With WSO being an unconventional Hawaii charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, we rely on our gracious donors to fund our programs making a positive impact in our community. WSO wants to thank our top donors for their generosity over the past few months, as your donations directly support WSO’s initiatives to create awareness and prevention of dating violence through educational programs.
Read MoreOn Thursday, May 27th WSO brought together top-level female executives for our inaugural Cocktails For A Cause event! It was truly a night of female empowerment and a chance for to highlight some of the amazing students that have participated in our programs! WSO, in partnership with House of Finance, is so proud to have surprised 4 exemplary student volunteers with $1,000 scholarships for the coming school year during the event!
Read MoreMarch: Mask Up Campaign! Purchase our limited edition Speak Love masks and support our movement. Choose from two stylish designs while supplies last. And 100% of the proceeds will go towards our Speak Love Conference for high school students in October.
Read MoreWe just wrapped up our Second Annual Virtual Speak Love Conference, a tremendous success. Our speakers, who were a group of entrepreneurs, former beauty queens, students, and survivors of dating violence, delivered powerful and emotional stories along with helpful insights.
Read MoreWomen Speaking Out is dedicated to making a positive impact in the community by inspiring and empowering young women to embrace self-love. Women actively coming together with the common goal to spread awareness and speak love is powerful to the point of magical. By lifting each other, we all rise. They don’t call it girl power for nothing.
Once upon a time, we heard these romantic cliches and wholeheartedly subscribed to the adages. These are sayings from our favorite movies, lyrics from classic karaoke bangers, and excerpts from beloved novels. The prototypical concept of love and romance that has been ingrained in young women is as predictable and formulaic as 9th-grade Algebra. And much like high school math, I have a huge problem with it.
Self Love... what does that even mean? I can tell you it's something that I have alway struggled with since I was in my teens and continue to struggle with. As a survivor of domestic violence, I've always been haunted by the thoughts that I am not good enough, pretty enough or worthy enough to be loved. I realized that I am emotionally fragile, and that I needed to find a way to take back what I had lost from the hands of my abusers.
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