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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You can always create something and the public can take something totally different. And that's true for all artists, you know, you create something, you put it out in the world, you hope the reaction or the meaning is what you intended, but you, at the end of the day, you can't control it.
People said they felt like they had been abandoned by the environmental community, not necessarily that they weren't getting what they needed, but that they weren't being heard. They weren't being asked for input, they weren't being asked to contribute to the solutions.
I literally put everything that I had financially into making that happen. I'd like to say it was very successful and it proves a lot of people wrong.
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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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.
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