Each week, host Dr. Lisa Belisle sits down with the people who shape the state: entrepreneurs and educators, physicians and artists, community builders and keepers of place. She brings a clinician's ear and two decades in radio and writing to every conversation.
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How do you reposition those challenges into opportunities?
I love commissions because then I can start collecting, planning. Even exhibitions I love, especially themed ones, but that's when you can be a little bit more disciplined too and get the excitement of building a project, gathering all this stuff for the pieces.
I think what has given me a real, we all want the world to be a better place. There's something that happened with me as I was developing as a human that maybe helped me to be a little bit more attuned than many other people might be on difference and power and what it means to have all your tools in your toolbox and what it might be like for people who are just as smart, just as capable, but might not have the same set of tools.
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MD · PhD · MPH · MBA
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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From Off the Wall · Portland Art Gallery Artist
I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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