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Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa
What happens when a behavioral scientist with two decades of experience studying how meaning gets lost — between doctors and patients, between research and real life, between who we are and who we perform — turns that lens inward?
Soul to Soul is a weekly podcast hosted by Lisa Carter-Bawa, PhD, MPH, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN, a researcher, leader, and advocate who has spent her career at the intersection of health equity, communication, and human behavior. Each episode is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the parts of yourself that institutions and expectations have tried to edit out.
The show features three kinds of episodes. Soul Reflections are weekly meditations on leadership, identity, and what it means to stay whole in a world that wants to fragment you. Lost in Translation episodes unpack the moments where meaning breaks down in healthcare, communication, and everyday life. The Return brings conversations with people who found their way back to themselves after years of performing someone they weren’t.
Grounded in the philosophy that you don’t need reinvention — you need a return — Soul to Soul is for leaders, scientists, healthcare professionals, and anyone who suspects that the most powerful version of themselves isn’t the one they’ve been projecting.
New episodes every Monday.
Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa
The Grief Nobody Warned You About
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THE GRIEF NOBODY WARNED YOU ABOUT When Growth Means Grieving People Who Are Still Alive
There's a kind of grief nobody prepares you for.
Not the kind that comes with a funeral. The kind that comes quietly, in the middle of becoming someone new — when you look up and realize the life you've outgrown no longer fits, and some of the people in it don't either.
No one teaches you how to mourn that. There's no ritual for it. No language. Just a loneliness that's hard to explain because nothing technically went wrong.
In this episode, Lisa sits with the grief of growth — the loss that follows transformation, the guilt that makes you question whether becoming who you were meant to be was somehow a betrayal, and the disorienting in-between space where most people quietly give up and go back.
This one is for anyone who has ever felt tender in a way they couldn't quite name. Anyone who has chosen to keep walking, even when walking meant leaving something behind.
Come sit in the quiet with us.
Soul to Soul drops every Monday.
Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.
New episodes drop every Monday.
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Not role to role. Soul to soul.