Who's Got The Power?

2016 has been anything but uneventful. Between the unexpected passing of Brexit and the even more unexpected victory of President-elect Donald Trump, many are left wondering if this year will bring any more unpleasant surprises. In such a hostile political climate, billions across the world are burdened by a sense of hopelessness, as if what they say, do, think and feel bear no weight. As if they've been robbed of their power.

And then you have Olivia K.

"So many of us are like, 'We can't do anything. There's no point in voting...It's all terrible. We're all gonna go to hell,' and I'm so not a believer of that," she asserts. "I so believe that you have power in your daily life with your choices. If you don't like it here, you can leave. If you don't like what you see, go talk to somebody about it."

But even the self-proclaimed golden girl admits that it's not quite that easy. Finding strength within herself has been an arduous journey and it isn't a feat she has accomplished alone: "I have always tried to have power by being strong by myself and I've learned over the past few years that power is really seeing yourself and seeing your confidence and your strength and your self esteem and clarity of purpose. It's seeing people who really combine that and gripping on to them and building something that will last a long time."