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 understanding people through food is really an important and one of the easier ways to understand people.
Every aspect, every stroke is calculated for reason. There's planning, there's strategy that goes into all of us. There's a study that says that a perception is made, a person makes a decision perceptionally within 4.5 seconds. And that's all I got to communicate.
If I do a piece and I have that moment of like, oh, that just happened, I definitely have had tears come to my eyes. Usually it's right that moment before you just wanna take a big brush and just paint right over the canvas is when that happy accident happens.
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.
Read More About LisaA selection of the most recent guests on Radio Maine.
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Susan Newbold, artist, teacher, printmaker, bookmaker, and author of “Reveries: Journaling in Place,” joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine…
June 16, 2026
Dannel Malloy, Chancellor of the University of Maine System and former governor of Connecticut, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to dis…
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Philip Hussey, CEO of Thos. Moser, brings together Maine heritage, craftsmanship, and thoughtful leadership as he guides one of the state's…
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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.
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.