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 very hard for people to relate to an issue unless you can bring it down and make it real for them. So when you start giving them an example of a situation that's very similar to their daughter's situation or their mother's situation, and it's touching all aspects of our society, people with all socioeconomic status, people with all different backgrounds, and that is where the rubber hits the road, that's when it becomes really real and people pay attention to it.
If people can see the condition other people leave, I don't think we're going to be wasting what we wasting. We are not going to be complaining.
I think in filmmaking, both these men would say the same thing, that we are very lucky to do what we do. And so whether it's serious or funny, it's kind of a joy equally.
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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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