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 think when you're curious about things like intersectionality and juxtaposing ideas and the excitement in finding new realms, that's a very internal world and maybe that's where we connected and why we connect.
When a student is given the opportunity to shine from within all the learning just unfolds all the connection in the classroom. A lot of times the behavior issues that might be there disappear.
It's not the individual item within a space. It's sort of the compilation of everything together. So sometimes when we're working, they'll say, oh, I really don't like that chair or that fabric going on that chair. And then you have to have trust and trust the process that it really, the compilation when it's finished is exactly what they were looking for from the beginning.
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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Previously: Love Maine Radio
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