Milisa Burns 3/1/24 Milisa Burns 3/1/24

Seeing the World with New Eyes (Literally)!

I’m in awe of what I’m seeing now that I have new lenses in my eyes - I’m literally seeing the world with new eyes. I had cataract surgery in January. (Cataract surgery is considered major eye surgery - they broke up my lenses with a laser, removed them and implanted new lenses.)

Milisa Burns 10/30/23 Milisa Burns 10/30/23

No Longer Letting Words Fuel Our Self-Doubt

As a transformational coach and facilitator and as someone who strives to "walk her talk", I'm all about questioning deeply-held assumptions and beliefs. Reading Pip Williams' debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words was a transformational (and enjoyable) experience for me. In this post, I explore some of that transformation and invite you to consider what words you want to redefine or invent.

I grew up being quite the rule abider, a perfectionist and a people pleaser. This was my mentality: Tell me the rules. I will follow them and I will do my best to excel. That worked well enough for me until my twenties when, as a newly minted corporate lawyer, I started to question everything.

Milisa Burns 10/6/22 Milisa Burns 10/6/22

Transforming Leadership

What happens when… 8 highly experienced and determined leaders, in consulting, facilitation and coaching, meet regularly for a year to create something useful and valuable for leaders and their organizations? In our case, we wrote an ebook called Transforming Leadership!

Milisa Burns 10/19/21 Milisa Burns 10/19/21

How Are You at Apologizing (or Not)?

Inspired by Harriet Lerner's recent book Why Won't You Apologize? Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts, I've been thinking a lot about apologizing lately and how I can be better at it.

Milisa Burns 7/16/21 Milisa Burns 7/16/21

Where's the Magic in Your Mess?

Here’s a story from my life where things were messy and magical at the same time – often the case, right?

Milisa Burns 4/22/21 Milisa Burns 4/22/21

Do You Vacillate Between Two Ways of Experiencing Stress?

When you’re under stress, do you ever have the experience of vacillating back and forth between feeling really rigid, constricted or tight, and then at other times, feeling almost like you're in a flood, getting swept away by your emotions and all the messiness of your life?

Milisa Burns 3/8/21 Milisa Burns 3/8/21

Inspiration at the SheEO Summit #IWD2021

I spent the day being inspired by some amazing, courageous, visionary women at the SheEO Summit - a very satisfying way to spend #IWD2021! SheEO is a global community of radically generous women building a $1B perpetual fund to support women working on the World’s To-Do List.

Milisa Burns 1/29/20 Milisa Burns 1/29/20

Do You Believe in Synchronicities?

Do you believe in synchronicities? (I do. I want to make empowered meaning wherever I can get it!) I want to share a very fresh synchronicity – it just happened a few minutes ago. So, as you may know, I am hosting the first ever Making Room For YOU Circle tomorrow night. And, I have been planning on using the brilliant Claire Zammit’s Feminine Power visioning circle outline as the main structure for the Circle. It’s what I have used for the last two years and it is hugely effective.

Milisa Burns 1/28/20 Milisa Burns 1/28/20

It’s Cold and I’m Tired… Why Would I Go Out to a Circle?

You might well ask: Why would I make the effort to brave a dark, cold January night, after a long day, to join a Visioning Circle? Well, to answer your question, the bottom line is, the effort will pay off for you in spades – you may arrive tired, and even overwhelmed, but you will leave with a level of energy and clarity about your intentions for the year (and beyond!) that will be galvanizing for you. You will have clear steps to implement right away and a feeling that you are well supported.

Milisa Burns 1/24/20 Milisa Burns 1/24/20

Nourishing Conversation About Resilience With Allison Wolf of Shiftworks Coaching

My friend and colleague Allison Wolf of Shiftworks Coaching For Lawyers invited me to join her in a virtual conversation about Resilience, which we recorded for you. Back story: Last Fall, Allison and I collaborated on a Canadian Bar Association Webinar on Resilience (our third collaboration!). This nourishing conversation explores some of the themes we shared on the webinar.

Milisa Burns 1/24/20 Milisa Burns 1/24/20

Powerful and Fun Conversation with Kim Ades of Frame of Mind Coaching

My friend and colleague Kim Ades, Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching invited me to her podcast. We discuss coaching leadership, parenting, why I run women's circles and the importance of Feminine Power and SheEO.

Milisa Burns 11/19/19 Milisa Burns 11/19/19

Pressing Pause

The beauty of pressing pause is that you make room for a meaningful and compassionate conversation with yourself - time for empowered reflection. You know how we tend to pass people and say, “How are you?” automatically then they say “Fine, thanks” automatically? It’s a friendly but relatively meaningless exchange. Rarely are people actually honest about what is really going on for them. True, it may not be the time or place for a meaningful conversation with that other person. But, for many of us, we repeatedly have this kind of automatic and relatively meaningless conversation with ourselves - or no conversation at all.

Milisa Burns 9/12/19 Milisa Burns 9/12/19

Did You Know Personal Courage Cannot Exist Without Fear?

The Latin root of "courage" is cor, which mean "heart". So, at the centre of personal courage is the heart. To be personally courageous means, by definition, that we are fearful but act anyway from our heart. This type of courage does not exist without fear. This is how I experience personal courage.

Milisa Burns 1/26/12 Milisa Burns 1/26/12

Lessons of a 20-Something Year Old

To start of this year of blogging I thought you might enjoy Michele Wong's inspiring story below. I met Michele last November at a Young Women In Law Charity Gala which was held to raise money for the Belinda Stronach Foundation.

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