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 the challenge is entering a maintenance phase, so not consuming to feel grounded, like being okay with okay. Nurturing what I have, what is, being really instead of human doing, I guess you could say.
Maine people, they're good people, very good people. I had so many good friend, very supportive.
I think it all starts internally, but it needs to go that step further than that. That's how I am thinking about it now that I have some experience and I have learned and I continue to learn, what can I do that will bring it outward towards our community because that's so needed.
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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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