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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Maine is such an amazing place with incredible resources. Our natural environment is part of Maine's economy. It powers our communities, and I like to think that Maine has a unique ecological ethic and culture that you don't find other places around the country.
I think critique is the most important part of art. It's never from a place of malice or contempt. It's always from a place of understanding.
Your only job on stage is to make everyone else look good, full stop. What that means is when you go on stage, if there's five of you and I'm thinking about myself and you're thinking about yourself and everyone else is thinking about themselves, then you only have one person concerned about you on stage during the scene, which is not great. But if I go on stage and I'm only thinking about the other four people and they're all thinking about the other four people, then I've got four people worried about me.
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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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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.