Dr. Lisa Belisle

Sharing Strength, #90

Strength shared is strength multiplied. We are fortunate to be surrounded by those who share their strength regularly. This Sunday, join the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour for a discussion on "Sharing Strength." Meet four dynamic Mainers who are devoting their energy to helping their fellow citizens. Our guests include Kristin Miale, president of Good Shepard Food Bank, musician Max Garcia Conover, and Chris Kast & Byron Bartlett, participants in the Dynamic Dirt Challenge.

Listen in on Sunday, June 2, or click the link below.

Dr. Lisa # 90 

Kristen Miale is the President of Good Shepherd Food Bank, Maine’s largest hunger relief organization. Before her role as President, she was the founder and program director of Cooking Matters for Maine, a local chapter of Share Our Strength’s nationally recognized cooking and nutrition education program for low-income families. Prior to her work with food security, she worked for over a decade in the private equity and business consulting fields. After volunteering for hunger relief organizations, she decided to make her passion for ending hunger her occupation. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston College and her Masters in Business Administration from Boston University where she studied both entrepreneurship and non-profit management. She served as a board member and treasurer of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine and on the board of the Cumberland County Extension Association.

Max García Conover has released two EPs, EP #1 and Birches Lo. In April 2013 he released his first full-length album, Burrow, through Clip Records. His quick-fingered, mostly acoustic songs are grounded in natural landscapes and flicker with revelation. In 2012 he was named Maine’s Best New Act in The Portland Phoenix Music Awards.

Our final guest is a trio: Chris Kast, Deb Ivy & Byron Bartlett, aka "Team Spicy." These three friends are almost fit enough to do the Dynamic Dirt Challenge. They are throwing themselves at this because of the challenge it presents to them physically but more importantly because the event benefits The Center for Grieving Children and Strive. Team Spice believes the physical challenges this race represents to them pale in comparison to the challenges faced by the people who benefit from the help they receive from those two organizations. Chris, Byron & Deb don’t have aspirations for winning the race, they just want to finish with all body parts still in tact.

Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. While Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine, offers better business tips. Also, Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes  and Jim Greatorex of Premier SportsHealth (a division of Black Bear Medical) share important talking points. 

 Join us next week for our "Maine Yoga" show, featuring Justin Carlisle, Dana Gunnerson Woodbury and Regan Johnon, Founders of the Maine YogaFest; Carissa Ciuca, owner of Breathing Room Yoga, and Melanie Burns of Wicked Good Yoga.

Kennebunkport Maine, 2013

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Posted by Lisa Belisle at 07:45:00 AM in Authentic Living, Bountiful Blog, Community, Cultivating Community, Dr. Lisa Radio Hour,Environment, Give Back, Health, Home, Podcasts

Connecting Kids with Food #77

We are what we eat, so let’s make sure our kids are eating well! Airing this Sunday,“Connecting Kids with Food” features Dr. Michael Dedekian of the The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center and Dr. Kevin Strong, CEO and founder of Dunk The Junk. We hope you’ll join us at 7am + noon.

Healthy Harvest (#57)

As we sow, so shall we reap. This is especially true when it comes to healthy eating. When we take a "hands on" approach to how we nourish our bodies, and help our children to do the same, our lives derive long term benefits. This week, listen in on our "health harvesting" conversations with Lisa Silverman of Five Seasons Cooking School, Christine Slader of the Yarmouth Community Garden, Craig Haims of the REAL School/Americorps and Ken Morse of the Maine Farm to School Network.

Read more of Dr. Lisa's thoughts on "Healthy Harvest" on her Bountiful Blog.

Listen on Sunday, October 14th, 2012, at 7am (WPEI Portland, 95.5 & 95.9 FM) & 12 pm (WLOB Portland 1310 AM/streaming wlobradio.com), download the Podcast or click the link below. 

Healthy Harvest: Dr. Lisa # 57 Healthy Harvest

Listen to the individual interviews of this Show here.

 Click here to read the article referenced in our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England.

Individual interviews with our guests are available here.

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Our first featured guest is Lisa Silverman, a Whole Foods Chef, Breath Worker and Shiatsu practitioner, and Founder of Five Seasons Cooking School. Lisa Silverman has been a whole foods chef since 1990 when she studied at the Kushi Institute in Becket, MA and at the International Macrobiotic Institute in Kiental Switzerland. She has been a certified breathworker from the International Breathwork Institute since 1994. She graduated from the Power of Breath Institute’s 2 year certification program in 2004. Since then she has been assisting trainings at POBI in Spofford and in Ireland, teaching classes and breath intros and seeing private clients in Portland, Maine where she lives. Lisa is also a shiatsu therapist and natural foods chef and cooking teacher. She is the Founder of Five Seasons Cooking School since 1992. Lisa is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and has been the Co-director of Kindred Spirits Camp at Rowe Camp and Conference Center for four years. Her website is fiveseasonscookingschool.net and email mainemacro@gmail.com. Recently Lisa has become a promotor of Inspirational music such as kirtan and has brought Krishna Das, Gaura Vani, Shantala the Hanumen, Shimshai, MC yogi and other musicians to Maine.

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Our second featured guest is Christine ThorneSlader of Yarmouth Community Garden. Christine has been living in Yarmouth since she was a little girl and has been gardening her whole life. She teaches preschool, educates young people at the Yarmouth Community Garden where she is the coordinator of the Children’s Garden and has her own small garden business. She is currently renovating a home by the Royall River with the help of her husband, her two grown sons and a village of helpers.

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 Our third featured guest is Craig Haims, Co-foudner of the REAL School/Americorps. Craig is a longtime Alternative Educator who works at the REAL School. He is the co-founder of the

REAL Lunch Program which is an on-going service-learning project which trains REAL School students to grow and harvest vegetables for use in the REAL School’s school lunch program. Our REAL Lunch students also prepare lunch daily for 60 with an emphasis on preparing meals that are healthy, and sustainable.

Currently, he is the Program Director of the REAL School/AmeriCorps Service-Learning Program. He oversees a crew of AmeriCorps Members who work with REAL School students to design and implement active, differentiated and on-going service-learning projects.

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Our fourth featured guest is Ken Morse, Coordinator of Maine Farm to School Network. He grew up and worked on a family apple orchard in Waterford, Maine which produced about 60,000 bushels a year.  Ever since his 20s, he's been engaged in community organizing, mostly around food. For years, he helped organize food co-ops, and worked at FedcoWarehouse helping to distribute food around the state. More recently he's directed Healthy Oxford Hills, a community health coalition in western Maine. For 5 years, he's been the Maine Rep to the National Farm to School Network, and helped organize the Maine Farm to School Work Group which last year gave birth to the Maine Farm to School Network, which Ken coordinates.  He is passionately devoted to recreating local and regional food systems, and serves on the Leadership Team of Farm to Institution in New England and as Coordinator of the Maine Network of Community Food Councils. 

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Join us next Sunday, October 21st, 2012 for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast. Our topic will be "Breast Health," #58, with Dr. Caroline Hodsdon, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Meredith Burgess, State Representative & Breast Cancer Survivor and Ingrid Levasseur, Breast Health Thermal Imaging. 

Higher Education (#55)

Our most important lessons are often learned when we venture out of our normal comfort zone. This week Camino Seguro/Safe Passage volunteer Campbell Belisle Haley describes his year of lesson-learning in Guatemala, while Spencer Jones of CIEE and spiritual guide Dave Oshana offer their own insights into growth possibilities. Join us! 

Listen on Sunday, September 30th, at 7am (WPEI Portland, 95.5 & 95.9 FM) & 12 pm (WLOB Portland 1310 AM/streaming wlobradio.com), download the Podcast or click the link below.  

Higher Education: Dr. Lisa # 55

Listen to our individual interviews here.
 

Click here to read the article referenced in our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England.

Individual interviews with our guests are available here.

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Our first featured guest is Campbell Belisle Haley.

Campbell is a Yarmouth High School graduate and current student at the University of Maine, where he is majoring in biochemistry.  He spent last year in Guatemala City, volunteering with the organization Safe Passage.

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Our second featured guest is J. Spencer Jones, General Manager of the Gateway Programs at CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange).

Based in Portland, Maine, CIEE is the leading U.S. non-governmental international education organization. CIEE creates and administers programs that allow high school students, university students and graduates, and educators to study and teach abroad.Since 1947, CIEE has sent over 50,000 U.S. youth to locations around the globe.

 

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Our third featured guest is spiritual teacher, Dave Oshana.

Dave will be offering a talk about "Enlightenment Demystified" on October 4th at the Mayo Arts Center in Portland, Maine.

 

 

 

 

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Enjoy the company of friends and family while supporting the Maine Cancer Foundation at the 11th Annual "Cure Breast Cancer for ME" Luncheon. MCF provides grant funding for research, patient education and patient support services. The luncheon takes place Wednesday, October 3rd from 11:30-2 at the Holiday in By the Bay, Portland. FMI click here.

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Join us next Sunday, October 7 for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast. Our topic will be "The Future of Medicine," with Maine Medical Association Executive Vice President, Gordon Smith, and Catherine Cloudman, co-founder of Apothecary By Design.