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Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa

Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa

By: Lisa Carter-Bawa PhD MPH APRN ANP-C FAAN
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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.

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Episodes
  • The Room After You Leave It
    Jun 1 2026

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    Think about the last meeting you were in. Not the agenda. Not what was decided. Think about what happened after you walked out.

    Did the room exhale? Did people finally say the thing they had been holding? Did the conversation get more honest — or less?

    You will never be in the room after you leave it. And that room is where your leadership actually lives.

    In this episode, Lisa draws a line between leaders who fill a room and leaders who open one. She names why the culture rewards the person who commands the space but almost never notices the person who changed it. And she asks a question most leaders never have the courage to sit with: if the real meeting happens after yours — what is that telling you?

    Your leadership is not what happens while you are in the room. It is what happens after you leave it.

    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.

    Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com

    Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/

    Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday.

    Not role to role. Soul to soul.

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    12 mins
  • The Weight of Holding It All
    May 24 2026

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    There's this thing that happens when you're carrying a lot. People ask how you're doing, and you say "I'm good." Not because you're lying — but because the truth would take longer than anyone has time for.

    In this episode, Lisa gets honest about what her last two weeks actually looked like: two R01 deadlines, fifty resumes, a staffing transition, a LinkedIn post that reached fifty thousand people — and losing her 43-year-old nephew Colby, suddenly and without warning. She connects her invisible inventory to what the world is carrying right now: the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, a new Ebola emergency, and an NIH budget crisis that's pushing scientists out of the work they love. And she names the thing nobody talks about — that the weight isn't the problem. The loneliness of the weight is.

    Soul to Soul with Lisa Carter-Bawa. Where science meets soul.

    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.

    Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com

    Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/

    Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday.

    Not role to role. Soul to soul.

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    17 mins
  • What Nobody Tells You About Getting What You Wanted
    May 17 2026

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    There is a thing nobody tells you about getting what you wanted. The flatness that arrives the morning after. The strange quiet hum of an interior question that the promotion, the credential, the title, the milestone was supposed to answer — and somehow didn't.

    Most people, when they feel it, look away. They start chasing the next thing, hoping it will be bigger, brighter, more decisive. It won't be.

    This episode is for anyone who has worked toward something for years, arrived, and felt the strange flatness. It is not a sign that you got the wrong thing. It is a sign that you were taught to expect the wrong thing from arrival. There is a gift hidden in the flatness — and a different kind of life waiting on the other side of noticing it.

    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.

    Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com

    Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/

    Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday.

    Not role to role. Soul to soul.

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    12 mins
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