Rivka Shotkin | The Gift of Pain
Meaningful People
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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Rivka Shotkin, a 16-year-old teenager living in Passaic, NJ, is the youngest guest yet on the Meaningful People Podcast. As a result of a devastating skiing accident that severed her spinal cord, she is paralyzed from the chest down. In this episode, she vulnerably shares her story and the struggles through her journey that will leave you crying, smiling, and truly inspired
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back welcome back laugh attack |
| 0:04.4 | To another episode of the meaningful people podcast boy. Come back boy boy. We have an episode for you boy boy. This morning |
| 0:10.9 | Well, this coming out of night, but we sat down with this in the morning with a you got this. Yeah, I got this right thanks |
| 0:18.3 | With an incredible young woman her name is Riftka Shotkin. She is just 17 years old 16 |
| 0:26.3 | She's 16 years old. She's right the youngest meaningful people guests ever ever now Riftka |
| 0:34.0 | It's from Pasek and she unfortunately experienced a terrible ski accident just a couple of years ago and ended up being paralyzed from her chest down and |
| 0:44.0 | We heard her story |
| 0:46.6 | Things that she struggles with with the things that inspire her |
| 0:51.3 | And you know parents if you're listening to this |
| 0:54.9 | Bring your kids along for this one because there's so much wisdom. There's so much |
| 0:59.7 | You know authenticity vulnerability in this episode from her that it's so important and I really really enjoyed |
| 1:07.4 | Being able to hear her story from her. She has a certain lightness to her |
| 1:11.7 | She really does like just very relatable very just like casual Cavalier |
| 1:17.7 | about the whole situation and |
| 1:20.5 | About life in general has have very light positive |
| 1:24.8 | Just very cool and collected way about herself |
| 1:28.9 | And I really think that you all will enjoy this episode |
| 1:33.2 | First we want to give a shout out to our friends at Toro University |
| 1:36.6 | It is trailblazer time of the year. It really is and we want to mention a trailblazer whose name is Dr. Samuel Gross |
| 1:43.0 | Momo, can you tell me a little bit about your friend Dr. Sam? |
| 1:45.6 | What a guy what a reba such a rock star. So |
| 1:50.5 | Samuel was a graph is graphic designer. Okay, and a photographer |
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