As a former Live Your Dream Award recipient, I feel that it would be beneficial and inspiring to all women to hear my story. During my first semester of college as a nontraditional student, I found Soroptimist’s Live Your Dream Award Read More
Category: Stories
My (Self) Love Story
This time last year, I made the extremely heartbreaking and painful discovery that my husband was having an affair. It turned my world upside down and my heart inside out. The pain, sadness, anger, and confusion were unbearable. At the Read More
My Life as a Working Mom: Bringing Home the Bacon
Recent news reports got me thinking about how fortunate I am, juxtaposed against the many women around the world struggle to maintain a work/life balance while providing for their families and ensuring their children are well cared for. Six years Read More
Meet Aziza Kibibi: mother, survivor, and inspiration!
Soroptimist & LiveYourDream.org would like to introduce a woman near and dear to our hearts, one of our 2013 Live Your Dream Awards finalists, Aziza Kibibi (McGill). Aziza’s story is one of pain, but more so of the triumph of Read More
A Visit with Tyra Wright-Johnson, Domestic Violence Survivor
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we’d like to introduce you to Tyra Wright-Johnson, a domestic violence survivor and a past recipient of the Live Your Dream Awards. Tyra fought and won her own battle with an abusive partner and Read More
Meet Theresa Flores – Human Trafficking Survivor
Survivor and author Theresa Flores shares her story of trafficking and sexual slavery while growing up outside Detroit, Michigan, in a loving, upper middle class home. Theresa’s struggle resulted in 2013 legislation in the state of Michigan entitled the Theresa Read More
What I Want for Other Girls
When I think about my future, I see myself in the sciences, particularly the natural sciences. We only have one earth and right now it’s in pretty bad condition. We know what the problems are—now we have to do something progressive Read More
Breaking the Silence About Sexual Violence
If it is true that it never too late to be transformed by the power of a story, it is also true that there is no statute of limitations on our ability to become a transformer. In 1991, Florence Holway, Read More
The Empowerment Project: Extraordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
Hello! My name is Sarah Moshman. My business partner and dear friend is Dana Michelle Cook and I started our own production company called Heartfelt Productions. Our dream? To make documentaries that empower and inspire women. Ever since I was a little Read More
Keeping Our Girls Safe: Challenging Rape Culture on College Campuses
I was profoundly shaped by the women’s movement. I believe in equality between the sexes and understand all too well that it does not exist. I make my living working for an international organization that helps women and girls live Read More