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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It's always like there's a possible painting down around the next corner. There's just a possible painting right anywhere I go or look. That's something that's always intrigued me about Maine.
I'm a much more empathetic person, a person that's more open to listening to another person. I worked with the janitorial staff and took all my breaks with people, and that was very interesting working with people with whom I would have never had an association with otherwise and became great friends.
The Gulf of Maine ecosystem is huge and it's very unique. It goes all the way from around Cape Cod up to the Bay of Fundy and then out to George's Bank. And within that, we have deep basins. We have areas of shallow rocky water that are in the middle of the Gulf of Maine.
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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.
Read More About LisaA selection of the most recent guests on Radio Maine.
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June 30, 2026
Gretchen Halpert, scientific illustrator, educator, former molecular biologist, and founder of a scientific illustration distance program, j…
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Radio Maine is produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery, Maine's premier destination for contemporary fine art. Visit the gallery at 154 Middle Street in Portland, or explore the work of gallery artists online.
From Off the Wall · Portland Art Gallery Artist
I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
Recent essays from Dr. Lisa Belisle's Substack on medicine, place, and the creative life.
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Previously: Love Maine Radio
Quick clips from recent conversations.