chicken. Thanks, shawty, you have gotten me through a lot.
What would your epitaph say?
“Dressed to impress”
What is your favorite type of music?
It depends on the context that I am in: Bachata, trap music, country (but only like five songs).
Where would you like to grow old?
If there is one lesson this career has taught me, it is the solidification of the notion that quality of life is far more important
than its duration. Therefore, I have not thought that far ahead. I recognize the finite nature of life and accept the responsibility of
making it a life worth living now, choosing to cross that bridge when I get there. Where would I like to be next weekend? Charleston… for sure. Might do that.
