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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 Lie of Fine
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THE LIE OF FINE What Nobody Will Say About What's Really Happening Right Now
You know the feeling. Someone asks how you're doing and you say "great" — not because it's true, but because that's what the moment calls for. You write the updates, show up to the meetings, wear the face. And somewhere underneath all of it, a quiet voice keeps asking a question you don't let yourself finish.
This episode is for that voice.
Lisa Carter-Bawa — behavioral scientist and host of Soul to Soul — is naming what's running underneath almost every professional right now. Not burnout. Not quiet quitting. Something quieter and harder to name than either of those. The moment when you realize you've been performing fine for so long, you've lost track of what fine actually feels like.
This is not an episode about resilience tips or morning routines. It's an honest conversation about the cost of the professional mask, the question nobody says out loud, and what actually happens when one person in the room stops pretending.
If you've ever looked at the life you worked so hard to build and thought — wait, is this it? — this one is for you.
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.