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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 Armor You Earned
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When is the last time someone asked how you were doing — and you told the truth? Every high achiever has armor: the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the relentless performance of being fine. It kept you safe once. It got you into the room. But somewhere along the way, the armor stopped being something you wore and became something you are. In this episode, Lisa traces the origin story of the strength that saved you, names what it is quietly costing you — your intimacy, your health, your joy, yourself — and asks the question no one dares to say out loud: if you stop performing, will anyone still want you here? This is not a call to tear it all down. It is a call to take it off somewhere. Just one room. Just one person. Just one honest answer to "How are you?"
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.