We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Mocha Moore a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Mocha , we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
Resilience is defined as: “the capacity to withstand or to bounce back quickly from tragedies and/or difficult situations.” I could really write a book in addition to giving a paragraph or two of how this one word is the core to my forward moving and thinking process. And if I had to some the answer up in one word, without sounding morbid, it would be DEATH!
Death has been the one thing that has continue the “Life keeps Lifing” movement in my world. I could go back to 1999, when I lost my only brother; but I will keep it relative to this career change and began with 2015 when my Hero, my Backbone, my dad left this side of the earth and went to live eternally as my guiding angel. When my dad passed away, I was left thinking how could I honor him and everything he taught me to live this life and become a better person that serves and enjoy the people and things that I have been blessed with on this journey? He was a chef by trade, a very skilled and crafty one at that, the way he made food taste was not normal and I vowed that before my life was over, I would be in a place where we all would benefit from it.
Well, he didn’t make it to see those fruits come to fruition. He passed away in June of 2015. However, my mom was here to witness the beginning of the shift, but it was only short lived because she passed away shortly after my dad. In 2019, I was blessed to fully retire at the age of 49 and that’s where, the idea to start my own event planning and design business called Events Amoore (with love) started! While obtaining all the credentials and taking all the classes needed to solidify my new calling, I buried the thoughts about the losses that left me in a terrible grieving state and replaced them with the word RESILIENCE, where i began to razzle and dazzle clients with eye dropping designs and par excellent customer service. It’s been five years of love, laughter, and celebrations!!!
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
Allow me to reintroduce myself: “I’m Mocha Moore, the face and passion in front of Events Amoore, LLC.” Events with Love (the subtitle of our brand) is a service where we pride ourselves on being able to help our clients plan and present the best celebratory events for their guests that will have lasting and positive memories. We host weddings, parties, church and corporate events, along with other social gatherings that will WOWW your family and friends.
Now, that I hinted on what I stand for, let me share a glimpse of who I am. I’m a caring wife and proud mother of two adults, and three dogs. I love to travel abroad… learning and laughing are two of my favorite pastimes; let’s not forget dancing and listening to all genres of music. I have the biggest heart for service and giving back! With that being said, I’m the CEO of an awesome nonprofit organization Girlfriends helping Girlfriends, Inc. We have been a sounding board, resource and social network for many years, and it has been our pleasure to assist our surrounding communities and inner city with outreach initiatives, and organized service projects to engage, empower and uplifting the people in our counties. Since we are talking about service… the “U” that’s in the word Church needs to have a silent “I” (LOL) I love helping the varying ministries in my church! It was something my grandmother and my Former Pastor made sure I committed myself to maintaining.
I hope you can tell by now, I’m truly a people person, coming from Corporate America in Middle Management where I was trained to help individuals grow and reach for greater heights, its second nature for to do in my new space of event planning as well. I want to be person I would like to meet, so in all things, I put God first and my best foot forward!!!
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
The qualities that make me unique and has been the greatest reward in business is having a keen sense of emotional intelligence. This is attribute allows you to connect with people during any phase of their lives. Having the fortitude to relate with people is priceless. The next one is being able to effectively communicate with others and that’s in the space of listening and speaking. Here again in order to build bridges of strong relationships, it’s pivotal to have strong communication skills. And lastly, having a strategic mindset to problem solve. In this industry, I’ve found the people expect you to be the best at every level when they are spending their money, and when you cannot pivot to offer resolutions to things that do not flow properly, it leads to dissatisfied customers. No one wants that.
So, the advice I would offer to others in respects to honing these skills is know where you fall in these areas and build upon them. It’s okay if you are not there… just work hard to move forward.
To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?
This question was selected to highlight because it serves as the narrative of this entire article. The most impactful thing that my parents instilled in me was the importance of family and living life to the fullest. And by this, I mean that you run your own race and march the beat that is drummed for you and yours. My parents were raised in the country and was pretty much given a road map to live by that might not have been what was truly best for their future. My father knew he didn’t want that pace and race for his children, so he encouraged us at an early to get to know who we were, and my mom guided us in understanding whose we were. We were children of the Highest, so we would live our lives free of bondage and explore the fullness of time.
So, by teaching us to love ourselves, then having a pure loving heart for others it would prepare us for life’s toughest times and situations.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.eventsamore.com
- Instagram: @eventsamoore
- Facebook: Events Amoore
- Linkedin: Faye Monford Moore (Mocha Moore)
Image Credits
Event Exposes = Alpharetta, Ga Glam Cam – New Orleans, La
