Dr. Lisa Belisle

Mother's Day, #87

Each May we honor the moms who have made our lives possible. Many women find motherhood to be among the most challenging—and rewarding—roles they will ever undertake. This week’s mom-honoring show includes guests Kim Kalicky, author of “Mothers Fulfilled;” Heidi Kirn, cancer survivor and art director of Maine Home+Design; Maine Women’s Fund CEO Sarah Ruef-Lindquist and Board Member Michaela Cavallaro. Join us!

Listen on Sunday, May 12, download the Podcast or click to listen below.

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Sarah joined the Maine Women’s Fund in April 2012. As CEO, she works with the Board and staff to develop long-term strategies to increase the Fund’s philanthropic assets and grow the Fund’s impact and influence throughout Maine. Sarah has extensive experience in fundraising, grantmaking and building organizations’ fiscal efficiency. Most recently, she served as the senior gift planning consultant at Planning for Good, a Midcoast-based consulting practice she founded in 2008, and ran a solo law practice focused on estate and trust planning.

Heidi Kirn, Art Director for Maine Home+Design magazine, returned to Maine 4 years ago from NYC to raise her family by the ocean in Kennebunk, Maine. Artist, musician, and mother of two, Heidi enjoys cycling, the beach, locally grown food, and instagramming. Previously Heidi has been an art teacher and designer for Nickelodeon.

Kim Kalicky is a “Guide” (writer/contributor) on MariaShriver.com. She is also the author of "Mothers Fulfilled" (self-help) and "Away at a Camp in Maine", a travel memoir and first place winner for nonfiction in the 2011 Beach Book Festival national writing contest. She writes a blog at www.yourlongtermfriend.blogspot.com. Her books are available on Amazon. 

Read some of the important talking points by Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes. And, each week, listen for better business tips from the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine.   

Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom  Shepard of Shepard Financial: “I have a reoccurring dream in which I, a high school student, am sent off to an island to live out the evolution of our monetary system in a weeks time. Unlike the hunger games or other post apocoplyptic stories, this experience starts with a solo and ends by building an increasingly complex and integrated system of relationships. Day one gives me the experience of loneliness and the lack of support that must have existed at one time. I learn that I am completely devoid of the instincts needed to survive. Unlike a wild animal, I have no idea what to eat or where to sleep that is safe. I crave the end of day one and the opportunity to partner and share the experience of survival with at least one other person. As the week moves on my dream becomes first pleasant and then tragically chaotic. Like the dream of trying to punch someone or run away I find it difficult to do what I want or to even choose. By day I live out the end of the dream and hope that at least one person at a time we are able to help dreamers punch hard and run fast. Money in all its forms is supposed to be the leverage we need to make life easier."

Enjoy this coming week, and thank you for being a part of our little community. Together we are building a healthier world. Starting right here in Maine. 

Fertility, #85

With Spring comes the promise of growth and new life. This week on the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour we discuss what happens when creating new life presents a challenge to couples. Our guests include fertility and adoption coach Anne Belden, and reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Benjamin Lannon. In sitting down with Dr. Lisa, they offer hopeful perspectives on an emotionally charged topic. 

Listen on Sunday, April 28, download the Podcast or click to listen below.

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Anne Belden, MS, is passionate in her roles as Hardy Girls board president, community activist, life coach, and mother. She holds a Masters degree in human development and family relations, and has worked with family serving organizations for over 25 years, including the role as executive director of two non-profits. Her coaching practice focuses on fertility, adoption, and transitions of parenthood. Her clients are women and couples who are struggling to build their families, through traditional as well as artificial reproductive technologies. 



Joining Anne and Dr. Lisa is reproductive endorcrinologist Dr. Benjamin Lannon. Dr. Lannon grew up in Exeter, New Hampshire and received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from Brown University. He also obtained a Masters degree in evaluate clinical sciences from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Dr. Lannon's clinical interests include infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, endocrine disorders affecting reproduction and surgical treatment to optimize fertility. He focuses on patient-centered, compassionate care to his patients. Dr. Lannon has received several awards for teaching at Harvard Medical School. 

   

Our "Health/Wealth" segment is provided by Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes offers us weekly wisdom on caring for our planet. Marci Booth helps us understand "Business Done Better."

Join us next Sunday, May 5, for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast, "Out of the Box." Sitting down with us will be Tom and Lee Ann Szelog, authors of "Our Point of View: Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse and By a Maine River—A Year of Looking Closely." Also joining us is Zachary Theberge of UMaine 4-H Camp & Learning Center at Bryant Pond, and Dr. Stephen Donnelly, DO, FAAP, Founder/Owner of Maine Center for Integrative Medicine. 

Read some of the important talking points by Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes. 

Each week, listen for better business tips from the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business   advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine.   

Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom  Shepard of Shepard Financial: In life we know that at certain  times, natural forces cause our bodies to grow and develop in very predictable ways. We can fight this process, accept it, or leverage it to reach our God-given potential. Understanding our DNA has helped health experts identify ways that we can live fuller, more intentional lives that work with nature to ensure a more harmonious life. Wealth experts are increasingly discovering that discipline is easier when it aligns with the natural forces motivating us to make the money decisions we do. Distortions of wealth make our lives, our economy and the world a scary and unsustainable place. Our mission is to help you stop  spending health to acquire wealth only to spend your wealth on trying to reclaim a lost health. By embracing the evolution of our lives we can map a course that shines light on 7 different relationships we have with money, the 7 stages we live through and the 7 values that motivate us. To learn more, "like" us on Facebook at Shepard Financial.

  

Enjoy this coming week, and thank you for being a part of our little community. Together we are building a healthier world. Starting right here in Maine. 

 

Vitality #82

Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter? These are the questions that author and women’s health expert Marcelle Pick asks herself at the end of each day.

It is, truly, the ability to live, love and matter, that brings vitality to our daily lives.

We hope you enjoy today’s discussion on vitality—spiritual, mental and physical—with women's health expert Marcelle Pick, author of The Core Balance Diet and Is it Me or is it My Hormones?, Michael Komich and Emily Manter of the Cheverus Safe Passage support team, and naturopathic physician Dr. Masina Wright. Thank you so much for listening and for giving us a chance to help you live, love and matter.

Listen on Sunday, April 7th, download the Podcast or click the link below.   

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Our first featured guest is author and women's health expert, Marcelle Pick. 

Marcelle Pick, M.S.N., OB/GYN NP, author of The Core Balance Diet and Is It Me or My Adrenals? and newly published Is it Me or My Hormones?, co-founded Women to Women with a vision to change women’s health care. The clinic pioneered the combination of alternative and conventional medicine and continues to use functional medicine to treat illness and help women make life choices to prevent disease. Women to Women treats thousands of women from around the world each year.

Marcelle Pick earned a B.S. in Nursing and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire, and an M.S. in Nursing from Boston College–Harvard Medical School. Certified as a nurse practitioner for both OB/GYN and pediatrics, Pick has served as a medical advisor to Healthy Living magazine, lectures on a variety of topics, and appears regularly on radio and television to discuss women’s health. Her radio show, Core Balance for Women’s Health, airs weekly on Hay House Radio, and she writes a bimonthly newsletter that is featured on womentowomen.com. Pick is also a member of the advisory board for the renowned Hoffman Institute.

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Our second interview features a conversation with Emily Mater and Michael Komich of the Cheverus High School Safe Passage support team.

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Our final featured guest is Dr.Masina Wright. 

Dr. Wright is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in Maine and Ontario. Trained to understand the intricacies of modern health, she is sophisticated and yet intuitive in her approach, cutting edge and yet traditional. With a special interest in hormonal wellness and stress management, Dr. Wright is skilled in the art and science of health care.

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Individual interviews with our guests are available here.

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Click here for our financial wellness tip of the week, brought to you by Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. 

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Join us next Sunday, April 14th, for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast. Our guests will be University of New England Parkinson's Disease Researcher Dr. Jim Cavanaugh and Jaclyn Morrill of the Medically Oriented Gym.

Emotional Intelligence #79

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry reminds us that “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Michael Chase, best-selling author and founder of The Kindness Center, and Sandra Fisher, suicide prevention advocate and mother, talk to us about emotional essentials on this week’s show.