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I think a lot of the influences I had were people like Dove and Marsden Hartley and John Marin and Georgia O'Keeffe, these people that were just bold colors. That stuff's all locked away up here and hopefully influencing.
I think for me, it just, it really hit me like this is, it's not that it was fake before, but it more like this is real, this is real stuff that real people are really dealing with. And somehow we need to figure this out a little bit better.
The difference is stark between women's confidence and men's confidence. I was teaching coaches how to build a profitable business, and the men, for the most part would say, okay, and they'd go do it, and the women would just sort of spiral in this perpetual, I'm not ready yet.
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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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I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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