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 it's too easy right now, you're going to outgrow it really quickly. So let's find something that may be a little more rigorous so that you don't immediately feel like it's too easy.
When we buy art, what we're doing is we're telling people who create that art, we value their contribution to the world. It's a much bigger statement than simply I'm going to go get some cereal off the shelf.
While we have all these opportunities to connect, they often are not meaningful connections, that there's a real wall between that. And so we really highlight the social and community aspect of live performance.
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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Dannel Malloy, Chancellor of the University of Maine System and former governor of Connecticut, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to dis…
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.