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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Featured Episode
If we can reduce the friction in work, what are we doing? But creating more space for joy in work, that to me is what, that's the right brain. Let's touch the heart of why process design is so valuable is it creates more room for the joy in the work.
I'm not trying to put myself out as a food critic. I think there's too much negativity in the world. I'd rather focus on positive ways to help promote our incredible food and hospitality businesses in any way, shape or form.
Maine is just absolutely beautiful as well. And I think it's really special in terms of the fact that there is mostly wooded areas in this state. So it's very, very easy to isolate if you want to and kind of really look inwards to yourself, but also outwards to the world.
Meet Your Host
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.
Read More About LisaA selection of the most recent guests on Radio Maine.
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Dr. Jennifer Monti, cardiologist, critical care physician, and Chief Growth Officer of Prescriby Health, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Mai…
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Gretchen Halpert, scientific illustrator, educator, former molecular biologist, and founder of a scientific illustration distance program, j…
June 23, 2026
Susan Newbold, artist, teacher, printmaker, bookmaker, and author of “Reveries: Journaling in Place,” joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine…
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I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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