Empowering gifts

Answer to Washington Posts question: Q: Do financially successful people have an obligation to help those in need? Are Bill and Melinda Gates, who have given away hundreds of millions of dollars through their foundation, encouraging others to step up to the plate? How...

Speak Your Truth

Speak your truth – then modify your expression over time. Too many people worry about what/how they say something and often never say anything because they are afraid of how they may come across. We’ve all heard it – “There is no such thing as...

Bare

By Misti Burmeister© November 9, 2009It‘s Fall, and as I watch the trees in D.C. evolve from deep green, to a beautiful shade of yellow, to a vibrant red (some moving more quickly through this process than others) leaving a sea of reds, yellows, greens and...

What Impact Do You Have?

“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Buddhist proverb “Misti, I’m a high school senior and will likely get an advanced education and not enter the workforce for another 10 years,” said my intern just a few weeks into the role...