View from the Top
At The Hub CoWorks, Bill Lucci, the Program Director, takes a proactive approach to understanding how individuals from various backgrounds contribute to the modern era. To achieve this, he has ongoing conversations with people from diverse walks of life. During these conversations, he delves into their interests, passions, and achievements to understand how they shape Vermont today. Bill aims to comprehensively understand the modern era by gathering insights from various perspectives. Through his work, he seeks to foster an inclusive and collaborative community that celebrates the contributions to Vermont. This show has been produced with the assistance of NextDayPodcast and recorded at The Hub CoWorks in downtown Rutland, VT.
View from the Top
018: It Is What It Is: The Grit of Stefanie Schaffer
For this episode of View from the Top we offer listeners an opportunity to catch up with a young Vermonter who is the very embodiment of grit, determination and positivity—Stefanie Schaffer. Critically injured during a dream vacation in the Bahamas in 2018, Stefanie has managed to cultivate during a long and painful recovery a perspective about living and dying.
Stefanie’s “it is what it is” philosophy allows her to live every day like there will be lots of tomorrows because it fosters an ability to move on, to adapt, and to return to a state of perfect harmony.
Our conversation also takes a few turns along the way to meet some of the players she encountered on her road to healing, all of whom encouraged her to write her book Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation. If you want to be inspired by someone who will prompt you to consider the things in your life that you might take for granted, and prompt you to appreciate and cherish what you have been given to lead a more fulfilled life, then spend an hour with Stefanie Schaffer.
Recorded at The Hub CoWorks Podcast Studio, this show is presented by Bill Lucci, Program Director for The Hub CoWorks, and VTTSG Podcast Productions. The music used in this project is "Dirt Track" by Scott Holmes, which is available on the Free Music Archive.
