Maine Thrive Voices Podcast — Statewide

The Community Voices
of Maine Thrive Voices

Twelve Founding Voices launched this podcast. A Founding Ambassador carried it forward. Now the conversation opens to the whole state.

Community Voices are the business owners, nonprofit leaders, and neighbors from every corner of Maine — from the Penobscot and Kennebec Valleys to Casco Bay, the Midcoast, and Downeast — who sit down to share how they built what they built, and why they built it here.

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Community Voices — Est. 2026

Meet the Community Voices

Every Community Voices episode is live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms, with a companion Insight article on Maine Thrive Insights. New episodes are in production now.

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Episode 15 artwork — Lisa Liberatore, Upstart Maine
Lisa Liberatore
Upstart Maine
Penobscot Valley
Lisa Liberatore has started, built, and sold a tea company, a burrito restaurant, and Bangor’s first coworking space. Now Upstart Maine’s ecosystem connector, she makes the case every owner needs to hear — document your systems, know your numbers, and build a business that can live without you.
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Episode 14 artwork — Molly Hooper & Paige Teel, Tides to Pines
Molly Hooper & Paige Teel
Tides to Pines
Rockland
Molly Hooper and Paige Teel lead Tides to Pines, the Rockland-based full-service vacation rental management company caring for roughly 485 homes along the Maine coast. Their episode covers how two one-time competitors decided to build something together — and what it takes to look after guests, homeowners, and a Midcoast community all at once.
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Run a business, lead a nonprofit, or know someone with a Maine story worth telling? Community Voices seats are open statewide.
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What Community Voices Means

Maine Thrive Voices began with twelve Founding Voices — the guests who said yes before this podcast was a sure thing. Their chapter is complete, and their names stay on the Founding Voices page for as long as the show runs.

Community Voices is everything that comes next. Every guest from Episode 14 forward joins this chapter, from every region of the state.

Every conversation is professionally produced, published to Spotify and every major platform, and paired with a companion Insight article on Maine Thrive Insights — so each guest’s story keeps working long after the episode airs.

Have a Maine story worth telling?

One relaxed conversation, professionally produced and shared across the Maine Thrive Community Network.

Sandy Smith
Host, Maine Thrive Voices
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