Radio Maine with Dr. Lisa Belisle

Dr. Jennifer Monti, cardiologist, critical care physician, and Chief Growth Officer of Prescriby Health, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to discuss one of healthcare's most important emerging conversations: thoughtful deprescribing. Drawing from years of experience in cardiology, critical care, and healthcare innovation, Dr. Monti explains why medications that were once appropriate aren't al...

Gretchen Halpert, scientific illustrator, educator, former molecular biologist, and founder of a scientific illustration distance program, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to discuss the intersection of science, creativity, and lifelong learning. With roots in both Portland's arts community and the scientific world, Halpert has spent decades showing students that careful observation is as ess...

Susan Newbold, artist, teacher, printmaker, bookmaker, and author of Reveries: Journaling in Place, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to discuss creativity, reinvention, and the lifelong process of becoming. After decades working in interior design, Newbold made the bold decision to return to school at age fifty and pursue art full time. That choice led her into printmaking, book arts, teachin...

Dannel Malloy, Chancellor of the University of Maine System and former governor of Connecticut, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to discuss education, opportunity, and the responsibility we share to help one another succeed. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child during a time when learning differences were often misunderstood, Malloy reflects on the teachers, family members, and mentors who advo...

Philip Hussey, CEO of Thos. Moser, brings together Maine heritage, craftsmanship, and thoughtful leadership as he guides one of the state's most iconic furniture makers into its next chapter. In this episode of Radio Maine, Hussey reflects on growing up in a seventh-generation Maine business family, studying at Colby College, and eventually returning home after years away to lead a company built o...

Amanda Rand, President and CEO of Spinnaker Trust, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to discuss leadership, resilience, workplace culture, and building a meaningful life in Maine. After leaving Maine to attend Duke University and Harvard Law School, Rand returned home to raise her family and help lead one of Maine’s premier wealth management firms. In this conversation, she reflects on how per...

Scott Budde, financial services executive, art collector, and steward of a quietly thriving peony farm in Alna, joins Radio Maine to reflect on the intersections of finance, creativity, agriculture, and place. After a career in mainstream banking and responsible investing, Budde came to Maine to help launch Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union, a mission-driven institution focused on supporting smal...

Lynda Adams, certified matchmaker, relationship coach, and founder of Guided Love Connections , joins Radio Maine to explore how intuition, connection, and personal growth shape the relationships we build.   With a background spanning city government, integrative wellness, radio hosting, and coaching, Adams reflects on the pivotal moments that led her to leave stable career paths in pursuit of mor...

Jaclyn Janis, a nurse, public health researcher, and emerging Portland Art Gallery artist, joins Radio Maine to share how science, illness, and landscape converge in her printmaking practice. With a background spanning nursing, ICU care, and health outcomes research, Janis brings a deeply analytical lens to her creative work—one shaped by her own experience living with a rare lung disease. After y...

Natalie Miller, writer, creator of Eat, Stay, Wheel, and disability advocate, joins Radio Maine to share how she is redefining what it means to live fully and visibly. With a background in corporate leadership and more than two decades in Maine, Miller reflects on how a breast cancer diagnosis and lifelong mobility challenges reshaped her perspective—leading her to create a platform that celebrate...

Kim Case, a longtime Portland Art Gallery artist, returns to Radio Maine to reflect on the evolution of her painting practice and her deepening exploration of abstraction. Trained in photography and art history at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts, Case began with a focus on realism but has increasingly embraced abstraction as a way to express emotion, energy, and the subtle presence...

Cameron Kelly Rosenblum, young adult author with HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to share her journey of resilience, creativity, and finding her voice later in life. After years of teaching and navigating personal challenges—including raising a son with significant special needs and processing the loss of a close friend to suicide—Rosenblum reflects on how wri...

Victoria Zurkan, licensed marriage and family therapist and painter based in Portland, Maine, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to explore how the impulse to understand people and the impulse to make art are, at their core, the same. With roots in animation studios in San Francisco and Budapest and graduate training in psychology in London, Zurkan reflects on the winding path that brought her...

Annie Kloppenberg, professor of performance, theater, and dance at Colby College and director of the Lyons Arts Lab, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to explore how movement, curiosity, and collaboration shape contemporary artistic expression. With roots in New England and a career spanning performance, teaching, and choreography, Kloppenberg reflects on her early influences in dance and the...

Jennifer Acker, author, founder and editor-in-chief of The Common and director of the Amherst College LitFest, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to explore how place, storytelling, and personal transformation shape both literature and life. Raised in rural Maine, Acker reflects on how her early experiences—family reading traditions, small-town culture, and global travel—deeply informed her com...

Tobias Parkhurst, Head of Business Development for Cushnoc Brewing Company and a longtime Maine entrepreneur, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to share an unconventional journey from professional skateboarding to revitalizing community life in central Maine. Growing up in rural Maine, Parkhurst found identity and resilience through skateboarding, eventually traveling widely before returning h...

John Kuehnle, CEO of Partners for World Health, brings a global public health perspective to Maine through his leadership of an organization that transforms surplus medical supplies into lifesaving resources for communities locally and around the world. In this episode of Radio Maine, Kuehnle joins Dr. Lisa Belisle to reflect on a career shaped by service—from four years in the Peace Corps in Nica...

Beryl Cui is a Cross-Cultural Communication Trainer and English Instructor who moved from Beijing to Maine to begin a new chapter. In this episode of Radio Maine, Cui joins Dr. Lisa Belisle to share her journey from corporate language training in China to building connection and community in Portland. For over a decade, she has coached CEOs and business leaders to communicate with clarity, confide...

Dr. Eric Brown is the executive director of the Maine Irish Heritage Center and a scholar whose background spans Renaissance drama, poetry, and even insect studies. In this episode of Radio Maine, Brown joins Dr. Lisa Belisle to explore how Irish heritage, literature, and imagination intersect in Maine today. Raised in Dover-Foxcroft with deep Irish roots, Brown reflects on rediscovering his ances...

Aubrey Calaway is an audio producer and the director of Foghorn, a Portland-based audio collective and coworking space dedicated to storytelling, listening, and community. In this episode of Radio Maine, Calaway joins host Dr. Lisa Belisle to explore the deep human roots of audio—from oral tradition and NPR influences to the evolving world of podcasts and documentary storytelling. Trained at the S...

Brian Petrovek is a longtime community leader and former sports and entertainment executive whose career spans elite athletics, business leadership, and civic engagement. In this episode of Radio Maine, Petrovek joins host Dr. Lisa Belisle to reflect on his journey from high-level hockey at Hotchkiss and Harvard to decades of leadership in professional sports and live entertainment. Known in Maine...

Sara Schiller, co-founder of the Sloomoo Institute and Bowdoin College alumna, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to share how curiosity, resilience, and joy shaped her unlikely path from rural Maine to a national cultural phenomenon. Raised in Winterport, Sara credits her Maine roots—and the confidence she built at Bowdoin—with fostering a lifelong curiosity that led her into art, business, an...

Liz Kovarsky, founder of the Electric Cottage Collective in Brunswick, Maine, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to explore a new model for creativity, wellness, and community connection. A trained social worker, artist, and educator, Liz created Electric Cottage Collective as a shared, embodied space that brings together creative coworking, arts practice, and wellness—challenging the ways mode...

Jeff Mao, founder of Knead and Nosh, educator, author, and former statewide leader in educational technology, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to reflect on a career shaped by curiosity, adaptability, and community. A Bowdoin College graduate, Jeff began as a teacher and coach before becoming a central figure in Maine’s pioneering one-to-one laptop program, which helped transform how students...

Marnie Girado, Fair Manager, Exhibitor Relations; for Affordable Art Fair NYC & Boston, joins Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine to talk about making art more accessible—without sacrificing depth, quality, or curiosity. With a background in art history from Bowdoin and advanced training in Victorian and Edwardian art, Marnie brings a sharp eye and deep love of context to contemporary art spaces....