Inspirational Speaker, Eve Moffatt

Before her stroke, Eve Moffatt incorporated her world-class skills as a professional speaker and writer into her inspirational keynote speeches. She had to overcome more than her share of life’s adversities. Growing older is another adversity Eve faces; she shares her thoughts and humor on the subject. However, Eve’s strong faith, determination, and ‘life skills’ helped her step above adversity. She shared these ‘life skills and provided her audiences with practical tools and techniques for getting the most out of life.

Eve continues to live after her stroke by sharing her experiences with others. She believes what the world needs now is hope. Eve shares her passion by sharing her experiences and hope with others.

“We don’t need another attraction or the newest, new and improved detergent. We need to know things are going to get better in our lives. It is up to each of us daily to decide what to do with the time that is given us.”

Eve’s inspirational presence

Eve skillfully relates her experiences on her path to recovery in terms that everyone can understand with compassion and humorous honesty. In addition, she presents a powerful, sometimes raw message of survival to her audience so that it encourages those whose faith in their resilience may be faltering.

“Oh, it is by God’s Amazing Grace that I am still here,” Eve says. It starts with trying to figure out who you truly are. Next is knowing what you are and then what you want to be. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do about it and keep doing about it. Just don’t give up”. Eve speaks from the heart. No matter how hurt, demoralized, or traumatized you’ve felt, Eve’s message about God’s loving grace will be an inspiration to you. She incorporates good, old-fashioned common sense along with her experiences, training, and research. Her energy, humor, passion, and raw honesty allow her to cross cultural, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.

At 76 years of age, I’ve lived a lot of life, some of it very good, some very bad, and some terrible. When speaking to audiences, I must be open, candid, and most importantly, honest. Knowing this firsthand, I survived child abuse, domestic (verbal and mental) abuse, stroke, aging, homelessness, cancer, aphasia, and poverty; we didn’t call it poor, we called it ‘por’, we couldn’t afford the second ‘o’.

I worked regularly for the B.E.S.T. program at Maui Community Correctional Center, the prison on Maui, counseling the women there. I spoke very softly there, and I learned from them how difficult it is to stay out of prison. The recidivism rate is exceptionally high among people in Hawaii because they return to their familiar neighborhoods and stomping grounds. I later became part of the growing number of mothers whose sons or daughters were doing time in prison, except for one significant difference—my son was innocent. I, along with Lathara Smith, a diligent, uncompromising investigator, and a long list of others, fought tirelessly to get him out of prison. After 18 years and 7 months, my son Keith Carnes was found innocent and exonerated, so I had that to deal with, too. Keith is an excellent speaker, and the two of us are frequently booked together. I’m just being honest, my plate was full, but doable. Thank you, Jesus. I know God is good all the time, and there is no room for coincidences.

No matter what was going on, and it was usually bad, even nasty–we found time to laugh. LAUGHTER IS SO IMPORTANT…SOME WOULD SAY VITAL TO THE BLACK EXPERIENCE AND COMMUNITY. If there is the slightest hint of humor in a situation, we will find it..  Black people are something else, I know, cause I’ve been black a long time. No matter what: We Don’t Give Up! 

”Eve is so unwavering in her belief that we never give up on ourselves. She has even written and recorded the song ‘Never Give Up‘ on her second CD entitled ‘God’s Amazing Grace.’ Also, check out her first CD, which is entitled “All About Eve.”  You can hear samples of Eve’s music here.