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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I now would like to use the forms as a manifestation of my mental cathartic narrative. If I was a writer, I'd be able to put it pen to paper. I have an angst and I have feelings of inadequacy.
There is the element of surprise. You have to be surprised. I have to be surprised. There is a certain amount of control you've put together, but there has to be a bit of surprise when all of a sudden you look and you say, well, that's the stage of the flower that sort of, it has this little droop and that's done.
I think one thing that I really love about the Clam Festival, and I wish I could do in my hometown, but here is being able to have that showcase and exactly what you said is, okay, how can I use my platform as an event organizer to really show other people what makes this area so special?
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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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Previously: Love Maine Radio
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