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 you struggle with writing and crisply articulating your ideas, it can be very limiting in your career trajectory. If you have difficulty writing, you'll hit a limit, I believe in many careers because ultimately it's communicating to other people outside of your domain that gets you to what I think of as the more interesting opportunities.
It's important to bother, you know, it's important to try and to put some effort in and see what happens. You might surprise yourself.
Education is fundamentally social. It fundamentally doesn't happen one-on-one with a computer. It is something that happens within the social context of a classroom.
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.
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In Partnership With
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.