Today we’d like to introduce you to Mikkita Moore.
Hi Mikkita, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I am Mikkita L. Moore. I am a woman of God first. Mother, daughter, friend. I am also an international transparency motivator, and author, and now add Real Estate Broker/REALTOR ®️. I live, walk, and breathe transparency.
I remember being so very afraid to open up because of other people’s thoughts about me. I was always mean, defensive, and ignorant of my feelings. Then one day, I looked up and didn’t know who that person was standing in the mirror. I saw her but not me.
That’s the very moment I had to make a choice. It’s either me or the stranger in the mirror!!!!!
I chose ME!!
In 2016, my first book and the Art of Transparency tour was birthed, not because I just wanted to write or tour but because I wanted to finally release the hurt, the anger, and the horrible feelings of abandonment. Becoming an Author started with me being in a very negative space in my life.
I decided on a book over a journal because I didn’t want my life stories to be lost in a journal in my basement. I wanted my life stories to be something my children, children’s children could find and read for years to come.
With my books, I wanted to reach my audience on a level that’s different from the rest. I needed to reach an audience that hasn’t heard about the black girl from the south side of Chicago that wasn’t poor and did not know where her next meal would come from. The girl that her mother wasn’t a drug addict; her father wasn’t a drug pusher.
I was tired of the stereotypes that I had to be from this type of family or that kind of family because I had my first child at the age of 14 years old. My all-time favorite was the one that says teenage moms can’t raise their children effectively or the one that says teenage moms are all high school dropouts. Neither of which proves true for me.
After my first event, which at that time I thought was just a book signing, God and I had a serious conversation. I asked God why he would sit me in a room full of people that probably couldn’t understand why I still had my joy, not even realizing I was still broken. God laughed at me and said okay, so since you’re special and don’t get it. Let me break it down for you.
You sat in a room full of people that needed to hear you go through so that they can have just a little more faith that they can get through!!! I sat you in that room so you too can know that your brokenness is about to be your breakthrough!!!!!!!! God then said with testimony others will be saved.
Others will know there is a way to make it out of the darkness.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
The bible says in Matthew 22:14 says, “for many are invited, but few are chosen.”
I was chosen to go through all of the hurt, the pain, the loneliness, pregnant at 13, mother at 14, and mother of 2 by the age of 16. Suicidal attempted drinking and smoking to forget who I was.
Now, who in the world would choose me after all that I have done??? It’s MY purpose!!!!!!!!
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
After six years of touring and book writing, I am now an author of thirteen books, I have toured over twelve states/cities, as well as internationally to tell my story, I have always known that the story that I endured is for someone else that is currently going through the same or similar situation that they are not sure how or if they even will ever get out of.
I am now entering the field of Real Estate. I want to be the advocate for the urban community and teach them how to buy their first home and maintain homeownership for as long as they want. I am learning that my purpose is true to help those that need it without judgment of how/why they are where they are in life.
I am here to educate first-time home buyers who truly know how to own other than just a credit score and check stubs. I have a training course that teaches ALL things first-time buyers will need including what to expect AFTER the closing…
So maybe we end by discussing what matters most to you and why?
It is important to me that we HEAL for real and not just cope with our past traumas, pain, and hurt. We often cope and not heal…
It is important that my people know that you can have God/Religion AND therapy… They often go hand in hand.
It is important to me that I educate others on financial, emotional, and mental everyday elements of their life. How do our mental and emotional not only impacts our physical but also our financial life?
Contact Info:
- Website: www.mikkitamoore.com/ www.artoftransparency.org
- Facebook: Mikkita the author Moore/ The Art of Transparency, NFP
