Dr. Lisa Belisle

Health/Wealth (#21)

Our physical "good fortune" is often inextricably linked to our financial well-being - and both can impact our relationship with others.

Our guests include

• Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial and
• Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good Fortune.

The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast airs weekly at 11 am on WLOB radio 1310 AM (Portland)/streaming online. Listen to the Podcast or click on the link below:

HealthWealth: Dr. Lisa # 21

This week our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England, featured The Epidemic of Financial Anxiety: What You Can Do, from Psychology Today.

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Our featured guest was Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. For 17 years Tom has helped people get to know themselves through a deeper relationship and understanding of their values by teaching and working with them and their money. First teaching students powerful math about financial choices, habits and addictions, then through writing about age appropriate allowance and created currency and finally as an observer and chronicler of the effects of wealth on health. Tom connects the evolution of money past, present and future with a spiritual understanding of value that makes life come alive. He takes us out of an approach based on perpetual growth and into a world view that puts the focus back on money as a tool that promotes lifelong development for each of us, our families, communities, country and the world. In his work he visually respresents the stages of money maturity and stresses that we grow, develop, die and evolve several times in life. Money honestly earned through the pursuit of passion allows us to make sacrifices for our friends and families that brings beauty into the world and ships it clear around the globe making it possible to have heaven here on earth. The trick is to see it as a currency of the power of love instead of the love of power.

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Our Maine Magazine Minute features Susan Conley. Susan is the author of The Foremost Good Fortune, an O, The Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick and a Slate Magazine “Book of the Week.” Excerpted in The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, and Middlebury Magazine, the memoir has received kind reviews in newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The U.K. Telegraph, Time Out Hong Kong, The China Daily, The Global Times, Book Page, DownEast Magazine, More Magazine and Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Susan has been the recipient of two MacDowell Colony residencies, a Breadloaf Writer’s Fellowship and a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. Maine Today Media gave Susan a 2011 “Greatest Women of Maine” Award. From 2007-2010 she taught writing workshops at the Yin Yang Center in Beijing, China, where she lived with her husband and two boys. Home is now Portland, Maine, where Susan cofounded The Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing center. She is completing a novel forthcoming from Knopf.

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Join us next Sunday, February 12 at 11 am for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast on WLOB radio Portland 1310 AM/streaming online. Our topic will be "Happy Heart" and guests will include Dr. Mylan Cohen of Maine Medical Partners MaineHealth Cardiology, Dr. Chris Rogers of the Vein Center at Portland Surgical at Mercy Hospital and Jen Goldman of the American Red Cross.

Girl Power (#20)

Wise women come from great girls! This week we explored how girls become great, with the help of a bevy of very wise women.

Our guests included

• Robin Hodgskin of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Margaret O'Keefe of Pierce Atwood
• Joanne Arnold, Body, Mind & Sport Strength Trainer and Consultant
• Tara Treichel of Coastal Studies for Girls

The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast airs weekly at 11 am on WLOB radio 1310 AM (Portland)/streaming online. Listen to the Podcast or click on the link below:

Girl Power: Dr. Lisa # 20

This week our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England, described recent studies on women's longevity, from the Scientific American website.

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Our featured guests were Robin Hodgskin of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Margaret Minister O'Keefe of Pierce Atwood.

Robin Lin Hodgskin, CFP® is a Senior Vice President, Family Wealth Director with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB). She has fulfilled roles as Complex Business Development Officer and as Branch Office Manager of the Smith Barney Portland, ME office for 13 years, as well as serving on the CEO’s Diversity Advisory Board.

Robin has worked at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessors firms for over twenty four years, ten of these as a Financial Advisor in Boston before moving to Portland as the Branch Office Manager in 1996. Robin has a Bachelor’s degree from Bates College and an MBA from Boston University.

As a Family Wealth Director, Robin is among a select group that has access to the vast resources of a world-class financial powerhouse to help meet the complex, and often unique, needs of families with wealth. The specialized wealth advisory services include family governance and dynamics, philanthropic services, wealth preservation and investment management.

She is very active in the community and her outreach work has taken her to Honduras and to Guatemala where she worked with Safe Passage to support the education of children living in the Guatemala City garbage dump. Working with BuildOn, she and her family also built a school in Mali Africa. Robin has served on the board of the Maine Women’s Fund and the Ministerial Fund and as a Deacon at First Parish Church. She lives in Yarmouth, ME where she enjoys singing, skiing, golf, hiking, biking, kayaking, and the many other wonders of Maine with her husband Art Bell and their three children: Becca, Geoff, and Chris.

Margaret Minister O’Keefe is a partner at the law firm of Pierce Atwood. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Margaret's practice focuses on copyrights and trademarks, brand and product licensing, software and new technology licensing, privacy and data security, intellectual property asset management, and intellectual property protection and enforcement. Margaret was recently featured in the January/February 2012 issue of Maine Magazine.

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Our Maine Magazine Minutes featured Joanne Arnold. Joanne Arnold may be best known for her work as a strength trainer with swimmer Ian Crocker, Olympic Gold Medalist. Joanne Arnold is the country's first Body, Mind & Sport Strength Trainer and Consultant , certified by John Douillard, author of BODY,MIND & SPORT.  She trains individuals of all ages and abilities focusing on core strengthening,proprioception, balance and postural alignment.

As a trainer she believes "We all work too much and need to remember the lost art of play." Joanne operates on the premise that "The body and mind are inseparable partners...who often need relationship work."  She believes consciousness is the competitive edge and awareness our most powerful tool for developing strength and transformation. She is interested in disfranchising the stress recover modality of conventional training and supporting a program to create a body cell by cell, thought by thought.

Joanne will appear in the March issue of Maine Magazine.

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Our "Give Back" segment featured Tara Treichel of Coastal Studies for Girls (CSG). The country's first science and leadership semester school for tenth grade girls, they are now offering residential and wilderness programs in the Summer of 2012 for girls, women and educators. CSG is dedicated to those who have a love for learning and discovery, an adventurous spirit, and a desire for challenge. Follow the adventures through their facebook and blog links on the homepage of their website.

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As part of the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour we read our weekly quote from Our Daily Tread, the book created to support the organization Safe Passage. Our Daily Tread has raised more than $22,000 since 2008.

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Click here to read this week's featured Bountiful Blog post: Summer Girl.

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Join us next Sunday, February 5 at 11 am for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast on WLOB radio Portland 1310 AM/streaming online. Our topic will be "Health Wealth" and guests will include Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial, Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good Fortune, and Linda Varrell and Frankee Chapa of Maine Youth Leadership.

Support for the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast is graciously provided by Akari, Maine magazine, Tom Shepard from Shepard Financial, Mike LePage & Beth Franklin from ReMax Heritage, Robin Hodgskin of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Pierce Atwood, Booth Maine and Dr. John Herzog of Orthopedic Specialists.

Part of the Plan

By Lisa M. Belisle, MD, MPH
Originally published August 9, 2005, The Notes

The Belisle bunch grew up in Yarmouth at a time when big families were a rarity. There simply weren’t that many people patient (or crazy) enough to parent ten children in the 1970s. This caused unsolicited notoriety. It also led to many questions. These included: what is it like to live with all of those people? Do you have a big house? My personal favorite (frequently asked when I was a mortified junior high student) was: have your parents heard of birth control? I could answer the former questions, but felt somewhat sheepish about tackling the latter. All these many years later, I will now set the record straight. My father is a doctor and my mother is science teacher. They knew about birth control. What they did with the information was another matter.

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